ELDRIDGE, Reeve LeRoy

ELDRIDGE, WYGORNY, ASHLAND, BARRINGER, MCCOY, HARWELL, HESS, MIXDORF

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 11/25/2017 at 02:14:52

Obituary ~ Reeve LeRoy Eldridge
April 03, 1923 ~ June 08, 2008

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

CLEAR LAKE — Reeve LeRoy Eldridge, 85, of Clear Lake, went home to be with his Heavenly Father, whom he served and loved, on Sunday (June 8, 2008) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Free Methodist Church, 604 23rd St. S.W., with Pastor Larry Day officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Military rites will be conducted by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. today at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and continue one hour before the service at the church.

Memorials may be directed to Free Methodist World Missions or Hospice of North Iowa.

Reeve was born on April 3, 1923 in Mason City, the son of Russell and Zella (Wyborny) Eldridge. He graduated from Mason City High School in 1941, then attended Hamilton Business College. Reeve joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps, serving in the Philippines and Japan for four years.

Reeve married Maxine Helga Ashland on Feb. 14, 1943, on the Anders and Lois Ashland farm north of Clear Lake. Reeve farmed the Ashland Farm and also worked at the Sugar Beet plant, IMC, Sears and retired from AMPI in 1985.

He was an avid gardener and shared much of his produce and berries with family and friends.

Reeve was a lifelong member of the Mason City Free Methodist Church, where he served on the board of trustees and board of deacons. He also served as a steward, Sunday school teacher, and usher. He was a faithful servant in many other areas including custodial, tape ministry to shut-ins, transportation, maintenance and any other needed duties. Reeve was a Bible scholar and very interested in missions.

He was a compassionate and caring person always seeing the good in others and had a witty sense of humor. Reeve was very generous and helpful to all who knew and loved him. Reeve was a wonderful and loving husband, dad, grandpa and great-grandpa. He will be missed by all of those who knew him and were touched by his life.

Reeve is survived by his beloved wife, Maxine Helga Eldridge, of Clear Lake; children, Terry LeRoy (Nancy) Eldridge of Fertile, Lois Pearl (Dr. Peter) Barringer of Manhattan, Kan. and Mark Anders (Vicki) Eldridge of Clear Lake; daughter-in-law, Christina Eldridge of Summerville, S.C.; grandchildren, Devon Eldridge, Alisha Eldridge, Renee McCoy, Andrew (Joan) Barringer, Rebecca (Anthony) Harwell, Sarah (Cody) Hess, Keri (Paul) Mixdorf, Ryan (Stacy) Eldridge and Staci Jo Eldridge; 12 great-grandchildren; brother, Russell (Doris) Eldridge of Perry.

Reeve was preceded in death by his parents, son, Douglas Reeve; and brother, Eugene Robert.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 641-423-0924. www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2017