Glenn Cassin Myatt

Glenn C. Myatt, 88, of Maquoketa, Iowa, passed away on Monday morning, April 20, 2015, at his home in Maquoketa. A celebration of Glenn's life will be held at 1 P.M., Friday, April 24, 2015, from the Carson Celebration of Life Center in Maquoketa. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 P.M. on Thursday, April 23, 2015 from the Carson Celebration of Life Center in Maquoketa. Burial will be at the Lost Nation, Iowa Cemetery where military rites will be accorded by the Menzo Widel American Legion Post #381 of Lost Nation where Glenn was a 67 member in 2012. Glenn Cassin Myatt was born the eldest son of Fred and Charlotte (Cundill) Myatt on April 6, 1927 at the home of his Cundill grandparents. Glenn was a guy who seemed to want to do things at a young age. He milked a cow in June when he was four and started first grade that fall at the Myatt Country School. As a boy he always wanted to be a man and help his dad farm. He harnessed and hitched a team at the age of ten and plowed corn with a one row walker, bedded sheds from the straw pile, and did whatever dad needed. He credited his father for being fun to work with and proving to him by example that work was a fun habit....[more]

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gether they milked twelve to fourteen cows by hand before Glenn rode his horse four miles to high school. As a 15 year old high school senior, Glenn struck out 16 batters in seven innings. At 16 he was a member of the Iowa State Cyclones basketball team. His athletic energy motivated him to do the best that he could in school and for the rest of his life. Glenn enlisted in the U.S. Navy at 17, serving on the U.S.S. Maryland Battleship in World War II. After being honorably discharged from the Navy in 1946, he worked as the neighborhood hired hand until November of 1948 when he purchased an unwanted hundred acre farm. Glenn married Betty Dodds on December 5, 1948 and they started fixing up the new farm by digging an outhouse hole. Glenn was proud that he personally built all of the fences, and with the help of his neighbors built all the buildings and cement yards to fit his cattle operation on the new farm and three other farms he purchased later in life. In June of 1956, Glenn topped the Chicago Stockyard Market with 18 black steers weighing 1137 pounds at 31.50 cwt. He fed these cattle with baskets in knee-deep mud. They slept in a well-bedded old chicken house and gained well and got fat. Glenn was a 4-H leader, served on church boards at Lost Nation Presbyterian and Maquoketa Methodist churches and was a two-term director of his alma mater in Lost Nation. He was a 20 year board member of the Baldwin Savings Bank, 50 year Farm Bureau member, and a working member of the Clinton County Cattlemen. He was farm host of the 1966 Beef Tour. Glenn enjoyed providing his children with the best riding and driving ponies that he could afford. His top priorities in life were to exchange kind deeds with neighbors and to live the Golden Rule. Glenn was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, two brothers, and a son, Lon Myatt. Those left to honor his memory include two daughters, Pamela Jo (David) Crawford of Maquoketa, IA, and Laura Ann (John) Helmers of Stewartville, MN; 3 granddaughters, 1 grandson; 3 great-grandsons, 1 great-granddaughter; and also a very loving, caring friend, Kay Meyer of Maquoketa, IA. In lieu of other expressions of sympathy, memorials may be made to Hospice of Jackson County, the Lost Nation Menzo Widel American Legion Post #381 or the Lost Nation Presbyterian Church. Online condolences may be left at www.CarsonAndSon.com.