Donald William Seibold

Donald William Seibold passed peacefully on Monday, April 22, 2019 at Keystone Place in Westminster, Colorado. He was born to Henry William and Lora (Perkins) Seibold in Ackley, Iowa on September 20, 1922.

In the middle of his college career at Iowa State University, Pearl Harbor was attacked and Don, along with several friends from school, went and enlisted in the Navy. He was selected for Officer Training School at Annapolis Naval Academy, where he spent 4 months, then was commissioned as an ensign and assigned to the USS West Virginia where he spent the remainder of the war in the Pacific. At the time he left the USS West Virginia at the end of the war, he was ranked the Chief Electrical Engineer of his section of the ship.

He married Dora Rector of Ackley, Iowa and returned to complete his degree in electrical engineering at ISU. He was a member of the ISU Cyclone football team for 5 years and remained an avid Cyclone fan. He and Dee had 3 children from their marriage.

Don obtained employment with Western Electric in Chicago, moved onto building homes with a company he and his best friend formed in Ottumwa, Iowa then went back to Western Electric to work at their Omaha operations. His job took Don and his family west to Broomfield, Colorado where he finished his career at AT&T as a Senior Staff Engineer and he held a shared patent of the 770 PBX.

Don was an avid fan of the Broncos and Iowa State football, loved fishing, and designing and building things.

He was a member of the Pioneers Club, the Iwo Jima Survivors Association of Texas, ISU Alumni, U.S. Navy Institute, ISU Letter Winners Club and volunteered at the Broomfield Senior Center.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane (Osgood) Seibold (married 2000), his three children, Steven (Chris) Seibold, Nancy (David) Watkins, Craig (Laura) Seibold and two stepdaughters, Jeri Brittell and Jane Brittell, five grandchildren; Aryn Anderson, Nick (Sara) Seibold, Scott (Brittany) Seibold, Logan Seibold, Jake Seibold and one great granddaughter, Skylar Seibold.

His parents and his brother, Wayne Seibold, predeceased him.

A memorial will be held at Fort Logan National Cemetery on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 11:30 am.

In lieu of flowers the family appreciate donations be made to the Ackley Heritage Center [email protected] or the Ackley Community Foundation.