MUSCATINE, Iowa -- Wilmer W. Eiben, 86, Muscatine, died Sunday, July 6, 2003, at Unity Hospital.
Services are 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Chaplain Vicki Peterson will officiate. Pallbearers are Tom Savage, Mark Savage, Thomas Savage, Mike Eiben, Harold Kellams and Jeff Cascino. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery with military rites conducted by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. After the burial, a time of fellowship will be held in the Community Room at the funeral home.
Mr. Eiben was born on Dec. 15, 1916, in Sibley, Ill., the son of William and Ida Steinlicht Eiben. He married Melba Jane Kellams on May 29, 1942, in Chicago, Ill.
He worked in the aerospace industry as a chemist and a plater, Philco-Ford for 26 years and before that he worked for Western Electric for 10 years.
He was a life-long member of the Lutheran Church.
He was an U.S. Navy veteran, serving during World War II from 1942-1945 in the South Pacific as an aircraft mechanic.
Survivors include three daughters, Sharon Savage and her husband, Tom, of Muscatine, Vickie Ravoli and her husband, Frank, of Fremont, Calif., and Susan Collins of Maryland; a brother, Russell Eiben of Sibley, Ill.; eight grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Melba; and a brother, Marvin Eiben.