Reo "Mickey" Edwards 1907-1995

EDWARDS, EVANS, BUTCHER, MALEK

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/22/2012 at 20:55:17

Reo “Mickey” Edwards
May 16, 1907 – April 8, 1995
Services were held at Turner Funeral Home, Spirit Lake, on Tuesday, April 12, 1995, for Reo “Mickey” Edwards, age 87. Gene Krueger officiated.

Pallbearers were Doug Carpenter, Brian Edwards, Lenny Grady, Roy Kirchner, Tom Mutuska and John Wieck. Honorary pallbearers were Dave Mills and Arlo Iate.

Reo “Mickey” Edwards was born on May 16, 1907, to Roy and Mamie (Butcher) Edwards at Columbus Junction. He graduated from Armstrong High School.

He was united in marriage to Dorothy Evans on December 17, 1938. Mickey was a contractor all of his life. The couple made their home in Estherville until 1960 at which time they moved to Spirit Lake. In 1983, they moved to Arnolds Park.

Mickey loved fishing, gardening, walking and visiting with people.

Mickey became a resident of Hilltop Care Center in 1991. He passed away on April 8, 1995, at Dickinson County Memorial Hospital.

Survivors are his two sons and their wives: Dennis and Voanne Edwards of Arnolds Park; and Mike and Paula Edwards of Dallas, Tx.; two grandchildren, Tina and Brian Edwards of Arnolds Park; one sister, Alma Malek of Fairibault, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Dorothy, in 1987.

Interment was in Oakhill Cemetery, Estherville. Turner Funeral Home of Spirit Lake was in charge of arrangements. (Spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, IA, April 20, 1995)