EDDY, Calvin J. 1915-1958

EDDY, BESSMAN, CLARK

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/9/2019 at 04:05:52

C. J. Eddy Dies in Grundy Hospital

C. J. Eddy died last Tuesday in the Grundy Memorial Hospital. He had submitted to surgery in the hospital the day before. He was 43 years old.

The body was taken to the Doyen Funeral Home in Wellsburg. The casket was returned to Dike and taken to the Methodist church where services were held Friday afternoon. Rev. Harry Gleim officiated at the service. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery at Dike.

Mr. Eddy was born August 14, 1915. He and his family lived in Dike the past two years. He was employed by the Hawkeye Steel Products Company at Waterloo and drove back and forth to his work daily.
Service attendants were:
Music: Ladies Quartet: Mrs. Jack Heritage, Mrs. Harry Timmer, Mrs. John Volberding, and Mrs. Glenn DeBower.
Organist: Mrs. Joseph Bohr.
Flower Attendants: Mrs. Morris Bailey and Mrs. Elgin Venenga.
Casketbearers: Herman Nielsen, E. P. Tobias, William McBride, Joseph Bohr, I. B. Middlekauff and Ed Harrenstein.

Mr. Eddy was married July 11, 1942, to Miss Minnie Bessman and to this union four children were born: Jacqueline Marie, Barbara Jean, Charles Elmer and Mary Jane, all at home.

He was a veteran of World War II and was a member of the Dike Legion Post No. 471. With his family he moved to Dike in September of 1956 and since that time was employed by Hawkeye Steel Products of Waterloo and as driver of one of the Dike school buses.

He is survived by his wife and four children; his mother, Mrs. O. O. Clark of Centerville; two brothers, Harold of Knoxville and Clyde of Newton; two sisters, Mrs. Ferol Chamberlain of Knoxville and Mrs. Mona Howard of Moulton; many other relatives and a host of friends. His father and three brothers preceded him in death.

Together with his family he was a faithful member of the Dike Methodist Church. A man of kindly personality, he was well liked by all those with whom he came in contact and he will be greatly missed in this community.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 8 January 1959, pg 18