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Obituary: Robert D. Gaskill

Robert D. Gaskill January 22, 1918 - June 19, 2013

From Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care

Robert D. Gaskill, 95, a longtime Ames resident, passed away on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at Bethany Manor, the nursing home in Story City where he had been under care for three years. Mr. Gaskill, born in Indianola and raised in Des Moines, was a U.S. Marine pilot in World War II. He had graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in music just before the war began, and he resumed his lifelong career as a musician and music teacher after it was over. Read More

Services are set for 2 p.m. Monday June 24, 2013 at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, 414 Lincoln Way.

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