Vernon F. Mews

Great Lakes Naval Station, IL (1956); Newport, RI (1956);
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b. 25 Aug 1934; d. 20 Sep 2013.  Vernon Fritz Mews, son of Fritz & Blondina (Dunse) Mews of rural Windom, MN was born in Cottonwood County.  He graduated from Windom High School in 1953 and attended college in Brookings, SD, in 1954.

Vern enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Mar 1956 and was assigned to Great Lakes Naval Station, IL, for recruit training.  He was discharged in 1958.

Vern married Margaret Marie Anderson in Jun 1956.  He began farming in 1960 and farmed for the rest of his life; he also worked for Swift & Company from 1984 to 1999.

Vern Mews died in 2013 at a hospital in Sioux Falls.  He was preceded in death by his parents; two wives, Muriel (Suttie) and Marj (Jeppesen Netwal); sister-in-law Delores and brother-in-law Reverend Fritz Wood.  He is survived by his wife, Marie; a brother and three sisters; two sons; five step-children; and 13 grandchildren.  He is buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Windom.

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