Richard F. BRISBIN

BRISBIN, NIENDORF, GOSMA, ANHALT, APBLANALP, STOOPS, PARKER, DURRETT, REITZ, IRISH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 12:35:26

Richard F. Brisbin, 88, of Davenport, formerly of Mount Vernon, died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, where friends may call after 9:30 a.m. Burial: 3 p.m. Tuesday, Campbell Cemetery, Bertram Township, east of Cedar Rapids on Mount Vernon Road. "Dick" was born in Eagle Grove on Nov. 15, 1912, to Fred and Nellie Brisbin. He graduated with a degree in engineering from Iowa State University, where he played football and wrestled. He married Elizabeth S. Niendorf on Oct. 25, 1939, in Des Moines. She passed away in 1974. He married Helen Gosma in Davenport on Feb. 10, 1979. Dick was Potentate of El Kahir Shrine, Cedar Rapids, in 1965, and was also active in the foot patrol at the shrine. He was a member of Scottish Rite, Blue Lodge No. 6 of Marion and other Masonic organizations. He and his family were members of First Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids, until he moved to Davenport in 1997. He was also a member of the Cyclone Club and served as Bertram Township clerk.

Survivors include his wife, Helen; two daughters, Heather Brisbin Gosma and husband John of Davenport and Holly Brisbin Anhalt and husband Gary of Cedar Rapids; grandchildren Elizabeth Gosma Apblanalp and husband Charles of Evanston, Ill., Emily Gosma Stoops and husband Anthony of Ann Arbor, Mich., Sarah Gosma Parker and husband Jared of Davenport, Richard Benjamin Anhalt and fiancee Shawn Durrett, both of South Deerfield, Mass., and Heidi and Peter Anhalt of Cedar Rapids; three sisters, Ruth, Frances and Betty; and three stepchildren, James Gosma and wife Debbie and their four children, Jane Reitz and husband John and daughters, and Julie Irish and husband James. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and two brothers, in addition to his wife, Elizabeth. Memorials may be given to the First Lutheran Church of Cedar Rapids or the Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital.

Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA)
September 16, 2001