Robert Leo REED

REED, BEARDSLEY, SMITH, ASCHE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/13/2007 at 10:46:05

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
May 20, 1992

Robert Leo "Bob" Reed, Des Moines

Funeral services for Robert Leo "Bob" Reed, 82, were held Wed., May 6 at the Kastler-Babcock Funeral Home, Eagle Grove with the Rev. Scott C. Hill officiating. Mr. Reed died May 3 at Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Des Moines.

He was born August 23, 1909 in Madison County to Austin B. and Altha Mae (Beardsley) Reed and graduated from Peru High School in 1928. He married Myrtle Smith on September 22, 1930 at Indianola. He was employed as an industrial and commercial electrician, retiring in 1977. He lived in Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa, moving to Des Moines in 1959. Bob and his wife visited every state except Alaska and North Dakota in search of his Kale, Arnold, Foster and Reed progenitors of Madison County. He was a member of the Highland Park Christian Church, Des Moines, the Auburn Masonic Lodge and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He entered Clearview Care Center, Prairie City on March 4.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and a half-sister. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Leola M. Asche of Eagle Grove and M. Eileen Reed of Urbandale; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Burial was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove.