In Memory

Dennis Groh

Dennis Groh

MASON CITY - Dennis R. Groh, 69, of 104 15th St. N.W., Mason City, died peacefully Thursday night, April 14, 2011, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. 
Memorial services will be held 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2011, at Fullerton Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City. Officiating will be the Rev. Jeff Dahlin of Praise Community Church. The family invites friends to join them one hour prior to services at the funeral home for visitation and attending the services. Inurnment will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery. 
Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to Hospice of North Iowa. Condolences may be shared with the family at the funeral home website at www.Fullertonfh.com
Dennis Robert Groh was born the seventh child of fourteen children to August and Florence (White) Groh Sr. in Mason City. He graduated from Mason City High School in 1960. He worked at McDonalds for twenty years in Mason City and then transferred for the next twenty years to McDonalds in Melbourne, Fla. He returned to Mason City in 1996. 
Dennis preferred a simple life and was known as a quiet, gentle, man who had great compassion for others. He was a patient man with a sense of humor. His greatest pleasure was being with his family. He was a do-it-yourself person and taught himself many hobbies that became lifelong passions. He loved finding, repairing and refinishing clocks. He enjoyed watching sprint car racing, bowling, and had a keen interest in model trains. Dennis was a dedicated volunteer at the North Iowa Fair Association for the annual fair. He lovingly tended his flower and vegetable gardens, always anxious for that first tomato. He hunted and fished with his family, was a great Viking fan, chose the Twins first and the Cubs second, and was devoted to his Rat Terrier, Bitzer. 
Surviving Dennis are ten brothers and sisters, Verna (Vernon) Gourley, and August Groh of Mason City, Richard (Marty) Groh, Cody, Wyo., Dolores McCaffery, Kansas City, Kan., Karen (Ken) Schaub, Austin, Minn., Linda (Randy) Flaherty, Mason City, Charlene Blodgett, Minneapolis, Minn., Kaylene Groh, Mason City, Debbie Gridley, North St. Paul, Minn., and Becky Groh, Mason City; 24 nieces and nephews, many grand nieces and nephews, and a few great-grand nieces and nephews. 
His parents, two sisters, Arla Loeffler, and Gilda Sinn, and one brother, Gene Groh, preceded him in death.