Glenn D. Shoemaker 1939-1998

SHOEMAKER, MYERS, MOORE, HAPPEL, HAVEL

Posted By: Harvey W. Henry (email)
Date: 2/13/2003 at 20:53:36

Glenn Shoemaker, 58
Iowa City Press Citizen
Friday April 10. 1998

Glenn D. Shoemaker, 58, of 306 Olde Hickory Ridge, Coralville, Iowa, died Monday, April 6, 1998, at General Hospital in Osage Beach, MO, of a sudden illness.

Services will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the George L. Gay Funeral Home and Crematorium, with the Rev. Diane Kimm Mitchell officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery (in Coralville, Iowa.)

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today with Masonic services at 7 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Shriners Childrens Hospital.

Mr. Shoemaker was born Dec 16, 1939 in Pleasantville, Iowa to Glenn D. and Ardath (Myers) Shoemaker. He graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1958. He attended the University of Iowa and graduated with a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1963. He married Joellen Moore on Sep 2, 1961, in Des Moines. He served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1964 to 1966. He served on the Coralville City Council. He was past president and CEO of Shoemaker-Haaland Professional Engineers in Coralville and Keokuk, and he served as two years as an investigator for the Iowa Board of Engineers.

He was a member of Old Gold Singers, Theta Tau engineering fraternity, the Johnson County Planning and Zoning Commission, Clarksville Masonic Lodge No. 668m Iowa City Yorkrite Bodies, Davenport Consistory, El Kahir Shrine, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, the Royal Order of the Jesters, Thursday Rotary Club and was a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He was a U of I Alumni Association Life Member, a charter member of the Coralville Kiwanis Club, Nebraska-Iowa Kiwanis district foundation and the Coralville American Legion. He was a member of the Herbert Hoover Chapter of the Iowa Engineering Society and past chairman of the Board of Ethics of the Iowa Engineering Society, Order of the Engineers.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Del Shoemaker and his wife, Stacy of Camdenton, MO, Drew Shoemaker and his wife, Heather, of Iowa City; a daughter Jill Happel and her husband, Jason, of Ames; a sister, Sheryl Havel of Camdenton; and three grandchildren.