Bernard D. Kaye (1946-2022)

KAYE, MAGUIRE, PEAK

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/24/2023 at 16:06:27

From Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, Ames, Story County, Iowa.

Bernard D. Kaye passed away on June 26, 2022. A memorial service will be held on July 5, 2022, at Grandon Funeral & Cremation Care at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at 2:00 p.m. at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter, Iowa.

Bernard D. Kaye was born in Washington, D.C. 01 January 1946. He was adopted on 03 January 1946 by Joseph J. Kaye and Laura (Maguire) Kaye. He lived in the Washington D.C. area until he was 17. He graduated from Saint Aloysius Elementary School and spent the next three years at Saint John's Military High School. Bernard dropped out of High School when his mother passed away in 1963. He joined the United States Marines that year. During those years he was assigned to various Marine units around the world, from several tours in the Republic of Viet Nam to a year at Marine Barracks in Keflavik Iceland. On one of these tours he was stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina. He met Sandra Peak of Marshalltown, Iowa and they married at the base Chapel in 1969. He renewed his education while in the Marines and when he left in 1977 he had received his GED and completed three and a half years of college. During this time they had two sons, Sean P. and Seamus M. Kaye. Bernard left the Corps in 1977 and came to Iowa with his family. He accepted a job at Iowa State University and completed his BA at the University of Maryland and entered into a Masters program at Iowa State. After ISU he worked for Donnelly Marketing in Nevada, NorWest Financial and finally Wells Fargo. Bernard retired from Wells Fargo in 2005.

He thanks all that he encountered his life: those that taught him, those that lead him, those that fought with him and those that fought against him. All the lives that touched him made an indelible impression on his.

He is survived by his loving friend Pam Ferguson; two sons, Sean Padric Kaye (Carol), of Marionville, Missouri., and Seamus Michael Kaye of Marshalltown, Iowa and several grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother, and brother Joseph Raymond "Jay" Kaye.