Robert L. RATCLIFF

RATCLIFF, BRAND, NICHOL, KIMBERLIN, HARRINTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/11/2007 at 20:22:38

Robert L. "Bob" Ratcliff, 50, of 821 S. 13th Ave. E., died of cancer Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. at Lynnville Friends Church in Lynnville with Pastor Marvin Miller officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Wallace Family Funeral Home is handling arrangments. Friends may call today at the church where family will be available from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorials will ba accepted to Hospice of Jasper County.

The son of Roy R. Ratcliff and Lois J. Brand, he was born April 24, 1951, in Newton. He was a graduate of Newton Senior High School in 1969 and a graduate of Marshalltown Community College. He grew up in the Newton and Killduff areas. He served in the United States Air Force during the Vietman War. On May 5, 1973, he married Thelma J. "T.J." Kimberlin in Newton. He lived in Europe from 1973 to 1976 and later lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, Pleasantville, Belmond, and Lynnville. Mr. Ratcliff worked for Axtell Ford & Chrysler in the financing and human resources department. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Newton.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Tyler of Newton; three daughter, Jennifer of Oskaloosa and Heather and Amy, both of Newton; his father, Roy Ratcliff of Ocala, Fla.; his mother and step-father, Lois and Charles R. Harrinton of Newton; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Randall and Wanda of Newton and Scott and Patsy of Sully; and a sister, Angie Nichol of Newton. He was preceded in death by his grandparents.

Newton Daily News, IA
ca. October 2001