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Reardon, William "Bill" --- 1929-2013

MATHEWS, REARDON, REQUE, GILLIAM, AHLERS, HANSEN, HAMANN

Posted By: IA GenWeb Volunteer
Date: 5/2/2013 at 20:54:06

Bill Reardon, Farmersburg, Iowa, March 16, 2013

William “Bill” Reardon, 84, Farmersburg, Iowa, died Saturday, March 16, 2013 at the Lutheran Home in Strawberry Point, Iowa.

He was born on January 18, 1929 to William “Mike” and Gladys Oina (Mathews) Reardon in Farmersburg, Iowa. Bill was confirmed the summer of 1953 at St. John Lutheran Church, Farmersburg, Iowa. He graduated from Farmersburg High School in 1947 and Luther College, Decorah in 1954 after serving in the Army.

Bill was united in marriage to Florence Nadyne Reque on August 9, 1953 in Manistique, Michigan. To this union four children were born. Bill served as a retail manager for many different businesses all over the Midwest before relocating to Farmersburg to take over his father’s Standard Oil business until his retirement at the age of 55. He then purchased a marina and boat dock in McGregor, post-retirement, where he ran the business “for fun” for several years. He was a member of the St. John Lutheran Church in Farmersburg and the St. Olaf American Legion Post #388.

Bill has many good memories of boating and fishing, he and Nadyne traveled to Canada frequently for fishing trips. They also traveled extensively in retirement spending winters in Mazatlan, Naples and eventually building a home in central Florida, until his health took them back to Farmersburg permanently in 2008.

Bill is survived by his wife, Nadyne; his four children, Mark (Deb) Reardon of Guttenberg, Mike (Dawn) Reardon of Farmersburg, Leesa (Charles) Gilliam of Scottsdale, Arizona and Paula (Mike) Ahlers of Sheldon, Iowa; nine grandchildren, Nick, Val, Sydney, Justin, Claire, Charles (CJ), Nathan, Kyle and Mark; two great-grandchildren, Megan and Joe, and his sister, Sandra (Kermit) Hansen of Holmen, Wisconsin.

Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Gladys and Mike; his sister and brother-in-law, Shirley and Delos Hamann; mother and father-in-law, Florence and Thor Reque; brother-in-law, Jack Reque; and niece, Michele Stevenson.

Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at St. John Lutheran Church in Farmersburg, Iowa.

Friends may call from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Monday, March 18, 2013 at the Leonard-Grau Funeral Home in Monona and one hour before services at the church on Tuesday.

Interment will be held in the Farmersburg-Wagner Cemetery, Farmersburg, Iowa immediately following the service.

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Monona, Iowa is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral brochure.


 

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