Dunlap, Anthony Wayne

Anthony Wayne Dunlap, 58, of Hopkinton, died Sunday morning, May 27, 201,2 at his home following a sudden illness. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 2, at the Hopkinton Community Church. Friends may call Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Interment will be in the Hopkinton Cemetery. Cheryl Gates will officiate at the services.

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In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.

Survivors are three daughters, April (fiance Paul Janak), Lincoln, Neb., Crystal (John) Weber, Cedar Rapids, and Andrea (Dustin) Hall, Monticello; a son, Anthony Jason Dunlap, Los Angeles, Calif.; nine grandchildren, Jaden, Kennedy, Charlie, Chase, T.J., Mahailey, Laci, Jaxyn and Lily; five sisters, Sandra Dunlap, Hopkinton, Vivian Thompson, Champaign, Ill., Ruth Anne Bacon, Coggon, Wanda (David) Klaren, Hopkinton, and Wendy Dunlap, Muscatine; and two brothers, Curtis (Linda), Calimesa, Calif., and Kevin of Hopkinton.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ramona in 2006; and five brothers, Kenneth, Richard, Clyde, Terry and Craig.

Anthony Dunlap was born April 8, 1954, in Coggon, Iowa. He was the son of Clyde and Marymaude (Cornell) Dunlap. Tony graduated from the Maquoketa Valley Schools with the class of 1972. He was employed at Cuckler Buildings in Monticello and later at Swiss Valley Creamery in Hopkinton. Anthony Dunlap and Ramona C. Kelsey were married May 31, 1980, on the Lenox College Campus in Hopkinton. The couple farmed near Hopkinton on the Dunlap family farm. Tony later worked at Farmers Shipping and All Star Feeds in Dyersville and for Fawn Creek Homes in Anamosa.

Tony was an active member of the First United Church of Hopkinton, where he served on the Building and Grounds Committee.

Published in The Gazette May 30, 2012.