Schweppe, Ronald Melford (1933-1999)

SCHWEPPE, POLLOCK, HAUKOOS, STANGELAND, MCNAIR

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:00

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, October 5, 1999

Ronald M. Schweppe, 65, Stanhope, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 1999 at the Hamilton Hospital in Webster City. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Church of Christ in Webster City with Pastor Ray Artrip officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home in Webster City from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and at the church after 11 a.m. Wednesday. Graveside military rites will be conducted by American Legion Post #191 of Webster City. Masonic Rites will be conducted by Kohinoor Lodge #5576-AF and AM of Story City Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Funeral Home.

Ronald Melford Schweppe, son of Melford and Geneva Pollock Schweppe, was born Nov. 26, 1933 at Webster City. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Webster City in 1951. He attended Webster City Junior College and graduated from Iowa State in 1960 with a B.S. in Animal Science. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War in the Grand Turk Islands. On Sept. 6, 1953 he married Barbara Haukoos at St. Paul's Lutheran Church west of Jewell. Following his discharge, he was employed as an agricultural salesman in various locations in Iowa. For 15 years, he worked in Kansas, returning to Central Iowa in 1985. In 1997, he retired from the Plant Introduction Research Farm at Iowa State University. Later that year, he started Schweppe Real Estate and Mangement in Webster City.

Survivors are his wife, Barbara; sons and daughter-in-law, Michael Schweppe, Augusta, KS., Bradley and Ellen Schweppe, Houston, TX., daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Don Stangeland of Jewell; grandchildren, Jordan, Taylor and Savana Stangeland; parents Melford and Geneva Schweppe, Jewell, sister, Coleen McNair, Coralville, nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a daughter in infancy.

He was a member of the Church of Christ, past master mason of Kohinoor Lodge - #576 AF and AM of Story City, American Legion Post #191, in Webster City, VFW, Red Cross volunteer in Iowa and Kansas, ham radio operator, member of the Hamilton-Wright Counties Real Estate Association, Fort Dodge Landowners Association, a 4-H Leader in Kansas, for 10 years and the Association of Business and Industry in Webster City.

[the obituary in the DFJ listed his daughter's married name as Strangeland - it is Stangeland which I corrected]