Don graduated from the Exira High School in 1932. He was employed at Airplane Construction in Omaha, Nebraska, later working in Buffalo, New York.
On February 14, 1942, he and Ramona Wahlert were married in Niagara Falls, New York, where they lived for three years.
In 1945 they moved to Englewood, Colorado, where he worked for PreMix Concrete Co. for 17 years, retiring in 1972.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Chal and Bertha Adair; two sisters and their husbands, Florence and Elmer Jessen and Maxine and Walter Bauer; his wife's parents and family, Edward J. and Ida Jacobsen Wahlert, Florence Wahlert Nelson, Marvin and Edna (King) Wahlert, Garner Heath, Arnold and Wilma Wahlert, Leonard (Pete) and Irene (Peterson) Wahlert, Dayle Wahlert, Franklyn Wahlert and several nieces and nephews.
At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife Ramona, his sisters-in-law, Ruby (Wahlert) Heath of the Exira Care Center and Colleen Wahlert Nichols of Atlantic, Iowa, and a host of nieces and nephews.
Kessler Funeral Home in Exira, Iowa
Don graduated from the Exira High School in 1932. He was employed at Airplane Construction in Omaha, Nebraska, later working in Buffalo, New York.
On February 14, 1942, he and Ramona Wahlert were married in Niagara Falls, New York, where they lived for three years.
In 1945 they moved to Englewood, Colorado, where he worked for PreMix Concrete Co. for 17 years, retiring in 1972.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Chal and Bertha Adair; two sisters and their husbands, Florence and Elmer Jessen and Maxine and Walter Bauer; his wife's parents and family, Edward J. and Ida Jacobsen Wahlert, Florence Wahlert Nelson, Marvin and Edna (King) Wahlert, Garner Heath, Arnold and Wilma Wahlert, Leonard (Pete) and Irene (Peterson) Wahlert, Dayle Wahlert, Franklyn Wahlert and several nieces and nephews.
At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife Ramona, his sisters-in-law, Ruby (Wahlert) Heath of the Exira Care Center and Colleen Wahlert Nichols of Atlantic, Iowa, and a host of nieces and nephews.
Kessler Funeral Home in Exira, Iowa
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