Eugene Dean Teggatz, 12 Jul 1938 – 06 Jul 2012

TEGGATZ, COLLINGWOOD, FLOY, SIMONSON, VERNON, HEATHMAN, LEFEBURE, MCKENNEY

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 7/19/2012 at 21:49:18

Memorial service for Eugene D. Teggatz, 73, Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly of Marion, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 12, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Marion. He died Friday, July 6, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center, Mason City.

The Rev. Gregory Williamson will officiate at the service.

Private family inurnment will be held at a later date at St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Williamsburg.

A memorial fund has been established. Cards and condolences may be sent to Sandy Teggatz, P.O. Box 283, Williamsburg, Iowa 52361.

Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Marion, was in charge of arrangements. The online guestbook may be signed at www.murdochfuneralhome.com , under obituaries.

Eugene Dean Teggatz was born July 12, 1938, near Conroy, the son of Orville and Lorena (Collingwood) Teggatz. He graduated from Williamsburg High School in 1956 and from Iowa State University in 1960 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.

He married Sandra Floy June 17, 1961, in Thornton. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from 1960 to 1963. He then worked for Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, retiring in 1994 after 30 years of employment as an electrical engineer.

He was an avid full-time RV’er with his wife for the last 18 years, where he enjoyed sharing his passion for computers and RVing with others.

Teggatz is survived by his wife of 51 years, Sandra; daughters, Julie and David Simonson, Tabernacle, N.J., and Beth Teggatz, Dodgeville, Wis.; his mother, Lorena Teggatz, Amana; grandchildren, Emily and Kari Simonson, Tabernacle; sisters, LaVera Vernon, Olin; JoAnn and Robert Heathman, Cedar Rapids; Myrna Teggatz, Decatur, Ill.; Bonita and Gary Lefebure, Fairfax, and Bonnie Teggatz, Cedar Rapids; sisters-in-law, Marie Teggatz, Latimer; Ruth Teggatz, Cedar Rapids, and Irene McKenney, Rochester, Minn., and a brother-in-law, Buford and Susan Floy, Thornton.

He was preceded in death by his father; brothers, Leonard and Gordon Teggatz, and brothers-in-law, Robert Floy and Lyle Vernon.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, 12 Jul 2012, pg 11
Published July 9, 2012 in The Gazette

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