Larry LeRoy Bradshaw (1940-2013)
BRADSHAW, SEARS, CONNON, BRENNER, ENESS, HOUSE
Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 1/27/2013 at 21:37:29
From Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care obituary, Ames, Story County, Iowa:
Larry LeRoy Bradshaw
November 7, 1940 - January 15, 2013Larry Bradshaw age 72, of Nevada, died at his home on Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013. A gathering of friends and family will be 4-7 p.m. Friday Jan.18 at Bethel Church in rural Boone with a 10:00 am funeral service Saturday, Jan. 19 at Bethel Church in rural Boone with a 3:00 pm Graveside service at Chester Center Cemetery, Grinnell, Iowa.
Larry LeRoy Bradshaw was born November 7, 1940 in Iowa City, Iowa, to Arza Bradshaw. He was raised in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Jefferson High School in 1959. He attended Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, and received his bachelors and masters from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. He taught in the Cedar Rapids Schools for 14 years before beginning his teaching career for 25 years at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he received his PhD in Industrial Education & Technology. He received the G. Harold Silvus graduate student award and later received the Epsilon Pi Tau Laureate Award. He was a member of the Epsilon Pi Tau and the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. He spent a summer with the USAID Teach Corp in Kathmandu, Nepal, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Cyprus. With his family, he spent a year in Papua New Guinea under the Summer Institute of Linguistics. He was a delegate under Lt. Governor Anderson's Trade Mission to Korea and the following year took Iowa States students to Korea on a work-study program. After retiring from Iowa State, he spent the next 5 years at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) where he first opened up the international student office and then served as Dean of Academics. Upon returning from Texas, they moved from their acreage SW of Ames to Nevada. He was a member and past elder of Bethel Church, rural Boone, and volunteered on the disaster team for Red Cross for a number of years.
He was married to Glenda Sears at Grinnell, October 5, 1963. He is survived by his wife and his 3 daughters--Melinda (Dave) Connon of Earlham, Iowa, Jenny (Rick) Brenner of Antioch, IL, and Betsy Eness of Ames, by 3 grandchildren - Maxwell Eness, Kathryn Brenner, and Bethany Connon. and his sister, Leeta House. He was preceded in death by his mother, Arza Bradshaw.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to GIAL
In care of Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care 414 Lincoln Way Ames, Iowa 50010.
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