Obituary of Denton E. Wunder

Denton Earl Wunder, Sr. was born March 4, 1932 in Milford, Iowa, to Hans Samuel and Myrtle Mae (Funk) Wunder. Denton was raised and educated in the Milford area, graduating from the original Okoboji Consolidated School in 1949. Young Denton was a music lover, learning the guitar from Dr. Sieman, playing throughout the area performing occasionally on local radio. Denton served his country in the US Army, training as a radio operator at Ft. Riley, Kansas. He was deployed to the Korean Peninsula from October, 1952 through August 1954. Upon receiving his Honorable Discharge from the Army, Denton married the love of his life, Marie Theresa Sporrer (also of Milford) on September 13, 1954 in Des Moines. During their fifty-three years and two days together, they raised four children. In 1985, Denton converted an enjoyable hobby into a successful family business, creating and operating Wunder Upholstery, virtually until the day he died. Denton died Saturday, September 15, 2007 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at seventy-five years of age. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Marie; daughter, Terri Burleson and her husband, Chuck, of Atlanta, Georgia, son, Denton Wunder, Jr. and Lori Tielbar of Milford, daughter Leslie Sargent and Todd Watson of Milford and son, Chris Wunder and Kris Davis of Everly, Iowa. Also surviving are five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and many others who know him lovingly as "Grandpa," two sisters, DeEtte Graettinger of Graettinger, Iowa and Doris Frazier of Boone, Iowa, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.