Arlo Dean Stark

Arlo Dean Stark WEST LIBERTY, Iowa--Arlo Dean Stark, 81, of West Liberty, formerly of Eldridge, died on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Simpson Memorial Home in West Liberty. Funeral Service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Runge Mortuary Chapel. Burial will take place in Davenport Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 until 7 p.m. on Friday, April 26, 2013, at the mortuary. Memorials may be made to Iowa Hospice 1025 Wade St. Iowa City, IA 52240. Dean was born on January 23, 1932, in Stockton, the son of Raymond and Valeria Paustian Stark. Earlier in life, he had farmed with his family near Stockton. He then moved to Davenport and began at ALCOA from where he retired after thirty years, in 1989. He married Marilyn Randolph on April 16, 1955, at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport. He was a former member of the Isaac Walton League, a member of the QC Plus 60 Club, Davenport Moose Lodge and Local #105 Steelworkers Union in Bettendorf. He enjoyed fishing and traveling with his wife. Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Marilyn Stark of West Liberty; a niece, Charlene Roszell and husband, Brian, of W...[more]

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Liberty; a nephew, Orlen Stark Jr. and wife, Angie, of West Liberty; and great-nephews, Jeremy and Joshua Roszell and Raymond and Brandon Stark. He is preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Orlen Stark Sr.