Irvin J. Schwendinger

HOGAN, DARDIS, SWEENEY, SCHWENDINGER

Posted By: Candace Hogan (email)
Date: 12/31/2004 at 22:44:37

Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Dec 16, 2004

Irvin J. Schwendinger

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Irvin J. "Jim" Schwendinger, 78, of 1007 Norwood Drive SE, Cedar Rapids, formerly of Epworth and Cascade, died Monday afternoon, Dec. 13, 2004, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, from complications of a broken hip.

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Cedar Rapids, with Monsignor Karl Glovik officiating. Military rites will be accorded at the church by the American Legion Hanford Post 5. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, at a later date. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Papich-Kuba Janeba Chapel West, Cedar Rapids, where there will be a vigil service at 7 p.m.

He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II.

He was born on Dec. 16, 1925, in Epworth, and came to Cedar Rapids from Cascade in 1951. He married Darlene E. Bartosh on Sept. 10, 1955, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Cedar Rapids.

He worked at Collins Radio/Rockwell International for 25 years, the last 10 years as a supervisor in the material services department.

Jim was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and an honorary member of the St. Wenceslaus High School Alumni Association.

The last several years he had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Surviving are his wife of 49 years, Darlene; a daughter, Suzanne "Susan" Cavey, of Nashville, Tenn.; a granddaughter, Ann Marie (Cavey) Jameson, and husband, Jack, of Denver; two brothers, Louis (Levina), of Dubuque, and Kenneth, of Monticello; 23 nieces and nephews; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Louis "Pete" Schwendinger, in 1930, and Bridget "Ella" (Sweeney) Schwendinger, in 1963; two sisters, Mae (Curtis) Kedley and Lenore (Edward) Kruse; and a sister-in-law, Rosalene Schwendinger.

Memorials may be given to the Alzheimer's Association and a charity of the donor's choice.