Family/Spouse: Lucero, Rudoph A. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Attorney

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OSAGE, IOWA — Albert Gibbs Dunkelberg, 81, of Osage died Tuesday (Dec. 9, 2003) at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage. Albert was born at Hull, Iowa on June 29, 1922, the son of Elmer Cornelius and Mildred (Gibbs) Dunkelberg.

As a child, he lived in Hull, Storm Lake, Creighton, Fremont and Omaha, Neb. He attended junior high and high school while living at Alton, Iowa, and graduated from Alton High School in 1940.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 as an Apprentice Seaman, and served in the Atlantic, American, and Pacific Theaters in World War II as an aviation machinist's mate in an escort fighter squadron at sea and on shore stations. He was honorably discharged in 1946 as a Chief Petty Officer.

Dunkelberg contracted poliomyelitis shortly after his discharge from the Navy and was hospitalized in Chicago for many months. Upon leaving Chicago, he attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Drake Law School in June, 1952.

He was married Sept. 7, 1950, at Millersburg, Iowa, to Leone Kathryn Schultz, a nurse at Veteran's Hospital in Des Moines. They moved to Osage, Iowa, on Feb. 14, 1953, where he entered the private practice of law and she was employed as a nurse at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital.

Later in 1953, he joined Joseph H. Sams in the law partnership of Sams & Dunkelberg which he continued until the death of Mr. Sams in 1966. He then formed a partnership with Keith A. McKinley which was joined by Jerry H. Folkers in 1968, Bryan H. McKinley in 1977 and Mark Walk in 1992. He retired from the practice in September 1994.

Active in community affairs, Dunkelberg served as city treasurer for 34 years, was a member and past president of the Osage Chamber of Commerce, a charter member and the first president of the Kiwanis Club of Osage, which he also served seven years as secretary. He served a number of terms on the Mitchell County Soldier's Relief Commission, was a member of the board of directors of Osage Farmers National Bank for 30 years and a life member of Osage Post 278 of the American Legion where he served 40 years as finance officer.

Al was baptized as an adult at Osage Lutheran Church, now Our Savior's Lutheran Church, in 1954, and was an active member there, having served as president of the congregation, twice as secretary of the congregation, seven years as a Sunday school teacher and on various boards and committees.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage with the Rev. Dennis Hanson and the Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Interment will be in the Osage Cemetery with Military Rites by Osage American Legion Post 278. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage and one hour before services on Monday at the church. Memorials may be given to Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 833 Ash St., Osage, Iowa; Mitchell County Memorial Foundation, 616 N. 8th St., Osage, Iowa, or the charity of donor's choice.

He is survived by his wife, Leone Dunkelberg of Osage; one daughter, Kathryn Lucero and her husband Rudy of Albuquerque, N.M.; two sons, Kermit G. Dunkelberg and Kim Mancuso of Ashfield, Mass., Kendall A. Dunkelberg and Kim Whitehead of Columbus, Miss.; four grandchildren, Elizabeth Lucero, Michael Lucero, Zoe M. Dunkelberg and Aidan W. Dunkelberg; two foreign exchange student "sons": George Ulrich, wife Judith and son. Joshua of Venice, Italy, Jon Mangersnes, wife Sissel and children Maria, Birgit and Lars of Stavanger, Norway; one sister, Marion Mulvihill of Seattle, Wash.; one brother, Peter Dunkelberg of Orlando, Fla.; brothers-in-law, Arthur Schultz and wife Norma of Centerville, Ohio, and David Schultz and wife Darlene of Humboldt; sister-in-law, Gertrude Roorda, of Boone; many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; sister-in-law, Marilyn Piepenbrink; and her husband, Ray Piepenbrink; brother-in -law, Francis Mulvihill.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, [Mason City Glopbe Gazette, Dec. 16, 2003]

Albert married Schultz, Leone Kathryn on 7 Sep 1950 in Millersburg, Iowa, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Nurse

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E.C. attended college at what is now Upper Iowa University at Tripoli, Iowa. He served in the field artillery in the U.S. Army in World War I. He was a school teacher at Alton, Iowa and at Audubon, Iowa. He left the teaching profession for employment as cashier of a bank at Hull, Iowa, prior to 1922. He left banking for employment with an investment firm, the White-Phillips Company, in about 1927, traveling in northeastern Nebraska from his home in Crete, Nebraska. In about 1928 he was transfered to Fremont, Nebraska. About 1929 he left White-Phillips to form a partnership with one Elmer Gruenig in a new investment firm in Omaha, Nebraska, called the Corporate Securities Co. That firm prospered for a while in spite of the stock marker crash of 1929, but slipped by1933 as the depression deepened. Gruenig left the firm and it had closed by 1935. E.C. got employment for a brief time with PWA, the public works administration formed under the Roosevelt administration to help the unemployment situation. He then found work in Oklahoma working with the campaign for governor of “Ma” Ferguson and later with some oil exploration firms there. Following the entry of the U.S. into World War II he worked as an accountant with the army and its contractors building a camp to train ski troops in Colorado and on the Alaskan Highway. By the end of the war he was working as an accountant at the Panama Canal until retiring to Casselberry, Florida, where as a retirement business he raised rabbits for commercial sale. When his health began to fail, he moved from rural Casselberry to a home on South Glenwood Street in Orlando, Florida. He died in the hospital of a heart condition the morning of New Year’s Day 1972.

E.C. was married to Mildred Gibbs, probably at Alton, Iowa, in the early 1920s. They had two children while living at Hull, Iowa. They were divorced in 1942. He later married Margaret Thompson, probably in late 1942. They had one son, Peter, born Sept. 12, 1943. Both Margaret and Pete are still living.

Elmer married Gibbs, MildredAlton, Sioux, Iowa, USA. Mildred was born on 18 Nov 1893 in Alton, Sioux, Iowa, USA; died on 9 May 1990 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried after 9 May 1990 in Nassau Township Cemetery, Alton, Sioux, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Divorced in 1992 and she then married Jesse W. Allen. Buried next to her brother.

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Divorced 1942

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Physician

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Lived in Sumner, Iowa. Last name could be DANKELBURG or DUNKELBURG or DUNKLEBERG.

Bert C. Dunkelberg, the youngest child of Solomon and Caroline Dunkelberg, was born at Pendleton, Niagara County, New York, on December 24th, 1863, and passed away at his home in Sumner on November 7th, 1927, at the age of 63 years, 8 months and 13 days. When he was fourteen years old the family moved to Iowa and located on a farm in Blackhawk County near Waterloo. Waterloo has since been the family home. The elementary education which started by the boy in New York was continued in Waterloo and he graduated from the East Waterloo High School. He also attended the Prairie Home Seminary, a private school in Waterloo, and later attended the State University of Iowa, at Iowa City, where he graduated from the medical college in 1889.

He was married Dec. 31, 1891 to Alice E. Perrott who survives him. Dr. Dunkelberg practiced first at Schaller, Iowa where he lived for about ten years. Falling this he came to Tipoli in Bremer county and after 9 years there, came to Sumner which has been his home for the past 19 years. as a young man at Schaller, Dr. Dunkelberg joined the Methodist Church and a few years ago transferred his membership to the Sumner church. He also was made a Mason in Schaller, on July 12, 1890, later transferring his membership to Lookout Lodge in Sumner, of which he has been a faithful and interested member.

His last illness has been over a period of Several years. About five years ago, he was confined to his home throught the entire winter, where many an anxious vigil was kept at his bedside when it seemed that he could not live through the night. But his strong constitution to live brought him through the crisis and while he was in a semi-invalid condition he was again able to spend a portion of each day at his office and for three years has seldom missed an afternoon in winter or in summer. From his own knowledge he realized the seriousness of his own condition, but he was unafraid nor did he complain at the affliction which had befallen him. His end came as he had hoped it would, suddenly, when he was preparing to spend an afternoon at his office with his beloved books and in the familiar scenes which he had know for over a quarter of a century. He died, as he had lived, in the harness. In addition to the wife, he is survived by on son, Elmer and wife of Omaha, Neb., a daughter Helen of Des Moines, a brother Dr. E.E. Dunkelberg, of Wolf Creek Wis., two grandchildren and many other relatives. To those who knew him best Dr. Dunkelberg was an unuseual character. His early training, his education, and his own mental disicinline produced in him qualities which were not common to the average man. A school teacher in his younger days and always interested in the intellectual life of the community he was familiar with those essentials which are necessary to a well-rounded useful life. Mental vigor made him an adept in the community debates which characterized the social life of the early nineties, and many a spelling bee found him among the last ones on the floor. Dr. Dunkelberg attacked the problems of this profession with the same vigor which characterized his other activities. Here again his studious nature asserted itself, and the idle moments in his office were spent in research which was invaluable in the conduct of his practice. the country doctor of the last decade sis not have an easy life, but it was one which was productive of genuine sympathy and sturdy character. Dr. Dunkelberg took great pride in his home. through his kindly counsel he directed the foot-steps of his children in the paths of useful- service, and the interest has never lagged in the years which followed their subsequent engagement in the affairs of life. And in the later years the grandchildren came as a source of comfort and hope through the trying months of illness and despair.

To those who were his friends, Dr. Dunkelberg was a friend indeed. For them he held a genuine concern, and even though a kindly heart was oft times hidden by a gruff exterior, he could be depended on for helpful counsel. and invaluable assistance when its need was greatest. Those finer instincts of the soul there in man makes his peace with God were not lacking in his character. His faith was of the substantial kind which grows out of ordered reasoning and intelligent understanding, and he passed into the Valley of the Shadow not with the belief, but with the knowledge, that it was not the end. Dr. Dunkelberg sleeps but he is not dead. the influence of his life will manifest itself through the years to come. And he is deserving of the highest tribute that can be paid to any mortal man. The world in which he lived, his home and his community , has been made better by his life. The Sumner Gazette, Thursday, November 10, 1927.

Bert married Perrott, Alice Emily Wooden on 30 Dec 1891 in Schaller, Sac, Iowa, USA. Alice (daughter of Perrott, Cornelius and Baker, Phoebe Ann) was born on 27 Oct 1863 in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England; died on 29 May 1940 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA; was buried after 29 May 1940 in Union Mound Cemetery, Sumner, Bremer, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housewife
• Baptism: 21 Feb 1864, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England
• Departure: 1882, Somerset, England

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From the Wednesday, December 17, 1890 issue of THE STAR of Schaller, Sac County, Iowa:

The Schaller corps of teachers, Principal F. W. Akers and Misses Jennie Burleigh and Alice Perrott attended the teachers' association at Early Saturday. They report a good attendance. The next meeting will be held in Schaller sometime in January.

Friends Saddened At Death Today of Mrs. Dunkelberg: Friends were saddened to learn of the death of Mrs. Alice Dunkelberg of Des Moines who died at 1:30 this morning (Thursday). Death resulted from a heart attack. Mrs. Dunkelberg had been ill only a few days.
Mrs. Dunkelberg is a sister-in-law of Mrs. G. G. Perrott and has spent several summers in Storm Lake and visited at numerous other times.
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock In Des Moines. The body will be taken to Waterloo' for burial in the family lot. Mrs. Henry Schmitz, a niece. Is leaving Friday morning for DesMoines. She Is accompanying Mrs. Dunkelberg's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Dunkelberg of Alton. Storm Lake Pilot Tribune May 23, 1940.

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