{"id":133866,"date":"2017-11-17T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133866"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:28:53","slug":"richard-dick-alonzo-seekins-nov-24-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133866","title":{"rendered":"Richard “Dick” Alonzo Seekins – Nov 24, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Richard “Dick” Alonzo Seekins of Jamestown, ND went to be with the Lord on Friday, November 24, 2017 in Mankato, Minnesota. He moved to Mankato for the winter after spending the summer at Fairy Lake in Sauk Centre, MN, knowing he was ill, he wanted his wife to be near family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Belgrade Methodist Church, 325 Sherman Street, North Mankato, MN and the funeral service will be held there at 10:30 a.m. followed by a light lunch.<\/p>\n

Dick was born in Jamestown, ND on March 22, 1939 to William and Alice (Renwick) Seekins and he grew up in Jamestown as the youngest of five children. He eloped with Jean Anderson on March 26, 1952 to Fairbault, MN. He received his physical education degree from Jamestown College after attending part-time for a number of years while caring for his family.<\/p>\n

Dick loved children and drove bus for Bible camp. He was the only one in the history of Lakewood Park Bible Camp to be licensed to carry a squirt gun.<\/p>\n

Dick was an entrepreneur from an early age. Some of the jobs he had include having a newspaper route, being a lifeguard and selling life insurance. As an adult in Jamestown, Dick owned the Hilltop Dairy O and later he owned and operated three gas station convenience stores. He had five apartment buildings plus the StarLite Motel which he operated with his wife.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Dick enjoyed traveling to Branson, MO, going camping on the weekends and later spending the summer at Fairy Lake with family and friends.<\/p>\n

He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Allice Seekins and his siblings William Seekins Jr., George Seekins, Joanne Joslin, Joyce Johnson and infant twin sisters.<\/p>\n

Dick is survived by his wife, Jean (Anderson) Seekins of Jamestown; his daughter Kelly (Seekins) Fleischer and her husband, Mark, of Mankato, MN; his son Richard Seekins and his wife, Wendy, of Moreno Valley, CA; and his son David Seekins and his wife, Lisa, of Shakopee, MN. He has nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at Mankatomortuary.com\/Obituaries or mailed to Jean Seekins at 210 Clover Lane, Mankato, MN 56001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard “Dick” Alonzo Seekins of Jamestown, ND went to be with the Lord on Friday, November 24, 2017 in Mankato, Minnesota. He moved to Mankato for the winter after spending the summer at Fairy Lake in Sauk Centre, MN, knowing he was ill, he wanted his wife to be near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133901,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133866\/revisions\/133901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}