Dr. Bob Whiteside Dies on May 20

Thanks to Marsha Whiteside Adams for forwarding the following obituary of her dad, Dr. Bob Whiteside, who passed away on May 20.

Dr. Robert M. “Bob” Whiteside, 90 of Sioux City died on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at his residence.   Visitation with the family present will be from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Thursday, June 5 at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.  Private graveside services will be in Storm Lake, Ia.

Bob was born July 6, 1923 in Galva, Ia.  He was the son of Merle and Elsie (Marsh) Whiteside and grew up in Storm Lake.  

Bob received a B.S. degree from Buena Vista College and then served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II where he became a certified lab technician.   After the war he returned to school at the University of Iowa where he received a degree in physical therapy, his D.D.S, and M.S in maxillofacial surgery.

He married Maxine Fieg in Storm Lake. The couple lived in Iowa City and then moved to Sioux City when he began his oral surgery practice in 1955.

Dr. Whiteside was a member of the American Dental Association, Iowa Dental Association and the American Association of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgeons. He served as President of the Northwest District Dental Society, Sioux City Dental Society and Iowa Society of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Bob served as Potentate of the Abu Bekr Shrine Temple in 1966, was a longtime member of the Chanters and served as Midwest Shrine Association President in 1974. Bob was on the Board of the Buena Vista College Alumni Association.

Survivors include his children Marsha Adams (Bill) of Dakota Dunes, S.D., Jeff Whiteside (Kathi) of Appleton, Wisc., Anne Still (Kevin) of Danville, Ind., Bob Whiteside (Kathy) of West Branch, Ia., 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Maxine, a brother and a sister.

Bill Doyle Trains Union Workers

During the month of May, Bill Doyle, who is married to the middle daughter of the FFN's founder V.P. Fieg, trained about a dozen construction workers in his local union on the use of a remote control-operated excavator called a Brokk 100.

Bill called the machine, which is made in Sweden, "a jackhammer on tracks." It is about half the size of a V.W. Beetle, though they can be as large as a pick-up truck  The demolition devices are used inside buildings to break up concrete and are also used to knock down bridges and other structures.

He trained the crew one at a time on the use of the controls at the union school near his home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.  "If you can use an excavator, you can use this," Bill assured me.

Bill's wife, cousin Diana Fieg Doyle, mentioned that Bill is now working at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and that "he comes home all aglow."  Let's hope not!