Muscatine Journal - August 24, 2001
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
WAPELLO, Iowa - Charles M. Gasaway, 88, of the Wapello Care Center, formerly of Muscatine, died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2001, at Unity Hospital.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Rev. William Mosier will officiate. Pallbearers are Leonard Gasaway, Bob Richetts, Terry Gasaway, Bill Gasaway, Chad Dietz, and Brandon Gasaway. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. A luncheon will be held following the services in the Community Room at the funeral home.
Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Riverbend Assembly Church.
Mr. Gasaway was born March 24, 1913, the son of Sam and Lulu Kirkpatrick Gasaway, in Booneville, Ind. He married Helen E. Harris Nov. 10, 1932, in Rock Island, Ill.
He served in the U.S. Navy as Fireman 1st Class from 1943-1945, serving in the North Pacific. He was a machine operator at Huttig's from 1955-1978.
He was a member of Riverbend Assembly Church in Illinois.
He enjoyed traveling with his wife.
Survivors include, his wife Helen of the Wapello Care Center; sons, Donald L. Gasaway, Charles "Merv" M. Gasaway and wife Janet, Larry G. Gasaway and wife Juanita, all of Muscatine; daughters, Louise Boucher and husband Vic of Prescott Valley, Ariz., Carla M. Schade and husband Terry of Rochester, Mich.; a sister, Violet Ricketts of Geneseo, Ill.; 12 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, nine brothers, two sisters and two grandchildren.
Muscatine Journal - August 24, 2001
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
WAPELLO, Iowa - Charles M. Gasaway, 88, of the Wapello Care Center, formerly of Muscatine, died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2001, at Unity Hospital.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Rev. William Mosier will officiate. Pallbearers are Leonard Gasaway, Bob Richetts, Terry Gasaway, Bill Gasaway, Chad Dietz, and Brandon Gasaway. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. A luncheon will be held following the services in the Community Room at the funeral home.
Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Riverbend Assembly Church.
Mr. Gasaway was born March 24, 1913, the son of Sam and Lulu Kirkpatrick Gasaway, in Booneville, Ind. He married Helen E. Harris Nov. 10, 1932, in Rock Island, Ill.
He served in the U.S. Navy as Fireman 1st Class from 1943-1945, serving in the North Pacific. He was a machine operator at Huttig's from 1955-1978.
He was a member of Riverbend Assembly Church in Illinois.
He enjoyed traveling with his wife.
Survivors include, his wife Helen of the Wapello Care Center; sons, Donald L. Gasaway, Charles "Merv" M. Gasaway and wife Janet, Larry G. Gasaway and wife Juanita, all of Muscatine; daughters, Louise Boucher and husband Vic of Prescott Valley, Ariz., Carla M. Schade and husband Terry of Rochester, Mich.; a sister, Violet Ricketts of Geneseo, Ill.; 12 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, nine brothers, two sisters and two grandchildren.
Family Members
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Myrtle Rose Gasaway Truitt
1897–1964
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Emma Lillian Gasaway Scott
1898–1986
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Ezra Rolly/Rollie Gasaway
1901–1983
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Lenora Elizabeth Gasaway Strueber
1903–1983
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Ira Allen "Arrie" Gasaway
1904–1976
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Edna Beatrice Gasaway Truitt
1906–1995
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Samuel Jessie "Sammie" Gasaway
1910–1996
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Violet Robbie Gasaway Ricketts
1915–2004
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Martin Woodrow Gasaway
1918–1980
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Forestt Lester Gasaway
1923–1996
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