DINSMORE, DAVID W. - Services for David W. Dinsmore, 81, of
Tipp City will be conducted Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in
the West Charleston Church of the Brethren by Galen Miller. Burial will be
in Bethel Cemetery. Friends may call
Tuesday at the Trostel, Chapman & Christmas Funeral Home, New Carlisle, from
2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Mr.
Dinsmore, a mechanical engineer who retired from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
in 1979, died Jan. 4 at 7:15 a.m. at
his residence. A lifelong resident of Bethel Township, he was a graduate
of Bethel High School and Tri-State University, Angola, Ind. He was a World
War II U.S. Army Air Corps officer and retired from the Air Force Reserves as a
lieutenant colonel. He was a Cub
Scout and 4-H leader, a Men's Booster Club member at Bethel High School, past
president and member of the Bethel Board of Education, the Miami County Board of
Education and a charter member of the Montgomery County Joint Vocational School
Board. He was a lifetime deacon, Sunday School teacher, and superintendent
of the West Charleston Church of the Brethren. A Tipp City FISH service
organization member, he coordinated the preparation and publication of Looking
Back, a history of the past
100 years of Bethel schools and was a member and trustee of Tipp City Senior
Citizens, a former board member of the Miami County Health Department and a
former zoning commissioner in Bethel Township. His
hobbies included a collection of over 100 antique washing machines, a Model T
fire truck and school bus and other
antique vehicles. He is survived by
his wife, Patty S. (Shroyer) Dinsmore; a son, David Dinsmore of Seattle, Wash.;
three daughters, Carolyn Rogers of
Indianapolis, Mrs. Terry Fincrum of Mascoutah, Ill., and Mrs. William Corbin
(Janet) of Carmel, Ind.; 14 grandchildren; two brothers, Robert W. Dinsmore of
Brandt and Stanley Dinsmore of Dayton and a number of nieces and nephews. He was
preceded in death by three sisters, two brothers and his parents, Allen M. and
Nettie (Keller) Dinsmore. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami
County, the West Charleston Church of the Brethren Memorial Fund or the Bethel
High School Alumni Scholarship Fund.
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