ROEDER, Clyde 'Bud' 1922 - 1999

ROEDER, ENGLEHORN, POTTRATZ, MUNZ, COLE

Posted By: Cindy Maust Smith (email)
Date: 9/3/2020 at 14:37:42

The Gazette, Sunday, November 29, 1999, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Page 16

Clyde "Bud" Roeder, 77, died Monday, Nov. 22, 1999, in Veterans Memorial Hospital, Waukon, following a three-month illness. Graveside memorial services: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oak Hill Cemetery, with military rites.

A luncheon will follow at United Mehodist Church, Lansing.

Survivors include his wife, Melita; three sons, Dick (Mary) of Rockford, Ill., Bob (Rita) of Cedar Rapids and Roger (Susan) of Swisher; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Cleon Munz and Katherine "Chic" Cole.

He was born June 23, 1922, in Lansing to Clyde and Charlotte Englehorn Roeder. He entered the Air Force in April 1942, following his graduation from Lansing High School. He served as a radio operator-gunner in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, and received his discharge in 1945. He operated Roeder's Tavern in Lansing from 1946 to 1969. Bud and his wife Melita Pottratz were married in 1948, and celebrated their golden anniversary last year. In 1969, they moved to Cedar Rapids, where they remained until retiring to Lansing in the late 1980's. He served a term as Lansing mayor after moving back to his hometown.

Bud was an outdoorsman who persued hunting and fishing with remarkable enthusiasm. He had an amazing love of duck hunting, and even the steep decline in the quality of hunting the past several years failed to cool his ardor.

Memorials may be sent to Kerndt Bros. Savings Bank and flowers may be sent to Thornburg-Hanson Funeral Home, Lansing.