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; Marshall was first married to Abbie J. Burrell in 1908. She died in 1932.

The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Tuesday, 29 Nov 1932; p.14; (Newspapers.com):

Mrs. Marshall E. Dingman

Mrs. Marshall E. Dingman, before her marriage to Dr. Dingman of Urbana, which took place Monday in Rock Island, Ill., was Miss Lucile Cue. The Rev. David Todd of the Christian church performed the ceremony at the parsonage.

Mrs. Dingman, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cue of Shellsburg, is a graduate of the Shellsburg high school, and attended the University of Iowa for two years. Dr. Dingman is a physician and surgeon, practicing in Urbana.

The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Wednesday,

02 Mar 1960; p.10; (Newspapers.com):

Marshall Dingman, Urbana Doctor for 57 Years, Dies

Urbana -- Dr. Marshall E. Dingman, 81, a physician in this area for more than 57 years, died Tuesday night at Mercy hospital following a long illness.

Born Dec. 16, 1878, near Urbana, he was in the first class to be graduated from Urbana's 12-year high school in 1896. He was also among the first graduates of Schroeder academy, a junior college in Urbana.

Doctor in 1902

He enrolled at the University of Iowa as a medical student in 1898 and was graduated in 1902. He immediately began the practice of medicine in Urbana.

He was honored at "Dr. Dingman Day" in 1951 at Urbana. One of the features of the celebration was a baseball game between Urbana and Walker- Center Point. The players had all been brought into the world by Dr. Dingman.

Dr. Dingman was a member of the staff at St. Luke's hospital and had served on the staff at Mercy hospital. He was a life member of the Iowa Medical Society and a member of the American Medical Assn.

Church Elder

Dr. Dingman was a member of the Urbana Christian church where he served as elder. He later was named an honorary elder.

He was a 32nd degree Mason, having been a member of the Masonic lodge for more than 50 years. He was a member of the Blue lodge, Consistory, Commandery and the Shrine. He at one time served as a member of the Urbana school board.

Dr. Dingman was married July 7, 1908, to Abbie Burrell. She died in 1931. He was married to Lucille Cue Nov. 28, 1932. She survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Gary Van Slyke of East Greenwich, R.I.; a brother, Verne, of Los Angeles, and 2 grandchildren.

Services

Services: Friday at 2 p.m. in the Urbana Christian church. After the Christian church is filled, persons wishing to go to the services may go to the Methodist church, which will have a sound hookup with the Christian church. The Rev. Oscar E. Barrow will officiate.

Burial: Urbana cemetery. Friends may call at the Fry-Holland funeral home in Vinton after 1:30 Thursday or at the Christian church after 9 a.m. Friday.

Evening Times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa; Tuesday,

17 Sep 1918; p.3; (Newspapers.com):

Urbana.

Dr. Marshall E. Dingman, of Urbana has received a commission as first lieutenant in the medical corps and will likely be assigned to a station very soon. Dr. Dingman was born in Urbana and has been practicing medicine here for the past fifteen years.

However, the following article from 1951 says the medical authorities in the area declared the "community need" for him was too great to release his for military duty.

Article -"Urbana Will Honor Doctor Saturday," The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Thursday, 13 Sep 1951; p.9; (Newspapers.com):

Urbana Will Honor Doctor Saturday

Fifty Years Of Practice For Dingman

Urbana--When the doctors brought prescriptions into his father's drug store, young Marshall Dingman studied them, went to his father's books to find what they were for.

He was just a boy then, still going to high school or to Schroeder's academy.

Today Marshall E. Dingman is a doctor--the general practitioner who has been caring for the ill and injured in his area for nearly 50 years.

And on Saturday this community and a host of friends from nearby cities and towns will join in honor of Dr. Dingman.

Saturday will be "Dr. Dingman day" in Urbana.

"Doc" is a great baseball fan ("I guess I've seen most of the majors play at one time or another"). And it seems particularly appropriate that the babies Doc has brought into the world around Urbana have grown up and will field a nine on the ball diamond against a team picked from among Doc's "babies" in Walker and Center Point.

The fracas is scheduled to start at 1:30 Saturday.

Doc will be on hand to attend to all injuries in this battle royal.

Following the ball game there ill be a band concert by the Urbana school band in the park opposite the bank.

There will be a prize for the oldest "Dr. Dingman baby" to show at the celebration. The youngest may also be there.

During his years of medical practice here, Dr. Dingman has brought more than 3,000 children into the world. First of these was Marshall Brody, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brody. Brody now lives in Marshfield, Wis. Last baby case at which Dr. Dingman attended was that for the arrival of a son to the George Halsteads of Vinton. That child was born Sept. 7.

Marshall E. Dingman was born near Urbana Dec. 16, 1879. And you might say that he's never left home.

His parents were Mr. and Mrs. George Dingman. The boy, Marshall, attended Urbana schools. He, together with the late C. D. Moore, one-time manager of the All-Iowa fair in Cedar Rapids, were the first to be graduated from Urbana's 12-year high school, in 1896. Previous to their time, the schools had gone no further than the tenth grade. The two boys, together with Irene Knight, were the first graduates, two years later, of the Schroeder academy, a kind of junior college in Urbana.

In 1898 Marshall Dingman was enrolled in the University of Iowa as a medical student.

Graduated in 1902, Dr. Dingman began the practice of medicine in Urbana.

He was then 22, unmarried and living with his parents. His father was operating the drug store which had started in 1883 and which he ran until 1918.

Young Dr. Dingman opened his office in what had formerly been the cobbler's shop of J. D. Marshall, grandfather of Verne and the late Clare Marshall of Cedar Rapids. The building today houses Jones Barber shop here. In 1906 Dr. Dingman moved into a new brick building. His offices since have occupied those quarters.

A few days after he started the practice of medicine in Urbana, Dr. Dingman went home and in front of his parents he figuratively polished his fingernails on the lapel of his coat while he told them: "I've got a patient in Cedar point."

Today Dr. Dingman's practice embraces a host of towns in and around Urbana. He makes regular, sometimes daily calls to sick folks who summon him to their homes in Center Point, Walker, Troy Mills, Brandon, Toddville, Vinton Quasqueton, Palo and Shellsburg.

Although this sounds like a laborious assignment, Dr. Dingman, soon to be 72, thinks things have leveled off a great deal from the early days of his medical practice.

He's not forgetting the long drives with the horse and buggy over uncertain and sometimes impassable roads. He remembers the times when people came to him in sleds, and the night he fell into a ravine during a snow storm.

"The storm was so bad we had to put blankets over the heads of the horses to get them to face it," the doctor remembers. "We came to a ravine. On the other side another sled was waiting to take me on. I stepped off one bank, disappeared almost out of sight in the snow. First thing I knew someone was yelling 'Whereinthehell is doc'."

Dr. Dingman remembers well the days when it took three or four hours to call on a patient. Today he can do the same job in 30 minutes, because of cars and better roads.

"Furthermore," the doctor says, "85 percent of a doctor's patients today come to his office to see him. I've been reading this series of stories in The Gazette. I want to argue that, although there may be fewer doctors in some areas today, they can accomplish so much more than they used to. Furthermore: It's my firm conviction that, when a doctor spends all the time he must today in preparation for his profession, he ought to have the right to practice where and at what he pleases."

Dr. Dingman's "worst" experience in the practice of medicine was during the influenza epidemic of 1918.

"I had two teams and a single driving horse. I had two men working for me and I worked them so hot and heavy they couldn't take it. It was nothing to start the day early and finish it early -- around 2:30 or 3:30 the next morning. There wasn't a house at which you stopped but you found a message there that someone else wanted you."

Commissioned to serve as a medical officer in the U.S. army, Dr. Dingman was held back because medical authorities in the area declared the "community need" for him was too great to release him for military duty.

Dr. Dingman has been amazed at the strides which have been made in medicine and surgery in the last 40 years or so.

"Modern medicine has, at the very least, added 10 years to man's life," he says today.

If Dr. Dingman had it all to do over again, he'd probably choose the same profession.

"There's no more noble calling," he says today. "People ask a country doctor for his advice on matters financial, matrimonial -- everything, in addition to medicine.

"And if people only knew it, they should tell the truth to, of all people, their doctor and their lawyer. Both of them could help a lot more if they had the truth."

Dr. Dingman doesn't look his nearly 72 years. He doesn't have a gray hair in his head. He's active. His stride is that of a much younger man.

He doesn't plan to retire. "Inactivity kills people. I'll work until I'm 100, take a 10-year rest and start all over again."

Meanwhile the doctor will get in his usual hunting and fishing, his usual overland trips.

His own formula for longevity?

"Don't worry unnecessarily. Let the other fellow worry if he wants to. But don't you do it. Worry kills people, too.

Only off-duty time Dr. Dingman has claimed beyond his annual vacations was more than two months he was gone in 1930 when he was hospitalized and in a serious condition following an automobile accident.

An honorary elder of the Urbana Christian church, Dr. Dingman is a member of the Consistory, a Thirty-second degree Mason. he has served on the Urbana board of education for 12 years and on the town council for six years.

He is a member of the Benton County medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, the American Medical association and is on the medical staffs of both St. Luke's and Mercy hospitals in Cedar Rapids.

Dr. and Mrs. Dingman have one child, a daughter, Belinha, who will enter Iowa State Teachers college as a freshman student this fall.

Article - "You and Iowa," The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Sunday, 23 Sep 1951; p.18; (Newspapers.com):

[Extraction]

Dr. Marshall E. Dingman honored recently by Urbana for 50 years of service as a physician, has given a financial helping hand to many college students. His aid program probably has amounted to thousands of dollars down through the years. But only one borrower, Dr. Dingman said, failed to pay him back. "If he figures he doesn't owe me that $60 I won't ask him for it," Dr. Dingman said.

The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Sunday, 09 October 1955; Page 35; (Newspapers.com):

Belinha Dingman Becomes Bride of Gary Van Slyke

URBANA - Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Dingman announce the marriage of their daughter, Belinha, to Gary Van Slyke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Van Slyke of Cedar Falls.

The wedding took place Friday evening at 7 in the chapel at the naval air station in Pensacola, Fla. The candlelight ceremony was performed before an alter decorated with white pompons and gladiolas.

The bride's waltz-length gown of white lace and tulle had a snugly - fitted bodice trimmed with iridescent sequins and pearls, cap sleeves and a low V-neckline. Iridescent sequins and pearls also adorned a lace insert near the bottom of the bouffant tulle skirt.

Her fingertip veil was held by a crown of pearls and sequins and she carried a bouquet of white roses centered with a white orchid.

Mrs. Dingman was matron of honor for her daughter. She wore a dark green velveteen princess-style dress with avocado and beige accessories and a corsage of pink roses.

Ralph Kough of Waterloo served as best man.

Following the ceremony, a reception was given at the Ackrack club. The couple will live at Pensacola, where the bridegroom is stationed.

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Gary's second marriage was to Kathleen Ann McBay in 1978. They divorced in 1983. His third marriage was to Laurie Ellin Kirkbride in 1993 and she died in 2003. At the time of his death his widow was named Lisa.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Obituary is from the Currie Funeral Home & Crematory, Kilmarnock, Va. website, posted in September 2017:

Dr. Gary VanSlyke passed away September 2, 2017 at his Virginia home in White Stone. He was born in Greene, Iowa to his loving parents, Mark and Lucille VanSlyke on February 19, 1933. He graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in 1954 with his Bachelor of Arts degree. He then began his illustrious career in 1955 as a Naval Aviator reaching the rank of Captain in the U. S. Navy, He was an Associate member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots starting in 1957 and had over 5000 carrier landings in many of our Military aircraft. Gary received his Doctorate of Medicine in 1977 from the University of Iowa College of Medicine becoming a flight surgeon and family practice physician. His passion for medicine drove him to a new career he enjoyed until his retirement in 1998. He loved the ocean and spent much of his retirement on the ocean in his sailboat, "The Moonchild". Gary also enjoyed spending winters in the warmth of Florida keeping active going to spring training baseball of his favorite team the Pittsburg Pirates. His summers were spent at his Virginia home riding horses with his wife Lisa and sailing the Chesapeake Bay. He is survived by his wife, Lisa; his children, Michelle Nelson, Melissa Peters, and Stephen VanSlyke; grandchildren, Jessica and Collin Nelson, Mitchell and Lydia Peters and Hailey VanSlyke. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mark and Lucille VanSlyke; brother, Mark VanSlyke and wife, Laurie VanSlyke. His service will be held at Arlington National cemetery at a later date.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Marvin Duane Wilt, age 85, of Quinlan, passed away, Monday, November 2, 2020 at his residence. Funeral services will be held at 2:00PM Friday, November 6, 2020 at Faith Outreach Church of Greenville with Pastor Ranse Moore officiating under the direction of Ingram Funeral Home in Quinlan. Burial will be held at 2PM Sunday, November 8, 2020 at Parkers Grove Cemetery in Shellsburg, Iowa. Visitation will be Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 5:00PM to 8:00PM at the funeral home.

Marvin Duane Wilt was born on April 5, 1935 in Shellsburg, Iowa to the late Mr. Carl Wesley Wilt and Anita Mullinex Wilt. He married the love of his life, Colleen Ann Meek on August 11, 1957 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas. He also lived a short time in Denver and Dallas before moving to Hunt County in 1972. Marvin was a jack of all trades. He was an ordained minister and a worldwide missionary, traveling to Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and China to aid with humanitarian efforts, teach classes and spread the word of God. He was also an author and wrote a book called, 'Colleen, My Love' about the perfect love and passion of his marriage to his beautiful wife. He was an electronic engineer by trade but also a pioneer in digital technology and micro processing. Marvin was also an inventor and held and shared numerous patents for his designs. He also enjoyed redesigning existing products to make them run more efficiently. He developed the B58 Hustler Bomb Pod, a auto blood pressure machine, a radar pulse analyzer. He was preceded in death by his beautiful Colleen on March 22, 2000, an infant son, Bryan Forrest Wilt in 1965; his brother, Claire Wilt; sisters, Bernice Lieb and Charlene Wilson and twin granddaughters, Brandi and Brittany Ragsdale.

He is loved and will be missed by two sons, Steve Scott Wilt of Quinlan and Christopher Wesley Wilt and wife Julie of Greenville; daughter, Diana Fawn Wilt Ragsdale of Weatherford; grandson, Chance Ragsdale of Weatherford and his travel companion and fellow missionary and dear friend, Colleen Young of Wills Point.

Obituary -- Greenville Herald Banner, Friday, 24 March 2000, section a - 3; Hunt County Newspaper Index; http://www.huntnews.net/date/2000mar.html#186;

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The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Saturday, 25 March? ? 2000; Page 12; (Newspapers.com):

Colleen Ann Wilt, 63, of Quinlan, Texas, formerly of Shellsburg, died Wednesday March 22, 2000, in Presbyterian Hospital, Greenville, Texas, following a short illness. Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Oak Grove Church, Shellsburg, by the Rev. Larry Rodgers. Burial: Parkers Grove Cemetery, Shellsburg. Friends may call after 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Turner Chapel West is in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include her husband, Duane; two sons, Steve Wilt of Greenville, Texas, and Christopher Wilt of Garland, Texas; a daughter, Diana Ragsdale of Weatherford, Texas; a brother, Norman Meek of Shellsburg; and a sister Dorothy Hagan of Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by a son, Bryan Wilt; and two granddaughters, Brandi and Brittany Ragsdale.

Colleen was born April 16, 1936, in Cedar Rapids, the daughter of Lloyd and Beulah Kerstetter Meek. She was a homemaker. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa); Saturday, 25 March 2000; Page 24; (Newspapers.com):

Colleen Ann Wilt, 63, of Quinlan, Texas, died of Cancer Wednesday at Presbyterian Hospital in Greenville, Texas. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at oak Grove Church in Shellsburg, with burial at Parkers Grove Cemetery there. Mrs. Wilt was born in Cedar rapids and had lived in Shellsburg before moving to Texas. She was a homemaker. Quinlan Ly-Brand Funeral Home in Quinlan is handling arrangements.

Biography -- (Findagrave.com):

US Air Force Lieutenant General. A highly decorated Vietnam War combat pilot, he rose in rank to become the Commander of the US Forces Japan and 5th Air Force. After graduating from Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1946, he attended Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut and in 1947 he enlisted in the US Marine Corps for the platoon leader's course conducted at Quantico, Virginia. In September 1948 he resigned from the US Marine Corps to enter aviation cadet flight training with the US Air Force at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas and graduated a year later with a commission as a 2nd lieutenant, and then attended the central instructor school at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. From 1949 to 1953, he served as a flight instructor and standardization/evaluation pilot at Randolph and Goodfellow Air Force Bases, Craig Air Force Base, Alabama (now closed), and Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida (now closed). After attending F-86 fighter gunnery school at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, he became a flight commander and operations officer with the 51st Fighter Wing in South Korea, Okinawa and Taiwan. From June 1955 to September 1958, he served as an instructor for all-weather jet interceptors at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida and during this period he also attended Florida State University at Tallahassee, Florida under Operation Bootstrap. For the next two years, still at Tyndall Air Force Base, he served as group inspector, administrative officer and flight instructor with the 3625th Combat Crew Training Wing. In 1960 he was then selected to attend the Harvard University Graduate School of Business under the Air Force Institute of Technology program and earned a Master's Degree in Business Administration in 1962. During the summer of 1961 he served as consultant to the president of Raytheon Corporation in a training-with-industry program. From July 1962 through August 1965 he served as the chief of the Management Contracts Office, Electronic Systems Division of the Air Force Systems Command at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. In August 1965 he entered Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama and following his graduation in June 1966, he served for one year as a systems manager in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Systems and Logistics, Headquarters US Air Force in Washington DC. He was then transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as assistant for logistics guidance. In September 1968 he went to the Republic of Vietnam, where he flew more than 300 combat missions in 17 types of aircraft while serving as deputy commander for operations of the 14th Special Operations Wing, Air Commandos, at Nha Trang Air Base. During this time he was responsible for combat operations from 10 bases in Vietnam and one in Thailand. In October 1969 he returned to the US and assigned to the Air War College as Chief of Management Science Studies. In April 1971 he became the vice commandant of the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama and in December 1971 he became its Commandant. In January 1973 he became Commandant of the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell and while there, he lectured on leadership and management at military schools in the US, Canada, England, Australia and South America. In February 1974 he was assigned to Headquarters Tactical Air Command (now Air Combat Command) at Langley Air Force Base (now part of Joint Base Langley-Eustis), Virginia, as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and the following June, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans. In August 1975 he was assigned to Ankara, Turkey as the commander of the US Logistics Group, with command jurisdiction over all US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) units in Turkey. In January 1977 he became Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans, Headquarters USAFE, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and in July 1977 he became the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Belgium. In June 1979 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and became the Commander of the US Forces Japan and 5th Air Force with headquarters at Yokota Air Base, Japan and he retired at this position in October 1981 with 34 years of continuous military service in the US Marine Corps and US Air Force. His military Decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with 1 oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with 12 oak leaf clusters, the Navy Gold Star, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award ribbon with combat "V" valor device and 2 oak leaf clusters, the National Defense Service Medal, the Combat Readiness Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with gold star. He was a rated command pilot with over 6,000 flying hours. In 2002 he was inducted into the Air Commando Hall of Fame. He died at the age of 81.

Connecticut Department of Health. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2003.

Connecticut Department of Health. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2003.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 978.

David and Hannah Geisler had both of their sons, John Marsden and Biddle Reeves Geisler, baptized on 21 MAR 1869 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Between that date, and the 1870 census, the marriage apparently disintegrated, as Hannah Geisler and the two boys are found living with her parents John and Sophia Marsden, and David Geisler was not in the household. By the 1880 census, Hannah was using her Marsden maiden name, and the boys are also listed with the Marsden surname, again in the widowed Sophia Marsden's home. The sons were apparently indoctrinated against their Geisler father, as both used "Marsden" as their surname for their entire lives, and John, in giving the information for his brother's death certificate, gave the father's name as John Marsden. David Geisler, a hotel keeper, remarried to Kate before June, 1880, and lived in Philadelphia until his death in 1898. DLB 2019.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 978.

David and Hannah Geisler had both of their sons, John Marsden and Biddle Reeves Geisler, baptized on 21 MAR 1869 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Between that date, and the 1870 census, the marriage apparently disintegrated, as Hannah Geisler and the two boys are found living with her parents John and Sophia Marsden, and David Geisler was not in the household. By the 1880 census, Hannah was using her Marsden maiden name, and the boys are also listed with the Marsden surname, again in the widowed Sophia Marsden's home. The sons were apparently indoctrinated against their Geisler father, as both used "Marsden" as their surname for their entire lives, and John, in giving the information for his brother's death certificate, gave the father's name as John Marsden. David Geisler, a hotel keeper, remarried to Kate before June, 1880, and lived in Philadelphia until his death in 1898. DLB 2019.

Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

72y

Married

Hotel keeper

2734 Market Street, 24th Ward

1898-05-20; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer

"GEISLER - On May 17, 1898, David Geisler, aged 71 years. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services, on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at his late residence, 3724 Market street. Interment private, at Mt. Vernon Cemetery."