KELLY, Leo J. 1914-2007

KELLY, MORGAN, DREW, BODEEN, CARR, MONTAGUE

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Date: 4/3/2018 at 08:58:36

DYERSVILLE, IOWA - Leo J. Kelly, 92, passed peaceably away at 1 a.m. Monday, Feb. 26, 2007, at Mercy Medical Center-Dyersville, of natural causes.

Wake services will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at 722 Seventh Ave. SE, Dyersville (home of Michael P. Kelly). Latin Requiem High Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, celebrated by Monsignor Ed Petty, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica Catholic Church, Dyersville. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Charles City. He will be buried next to his wife, Genevieve, and granddaughters, Kelly and Heather.

The funeral transportation route from Dyersville to Charles City will be Hwy. 20 to Cedar Falls to Hwy. 58 to Hwy. 218 to Charles City, and the procession will stop at Leo J.'s home of 40 years for five minutes and then proceed to Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery. There will be a dinner starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, sponsored by Leo J.'s family, for friends and relatives at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1505 N. Grande Ave., Charles City. The Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, is in charge of arrangements.

He attended, on a regular basis, the Sunday Archdiocese of Dubuque Latin Mass at St. Francis Xavier Basilica Catholic Church, Dyersville.

He was born on July 3, 1914, in New Albin, Iowa, son of John and Rose (Morgan) Kelly.

After graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in Creamery Management, Leo served in the Navy during World War II from March 1942 to December 1945.

He married Genevieve Drew on Dec. 4, 1943, and together they had eight children.

In addition to managing creameries, Leo owned the bowling alley in New Hampton from 1950 to 1957. After selling the bowling alley in 1957, he managed the Nashua Creamery from 1957 to 1977, moving his family to Charles City in 1958. Subsequent to the closing of the Nashua Creamery in 1977, Leo worked in sales management for Farm-a-Con. During retirement, he worked at All-States and then at his sons' company, Circle Computer Resources, Cedar Rapids, as chief cook and bottle washer until spring 2005.

Leo J.'s first love was Genevieve, his wife, and children; his second was the Green Bay Packers.

Leo J. would like to be remembered as one of the "Last of the Old Time Buttermakers."

Surviving are his children, Timothy, of Wyoming, Kathleen, of Scottsdale, Ariz., Kevin, of Longmont, Colo., Nelly (Randy) Bodeen, of Mason City, Michael (Gloria), of Dyersville, Patrick, of Cedar Rapids, Maryellen Carr, of Charles City, and Christopher (Brenda), of Marion; 27 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren (second great-grandchild, Philomenia, was born at 7:10 p.m. the day Leo J. died); and brother, Kenneth (Fran), of Walnut Creek, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Genevieve, in 1977; two granddaughters, Kelly and Heather, in 1989; and a sister, Helen Montague.

Information is available and online condolences may be left for the family at www.kramerfuneral.com .

SOURCE: Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Wednesday, February 28, 2007