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Dean Zirkelbach
DEAN ZIRKELBACH
Monticello
Dean Zirkelbach, 92, died Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness. Funeral Services will be 11 a.m. Monday, March 17, at the Scotch Grove Presby-terian Church, with interment in the Scotch Grove Cemetery. Pastor Jean Bruinsma will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 2 until 6 p.m. Sunday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church or Camp Wyoming.
Surviving are four children, Marcia (Don) Goettsch, Marion, Kevin (Marcia Newman) of Monticello, Jon (Tracy) of Center Junction and Julie (Ervin) Eiben, and a daughter-in-law, Karen Ross, both of Monticello; 13 grandchildren; 16 great-grand-children; and two brothers, Robert (Ruth) and Howard (June), both of Monticello.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Irene in 2010; two sons, Ed in 1990 and Dennis in July 2013; two infant sons; three sisters, Rose-mary Lorenzen, Ruth Hardersen and Amy Wilson; and his brother, John.
Dean E. Zirkelbach was born March 5, 1922, in Monticello, Iowa, the son of Edward and Emma Hein Zirkelbach. Dean grad-uated from Monticello Community Schools in 1940.
He was a charter member of the first FFA program in Monticello. Dean started farming on the family farm. Dean Zirkelbach and Irene Neunaber were married Dec. 20, 1944, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Anamosa. The couple farmed on the Zirkelbach family farm for 62 years. They moved to their home in Monticello in 2006.
Dean was a lifelong member of the Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church, where he served as an elder and on the Session. He had also served on the Center Junction Co-op board and as a 4-H leader.
He and Irene enjoyed traveling both in the states and abroad. Dean had also enjoyed many fishing trips to Canada. He always enjoyed time with his family, especially his grandchildren and great-grand-children.
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