George R. Dillin, age 81 of Iowa Falls, formerly of Marengo, died Thursday, January 6, 2005 at Mercy-North Iowa Medical Center, Mason City, Iowa following an extended illness. Funeral Services: 11:00 A.M. Monday, January10, 2005 at Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo with Delbert Rankin officiating. Burial will be in the Marengo Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 7 P.M. Sunday, January 9, 2005 at the funeral home. Memorials may be contributed to the charity of the donor’s choice.

He is survived by a son Winston Hahn and wife LaVonne of Atoka, TN; two daughters, Linda York and husband Lester of Iowa Falls and Johnette Timm and husband Gary of Guernsey; six grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren; a brother, John Bruce Dillin of Marengo and two sisters, Odena Hladky of Guernsey and Cheribel C. Schmidt of Victor. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Kathleen, and a brother, Charles “Bob” Dillin in 1998.

George Raymond Dillin was born May 8, 1923 in Marengo, Iowa the son of Cecil and Dolly Stucker Dillin. He graduated from Marengo High School in 1941. He married Kathleen B. McKay on June 17, 1956 in Marengo. She died June 20, 1999. George was employed as a rural mail carrier, and he worked at Collins Radio during World War II. He was a maintenance engineer at Iowa Valley schools and then at the Marengo Memorial Hospital. He has made his home with his daughter in Iowa Falls for the last 3 ½ years. George was an avid woodworker.