MCCLAIN, Ronald D. 1932-2013

MCCLAIN, HUFFMAN, RODEMEYER, MILLER, RAMSEY, KLYN, BALDRIDGE, EGGLESTON, WOODYARD, KELLHOFER, HILL, SHEPHARD, OSTRANDER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/17/2013 at 15:56:50

[Waterloo Courier, Friday, February 22, 2013]

Ronald D. McClain

WATERLOO — Ron McClain, 81, of Ottumwa, formerly of Waterloo, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City.

He was born Jan. 26, 1932, in Waterloo, son of Walter W. and Myrtle Huffman McClain. He married Phyllis Rodemeyer on Sept. 5, 1957, and they later divorced. He married Janet Miller Baldridge on July 8, 1989, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua.

A 1950 graduate of Waterloo West High School, Mr. McClain served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. He received his bachelor’s degree from Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa) in 1959. He taught in high school and junior high at Terril, Forest City and Vinton. He received his master’s degree from Kirksville and served as junior high and middle school principal at the Cardinal Community Schools for 18 years. He also worked four years as a teacher for Indian Hills Adult Learning Center, retiring in 2002. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.

Survived by his wife; a son, Daniel (Sherry) of Des Moines; two daughters, Sandra McClain of Des Moines and Laurel Ramsey of Gatlinburg, Tenn.; two stepdaughters, Teresa (Dave) Klyn of Ottumwa and Denise Baldridge of Lenexa, Kan.; four grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; five stepgrandchildren; four sisters, Garnet Eggleston of El Monte, Calif., Flavelle (Jim) Woodyard of Evansdale, Jane (Ken) Kellhofer of Tavares, Fla., and Linda Hill of Lakewood, Wash.; and a brother, Donald (Janet) of Iowa City.

Preceded in death by two sisters, Phyllis Shephard and Mardell Ostrander.

Services: 3 p.m. Monday at Reece Funeral Home, Ottumwa, followed by cremation, with inurnment in Ottumwa Cemetery at a later date. Military services will be conducted by O.B. Nelson Post 3 American Legion and Walter B. Schafer Post 775 Veterans of Foreign Wars. Visitation begins at 10 a.m. Sunday with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m.

Memorials may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church or Iowa City Hospice, 1025 Wade St., Iowa City 52240.

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