Dale Ahlrichs

DALE "KANGAROO" AHLRICHS

Monticello

Dale "Kangaroo" Ahlrichs, 80, of Delhi and formerly of Monticello, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, where friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday. Interment will be in the Oakwood Cemetery with military honors.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving are four children, Jeff (Debbi Wells) Ahlrichs, Monticello, Julie Hansen, Olin, Jan (John) Hanson, Iowa City and Jon (Brenda) Ahlrichs, Monticello; 11 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; his sister, Mary Jean Taylor, Monticello; and a special friend, Betty Klima of Coggon. He will also be deeply missed by his cat, T.C.!

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, La Wanda in 1967; brother, Tom; sister-in-law, Regina Ahlrichs; brother-in-law, George Taylor; and sister-in-law, Hertha Winter.

Dale Eugene Ahlrichs was born May 23, 1934, at Monticello, Iowa. He was the son of John E. and Bernice Wolmutt Ahlrichs. Dale graduated from the Monticello Community Schools in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 until 1956. Dale and La Wanda Winter were married May 5, 1956, at S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, rural Monticello. Dale worked as a machinist for Clinton Engines and later at Energy Manufacturing before beginning a career in trucking that spanned 44 years, driving first for Harms Way Trucking and Art Pape. He then began his career at CRST/Malone that spanned 38 years until his retirement in 2001.

Dale retired to his home at Lake Delhi. He enjoyed spending time with his family, playing euchre with his friends, watching Iowa basketball, taking flying lessons and was a charter member of the Monticello Eagles Club.