Cary J. Steward 1910 - 1998

STEWARD, RICHARDSON, ROWE

Posted By: Connie J Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/6/2014 at 22:01:36

19 October 1998

ONAWA, Iowa - — Cary J. Steward, 87, of Onawa died Saturday, Oct. 17, 1998, at his residence.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa, with the Rev. Steve Stebbins officiating. Burial will be in Onawa City Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Steward was born Nov. 13, 1910 in Blencoe, Iowa, the son of Mark and Lucy (Richardson) Steward.

He married Alice Mary Rowe on Feb. 9, 1942, in Dakota City. He was a farmer, a jockey in the 1950s, a baseball player, worked in construction as a dragline operator and was employed at the Omaha, Neb. Country Club until his retirement.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, June E. Henry of Onawa; a son, Roger of Carter Lake, Iowa; two sisters, Lavonne Edmonds and Edna Campbell, both of Onawa; five grandchildren, Melanie and Adam Steward, Tom, Gerry and Steve Sorensen; and six great-grand-children.

He was preceded in death by three sisters, Violet "Buddy" Archer; Dorothy Kepner and Martha Christiansen; five brothers, Guy, Donald, Everett, Ernest and Harold; and a step granddaughter, Eugenia Schovanoc