BIAOTTO, Rev. Paul R.
BIAOTTO, BAIOTTO, CLOUSE, WATKINS, MILLER, CELLAMARE, LONG, CAREY, OBERTO, DUNLAP, MCBRIDE, SCHULER
Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/26/2007 at 09:42:23
"The Fairfield Ledger", Thursday, March 22, 2007, Page 10
Rev. Paul BIAOTTO -- The Rev. Paul BIAOTTO, 87, of Rubio, died at 12:20 a.m. today, Thursday, March 22, 2007, at Maplewood Manor in Keota.
Arrangements are pending at Gould Funeral Home in Richland.
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"The Fairfield Ledger", Friday, March 23, 2007, Page 8
Paul R. BAIOTTO -- The Rev. Paul R. BAIOTTO, 87, formerly of Rubio, died at 12:20 a.m. Thursday, March 22, 2007, at Maplewood Manor Nursing Home in Keota.
A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Trinity Friends Church in Richland, with the Rev. Don Collings officiating. Burial, with military honors by Richland American Leigon Post No. 504, will be in Richland Friends Cemetery.
Open visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at Gould Funeral Home in Richland, with the family present from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
A general memorial has been established.
The Rev. BAIOTTO was born June 14, 1919, in Lockman, the son of John Antonio and Veda Laura CLOUSE BAIOTTO. He married Helen M. WATKINS July 30, 1941, in Des Moines.
The Rev. BAIOTTO grew up in Pershing. He graduated from Attica High School in 1936 and from John Fletcher College, now Vennard College, in Oskaloosa. He worked for Swift and Co. in Des Moines for two years, then served in the U.S. Army. He worked as a supply minister, then a full-time minister in Bangor for four years and then as a minister at Arnolds Park for 29 years. He then moved to Rubio where he was the Rubio Friends Church minister for 14 years until he retired in 1991.
The Rev. BAIOTTO served on the Arnolds Park Fire Department and Rescue Squad for 27 years, Board of Trustees for William Penn College also for 27 years, International and National Friends United Meeting Boards for 28 years, Iowa Yearly Meeting Youth Board, Missions Board, Monthly Meeting Board, Personnel Board and State Board of Elders. He was the chairman of the Youth Friends Board for 12 years and chairman of the Public Morals Board. He was a member of the Executive Board and Friends Pastors Association, Dickinson Co. Ministerial Association and Pekin Ministerial Association. He was camp director at Camp Quaker Heights in Eldora for 15 years.
Survivors include his wife of Keota; three daughters, Beth MILLER of San Antonio, Texas, Marilyn CELLAMARE and husband Nino of Marion and Carol LONG and husband Ron of Rubio; three sons, Mike BAIOTTO and wife Jacki of Staunton, Va., Chris CAREY of North Las Vegas, Nev., and David CAREY, formerly of Tempe, Ariz.; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; three sisters, Arlene OBERTO of Altoona, Margaret DUNLAP of Zearing and Gladys McBRIDE of Clinton; and one brother, Ernest BAIOTTO of Earlham.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three grandchildren; and one sister, Erma Jean SCHULER.
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