IDA GROVE, Iowa -- Byron LeRoy Godbersen, 78, Ida Grove, Iowa, seasonal resident of the Ten Mile Lake area in Hackensack, died Sunday, May 11, 2003, at home.

IDA GROVE, Iowa -- Byron L. Godbersen, 78, of Ida Grove passed away Sunday, May 11, 2003, at his residence, as the result of numerous health problems he had been battling for many years.

Little Ida Grove, Iowa, has never been the same since. Godbersen’s dreams produced two companies, Midwest Industries in 1954 and Byron Originals in 1976, castle-shaped manufacturing plants ...

IDA GROVE, Iowa (KCAU) — Ida Grove’s other major manufacturer, GOMACO Corporation, was founded by Byron’s brother, Harold. While the main company manufactures equipment for concrete paving.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (KCAU) — Obviously, the town of Ida Grove wasn’t like this over a hundred years ago. Between when it was founded, from the 1800s, to all the way to the present, this town ...

Byron Godbersen, the business entrepreneur and inventor who influenced Ida Grove, Iowa's, castle architecture, died Sunday at his home. He was 78.