BLEDSOE, Patricia Burl

BLEDSOE, NEAL, PEDERSEN, PRESCOTT, DICKERSBACH

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/15/2013 at 23:28:44

Patricia Burl (Neal) Bledsoe, 74, of 523 10th Ave. North, Clear Lake, died
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2003 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City,
Iowa. A memorial graveside service will be held Saturday, June 12, 2004, 11
a.m., at the Clear Lake Cemetery. The Rev. Ed Bard will be officiating. In lieu
of flowers, her family asks that memorials be made to the Hospice of North Iowa
Center.

Patricia was born Jan. 31, 1929, in Clear Lake. She was the daughter of Henry
Earnest and Alvena Leone (Pedersen) Neal. She attended Kindergarten through
tenth grade at Clear Lake, and graduated from Mansfield High School, Mansfield,
Mo.

Patricia married John Junior Bledsoe, of Hartville, Mo., on Dec. 28, 1946 in
Mountain Home, Ark. She and John had five children; Roger A. Bledsoe and wife,
Nancy, of Coon Rapids, Minn., Donna S. Prescott and husband, Marvin, of Lake
Mills, Iowa, John David Bledsoe and wife, Barbara, of Galesburg, Ill., Linda M.
Dickersbach and husband, Steven, of Malvern, Iowa, and Steven D. Bledsoe and
wife, Kathy, of Clear Lake. She had ten grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and by her sisters, Marjorie Nyhus,
Margarett Beard, and Elizabeth DeMeritt.

She is survived by her sister, Janet (Melvin) Schroeder of Seymour, Mo.

She had many interests and hobbies. Patricia and John loved to garden and grew
many varieties of flowers and produce. She enjoyed the butterflies, squirrels,
hummingbirds, wrens, cardinals and the occasional turkey that took advantage of
their gardens and feeders.

She worked at the Clear Lake Bakery for 12 years and was a waitress at several
local restaurants. Her award-winning pies, other baked goods, and candies were
much sought after at farmers markets.

She was an avid reader and skilled Scrabble player. She loved to camp and fish
with family and friends, and to play with her grandchildren. She remains
greatly loved and dearly missed.