George A.
Moentenich, 70, Wellman, Iowa, formerly of Davenport, died Sunday, Sept. 15, 1991, at Veterans Administration Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa.
Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Weerts Funeral Home, Davenport. Burial is in National Cemetery Arsenal Island. Visitation is 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Moentenich was born Oct. 10, 1920, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moentenich. He married Mary Fisk in 1947 in Davenport. She died in 1968. He married Mary Wing in 1981 in Davenport. He had been employed on the security force at the Rock Island Arsenal, retiring in 1964.
He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 828, Davenport; Cooties of Davenport; and the Iowa National Guard. He volunteered with the American Cancer Society and Putnam Museum, both of Davenport. He was a World War II Army veteran. He enjoyed reading and painting.
Survivors include the widow; daughters, Mary Sadler, Rock Island, Carol Bolton, Urbana, and June Strohbehn, Long Grove, Iowa; a son, Robert Moentenich, Randolph, N.J.; stepdaughters, Missy Garza, Dru Brandle, and Edna Beuttner, all of Bettendorf; stepsons, John James, Moline, and James James and Tony James, both in California, and Arnold James, Davenport; 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; 20
step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.
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[courtesy of Emily Jones]
Grave marker for George A.
Moentenich in Section K, Site 137, Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock
Island Arsenal, Rock Island (Rock Island county). Illinois,
George enlisted in the Army at Fort Des Moines, IA on 29
October 1939. He later volunteered for parachutist duty and was
assigned to Company C, 508th PIR.
On 8 January 1945, Pvt Moentenich was evacuated as a
non-battler casualty. Still hospitalized, he was transferred to the
hospital's Detachment of Patients on 30 May 1945. He did not return to
the regiment.
Pvt Moentenich arrived in New York, NY on 14 May 1946 aboard
the SS Sea Fiddler, a Navy Amphibious Attack Transport.
His military decorations include the Combat Infantryman badge
awarded for action during the campaign, 18 Dec 1944 to 20 Feb 1945 |
