By Dr. Steve F. Russell
Larry was my colleague at Iowa State, my friend, and my neighbor. We shared neighborhood parties, lots of laughs, and graduate student committees. Larry loved his graduate students. We had much in common; educating students, electronic gadgets, building electronics, and Christian faith. The last two times I visited Larry, he talked about his life and family; all the interesting things he had done in his life and his childhood days. We talked about the old days at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids and our mutual acquaintances and experiences. He talked about his incurable illness and how it was taking his life so fast. I will miss Larry.

OBITUARY
Larry Bradshaw age 72, of Nevada [Ames, Grinnell], died at his home on Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013. A gathering of friends and family will be 4-7 p.m. Friday Jan.18 at Bethel Church in rural Boone with a 10:00 am funeral service Saturday, Jan. 19 at Bethel Church in rural Boone with a 3:00 pm Graveside service at Chester Center Cemetery, Grinnell, Iowa.

Larry LeRoy Bradshaw was born November 7, 1940 in Iowa City, Iowa, to Arza Bradshaw. He was raised in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Jefferson High School in 1959. He attended Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, and received his bachelors and masters from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. He taught in the Cedar Rapids Schools for 14 years before beginning his teaching career for 25 years at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he received his PhD in Industrial Education & Technology. He received the G. Harold Silvus graduate student award and later received the Epsilon Pi Tau Laureate Award. He was a member of the Epsilon Pi Tau and the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. He spent a summer with the USAID Teach Corp in Kathmandu, Nepal, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Cyprus. With his family, he spent a year in Papua New Guinea under the Summer Institute of Linguistics. He was a delegate under Lt. Governor Anderson's Trade Mission to Korea and the following year took Iowa States students to Korea on a work-study program. After retiring from Iowa State, he spent the next 5 years at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) where he first opened up the international student office and then served as Dean of Academics. Upon returning from Texas, they moved from their acreage SW of Ames to Nevada. He was a member and past elder of Bethel Church, rural Boone, and volunteered on the disaster team for Red Cross for a number of years.
He was married to Glenda Sears at Grinnell, October 5, 1963. He is survived by his wife and his 3 daughters--Melinda (Dave) Connon of Earlham, Iowa, Jenny (Rick) Brenner of Antioch, IL, and Betsy Eness of Ames, by 3 grandchildren - Maxwell Eness, Kathryn Brenner, and Bethany Connon. and his sister, Leeta House. He was preceded in death by his mother, Arza Bradshaw.