Leo Croce

CROCE, BICKFORD, CLEARY, CAMP, FLOCK, SCAY, HAINSTOCK, VOZENILEK

Posted By: Barbara Gehlsen Nugent (email)
Date: 2/24/2011 at 18:29:32

Quad-City Times, Monday, July 24, 2000

MAQUOKETA, Iowa

Services for Leo O. Croce, Maquoketa, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Carson & Son Funeral and Cremation Services, Maquoketa. Burial will be in Sutton Cemetery, rural Maquoketa. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mr. Croce died Saturday, July 22, 2000, at his home, after an extended illness.

He was employed in the molding department at Clinton Engines Foundry. He retired in 1977. He served as president of the molders union for 20 years. He was born Feb. 4, 1915, in Fulton, Iowa. He married Gladys Bickford in 1938 in Maquoketa. She died in 1998.

During World War II, he served in the Army. He also had served in the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Survivors include daughters, Mona Cleary, Lost Nation, Donna Camp, Guntersville, Ala., Maxine Flock and Janis Scay, both of Maquoketa, and Wendy Hainstock, Delmar; sons, William "Billy," Maquoketa, and Leo "Butch," Toronto; 27 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Doris Vozenilek, and a brother, Louis, both of Maquoketa.

Note: His parents were William F. Croce and Ada L. Teters Croce.