George E. Tjossem

IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE E. TJOSSEM

BORN
November 23, 1920
Paullina, Iowa

PASSED AWAY
August 11, 2005
Paullina, Iowa

FUNERAL SERVICE
2:00 P.M. Monday, August 15, 2005
Gaudian-Eldridge Funeral Home ~ Paullina, Iowa
Rev. Alex Horvath, officiating

CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS
“How Great Thou Art”
“Amazing Grace”
Organist: Kay Grosvenor

CASKET BEARERS
Tracy Tjossem Jeff Tjossem
Doyle Wilson Lowell Wilson
Vernon Tjossem Mark Tjossem

FINAL RESTING PLACE
Prairie View Cemetery
Paullina, Iowa

Arrangements under the care of
Gaudian~Eldridge Funeral Home, Paullina, Iowa

After the graveside service, relatives and friends are invited to join the family at the Mapleside Community Building.


GEORGE E. TJOSSEM
George Edward Tjossem, son of Orren and Florence (Crosby) Tjossem, was born on a farm near Paullina, Iowa on November 23, 1920. He passed away August 11, 2005 in Paullina.
George attended rural school (Dale #7) and graduated from Paullina High School in 1939. That high school class brought him friendships which lasted all his life. He served in the Coast Guard during World War II.
George was married more than once. In 1942, he and Joyce Manee of Windom Minnesota were wed. Two sons were born to this union, Gerald George, (who died at birth) and James Allen. About 10 years later, in 1952, he and Arlene Dornbusch married. They had 2 children, Martin Orren and Linda Ann. He (and sometimes his family) has lived in Virginia, Missouri, Wisconsin and here in Iowa.
George took great joy in making new friends and had many talents which brought him to a number of different ways of earning a living. These included trucking, farming, buying and selling machinery, piloting his own plane, operating heavy earth-moving equipment, and doing the work himself to keep his own machines in good repair. Perhaps his greatest satisfaction came from his becoming a “Crop Duster”. (The man to whom he sold his crop dusting business in Mound City, Missouri, has been spraying many fields this week in the Paullina area.)
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, and the Shriners.
George is survived by his three children, Jim and his wife, Marge of North Branch, Minnesota; Martin of Paullina, Iowa; and Linda and her husband, Deke Abbott of Geneva, Illinois; three grandchildren, Jennifer and Michelle Tjossem and Rachel Abbott; his sister, Olive Wilson; and a host of other relatives and friends.
George is preceded in death by his parents, an infant son, and by his younger brother, Glenn Tjossem.