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Merle Emil Klinge
1925 - 2016
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- Merle E. Klinge
August 20, 1925 - April 27, 2016
Garner - Merle E. Klinge, 90, of Garner died Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at
the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.
Funeral services will be held 2 P.M., Saturday, April 30th at Peace
Reformed Church south of Garner with Rev. Mark Larson officiating. Burial
will be in the church cemetery with military rites conducted by the Garner
Veterans Ceremonial Unit.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 P.M., Friday at the Cataldo Funeral
Chapel in Garner and will continue one hour prior to services at the
church.
Memorials may be directed to the Liberty School Museum.
Merle Emil Klinge, the son of Fred and Ella (Schwartz) Klinge, was born on
August 20, 1925 on a farm near Klemme, Iowa. He attended country school in
Liberty Township and high school in Klemme through the tenth grade after
which he left school to work on the family farm. In December of 1948 Merle
was drafted into the Army and served with the 804th Aviation Engineer
Battalion at Camp Gordon, Georgia as a heavy equipment operator. After
serving one year, Merle was put into the reserve for five years and sent
home. On August 12, 1950, Merle received orders to report back for active
duty. After leaving Ft. Lewis, Washington, Merle was sent to Japan and
joined the 3rd Infantry Division. From Japan, Merle was sent to Korea
where he drove a jeep with a machine gun mounted on it. He was a driver
for military personnel and many times carried high ranking military
personnel into enemy territory. Upon his honorable discharge, Merle
returned home in September of 1951 to the farm.
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- Merle was married to Mary Dokken on August 19, 1962
at Elk Creek Lutheran Church in rural Kensett. They farmed west of Klemme
until Merle retired in 1988. Merle and Mary built a home in Clear Lake and
spent many happy years there. Merle enjoyed farming, gardening, fishing,
traveling with Mary, playing cards, visiting with family and friends. He
was a farmer at heart, a loving husband and uncle, a friend to many and he
loved to share stories of his life growing up on the farm.
He was a member of the Peace Reformed Church, Garner, where he served in
various leadership roles throughout his lifetime and the Garner VFW and
American Legion.
Merle is survived by nieces and nephews, Lyle Klinge, Westminster, SC,
Delorys (Marv) Lonnevik, Klemme, Kendall (Sue) Klinge, Belmond, Mary Jo
(Doug) Depping, Thornton, Dennis (Carol) Bertilson, Fithian, Illinois,
Carol (Donald) Saling, Jacksonville, Florida, and Dean (Janice) Bertilson,
Garner. He is also survived by his sisters-in-law, Martha Slining and
Juanita Bolinger; brothers-in-law, Truman Dokken, Donald Dokken, Wilford
Dokken, Reuben Dokken and Melvin Dokken; and many other nieces and nephews
from the Dokken family.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary, his parents; a brother, Wayne
Klinge; a sister, Esther Bertilson; brothers-in-law, Merle Bertilson,
Leslie Dokken, James Dokken;and sister-in-law, Hazel Dokken.
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source: © Cataldo Funeral Home, 760 Center Avenue, Garner,
Iowa 50438, Phone 641-923-2841; [http://www.cataldofuneralhome.com ]
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- Merle Emil Klinge: born 20 Aug 1925 Klemme, Hancock
County, Iowa - died 27 Apr 2016 Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Grave marker at Peace Reformed Cemetery, Garner, Hancock County, Iowa
Son of Frederick William Klinge, born 1892 - died 1985 and Ella Agnes
Schwartz, born
1896 - died 1963
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- Husband of: Mary Elizabeth Dokken, born 1923 -
died 2014
- Brother of:
Wayne Fred Klinge (1922-1964)
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- source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 161800532
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