David Dwight Frantz
Jefferson, IA
DOB: 12-26-1911
DOD: 8-3-2005

Memorial Services: 10:30am Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at First United Methodist Church in Grand Junction, Iowa

D.D. Frantz of Jefferson, Iowa, formerly of Grand Junction passed on August 3, 2005 at Greene County Medical Center Hospice at the age of 93 years. A memorial service will be held 10:30am Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at First United Methodist Church, 302 13th St. South, Grand Junction, Iowa.

D.D. was born December 26, 1911 in Grand Junction to Martha and Henry Frantz.

The old home farm one mile east of Grand Junction sporting the round barn was his home though out his childhood and where he raised his children. Dwight graduated from Grand Junction high school and AIB in Des Moines. He farmed the east Frantz acres from the early 1940s until 1959 raising champion Hampshire hogs and Guernsey dairy cows.

Dwight met his beloved wife, Vava Alma Johnson, at Spring Lake with Lawrence Welk playing in the background. They proceeded to get married in Paton, Iowa in 1933. They lived their entire lives in Greene County except for a short adventure in Tempe, Arizona in 1959. Returning to Grand Junction he joined his brother, Leon, buying and selling pigs. He also was caretaker at the Spring Lake golf course before he retired.

D.D. was the oldest member of the Grand Junction Methodist Church where he had been an active member until he and his wife Vava moved to Jefferson in 1983. He was a warm hearted gentleman who enjoyed playing cards, fishing, bowling, reading, and took a very active role in Methodist Men, Lion’s Club and Farm Bureau.

D.D. is survived by his wife Vava; children Richard Dean of Whiting, Iowa, Robert Dale and wife Kathryn of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Karen Jane Kersey of Carroll, Iowa, Autumn Rose (Kathy Elizabeth) and husband George Wagner of Boone, Iowa and Felicia Kay and husband Ronald (Hank) Davis of Churdan, Iowa; 12 grand children and several great grand children.

Preceding him in death were his parents Henry and Martha Frantz, his siblings, Paul Jasper, Leon and Margaret Frantz, Leone and Albert (Shark) Hillman, Haven and Elaine Frantz, and two grandchildren, Greg Frantz and Jennifer Faaborg.

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