source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, January 7, 2003, pg. 5B, cols. 5-6

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -
Charles O. "Mick" Angell, 82, formerly of 315 Golfview Ave., died Sunday morning, Jan. 5, 2003, in Manor Care, Davenport, following a lengthy illness.
Services: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service, 605 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, by the Rev. Michael Davis. Scattering of his remains will be at a later date. Friends may call at the funeral home from 1:30 p.m. until service time Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Charles O. Angell Memorial Fund.
The son of the Rev. William Angell and Margaret Oliver Angell, Charles Oscar was born May 22, 1920, in Emma, Ky. He had one brother and four sisters. By the time he was 3, the family had moved to Shell Creek, Tenn. He acquired the nickname "Mick" when he was still small. Someone in a carload of tourists saw him standing beside the road and said, "Look at the little Mick." He fought the nickname, but it stuck.
When the Civilian Conservation Corps was formed, he joined and combined school classes with forester work. His pay was sent to his mother. Mick was alarmed about the Nazis in Europe so he went to Canada and joined the Princess Pat Regiment. They went to North Africa and fought the campaign against Rommel. After Pearl Harbor, the Americans were released to join the American forces. After months of waiting in Ireland and helping to form the first Ranger unit, Mick landed on Omaha Beach in the 13th wave on D-Day. Six days later, near St. Lo, Mick was wounded in the back of the head by a sniper hidden in a fruit tree. He was marked killed in action, but later picked up and taken to England. After months in the hospital in England he was discharged with 50 percent disability.
Back in the United States, he worked with the FBI in Florida and the Border Patrol in Texas. President Truman got a ruling passed that said any veteran with service-caused disability of 50 percent or less had to be allowed back in service if he so desired. Mick enlisted and was assigned to the 278th Military Police Unit and sent to the Panama Canal Zone.
In 1947, he married Helen Fox, a Red Cross worker from Iowa City, who was the club director at Corozal General Depot, Canal Zone. She had quarters assigned on the post and her mother was visiting her. when the Red Cross club workers stopped their wartime activities in Panama, Mrs. Angell continued her club work for the Army. Eventually Mick was assigned back to the States, spending most of the time at Fort Carson, where the Angells rented a house in Colorado Springs.
During the Korean War, Angell served on Occupation Duty in Germany. While there he was assigned as Honor Guard to Mrs. Eisenhower and later had the same position with Mrs. McCoy. That duty took him to interesting places all over Europe. Mick's final assignment was one where he and his wife were stationed in southwestern France in a little town of St. Jean D' Angely. Several American families were stationed there and found the people of St. Jean friendly and interesting. It was a time when Communism was a threat in Europe and fortunately France kept its own form of government.
When the Angells got back to the States, Eisenhower was president and one of the first things he did was eliminate the ruling about men with 50 percent disability being allowed in the Army.
Back home and living with Mrs. Angell's mother, Mrs. Fox, in University Heights, Angell turned to other work. For several years the Angells owned and operated Mick's Caramel Corn Shop on South Dubuque Street in Iowa City.
Angell had always enjoyed outdoor activities, such as hunting and fishing, especially fishing. He found he also enjoyed all aspects of farming and worked with farmers along Black Diamond Road until age and diabetes forced him to stop. Every summer Mick spent two or so weeks taking three or four boys on a trip out West, usually to Yellowstone.
At home he fed the birds and animals and always had fresh water available in winter. He and his wife were very interested in the Johnson County Humane Society.
Charles is survived by his wife, Helen of University Heights.

source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, January 7, 2003, pg. 5B, cols. 5-6

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -
Charles O. "Mick" Angell, 82, formerly of 315 Golfview Ave., died Sunday morning, Jan. 5, 2003, in Manor Care, Davenport, following a lengthy illness.
Services: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service, 605 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, by the Rev. Michael Davis. Scattering of his remains will be at a later date. Friends may call at the funeral home from 1:30 p.m. until service time Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Charles O. Angell Memorial Fund.
The son of the Rev. William Angell and Margaret Oliver Angell, Charles Oscar was born May 22, 1920, in Emma, Ky. He had one brother and four sisters. By the time he was 3, the family had moved to Shell Creek, Tenn. He acquired the nickname "Mick" when he was still small. Someone in a carload of tourists saw him standing beside the road and said, "Look at the little Mick." He fought the nickname, but it stuck.
When the Civilian Conservation Corps was formed, he joined and combined school classes with forester work. His pay was sent to his mother. Mick was alarmed about the Nazis in Europe so he went to Canada and joined the Princess Pat Regiment. They went to North Africa and fought the campaign against Rommel. After Pearl Harbor, the Americans were released to join the American forces. After months of waiting in Ireland and helping to form the first Ranger unit, Mick landed on Omaha Beach in the 13th wave on D-Day. Six days later, near St. Lo, Mick was wounded in the back of the head by a sniper hidden in a fruit tree. He was marked killed in action, but later picked up and taken to England. After months in the hospital in England he was discharged with 50 percent disability.
Back in the United States, he worked with the FBI in Florida and the Border Patrol in Texas. President Truman got a ruling passed that said any veteran with service-caused disability of 50 percent or less had to be allowed back in service if he so desired. Mick enlisted and was assigned to the 278th Military Police Unit and sent to the Panama Canal Zone.
In 1947, he married Helen Fox, a Red Cross worker from Iowa City, who was the club director at Corozal General Depot, Canal Zone. She had quarters assigned on the post and her mother was visiting her. when the Red Cross club workers stopped their wartime activities in Panama, Mrs. Angell continued her club work for the Army. Eventually Mick was assigned back to the States, spending most of the time at Fort Carson, where the Angells rented a house in Colorado Springs.
During the Korean War, Angell served on Occupation Duty in Germany. While there he was assigned as Honor Guard to Mrs. Eisenhower and later had the same position with Mrs. McCoy. That duty took him to interesting places all over Europe. Mick's final assignment was one where he and his wife were stationed in southwestern France in a little town of St. Jean D' Angely. Several American families were stationed there and found the people of St. Jean friendly and interesting. It was a time when Communism was a threat in Europe and fortunately France kept its own form of government.
When the Angells got back to the States, Eisenhower was president and one of the first things he did was eliminate the ruling about men with 50 percent disability being allowed in the Army.
Back home and living with Mrs. Angell's mother, Mrs. Fox, in University Heights, Angell turned to other work. For several years the Angells owned and operated Mick's Caramel Corn Shop on South Dubuque Street in Iowa City.
Angell had always enjoyed outdoor activities, such as hunting and fishing, especially fishing. He found he also enjoyed all aspects of farming and worked with farmers along Black Diamond Road until age and diabetes forced him to stop. Every summer Mick spent two or so weeks taking three or four boys on a trip out West, usually to Yellowstone.
At home he fed the birds and animals and always had fresh water available in winter. He and his wife were very interested in the Johnson County Humane Society.
Charles is survived by his wife, Helen of University Heights.