Freel, Robert 1918 - 2012
FREEL, SCHLOSSER, HOLM, LOUX, NEUERBURG, HEWETT, DEUTMEYER, LOWRY, MCGLOTHLEN, LESLIE, WELLS
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/6/2016 at 15:45:32
Robert “Bob” Freel, 93, of Lime Springs, Iowa, died at the Eldora Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Eldora, Iowa, on Aug. 6, 2012.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 11 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Lutheran Church in Chester, with Rev. Dan Christensen officiating. Burial with military rites will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lime Springs. Friends may call from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Friday at the Community Center in Lime Springs. Lindstrom Funeral Home is assisting the family.
Bob was born on Nov. 17, 1918 in Rolfe, Iowa, to Hiram and Alta (Schlosser) Freel. He and his family moved to Lime Springs when he was about two years old, where he lived until December 2011—a total of over 90 years! He graduated from Lime Springs High School in 1937 and worked for R.E. Jones in the Leader Store his first two years after high school. He worked as a farm hand for Win Cray and helped his parents on their farm until he volunteered and was inducted into the United States Army in July of 1942. On May 28, 1943 he and Margaret Holm became the first couple to be married at the United Lutheran Church in Chester, Iowa.
Bob served in the army as a nurse and field medic for two-and-a-half years; he spent most of his service in England and France during World War II, and he was in Paris on V-E day. After the war he took farm training through the GI Bill. He and Margaret farmed near Chester and Lime Springs until he retired in 1980.
Bob was an active public servant. He served as a Howard County Supervisor for eight years and held positions on numerous boards, including the Farm Bureau, Farmers’ Cooperative, Howard Co. Public Health and Lidtke Mill. He was a member of the American Legion and of the United Lutheran Church in Chester, where he served on the church council and held positions as president and treasurer. Bob actively volunteered in the community well into old age, doing anything that needed to be done. He made friends wherever he went.
He is survived by his daughters, Kathy (Ken) Loux of Atlanta, Ga., Karen Freel of Chicago, Ill. and Marilyn (Ron) Neuerburg of Eldora; five grandchildren, Brent (Jamie) Loux, Kristen (Loux) Hewett (Todd), Mike (Laurie) Neuerburg, Beth (Neuerburg) Deutmeyer (Josh) and Tom Neuerburg; two great-grandsons, Brandon and Gavin Hewett; and a great-granddaughter, Micah Neuerburg. Also surviving are his sisters, Madeline Lowry and Beverly Jean McGlothlen; his sisters-in-law, Phyllis (Holm) Leslie and Shirley (Holm) Wells; and his brothers-in-law, Richard (Georgia) Holm and Roger (Janet) Holm; as well as numerous nieces and nephews, great-nieces and -nephews, and great-great-nieces and -nephews.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Margaret and his brother Raymond Freel.Source: Lime Springs Herald, Aug. 7, 2012
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