Services were Wednesday, May 12, in Jones Eden Funeral Home, Washington, with the Reverend Ron McMenamin officiating. Burial was in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington.

Born August 6, 1920, in Brighton, he was the son of Amos and Edna Fern (Blick) Stout. He graduated from Brighton High School. He married Maurita Lavene Darnell in Washington September 28, 1940.

Donald Everett Stout, 78, of Mesa, Arizona, died Friday, May 7, 1999, in Mesa Lutheran Hospital following a lengthy illness.

Services were Wednesday, May 12, in Jones Eden Funeral Home, Washington, with the Reverend Ron McMenamin officiating. Burial was in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington.

Born August 6, 1920, in Brighton, he was the son of Amos and Edna Fern (Blick) Stout. He graduated from Brighton High School. He married Maurita Lavene Darnell in Washington September 28, 1940.

The couple lived in Washington County where Mr. Stout farmed from 1940-1965. He worked as a carpenter with Wayland Carpentry from 1965-1972.

They moved to Mesa, Arizona in 1972 where Mr. Stout worked as a self-employed builder until his retirement.

He was a member of John Calvin Presbyterian Church where he was a Deacon and Elder. He volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and at the hospital in Mesa for eight years.

Survivors include his wife, Maurita Stout, of Mesa; three daughters, Margaret Gehring of Davenport, Evelyn Watson, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Donna M. Stout, Denver, Colorado; one son, Ronald Stout of Glendale, Arizona; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and three sisters, Ethel Benson, Denver, Elsie McNeill, Muscatine, and Jeane Ellinger, Kalona.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers,Taylor Stout in 1997 and Ralph Stout in 1922, and two sisters, Mary Salterberg in 1945 and Anna Stout in 1919.

Memorials may be made to Habitat for Humanity.

Jones & Eden Funeral Home, Washington, in charge of arrangements.