Bean, Richard Maurice 1914-1995

BEAN, OGDEN, GRANQUIST

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/23/2020 at 20:09:50

Richard M. Bean

Akron, Iowa – Richard Maurice Bean, 80, of Akron died Thursday, March 2, 19995, at a Sioux City hospital following surgery.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Akron with the Rev. William Flemr officiating. Burial will follow in the Riverside Cemetery with military rites by Hoschler Post 186, American Legion of Akron. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, with a Masonic service at 7 p.m. by the Freedom Lodge AF&AM 434, at the Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.

He was born June 3, 1914, in Akron, the son of Curtis and Myrtle (Ogden) Bean. He worked for a grocery store in Akron and at the J.C. Penney Co. in Sioux City for two years. He served with the submarine division of the United States Navy during World War II and was stationed in the Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Drum. He married Agnes Granquist Oct. 8, 1938, in Akron. He started a cleaning and clothing store in Akron and operated them for 18 years. He then went to work for the Panida-Norway drug company, traveling for 25 years in this area before retiring.

Mr. Bean was a member of the Akron Commercial Club, the American Legion, the Masonic Lodge and the Lions. He belonged to the Immanuel Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife, Robert and Carol of Ft. Collins, Colo.; a daughter and her husband, Sandra and Dan Hudck of Sioux City; five grandchildren and six great-granchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Herbert and Chester; three sisters, Ethel, Chestina and Alice; and a great-grandson, Lawrence Claeys.

Sioux City Journal
Saturday, Mar. 4, 1995
Sioux City, Iowa