Hedemann, Grover C. -- 1923 - 2000

BAKER, HEDEMANN, MILLER, STOSKOPF, GRAVES, GODFREY

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Decorah Journal, Thursday, May 11, 2000

Grover C. Hedemann

Grover C. Hedemann, 76, of Decorah, died Sunday, May 7, 2000, of cancer at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, May 11, at 11 a.m., at First Lutheran Church, with the Revs. Steven Jacobsen, Marion Miller and Tom Miller officiating.

Jim Priest will give the eulogy. Diane Kvamme will be the organist. Soloist Arlene Foltz will sing "The Lord's Prayer" and "On Eagle's Wings."
Congregational hymns will be "Children of the Heavenly Father," "Beautiful Savior" and "America the Beautiful."

Casket bearers will be Wayne Burns, M. Elliott Christen, Irving R. Eittreim, Dennis D. Green, LeRoy Kopriva, Oliver E. Lybeck, Dean Orwoll, Francis Peterson and Norbert Tierney.

Honorary bearers will be faculty of Decorah Community Schools and all of his friends.

Interment will be at the Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah. The Fjelstul Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Friends may call at the church one hour before services.

Grover Hedemann was born Oct. 29, 1923, at Garnavillo, the son of Marvin and Alice (Baker) Hedemann. He attended Garnavillo Public Schools and earned a bachelor of science degree from the Upper Iowa University, and master of arts from the University of Iowa.

He served in the United States Army during World War II, in Special Services at Camp Shanks, N.Y.

Grover and Helen E. Miller were united in marriage April 9, 1944, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Garnavillo.

Graver's first teaching job was at Victor Public Schools in Victor, from 1947-52, where he also coached boys' basketball, girls' basketball and baseball.

He then moved to West Liberty Public Schools in West Liberty from 1952-54, where he again taught and also served as girls' basketball coach and
assistant football coach. His girls' basketball team took fourth in state in 1954.

Continuing at West Liberty, he served as junior and senior high principal from 1954-56.

From 1956-60, Grover was the high school principal and athletic director at Anamosa Public Schools.

He then spent 30 years at Decorah Community Schools, serving as high school principal and assistant superintendent. Grover retired July 1, 1990.

Grover Hedemann was honored with two prestigious awards.

He was one of four administrators chosen best in the state for outstanding work in academics and school programs by the School Administrators of Iowa. The four were selected from more than 600 secondary school principals.

In 1992, he was honored with the award for "Service to Iowa High School Athletics", from the Iowa High School Athletic Association. It was presented by the Board of Control, Iowa High School Athletic Association.

Grover was a member of the national and state principal associations. He served as chairman of the Northeast Iowa Principal Association many times.

He served on the State Secondary School Principals' Board. Three times he was the interim superintendent for the Decorah Community School.

Grover served on numerous educational, athletic, church and civic committees. He also served on school evaluation teams for the 19-state region of the North Central Association.

He was a member of First Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his wife, Helen of Decorah; one son, James of Baraboo, Wis.; two daughters, Marcia and Ronald Stoskopf of Decorah, and Jane and Leonard Graves Jr. of Fort Madison; three granddaughters and five great grandchildren, Michelle and Doug D'Aigle of Cambridge, Minn., and Morghan, Garrett and Kelsey, Jamie and Jeff Brescia of Baraboo, Wis., and Kristen Graves of Baraboo, Wis., and Taylor and Mitchel; and one brother, Darrell and Joyce Hedemann of Monona.

Grover Hedemann was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Mardelle Godfrey; and by one grandson, Brent Stoskopf.

Transcribed by an IA GenWeb Volunteer from obituaries found in the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society Library, Cresco, Iowa.