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Story ran on Friday, June 30 2000
Duane Eugene Voltmer, 63, died Monday, June 26, 2000, at Washington Regional Memorial Hospital in Fayetteville, Ark.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, June 30, 2000, at Davis Funeral Home in Tarkio with the Rev. Ralph Clark officiating. Visitation was from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the funeral home. Burial was in Hunter Cemetery in Rock Port.
Mr. Voltmer was born Dec. 21, 1936, in Rock Port to Roy Voltmer and Wilma Greer Voltmer. He was raised by his grandparents, Tony and Edith Greer, in Tarkio.
He married Dorothy Shaw in December 1957 at United Methodist Church in Rock Port, and they later divorced.
Mr. Voltmer entered the Navy and served in the Korean War. He received a bachelor’s degree in education from MU, where he later received a master’s degree in educational administration in 1963 and an education specialist degree in 1985.
He spent 21 years as a teacher, coach and administrator in the Columbia school district, Tarkio schools, North Callaway County schools and South Callaway County schools.
He was an instructor of outdoor survival skills in two Peace Corps projects in Bolivia and Nepal.
He was an official in high school and college football and basketball for 30 years and a recommending baseball scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, the Seattle Pilots and the Atlanta Braves.
For nine years, he served as a State Federal Compliance Monitor for juveniles through the Missouri Department of Public Safety. He also served the U.S. Department of Justice, Region No. 7, Community Relations Service of Kansas City as a gang education consultant, speaking at state and regional seminars on gangs in Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas.
In November 1996, he was employed as a secondary principal by Youth Services International Inc. at the Tarkio Academy.
He also was executive director of the Chanute Transition Center in Rantoul, Ill., warden of the Jena, La., Juvenile Justice Center and was serving as the executive director of Piney Ridge Juvenile Center in Fayetteville.
Survivors include a son, Charles Voltmer of Columbia; two daughters, Stephanie Voltmer-Wolfe of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county, Iowa, Pottawattamie county, Iowa, and Leigh Voltmer of Columbia; two sisters, Rosalie Woodring of Tarkio and Joan Bungenstock of Fairfax; three half-sisters, Rita Vance of Hopkins, Joyce Brown of Midwest City, Okla., and Arnell Lansdown of Rock Port; and four grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the Front Door Home for Troubled Youth.
Gaby F
