Thomas David Mcmahan

Thomas David McMahan, 69, passed away December 12, 2013 in Leesburg, Florida. Memorial services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the Loess Hills Funeral Home in Glenwood, Iowa with private inurnment at the Silver City Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the memorial service.

Memorials: Silver City Fire & Rescue

(the following obituary was written by his wife Cheryl)

Thomas David McMahan "Tom" passed away Thursday, December 12, 2013, in Leesburg, Florida. Tom and his wife Cheryl had just moved to Leesburg and were looking forward to a warmer climate and a lower altitude
Tom was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on September 17, 1944. His parents were Kenneth and Elizabeth McMahan (Bierman) of Silver City. He attended Silver City School until the school was consolidated with Glenwood Schools and graduated from Glenwood High School in 1962.
Tom attended college in Arizona for a short time and took courses in zoology. He returned to Silver City and went into banking with Bud Carlson. Following Silver City Tom worked in the Hawkeye Banks in Chariton, Iowa, and also in Spencer, Iowa. Later he moved to Buena Vista, Colorado, with Lew Lowe where the two of them opened up Collegiate Peaks Bank from as Tom said "from the first paper clip".
Tom retired from banking in 2005.When he retired his title was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (SVP and CFO). Today that bank has assets of over $320 million dollars plus has branches in Denver, Colorado. Tom returned to Glenwood in the fall of 2011 as the altitude had affected his lungs.
In addition to banking responsibilities Tom loved to fish and hunt. He was an accomplished hunter and fisherman. His first deer was when he was fourteen in Silver City. In Colorado Tom spent his spare time ice fishing and hunting deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope.
Tom was preceded in death by his mother, Elizabeth (Bierman) McMahan, father, Kenneth McMahan and his brother Don McMahan.
Tom is survived by his beloved wife, Cheryl Ann (Buch) McMahan his childhood sweetheart from Silver City and his son Jason who lives in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and a step-daughter Samantha Kaufman and her husband Robert Kaufman of Polk City, Florida.
Two grandsons Johnny Carlstedt and Kenneth McMahan live in Council Bluffs. Tom also has a sister, Dolores Ellis and her husband Marion Ellis of Phoenix, Arizona and an Aunt Geraldine Perkins who also resides in Council Bluffs plus numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Tom's love of life, generosity, quick wit and sense of humor will missed by all who knew him.