Wayne `Jake' Bieri
Wayne ``Jake'' Bieri, 82, of 24504 124th Ave. W., Illinois City, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000, at Lutheran Homes, Muscatine, Iowa.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at George M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home, Muscatine. Burial is in Illinois City Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday. Memorials to Illinois City United Methodist Church.
Mr. Bieri was born April 24, 1917, in Lamar, Mo., to Jacob R. and Lottie F. Patterson Bieri. He married Mary E. Hayes Oct. 21, 1939, in Grandview, Iowa.
He had been an Illinois City resident since 1930.
He retired from John Deere Planter Works after 28 years of employment and also farmed for 35 years in the Illinois City area.
He was a member of Illinois City United Methodist Church, UAW Local 434 and Rock Island County Farm Bureau.
Survivors include his wife; son and daughter-in-law, Ronald Wayne and Judy Bieri, Illinois City; daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Ann and Tate Vroman, Illinois City, and Connie Sue and James Pyszka, Gurley, Ala.; grandchildren, Thomas Bieri, Tammy Erickson, Greg Vroman, Eric Vroman, Kim Pyszka and Kelly Edwards; six great-grandchildren; and a brother, Roy E. Bieri, Nichols, Iowa.
Wayne `Jake' Bieri
Wayne ``Jake'' Bieri, 82, of 24504 124th Ave. W., Illinois City, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000, at Lutheran Homes, Muscatine, Iowa.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at George M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home, Muscatine. Burial is in Illinois City Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday. Memorials to Illinois City United Methodist Church.
Mr. Bieri was born April 24, 1917, in Lamar, Mo., to Jacob R. and Lottie F. Patterson Bieri. He married Mary E. Hayes Oct. 21, 1939, in Grandview, Iowa.
He had been an Illinois City resident since 1930.
He retired from John Deere Planter Works after 28 years of employment and also farmed for 35 years in the Illinois City area.
He was a member of Illinois City United Methodist Church, UAW Local 434 and Rock Island County Farm Bureau.
Survivors include his wife; son and daughter-in-law, Ronald Wayne and Judy Bieri, Illinois City; daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Ann and Tate Vroman, Illinois City, and Connie Sue and James Pyszka, Gurley, Ala.; grandchildren, Thomas Bieri, Tammy Erickson, Greg Vroman, Eric Vroman, Kim Pyszka and Kelly Edwards; six great-grandchildren; and a brother, Roy E. Bieri, Nichols, Iowa.