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After a day on the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas. Pat & Mike McMahon, Kevin Klein, Carwyn Hovden, brother Neil and Tony Schleisman, August 1993.
Carwyn J. Hovden, 35, 312 9th St., died Nov. 24, 1996, at Trinity Regional Hospital. (from diabetes)
Services will be 1:00 p.m. Saturday, at the Gunderson Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Allen E. Hermeier, St. Olaf Lutheran Church, officiating.
Survivors include stopmother Esther Hovden, Decorah; half-brother Marlin Butz, Mason City; and stop-brother Ronald Hovden, Calmar. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jay and Pauline Hovden.
Carwyn Jay Hovden was born Aug. 23, 1961, in Decorah. He moved to Fort Dodge as a child and attended Fort Dodge schools. He graduated from Fort Dodge High School in 1980. He was employed by Fort Dodge Steel and later Chief Industries.
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Kevin Klein
I met Carwyn when I moved to the neighborhood in 6th grade. He only lived two blocks from me and he quickly became one of my best friends. In junior high, Carwyn,Pat McMahon and I walked to school together everyday, we were in the same classes, and even bowled on the same team at Ridgewood Lanes on Saturday mornings. In 7th grade we were the district champs and went to the state tournament.Carwyn was a lot of fun to be around and had a great sense of humor. Though he was on the smaller side and struggled with health issues including diabetes his whole life, he was very competitive. I remember the first time we met Kurt Koester when he came over for a card game one Friday night. Kurt was planning on buying a new bowling ball on Saturday morning but after playing cards with Carwyn—he had to use a house ball the next day because Carwyn had won all of his money! (Sorry Kurt)
After junior high, we seemed to go our separate ways and I didn’t see him until one of our childhood friends was killed in a car accident and Carwyn and I went to the funeral together.
A few years after graduating college we had a “reunion” of sorts with several childhood friends camping and tubing on the Guadalupe River and we reminisced about the fun times we had as kids. That turned out to be the last time that I saw him.
Looking back on my childhood and junior high in particular, I have a lot of good memories. Carwyn Hovden is a part of many of them.