Dean Henry NERDIG

NERDIG, SCHAEFER, FRANDLE, YUNCK, BALLUFF, HEIDENREICH, HEGENBARTH, ACOSTA, SANDELL, KLINGER, HOLLENBACHER, SOHL, SCHERTZ, COFFEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 17:14:58

Nora Springs-Dean Henry Nerdig, 87, of 901 Riverview Drive, died Sunday (July 8, 2007) at Muse Norris Hospice in-patient unit, Mason City. Memorial services will be held 11:00 A.M. Tuesday (July 10, 2007) at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 101 N. Hawkeye, Nora Springs with Rev. Dr. Jenney Edinger, officiating. Interment will be in Olena Mound Cemetery, Buffalo Center. Visitation will be held from 6 P.M. to 7 P.M. tonight (July 9, 2007) at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 101 N. Hawkeye, Nora Springs. Memorials may be made to St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Nora Springs or Hospice of North Iowa, Mason City.

Dean Henry Nerdig was born January 5, 1920, to Henry Albert Nerdig & Elizabeth Schaefer Nerdig at Lone Star Farm in Winnebago County. He was baptized at Ellis Point Methodist Episcopal Church on July 25, 1920. and later confirmed his faith at the same church. He attended Buffalo Center Schools and graduated from Buffalo Center High School in 1937. He entered the Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa and received a bachelor of science in poultry husbandry on December 16, 1942. While at Iowa State, he organized Iowa’s State College first Baby Chick Show and received the Ramsey Award. In his lifetime dedicated to farming Dean began his agriculture experience farming with horses and completed career in a time when agriculture was directed by computers. Dean taught vocational agriculture at Northwood, Garner, and Forest City Public Schools. He founded the FFA chapter in Northwood, IA. During these years he was honored to have four of his FFA chapter leaders go on to be president of the Iowa State FFA organization. One of his and Berdean’s greatest joys was to take senior FFA students on an annual two-week trip to various points of interest around the US. Dean was a salesman for Quaker Oats, Full of Pep Poultry Division. He started his career at NIACC as an instructor and later became the Head of the Ag Department. Dean was instrumental in organizing several firsts in Iowa such as the Iowa Association of Anhydrous Ammonia Dealers; managing the first anhydrous ammonia retail outlet in Iowa located in Forest City and another plant in Mason City, Iowa. He was on the original board of the North Iowa Breeders Co-op at Kanawha. He created the first grain show held in Northwood. He served on fair boards for Worth, Hancock, Winnebago and North Iowa Fairs. He was a council member at large for Floyd County from 1982 through 1986. Dean served as mayor of Nora Springs for more than 2 years.

He married Berdean Marjorie Frandle of Rake Iowa at Zion Lutheran Church in Rake Iowa on October 10, 1944. In their early years Dean and his family lived in Garner, Forest City and Mason City. He is father to Donald Nerdig married to Jeanne (Yunck) of Columbia Falls, Montana; Mary (Nerdig) Balluff married to Richard Balluff of Omaha, Nebraska; Dave Nerdig married to Linda (Heidenreich) Nerdig of Urandale, Iowa; Molly (Nerdig) Hegenbarth married to James Hegenbarth of Clarksville, Indiana and Daniel Nerdig married to Michelle (Acosta) Nerdig, of Prince George, Virginia.

His favorite activities included camping with his family, gardening, and coffee with his friends. Dean and his wife owned and operated the Towne and County Feed Store. He was a member of the Nora Springs Business Association, the Iowa State Extension Council and the Master Gardner Association. Dean held offices in Kiwanis clubs in Mason City and Nora Springs. Dean was a person of faith who supported his membership at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church by serving on several committees, holding office of president of the church council, serving on several call committees and frequently representing the church at synod assemblies. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Berdean and his parents. His life will be continue to be celebrated by his surviving five children, and sisters Marie Sandell and Eunice Klinger. His legacy will live on through is his ten grandchildren: Matthew, Lacey and Leesa Nerdig, Angela Schertz, Amanda Coffey, Benjamin and Jonathan Nerdig, Janel Sohl, Michelle Hollenbacher, and Elizabeth Nerdig and five great grand children. Sheckler Colonial Chapel 114 N. Hawkeye, Nora Springs.

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