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- Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Donald W. Teasdale
BENTON, Wis. - Donald W. Teasdale, 84, of Benton, passed away on Sunday, June 24, 2007, at Southwest Health Care Nursing Home, Cuba City.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at United Methodist Church, Cuba City, with Pastor Debbie Pimm officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Shullsburg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Haudenshield Funeral Home, Cuba City.
Mr. Teasdale farmed around the rural Shullsburg-Benton area. He also was the founder of Teasdale Realty & Auction Service and Teasdale-Gill Auction Service, LLC.
He was born on June 13, 1923, in Shullsburg, son of Raymond and Mary (Glindinning) Teasdale. He attended Shullsburg Summit through eighth grade, Shullsburg High School, the University of Wisconsin Ag Short Course and Reisch School of Auctioneering.
He married Charlotte Andrews on Sept. 18, 1948, and they had six children. He later married Barbara Jane Stokes on March 19, 1979, in Darlington.
Don was a member of the Amicita 25 F & AM of Wisconsin, the American Quarter Horse Association, Holstein-Freisan Association, Holstein Breeders, the American Yorkshire Club, the Shetland Pony Club, United Methodist Church, Cuba City, the Wisconsin Auctioneer Association and the Farmers & Merchant-Clare Bank Board of Directors.
He enjoyed working with horses, judged horse shows and showed pigs and ponies. He enjoyed time spent with his family and friends. Don was a fun loving, generous man who loved to make other people laugh. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him and loved him.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; a son; Larry (Pam) Teasdale, of Shullsburg; five daughters, Julianne (Randy) Gill and Joyanne (Denny) Redfearn, both of Shullsburg, Jananne (Art) Wadlund, of Tucson, Ariz., Jane (Tom) Butler, of Yakima, Wash., and Jina (Tim) Burns, of Freeport, Ill.; a stepdaughter, Mary (Dave) Oster, of Sioux Falls, S.D.; a stepson, Bill (Lorrie) Stokes, of Eau Claire; and 17 grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Glenn; a sister, Mavis King; and an infant son, Samuel.
In lieu of flowers, a Donald W. Teasdale Memorial Fund has been established.
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1923 - 2007 (84 years)