Rabedeaux, Richard W. – 1930-1991

MILLER, MOUTON, RABEDEAUX

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 9/4/2021 at 13:22:28

Dr. Richard W. Rabedeaux, 61, 2020 W. 15th St. S., a Newton dentist who was active in community and church affairs, died Tuesday morning, Dec. 10, at the University Hospitals in Iowa City of a respiratory condition.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Newton First Lutheran Church.
The Rev. William Ortt, pastor of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, will conduct services.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church followed by a private family service.
Memorials to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church or the American Lung Association may be left at Reese Funeral Home.
Cremation has taken place.
Survivors are his wife, Joyce; a son, Dr. Steven of Newton; a daughter, Julie (Mrs. Kurt) Mouton of Minneapolis, Minn.; two grandchildren; a half-brother, David Rabedeaux of Seattle, Wash., and a step-brother, Clayton Rabedeaux of Las Vegas, Nev.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Dr. Rabedeaux, a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, had served on the church’s vestry.
He was one of the founders of the Jasper County Association for Retarded Children as well as an original member of the Newton Community Theatre. He was active in the founding of Awake of Newton.
Dr. Rabedeaux had been chairman of forensic dentistry of the Iowa Dental Association since 1988.
He also was founder of the Academy of General Dentistry, Iowa Chapter, and had been a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry since 1974.
In practice with his son in The Dental Practice in Newton, he was a fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry.
The son of B. C. and Mildred Miller Rabedeaux, he was born Jan. 25, 1930 in Des Moines.
He was a graduate of Rushville, Ill. High School, Western Illinois State College at McComb and the University of Iowa School of Dentistry in 1955
He came to Newton in 1957 from Wichita, Kan., following separation from the Air Force.
An Eagle Scout, Dr. Rabedeaux, a major, was a graduate of Flight School and the Air University School of Aviation Medicine.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Wednesday, December 11, 1991, page 2