Donald Wieck

KALONA ? Donald ?Bud? Valerian Wieck , 93, of Kalona, died Friday, March 31, 2017.

On Friday, April 7, he will be remembered in Kalona with visitation in Pleasantview Home Friendship Center from 2 to 3:45 p.m., and a service in the chapel from 4:15 to 5 p.m. On Saturday, April 8, there will be a visitation at Emmaus Road Church from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m., followed by service at 11 a.m., lunch at noon, and graveside service at Grand Mound Evergreen Cemetery at approximately 2:30 p.m. Peterseim-Beatty Funeral Home of Kalona and Schultz Funeral Home of DeWitt are in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Wieck was born April 17, 1923, at home in Grand Mound, the son of Louis Ferdinand ?Ferd? George and Margaret Wilhelmina (Lindemann) Wieck. He married Mabel Elvina Pascal on Nov. 10, 1946, in The Little Brown Church in Nashua. She preceded him in death, on July 23, 1984. He married Doris Hastings on Sept. 14, 1991. She preceded him in death in November 1997.

He was baptized at the original Ss. Phillip and James Catholic Church in Grand Mound and attended St. Anne?s Catholic School across the street, through eighth grade. He graduated from Grand Mound Public School in 1941 but was unable to participate in commencement exercises because of a bad case of the mumps. He was well-known for his ?love affair with cars,? which started the summer of 1937, before his freshman year, when he started working part-time at Minor Motor Company (Chevrolet dealership) in DeWitt. He was also known for his ?love affair with Mabel Pascal,? his future wife, which started his junior year of high school, in 1939. After graduating from high school he worked at the Rock Island Arsenal and then joined the Army early in 1943, serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II for nearly three years. He achieved the rank of staff sergeant and was assigned to censorship of incoming and outgoing mail. In 1947 he joined his brother, Abe, and brother-in-law Lyle ?Dutch? Blunck in forming Modern Motors Company in De Witt to sell new Hudsons. In 1952 his brother started Wieck Motor Sales, selling Cadillacs, Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs and GMC trucks, and he later joined his brother at Wieck Motor Sales.

He loved doing things for his family and others, sent birthday and Christmas cards to his entire extended family and many friends up until the time of his death. He taught Dale Carnegie classes, was a church elder, a captain to help pass a Central bond issue, arranged loaner cars for Central Driver Education, was Central Band Booster president, Springbrook president, and attended many funeral visitations to show compassion for friends and customers who had lost a loved one. He enjoyed handing out $2 bills and ?free tickets? as ?thank-yous? to anyone who helped him.

Surviving are one daughter, Rebecca ?Becky? Jo Curtis and Gary Dale of Iowa City; one stepson, James Harvey ?Jim? Jr. Hastings and Colleen Marie of Clinton; two granddaughters; five great-granddaughters; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded death by his parents; his parents-in-law; both wives; one brother, Elmer ?Abe? Jacob and both wives, Bernice Elizabeth Hanson Wieck, and Paula Lewis; six sisters, Florence Theodora Minor and husband John Burton, Generose ?Gene? Catherine Moore and husband Raymond Leslie, Blanche Elizabeth Lee and husband Charles O., Lillian Violet Gillooly and husband Paul Francis, Celestine ?Sally? Teresa Blunck and husband Lyle ?Dutch? Kenneth, and Kathleen ?Kay? Cecelia Carraher and husband Phillip Francis; three sisters-in-law, Dorraine George Blunck and husband Ralph ?Hap? John Edward, Talitha Tillie Reed and husband John ?Jack? Joseph, and Virginia ?Jini? Mae Carlsen and husband Robert Arthur; and many nieces and nephews.