Bernard L. Ford 1918- 2000

FORD, EDWARDS, GALBREATH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/9/2013 at 00:26:41

Bernard L. Ford, 82, of Sioux City died unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 21, 2000, at a Sioux City nursing home.

Services will be 11 a.m. today at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Paul Kelly of Cathedral of the Epiphany Catholic Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with military rites conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Sergeant Floyd Post 1973.

Mr. Ford was born Aug. 10, 1918 in Yankton, S.D., the son of Thomas and Sarah (Edwards) Ford. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

He married Mardel Galbreath in 1970, in Sioux City. She died in January 1994, in Onawa, Iowa.

He retired from Burlington Northern Railroad as a conductor after 32 years. He was honored by President Richard Nixon as the railroad conductor in the 1952 election that traveled throughout Iowa.

Survivors include two sons, Thomas Ford of Los Angeles, and Bruce Lavespere and his wife, Phyllis of Milford, N.H.; three daughters, Diane and her husband, Jim MacDonald of Bossier City, La., Nancy Ford of Kansas City, Mo., and Patricia and her husband, Johnny Plant of Burslen, England; a sister and her husband, Bernice and Bob Keegan of Lawton, Iowa; seven grandchildren, Michelle Norcross, Brent MacDonald, Joshua, Aaron and Joel Lavespere and Mark and Anthony Plant; two great-grandchildren; and a niece and nephew who were his caregivers, Carol Schoonover and Don Ford.

He was preceded in death by eight brothers.

Pallbearers will be Rob, Tom and Patrick Keegan, Dennis Brockhaus and Don and Dick Ford.