DeLoe, Richard W. "Dick"

DELOE, HAYES, MCCLELLAND, BURNETT, CORNISH, BENGTSON, WILSON, STRALOW, OLSON, WINKLEMANN

Posted By: Ruth Maring - Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/22/2007 at 06:49:59

DeLoe, Richard W. "Dick"

Richard “Dick” W. DeLoe, 77, of Camanche, died Thursday, October 18, 2007 at Genesis Medical Center, West Campus, Davenport, Iowa. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 22, 2007 at the Camanche Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory with Rev. Paul Holmer officiating. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Following the services, the body will be cremated.

Dick DeLoe was born on June 17, 1930 in Clinton, Iowa, the son of Theron P. and Alice B. (Hayes) DeLoe. He married Juanita McClelland on December 16, 1950 in Clinton, Iowa. Dick was a 1949 graduate of Clinton High School. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict from 1951 to 1953. Dick was employed as a pipe fitter for DuPont for 35 years, retiring in 1985. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Camanche. Dick loved to fish, camp, boat and hunt in his earlier years, later he enjoyed woodworking, wood carving and crocheting. He loved spending time with is family and attending his grandchildren’s school functions and extra curricular activities. Dick took delight in the newest members of the family, his great-granddaughters. Dick also made sure that all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren had a hand crocheted afghan to keep them warm at night.

Left to honor his memory are his wife: Juanita of Camanche; two daughters: Kathy (Mike) Burnett of Goose Lake and Vicky Cornish of Camanche; two sons: Steve ( Peg) DeLoe of Eldridge, and Joe DeLoe of Bernard; eight grandchildren, Shawn (Carla) Bengtson, Glen Rose, TX; Kyle ( Lindy) Bengtson, Santa Rosa Beach, FL; Dr. Brandon Cornish, O.D., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Stacy Cornish, Salt Lake City, UT; Deni DeLoe, Eldridge; Lindsey DeLoe, Cedar Falls; Ally Cornish, Camanche; Drew DeLoe, Davenport; and three great-grandchildren Bailee, Kimberly and Abby Kate; two sisters: Patricia Wilson of Newcomerstown, OH, and Sheron Stralow of IL; one sister-in-law: Aletta Olson of Clinton; many nieces and nephews; and life long friends of the family Vic and Marian Winklemann of Camanche.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and an infant son.

If a memorial is chosen, the family requests it be made to the Camanche Volunteer Fire Department.

Online condolences may be expressed to Dick’s family by visiting his obituary at http://www.snellzornig.com.

Death date: Oct. 18, 2007
Published in the Clinton Herald from 10/18/2007 - 10/20/2007