BIERBRODT, John David 1959-1989

BIERBRODT, WIGANT, GEFFERT, RIKER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/30/2009 at 13:54:56

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John David Bierbrodt

Funeral services were held onSaturday, August 5, 1989 at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Toeterville, for John David Bierbrodt, 29, of Rose Creek, Minnesota. The Reverend Elmer Ellefson officiated and burial was in St. Peter Lutheran Cemetry, Toeterville.

Mr. Bierbrodt died Tuesday, August 1, 1989 at Mitchell County Hospital, Osage, of injuries suffered in a two-car accident.

He was born on September 12, 1959 in Osage, the son of David F. and Janice (Wigant) Bierbrodt. He attended schools in Osage, Georgia, and St. Ansgar. After school he held various jobs, the last as a truck driver for approximately a year.

He married Shelly Geffert on March 6, 1978 in Marysville, Missouri. He was a member of the Moose Lodge, Austin, Minnesota. He enjoyed motorcycle riding and building motors on cars, camping and fishing.

Preceding him in death was his grandfather.

Survivors include his wife, Shelley of Rose Creek, Minnesota; three sons, Jeremy David, John David, Jr,. and Christopher Michael all at home; his mother, Janice Riker of Hanlontown, Iowa; his father, David Bierbrodt of Florida; stepfather, James Riker of Hanlontown; one sister, Mrs. Mark (Jan) Vaage of Mason City; three brothers, Sterling, and Kent both of Osage, and Todd of Vicenza, Italy; grandfather Douglas Vernus of Minneapolis; two grandmothers, Carlene Wigant of Osage and Edna Bierbrodt of Rochester, Minnesota; one-half brother, Sam Riker of Hanlontown, one-half sister, Angel Riker of Hanlontown; step-grandmother, Martha Riker of Osage; one stepbrother, Teodora Riker of Marshfield, Wisconsin, and one stepsister, Rosa McKenna of Elma.

[ MITCHELL COUNTY PRESS, AUGUST 9, 1989 ]
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Two dead after car collision

STACYVILLE, IOWA — Two men were killed Tuesday evening when their cars collided near Stacyville after one apparently ran a stop sign. John Bierbrodt, 29, of Rose Creek, Minnesota, and John Freund, 40, of Mclntire, Iowa, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident three miles northwest of Stacyville at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Both men were alone in their cars.

Mitchell County Sheriff Curt Younker said Bierbrodt was traveling north on a gravel road when he apparently ran a stop sign and drove in the path of Freund, who was traveling east.

Osage's Jaws of Life was summoned to remove Freund from his car. The Stacyville Fire Department and the St. Ansgar Rescue Squad also assisted.

The accident remains under investigation by the Mitchell County Sheriff's Department and Iowa State Patrol.

[Waterloo Courier, Wednesday, August 2, 1989]