EIBEY, Richard "Dick" Eugene

EIBEY, AYERS, HUNT, WICHMAN, FIELDS, OLINGER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/17/2013 at 23:24:04

Richard “Dick” Eugene Eibey, 85, 1909 Main Ave., Clear Lake, died Sunday, Aug.
7, 2011 at Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa, Mason City, Iowa. A funeral
service will be held 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Aug, 11, at the United Methodist
Church, 508 2nd Ave N., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Diana Hoover officiating.
Visitation will be held from 4 – 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 10 at Ward-Van Slyke
Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St. Interment will be at the Clear Lake Cemetery
with the military honors provided by the Clear Lake V.F.W. Memorials may be
given to the Richard Eibey Memorial Fund.

Richard was born May 23, 1926 in rural Ventura to Roy and Nita (Ayers) Eibey.
He received his education in the Clear Lake, Manly and Rockwell, Iowa schools.
He served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was honorably discharged in
1946. On Jan. 31, 1947 he married Shirley Hunt at the Methodist parsonage in
Mason City.

Richard worked as an auto body repairman and dairy delivery man until they began
farming in 1948 in the Thornton and Meservey, Iowa area. They moved to rural
Clear Lake in 1956, moving to town in 2003. In addition to farming, he was a
substitute mail carrier, starting in 1967, and later, a full-time rural mail
carrier until his retirement in 1990. He served on the ASC Committee for 17
years and was past director of the Farmers Co-op Gas company, a lifetime member
of the Clear Lake VFW and a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church.

Richard enjoyed many fishing trips to Canada, woodworking, restoring old
tractors and other farm antiques, having coffee with friends and neighbors and
most of all, entertaining his grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Shirley; one daughter, Brenda and her husband, Tim
Wichman, of Clear Lake; two grandchildren, Brianna and Bryce Wichman of Clear
Lake; one sister, Lois Fields of Salida, Colo., a sister-in-law, Bonnie Olinger
of Clear Lake; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Irene Casebolt; and three
brothers-in-law, Orlan Casebolt, Glenn Fields, and Harold Olinger.