Rolland Omer Bueoy 1917 - 2016

HAM, BUEOY, STRACKBEIN, MITCHELL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen - volunteer (email)
Date: 6/15/2016 at 03:54:34

Rolland O. Bueoy, 98, of Mapleton, Iowa passed away Saturday, June 4, 2016 at Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton, Iowa. The funeral service will be Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton, Iowa with Pastor Marcus Manley officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul Cemetery at Midway, Iowa following a luncheon at the church. military graveside honors will be provided by the American Legion Loren Hollister Post #496 of Mapleton. Visitation will be Wednesday, June 8 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton, Iowa. The family is receiving condolences at www.armstrongfuneral.com.

Rolland Omer Bueoy was born a half mile north of the Catholic Church in Mapleton on September 7, 1917, the son of Omer and Dora (Ham) Bueoy. He grew up and was educated in the Mapleton area. He later settled in the Climbing Hill, Iowa area where he farmed until March 25, 2004. He then moved to Moville, Iowa and entered Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton in 2008.
Rolland served his country in the United States Army during World War ll. He married Edna Strackbein on April 4, 1948. She died in 1954. He married Edna Mitchell on June 15, 1966, at Sioux City, Iowa. She passed December 1, 1990.
Rolland was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton and a former member of the American Legion and the V.F.W., both of Oto, Iowa.

Family members surviving Rolland are a step son, LeRoy Heart and his wife, Cecelia of Madesto, California; two step grandchildren, Susan and Robert; four step great grandchildren; two sisters, Barbara Bumsted of Mapleton, Iowa and Evonne Farber of South Sioux City, Nebraska; and one brother, Robert Bueoy of Mapleton; along with other extended family members.

He was preceded in death by his parents; four sisters, Maureta Yockey, Genevieve Moore, Helen Bumsted, and Marjorie Farber; and one brother, Paul Bueoy, who died at 6 months of age.