Duane Goldman

OSKALOOSA - Duane Goldman, age 79, of Oskaloosa, died Wednesday, March
30th at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.

Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 2nd at the
Harden Funeral Chapel in What Cheer with Del Bittner officiating. The
Keswick VFW will give honors following the service and then Duane will
be cremated.

Visiting hours will begin after 12 noon on Friday, April 1st at the
Harden Funeral Chapel with the family greeting friends from 6 until 8
p.m. that evening. There will be a Masonic service at 7 p.m. on
Friday, April 1st during visitation.

Duane was born on September 16th, 1925 in Delta, Iowa the son of
Leslie and Faymie Wilson Goldman. He was raised and educated in Delta
and graduated from the Delta High School in 1943. Duane served in WW
II. After returning from the Army be drove a rock truck and later over
the road. In August of 1949 he was united in marriage to Marjorie
Shannon in Lancaster, MO. In 1964 he moved to Greeley, CO and worked
as a mechanic on the Colorado Pipe Line. In 1972 he married Virginia
Snedden in Las Vegas, NY. Duane retired in 1983 and moved to Florida
where he spent the next eight years. In 1991 he moved to Mountain
Home, AK and after ten years there Duane decided it was time to move
home, so he bought a home in Oskaloosa, where he resided until his
death.

His memory is honored by his wife, Virginia Goldman of Oskaloosa; one
son, Jerry Duane Goldman of Longmont, CO; four daughters, Sherry
Goldman of Rock Island, IL, Marilyn Goldman of Longmont, CO, Nancy
Vitale of Evans, CO, and Becky Martinez of Golden, CO; two brothers,
Robert Goldman of Ankeny, IA and Joseph Goldman of Peosta, IA; two
sisters, Phyllis Spears of Rose Hill and Gail Joye of Ringgold, GA;
six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and
nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Clifford Goldman.


Ottumwa Courier
April 1, 2005
Also in the Sigourney News Review.