OBITUARY: Duane R. Eastman, Worth County, Iowa


                            Duane R. Eastman

[ The Northwood Anchor online  -  July 09, 2002 - www.northwoodanchor.com ]

Duane R. Eastman, 61,  Mason City, died at the Muse Norris Hospice inpatient
unit in Mason City, Thursday, July 4,2002.

Funeral services were Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mason City, with
the Rev. Paul Finger officiating. Interment was at the Kensett Cemetery.

Duane, the youngest son of Vern and Florence (Torgeson) Eastman, was born
Nov. 11, 1940 in rural Wells, MN. He attended grade school in rural Walters,
MN and high school in Kiester, MN graduating with the class of 1958.

He married Lois Sorenson at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Kiester, MN on
Aug. 31, 1958.

He was employed at the Alden Co-op elevator in Alden, MN until 1968 when he
started working at Jacob E. Decker & Son in Mason City. In 1976 Duane and
his family were transferred to the Decker Plant in Garland TX, then in 1979
the family was transferred back to Armour Foods in Mason City where Duane
worked until January of 2002.

Through the years Duane enjoyed riding his motorcycle, camping, leather
tooling, traveling, antiquing and collecting Joe Camel memorabil ia.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife Lois of 44 years, his daughters Lisa
Nordquist and her husband Phil of Dallas, TX, Lana Beaver and her husband
Randy of Mason City, and Lara Arndt and her friend Michael Beem of Denver,
CO. Duane will also be dearly missed by his two grandchildren Aaron Roy
Beaver and Mandi Lee Dunbar, his father Vern Eastman of Albert Lea, MN and
his brother Don Eastman and his wife Audrey of Wells, MN. 

Duane was preceded in death by his mother Florence Eastman and an uncle
Armund Eastman. 




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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