Claudia Drue (Ball) REEDER

REEDER, BALL, IRWIN, BRADLEY, MAY, KETCHUM, KEYSER, DUTCHER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/9/2015 at 17:40:28

May 27, 1925 --- August 8, 2003

EAGLE GROVE - Claudia Drue Reeder, 78, of 805 Northeast Third Street, Eagle Grove, died Friday (Aug. 8, 2003) in an automobile accident. A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Eagle Grove Evangelical Lutheran Church, South Second Street and Garfield Avenue, Eagle Grove, with Pastor Susan Stone officiating.

Claudia Drue Reeder was born May 27, 1925, in Dayton, Iowa, the daughter of Guy and Nellie (Irwin) Ball. As a young child, Claudia's family moved to Lehigh, where she graduated from Lehigh High School. Claudia then moved to Fort Dodge where she worked prior to her marriage. She married Roy Reeder on Sept. 5, 1948, at Fort Dodge. They then made their home in Eagle Grove in 1955. Claudia worked for many years at Wilson and Co. and Iowa Testing Laboratories in Eagle Grove. In her later years, Claudia worked at the Senior Citizen's Center in Eagle Grove. She enjoyed spending time with family, friends, and her special friend Walter Bradley.

She is survived by her two sons, John Reeder, of Dows, and James Reeder, of Loveland, Colo.; five grandchildren, Ryan, John, Melissa, Michael, and Christopher Reeder; one sister, Colleen May, Lehigh; one brother, Merlin Ball and his wife, Maxine, La Feria, Texas; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three sisters, Frances Ketchum, Leona Keyser, and Catherine Dutcher; and three brothers, Raymond, Willard, and Theodore Ball. Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaaf Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
August 10, 2003