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Marion Isaac Welle, 82, of 6213 E. 36th St. S., died Sunday afternoon, June 2, at Skiff Medical Center following a heart attack.
Furneral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Newton United Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. John Zieman, pastor of church, will conduct services.
Burial will be at Mount Zion cemetery.
Friends may call after 8 a.m. Wednesday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home and visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials to Dollars for Scholars Fund or the United Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund may be left at the funeral home.
Survivors are four sons and daughters-in-law, Paul and Jackie of West Chester, Pa., Carl and Jan of Waukeska, Wis., John and Barb of Newton, and Craig and Carol of Houston, Texas; two daughters, Jane (Mrs. Craig) Heesch of Bettendorf, and Alta (Mrs. Al) Thoreson of Greenwood, Wis., and a special friend, Bette Wingert, of Des Moines.
He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Grace, May 19, 1986.
Mr Welle, a farmer, who served on the Newton Community Schools Board of Education in the 1960s, was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Jasper County Farm Bureau, The Huguenot Society, Jasper Genealogy Society and Newton American Legion Post III.
He was a soloist at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Ill., sang for the Kraft Music Hall in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony.
He sang in the United Presbyterian Church choir, and in other Newton church choirs, and sang in the Plymouth Congrgational Church in Des Moines, the Grinnell Community Chorus and as a hired soloist in many choral groups throughout the state of Iowa, as well as singing at many weddings and funerals in Jasper County.
The son of Isaac and Jessie Wheatcraft Welle, he was born Dec. 4, 1913 at the Welle farm home southeast of Newton and was a graduate of Newton Community High School. He was a graduate of Parsons College in Fairfield with a degree in music and studied vocal music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Ill.
He was married to Grace Irene Yessler Sept. 9, 1944 in Iowa City. ~ Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa, June 3, 1996
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