STEIN, Lonnie W. 1948-2018

STEIN, DEPPE, CRANDALL, TRAGORD

Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 5/13/2018 at 20:12:38

Services:
In lieu of a service, lift your glass with friends in memory of Lonnie next time you are together. Family inurnment will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery, Waterloo

Cemetery:
Garden of Memories Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa

Memorials:
May be made to Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids or Camp Courageous

Biography--

Lonnie W. Stein, 69, of Tripoli, and formerly of Keystone, Cedar Rapids and Swisher, Iowa, died his home in Tripoli Friday, May 11, 2018, of cancer.

Lonnie was born June 19, 1948, in Keystone, Iowa, son of Wilbert H. and Jeanne Deppe Stein. He graduated from Benton Community High School in 1966. Lonnie had farmed since high school on the family farm, had worked as a painter and inspector at FMC, and in Information Technology at IBM and St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.

He married N. Diane Crandall in 1966 and they later divorced. He married Jane Tragord August 28, 2010 in Waverly. He was past president of Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids and a member of the Swisher Men’s Club. Lonnie enjoyed the out doors and being in nature whether planting trees or hunting. He was a patient person, a modern renaissance man. He valued his friends and loved his family.

Survivors include: his wife Jane of Tripoli; daughter DeaJo Stein of Cedar Rapids; son Corey (Linda) Stein of Columbia, TN; two stepdaughters: Carrie (Danny) Goldberg of St Paul, MN and Sarah (Emmett) Berry of Denver, IA; twelve grandchildren: Cameron Bantz, Jeremy and Benjamin Aldrich, Kevin and Dennis Hackl, Carlie and Hailey Knoll, Evan and Mariam Berry, Elliot and Amelia Flack, and Duncan Goldberg; mother Jeanne Stein of Keystone; sister Sandra (Ron) Stechcon of Milwaukee. He was preceded in death by his father.

SOURCE: Locke Funeral Home website