Bedard, John ("Jack"), 1888-1958

BEDARD

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/29/2012 at 22:19:46

John Bedard of Sioux City Dies

Funeral services for John (Jack) Bedard, 70, brother of Mrs. William Wilken and a former Hawarden resident who died Monday of last week after suffering a heart attack at the Safeway grocery store in Sioux City, were held at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon at Sioux City, Rev. P. E. Van Tassel officiating.

Burial was at Grace Hill cemetery at Hawarden with the Veterans of Foreign Wars post 2526 conducting military rites at the graveside. Pall bearers were Eugene Rose, Herman Arioso, Patrick Doohen, John O'Hara, Milton Eidem and Earl Strong.

Mr. Bedard was born May 8, 1888 on a farm west of Hawarden in Union county, where he spent his childhood. During World War I he served in France and was a member of the V.F.W. For the past 40 years he was a resident of Sioux City.

Survivors include the widow, Edna; a son, Kenneth, of Sioux City; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Williams of Sioux City; one grandchild; a brother, Harry Bedard of Prudinville, Mich.; and five sisters, Mrs. Lillie Harvey of Akron, Mrs. Gladys Heald of Denver, Mrs. Wilken of Hawarden, Mrs. Fleeta Bonnichsen of Dorena, Ore., and Mrs. Dorothy Smith of Gillespie, Ill. A brother and two sisters preceded him in death.

Those attending the funeral at Sioux City included his two nieces, Mrs. C. R. Johannsen and Mrs. Clarence Vogelzang, both of Hawarden, as well as Mr. Vogelzang, Mr. and Mrs. Wilken, Orville Conway and other friends and relatives.

Source: Hawarden Independent, October 30, 1958.