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Dec 27, 2010, page A5 - The Muscatine Journal at Newspapers.com:
[3768]Wayne MittmanVisitation: 3:30-7 p.m. today at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home.
Celebration of life service: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, at the Sweetland United Methodist Church.
Private burial: Greenwood Cemetery.
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Wayne L. Mittman, 75, of Muscatine, died on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, at Carrington Place, after a 10-year battle against Parkinson’s disease.
The Reverend Jim Turner and Pastor Gertie Nichols will officiate the service.
Memorials may be left to the Sweetland United Methodist Church Memorial Fund or the Parkinson’s Action Network.
Wayne was born on April 17, 1935, in Muscatine, the son of Walter and Clara Kothe Mittman. He was a 1953 graduate of Muscatine High School and attended Iowa State University.
He married Gladys B. Kemper on August 17, 1958, at the Sweetland United Methodist Church in Muscatine County.
He worked at Grain Processing Corp. for 40 years, retiring in 1997.
He was a member of Sweetland United Methodist Church for over 50 years.
Wayne loved walking and walked the Bix Race for 10 years.
He volunteered as a tax preparer for AARP.
Wayne is survived by his wife; his children, Robert W. (and Barbara) Mittman and their daughter, Katie, all of Nevada, Iowa; Linda (and Wesley) Demmon and their daughters, Naomi, Elizabeth and Carrie, all of DeWitt; John D. (and Lori) Mittman and their children, Zachary, Nicole and Matthew, all of York, Neb.; and Barbara (and John) Beals and their children, Cody and Kelly, all of Nevada; a sister, Sharon (and Carl) Klein of Spirit Lake; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Catherine Krueger and Bernice Hinrichsen; and two brothers, Donald Mittman, who died in infancy, and Arthur Mittman.