Dale M. Van Drimmelen

Dale M. Van Drimmelen passed away February 16, 2012, at Ashland Healthcare in Ashland, Missouri. Dale was born April 25, 1923, in New Sharon, Iowa, to Corstian and Florence Meyer Van Drimmelen. He graduated from Oskaloosa, Iowa, High School in 1942. He married Collen J. Anderson on August 20, 1943, in the parsonage of the First Christian Church in Oskaloosa. Dale was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Navy from 1943 to1946 in the Pacific. He was a farmer in Mahaska County and later became a truck driver for Meadow Gold Dairy and Prairie Farms. He retired in 1985 and began working for the YMCA in Newton, Iowa, where he retired a second time in 2001.

Dale was an avid bowler and enjoyed working in the garden and loved growing exceptional roses. He was preceded in death by his wife Colleen of 68 years. Survivors include a daughter, Dea Howard of Altoona, IA; a son, Steve (Rebecca) of Hartsburg, MO; a foster daughter, Jennifer Endsley Nesler of Champaign, IL: three granddaughters, Darci, Diana, and Dawn; and eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Monday, February 20, 2012, at Hamilton's Altoona Funeral Home, 105 4th Sttrry SW in Altoona, followed by a brief graveside ceremony at 12 p.m. at the Altoona Cemetery.

Online condolences may be expressed at:
www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com

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