Cecil G. RODEMEYER

RODEMEYER, YAW, HORECK, PECK, ALEXANDER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/22/2007 at 08:54:37

MASON CITY — Cecil G. Rodemeyer, 80, of 710 N. Maryland Ave., died Thursday (April 2, 1998) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wesley United Methodist Church, 1405 S. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. David Shogren officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Full military rites will be provided by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association. friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the MajorErickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave. Visitation will continue one hour prior to services at the church. The family suggests memorials to the Mason City Evening Lions Club Eye Research Fund.

Mr. Rodemeyer was born March 30, 1918, in Alexander, the son of Frederick D. and Bertha A. (Yaw) Rodemeyer. He graduated from Alexander High School. In 1941, Cecil enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country under Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army. During his military career he received a Silver Star, Purple Heart, Unit Citation with oak leaf cluster and Five-bronze star. He served in such places as Tunisia, Italy, Normandy, northern France, Belgium and Germany. After his discharge in 1945, Cecil enrolled at the University of Northern Iowa, then the University of Missouri, earning a master of arts degree in teaching. In 1948, he started teaching at Mason City High School. In 1950, he transferred to Monroe Junior High School, and finished his career at John Adams Junior High in 1982, when he retired. In 1949, Cecil married Elsie M. Horeck. They were married for 43 years until Elsie's passing in 1992. He was a member of Mason City Teachers Credit Union and had served on the board since 1963, the Retired Teachers Association, which he served as treasurer for four years, and the Mason City Evening Lions Club, which he had served as treasurer since 1980. Cecil had been a member of Wesley United Methodist Church since moving to Mason City in 1948.

Survivors include his son, Douglas, and his wife, Christine, of Omaha, Neb.; granddaughter, Jeanie Rodemeyer and her fiance, Jason Peck, of Minneapolis; a brother, Allen, and his wife, Julia Rodemeyer, of Oskaloosa; a sister, Lois Alexander of Tulsa, Okla.; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elsie Rodemeyer; his parents; and two brothers, Boyd and Robert Rodemeyer. His family will truly miss this most wonderful man and thank God for blessing their lives with him. Rest in peace.

Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette
5 APRIL 1998