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Duane DeShaw
DUANE DESHAW
Hopkinton
Duane "Junior" DeShaw, 85, died peacefully at his home on Friday morning, Feb. 7, 2014, following an extended illness. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at St. Luke's Catholic Church, Hopkinton, where friends may call from 3 until 7 p.m. Monday. A parish vigil service will be at 3 p.m. Interment will be in Hopkinton Cemetery, with Military Honors. Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello is in charge of arrangements.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
Surviving are his wife of 60 years, Luella; four children, Doug (Barb) DeShaw and Charlene (Scott) Smith, both of Hopkinton, Chuck DeShaw, Cedar Rapids, and Carrie (Rick) Wolfe, Marion; eight grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren; six great-grandchildren; 11 stepgreat-grandchildren; and his siblings, Betty McIntosh, Robert DeShaw, Ella Mae Wernimont, Steve DeShaw, Lee DeShaw, Gary DeShaw, Sharon
Meyer, Juanita Lake,
Larry DeShaw, Diane
Potter and Earl DeShaw.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Duane and Caroline; his stepmother, Jen; siblings, Francis DeShaw, Roger DeShaw and Jacqueline DeShaw; brothers-in-law, Roger McIntosh and Paul Lake; and sister-in-law,
Bernadine DeShaw.
Duane DeShaw was born April 9, 1928, in South Fork Township, Delaware County, Iowa, near Hopkinton, the son of Duane Sr. and Caroline Besler DeShaw. Junior received his education in the rural schools near his home. Junior served in the United States Army in Korea. He returned home and married Luella Weber on April 7, 1953, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Castle Grove. The couple farmed near Buck Creek until 1990, when they moved to Hopkinton.
Junior had served on the Immaculate Conception Church board, Mississippi Valley Milk Producers board and was a member of the Farm Bureau. He was a member of the Country Cousins Square Dance Club for 35 years.
He loved to spend time with family and friends, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Farming was his life.
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