Delmer Maiden

DELMER MAIDEN

Mount Vernon

Delmer Maiden, 88, died Monday evening, Aug. 7, 2017, at Madison County Hospital, Winterset, following an extended illness.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa. Interment: Norwich Cemetery, Martelle, with military honors. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

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

He is survived by two daughters, Karen Maiden and Darlene (Ed) Larew, both of West Branch; a son-in-law, Merlin Laing, Tipton; four grandchildren, Susan Beranek, Dawn Boucher, Nicholas Shaffer and Tiffany Larew Ferrer; eight grandchildren, Jesse, Brady, Brittany, Alicia, Lorelai, Cameron, Parker and Jacqueline; two sisters, June Smothers, Martelle, and Dixie (Jerry) Morsch, Mesa, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Irene; a daughter, Joyce Laing; a sister, Irene Arthur; and a brother, Merle Maiden.

Delmer Lloyd Maiden was born Aug. 9, 1928, in Martelle, Iowa, the son of Ira and Erma Simons Maiden. He attended the rural schools near his home. Delmer was a farm hand and worked at his father's gas station in Martelle before serving in the U.S. Army. He married Irene Gienapp on Sept. 26, 1953, in Waterloo, Iowa. He worked for the Jones County Road Department for 10 years and spent 24 1/2 years working at Lefebure in Cedar Rapids before retiring in March 1991. Irene preceded him in death on Dec. 11, 2001.

Delmer loved to dance. He also enjoyed playing pool and cards and going fishing and camping.