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John Lukan Jr.
JOHN LUKAN JR.
Anamosa
John Lukan Jr., 79, of Anamosa, died early Thursday morning, Dec. 1, 2016, with his daughter at his bedside at Willow Gardens Care Center following an extended illness.
Private family services will be held at a later date. Burial will be in St. Boniface Cemetery, New Vienna. Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, has been entrusted with the services.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
Surviving are two children, Michelle of Delaware and Michael of Dublin, Calif.; two grandchildren, Brittany Wright and James Wright; a sister, Mary Ann Lukan of New Vienna; and two brothers, Ed Lukan of New Vienna and Jim (Pat) Lukan of Cedar Rapids.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Darlene and Madonna.
John Frank Lukan was born Sept. 20, 1937, in Worthington, Iowa, the son of John (Tally) and Frances Bruening Lukan. John graduated from St. Boniface Catholic School in New Vienna. He worked as a carpenter for Al Newhouse and Gene Evers before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1959. Following his discharge in 1963, he was a police officer with the Manchester Police Department. He married JoAnn Miller on July 7, 1965, in Manchester.. The couple moved to Anamosa in May 1966, when John became a correctional officer at the Iowa Men's Reformatory. He retired in September 1996.
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