Obituary

  Franklin L. McCann, 67, of Creston died May 22, 2000 at his home.
  Services will be 11 a.m. May 25 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church with the Rev. Leonard Kenkel officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at Creston with military rites by VFW Theodore J. Martens Post No. 1797. There is open visitation noon to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Christian wake service and the family will receive friends 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powers Funeral Home, 601 New Your Avenue. A memorial will be established in his name.
  Mr. McCann was born Aug 7, 1932, in Creston to Peter L. and Catherine (Bradley) McCann. He graduated from Creston High School in 1951. On Dec. 26, 1952, he married Judith Allen in Creston, and they later divorced. On December 28, 1984, he married Barbara Evans in Winterset.
After his discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1956, he worked for Boeing Aircraft in Renton, Wash., for 10 years. He returned to Creston where he worked as sales manager for Hills-McCann until 1970. He moved to the East Coast where he worked on the subway in Washington, D.C. until an accident in 1977. He returned to the Creston area to farm south of Creston until health forced him to retire. In 1994 he moved to Creston. He was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic Church, American Legion, Eagles Lodge and Elks Lodge and a lifetime member of the VFW, all of Creston.
  Survivors include his wife, Barbara Evans of Creston, four sons, Donald (wife Rhonda) McCann and Douglas (wife Sheri) McCann of Marshalltown, David (wife Sandy) McCann of Olathe, Kan., and Daniel McCann of Wheaton, Ill.; a daughter, Cathy Hickok of Ames; four stepchildren, Peggy (husband Rudy) Henstra of Barrie, Canada, Debra Poe of Dallas, Texas, Derek Evans of Damascus, Md., and Edward Evans (special friend Lorraine) of Mississauga, Canada; a brother, Robert (wife Rita) McCann of Tampa, Fla., four sisters, Mary C. McEvoy of Santa Maria, Calif., LuEllen Huss of Des Moines, Regina (husband Leonard) Myers of State Center and Jane McCann of Des Moines; eight grandchildren and six step-grandchildren.
  He was preceded in death by his parents, brother John McCann and sister Margaret Henderson.
(Creston News Advertiser, 2000)