FLOY, Buford Eugene

FLOY, HANSEN, GIESFELDT, LAIDLAW, SPENCE, TEGGARTZ

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/28/2014 at 22:53:20

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

Obituary - Buford Eugene Floy
March 21, 1931 ~ December 01, 2012

Buford Eugene Floy, 81, Thornton, died Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the Rockwell Community Nursing Home.

A memorial service for Buford will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, December 10, 2012, at the Zion Lutheran Church, 112 North 4th Street, Clear Lake, with Reverend Derik Yarin officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service time on Monday at the church. Inurnment will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in his name.

As per Buford's request his body was cremated.

Buford was born on March 21, 1931, the son of Wilhelm and Mildred (Hansen) Floy and was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of his baptism through confirmation at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Thornton, and graduated from Thornton High School. He attended Iowa State College and Hamilton School of Commerce. He was inducted into the Army on November 20, 1951, in Des Moines, and serviced his country honorably and faithfully during the Korean conflict on Cheje-do Island in the Military Police for the POW camp until his honorable discharge on October 29, 1953. Following his discharge he began his 39 year career in agriculture raising corn, soy beans and pork production and was a conscientious steward of the land, restoring prairie and wetland, planting wildlife habitat and food plots, and planting hundreds of trees and shrubs.

He was united in marriage to Susan Giesfeldt on November 27, 1954, at Memorial Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI. Buford served on the board of directors for the Thornton Coop, the Meservey-Thornton School board, the Cerro Gordo County Extension Board, Soil and Water Conservation Board during which time he headed up the C.L.E.A.R. Project. He was active in the St. Paul Lutheran Church serving as usher for over 20 years, and was on the church council and sang in the choir.

In retirement his passions were hunting peasants on his restored prairie and water fowl on a reconstructed wet land with his dogs. He spent time fishing in Canada, gardening, and training his hunting dogs. Together with his wife he enjoyed attending 25 Elderhostel's, traveling to California and Germany and skiing in Colorado.

Those left to cherish his memory is his wife of 58 years, Susan of Thornton; daughters, Barbara (David) Laidlaw of San Jose, CA, Angela Floy of Bloomington, IN, and Rebecca (Tom) Spence of San Rafael, CA; son, Thomas Floy of Thornton; grandchildren, Joshua and Emily Spence; a sister, Sandra Teggatz and several nieces, nephews, as well as other extended family members and friends.

He was preceded in death by parents, Wilhelm and Mildred Floy; brother, Reverend Robert Floy; brother-in-laws, Eugene Teggatz and Ralph Giesfeldt.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2014