(KLZA)-- A longtime Falls City businessman and and Falls City Rural Fire Department Chief is being remembered.

Kenneth Arnold died Monday at the age of 78.

Following a four-year stint as an Industrial Arts teacher in Ruskin, Nebraska, Arnold and his wife Rose moved back to Falls City where he began a 50-year career as an electrical contractor.

Arnold was a member of the Falls City Rural Fire Department for nearly 50 years, serving many of those years as Fire Chief.

A memorial service for Arnold will be held Saturday morning at 10:30 at the Good News Assembly of God Church in Falls City.