KILMAN, James Robert "Bud" 1933-2010
KILMAN, BAUGHER, BEHRENS, WESTER, BRAND, ROTHWELL, RICE, ABBOTT, DELANEY, ADCOCK
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/22/2011 at 13:03:51
[Waterloo Courier, Sunday, December 26, 2010]
James Robert "Bud" Kilman, a former Iowa state corrections official and Waterloo, television and radio newsman, died Dec. 19, 2010, after a year-long battle with lung cancer. He was 77.
After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Africa and Iowa, he worked at KXEL, KWWL and WMT throughout the 1960s, then helped to pioneer Iowa's community-based corrections system in the 1970s.
As director of community corrections for the First Judicial District, he oversaw the opening of halfway houses in Northeast Iowa.
Kilman moved to Des Moines in 1983 when he was named deputy director of the Iowa Department of Corrections. After falling out with the state agency, Kilman became a real estate agent and helped many low-income and immigrant families buy their first homes. He later handled real estate acquisitions for the City of Des Moines.
Kilman retired in 2000, an occasion marked by a canoe trip in Arkansas, then worked as an independent contractor handling property transactions for the City of West Des Moines until 2009.
Kilman was a private pilot and skydiver. His interests ranged from helping troubled youth in Des Moines to studying the conflict in the Middle East, to where he traveled with the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
He is survived by his wife, Beverly of Des Moines, and five children: Lita Wester and Terry Kilman, both of Waterloo, Scott Kilman (wife Patricia) of Park Ridge, Ill., Jill Brand (husband Scott) of Titusville, Fla., and Joy Rothwell (husband Michael) of Burr Oak.
Grandchildren are: Lisa Abdulghani, Lucas Abdulghani, Aaron Brand, Jordan Brand, Bennett Kilman, Helen Kilman, James Kilman, Jack Rothwell and Dustin Wester.
His first marriage, to Margaret Behrens of Cedar Falls, ended in divorce.
Kilman was born in Bald Knob, Ark., in 1933 to Lloyd Ashley Kilman and Ethel Viola (Baugher). The family moved to Arizona, where in 1935 the family joined Casa Grande Valley Farms, a cooperative farm established by the Roosevelt administration for resettling Dust Bowl families. The family returned to Arkansas in 1947, where Kilman attended Southern Baptist College in Walnut Ridge.
He is survived by four sisters: Barbara Rice of Kensett, Ark., and Nadine Abbott, Llewellyn Delaney and Judy Adcock, all of Camden, Ark.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2 p.m. at Lutheran Church of Hope, West Des Moines. Burial will be in Arkansas. The family suggests memorial contributions to Heifer International,
Note: SS shows his date of birth as:
KILMAN, JAMES R 14 Feb 1933 19 Dec 2010 (V) 77 50321 (Des Moines, Polk, IA)
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