DROZ, Richard V. "Dick": Died 1978

DROZ, VILES, HESTON, COLEMAN, MITCHELL, WHITE, BRADLEY

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Date: 11/1/2021 at 10:22:39

Fairfield Ledger
Monday, February ??, 1978

Dick Droz Dies At 53

STOCKPORT - Richard V. Droz, 53, former member of the police department in Fairfield and in later years a tavern owner in Stockport, died Saturday at Veterans Hospital in Iowa City. His death followed a lengthy illness.

Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield with the Rev. David Kennedy officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.

Members of the family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m.

Richard V. Droz was born July 2, 1924, in Fairfield. He was the son of Lawrence J. and Phena May Viles Droz. He was reared and educated in Fairfield and lived all of his life in the Fairfield and Stockport Communities.

His marriage to Eva Heston took place Dec. 8, 1942, in Kahoka, Mo.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World WarII and joined the Fairfield Police Department in 1953. After serving as an officer for ten years he resigned when he and his wife purchased a farm. Later they moved to Stockport where they began operating the Ponderosa tavern.

In addition to his widow Droz is survived by five brothers: Jack and Perry both of Fairfield; Clifford, Keosauqua; Marshall, Ottumwa; and John, Litchfield, Minn.; three sisters, Velma Coleman, Birmingham; Mary Mitchell, Ottumwa; and Louise White, Ottumwa; and one stepsister, Mary Belle Bradley, Fairfield.

Droz was preceded in death by his parents and one son in infancy.

(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)