REDMAN, Perry Dale 1910-1968

REDMAN, BARKER, ELKADER, BRENNAN, STEVENS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 7/16/2014 at 23:56:54

[Progress Review, Wednesday, March 13, 1968, La Porte City, Iowa]

Funeral services were held at the First United Presbyterian Church in La Porte City on Friday, March 8, 1968, for Perry Dale Redman, 57, prominent La Porte City business man.

Mr. Redman was born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Sept. 4, 1910. He was the son of John and Emely Redman.

On Sept. 2, 1934, he was married to Ruth Barker at Des Moines, Iowa.

Mr. Redman was a graduate of Ft. Dodge Junior College and Iowa State College at Ames. He was the owner and operator of the La Porte City Dairy. He was an Elder of the First United Presbyterian Church and a member of the Lions Club. He formerly served the community as a City Councilman and a School Board member.

Dale Redman is survived by his wife, Ruth; five children: Nancy, Grundy Center; Susan, Elkader; John, Long Beach, Calif., Andrew, Dubuque, and Robert, Frankfurt, Germany. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Mark Dale and Beth Ann, and a brother and two sisters; Earl Redman, Otho, Iowa; Mrs. Tom Brennan, Fort Dodge; and Mrs Ralph Stevens, Vista, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Paul.

Pastor Ronald McMenamin was in charge of the service.

Pallbearers were Rich Mahood, Bob Pennell, Max Thompson, Bill Wagner, Larry Mether and Harold Mask.

Interment was at West View Cemetery, La Porte City.

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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Wednesday, March 6, 1968]

LA PORTE CITY MAN SHOT BY BURGLAR

LA PORTE CITY — Law officers were following every lead Wednesday in an attempt to solve the brutal murder of Dale Redman, 57-year-old dairy owner. Redman was found dead of eight bullet wounds in the head just inside the door of the La Porte City Dairy, which he operated many years, at 12:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Dr. Gilbert Clark, pathologist who performed an autopsy at St. Francis Hospital in Waterloo, said Redman was struck by two .22 .caliber bullets in the face and six bullets in the back of the head. He said the shots were fired at close range..

He was robbed, apparently after he had been slain, of his wallet which contained an undetermined amount of money. The amount was not believed to be large, according to Police Chief Robert Webber.

Redman had been dead about four hours when his body was discovered, as close as could
be determined by medical evidence, reported Dr. Paul O'Keefe, county medical examiner.
Dr. O'Keefe, who said the killer apparently shot Redman in the face first and then shot him in the back of the head, estimated that the shooting occurred at 7:30 to 8 p. m. Tuesday.
Chief Webber said a canvass in the neighborhood of the dairy at Chestnut and Third Streets was launched in an effort to find somebody who may have seen a suspicious person around
the dairy.

He said Redman was murdered sometime between 7:30 p. m. and shortly after midnight when his body was discovered by his wife.

Redman purchased the city's old fire station building on Chestnut Street Feb. 25 and had been in the process of moving some equipment from the present dairy location to what
was to be its new site.

Webber, aided in his investigation by Black Hawk County Sheriff Department deputies
and the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation, said it is theorized that whoever , shot Redman was, in the building when he arrived.

His body was found, face down with his feet about a foot inside the front door of the two-story structure and his head near the cream machine. The room in which he was shot was dark, but lights were on in an interior office and a rear room of the structure when his body was discovered.

Webber said Redman's wife, Ruth, who returned from a church meeting about 10 p.m., became concerned about her husband when he didn't come home by midnight.

She went to the dairy, about four blocks from the family home at 605 Sycamore St. about 12:20 a.m., found the door locked and saw her husband lying on the floor.

Chief Webber said Mrs. Redman then returned home for keys to the building and at the same time called him. The officer met her at the dairy and discovered that Redman had been shot to death. Webber said a small caliber gun was the apparent murder weapon.

One early development in investigation of the murder-robbery was a report that a young man had been seen running up Chestnut Street near the dairy about 9:30 p. m.

"We'd certainly, like to have anybody that may have seen anything at all come forward and tell us," Webber said. "We don't care how insignificant it may seem."

The killer may; have entered the building through a rear window. Officers said a screen was found to be cut on the window.

Redman's dairy was one of two La Porte City business firms broken into 10 days ago.

The safe at the dairy was pounded open and $50 taken. Tire tracks showed that the same burglars who hit the safe broke into the nearby Van's Grocery store and stole $376. There was no sign in Tuesday night's slaying and theft of Redman's wallet that the killer had time to take anything else.

Webber said the intruder may have heard Redman drive up in his station wagon, hid inside the darkened front room of the building and shot Redman the moment he entered.

Redman's empty station wagon was parked a few feet from the dairy's front door.

The community of 2500 was stunned when it learned of Redman's death Wednesday morning.

Redman was described as a quiet, well-liked man, who Jan. 1 completed a term, as; a city councilman. He sold dairy products to retail establishments and individuals.

Don Barber, operator of Don's Bakery, 1½ blocks from the dairy, summed up the city's feeling toward Redman:

"I don't think he had an enemy in the world. He was a real nice fellow."

Mrs. Barber recalled that, in talking to Redman about the break-in at his dairy 10 days ago, Redman said, "I was sure glad I didn't meet him when I went in there.

The Johannsen-Rossow Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.

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Cedar Rapids Gazette, Friday, March 15, 1968, Cedar Rapids, Iowa listed his name as Arthur Dale Redman.

The 1940 United States Federal Census agrees with the obit which shows his name as Perry D. Redman

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