David Edward Ring, son of Janice Sweet, grandson of Violet and Linford Sweet, was born in Sparta, Tenn., on May 31, 1963, and died quickly and peacefully at his home in Iowa City, IA on Columbus Day, October 12, 2020.
He did the last couple of things he wanted to do, sat down in his favorite chair, chatted with his sister, daughter, and granddaughter for about twenty minutes, and then quietly died with neither preamble nor hesitation. He had been diagnosed with late-stage metastatic cancer a week earlier. According to his family he was always decisive, resolved, and quick. He never hesitated once in his life, and he tended to do a thing the very second after deciding what was to be done.
He was born during his mother's first marriage to James Tyrone "Ty" Speck, and was later adopted by her second husband Curt Ring.
His vivid energy made him a difficult teen. His step-father tried to raise him for a time after the divorce, as both he and his mother felt Ring needed a strong male role model, but he found the challenge was too great.
He lived happily on the farm near Stuart with his grandparents for a year or two, being a great help to them, and this ended when they became too ill to continue living on the farm. Some of his teen years were spent in group homes for troubled teenage boys.
His older daughter Sarah was born to his girlfriend Debbie when he was 17, and was raised by her mother and grandmother.
After the teenage couple split and he attained his GED, he returned to the farm for a few years with a new girlfriend Kathy, and a child was born and placed for adoption.
He later moved to Iowa City for the mental health resources. His good friend Mike Seaton moved in with him and stayed until his untimely death.
During this time, he met and married Victoria Huff, and his second daughter April, was born. The marriage was brief, and the two remained friends for life.
He was a man of great imagination. He loved inventing jokes and stories, and retelling good ones he had heard. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and dealt with it well. He was a relaxed and sociable man. His family said "that when reality blurred, the stories and conversations were directed to people the rest of us could neither see nor hear, and when reality was crisp, then they were directed to us."
Being a man of no hesitation, when he was younger he was hard to keep up with, and quite good in a fight. He sometimes found trouble interesting, but he preferred the non-adversarial kind. If pushed beyond a certain point, he would simply switch from walking away from the problem to demolishing the problem. Bare knuckled, he once left four bikers lying in a parking lot when they followed him out of a bar instead of letting him peacefully set his beer down and leave. A trooper picked him up as he was walking home, and on searching, found a knife in his boot that had stayed there throughout the fight. He was released, and somewhere there are four bikers who will sheepishly think twice about ever again walking into a bar and hassling some guy just for having long hair.
As a man of unusual resolve, made of quite stern stuff, he once sat down on a box in the railroad yard where he worked for many years, and had a coworker pull one of his molars with a large pair of pliers. Any man who sits still for that, certainly won't blink when his number is up.
He was preceded in death by his mother Janice Elaine Sweet, originally of Stuart; and grandparents Linford Leigh and L. Violet Sweet who were from Stuart.
David Edward Ring is survived by his sisters Emilie Read (Charles Read) and Della Deming; his daughters Sarah Lorenzen (Nick Lorenzen) and April Huff-Ring; and his grandchildren Hailey and Luke Lorenzen.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE
Cleveland Cemetery
Monday, September 06, 2021
10:00 AM
North of Stuart, Nebraska 68780
He did the last couple of things he wanted to do, sat down in his favorite chair, chatted with his sister, daughter, and granddaughter for about twenty minutes, and then quietly died with neither preamble nor hesitation. He had been diagnosed with late-stage metastatic cancer a week earlier. According to his family he was always decisive, resolved, and quick. He never hesitated once in his life, and he tended to do a thing the very second after deciding what was to be done.
He was born during his mother's first marriage to James Tyrone "Ty" Speck, and was later adopted by her second husband Curt Ring.
His vivid energy made him a difficult teen. His step-father tried to raise him for a time after the divorce, as both he and his mother felt Ring needed a strong male role model, but he found the challenge was too great.
He lived happily on the farm near Stuart with his grandparents for a year or two, being a great help to them, and this ended when they became too ill to continue living on the farm. Some of his teen years were spent in group homes for troubled teenage boys.
His older daughter Sarah was born to his girlfriend Debbie when he was 17, and was raised by her mother and grandmother.
After the teenage couple split and he attained his GED, he returned to the farm for a few years with a new girlfriend Kathy, and a child was born and placed for adoption.
He later moved to Iowa City for the mental health resources. His good friend Mike Seaton moved in with him and stayed until his untimely death.
During this time, he met and married Victoria Huff, and his second daughter April, was born. The marriage was brief, and the two remained friends for life.
He was a man of great imagination. He loved inventing jokes and stories, and retelling good ones he had heard. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and dealt with it well. He was a relaxed and sociable man. His family said "that when reality blurred, the stories and conversations were directed to people the rest of us could neither see nor hear, and when reality was crisp, then they were directed to us."
Being a man of no hesitation, when he was younger he was hard to keep up with, and quite good in a fight. He sometimes found trouble interesting, but he preferred the non-adversarial kind. If pushed beyond a certain point, he would simply switch from walking away from the problem to demolishing the problem. Bare knuckled, he once left four bikers lying in a parking lot when they followed him out of a bar instead of letting him peacefully set his beer down and leave. A trooper picked him up as he was walking home, and on searching, found a knife in his boot that had stayed there throughout the fight. He was released, and somewhere there are four bikers who will sheepishly think twice about ever again walking into a bar and hassling some guy just for having long hair.
As a man of unusual resolve, made of quite stern stuff, he once sat down on a box in the railroad yard where he worked for many years, and had a coworker pull one of his molars with a large pair of pliers. Any man who sits still for that, certainly won't blink when his number is up.
He was preceded in death by his mother Janice Elaine Sweet, originally of Stuart; and grandparents Linford Leigh and L. Violet Sweet who were from Stuart.
David Edward Ring is survived by his sisters Emilie Read (Charles Read) and Della Deming; his daughters Sarah Lorenzen (Nick Lorenzen) and April Huff-Ring; and his grandchildren Hailey and Luke Lorenzen.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE
Cleveland Cemetery
Monday, September 06, 2021
10:00 AM
North of Stuart, Nebraska 68780
David Edward Ring, son of Janice Sweet, grandson of Violet and Linford Sweet, was born in Sparta, Tenn., on May 31, 1963, and died quickly and peacefully at his home in Iowa City, IA on Columbus Day, October 12, 2020.
He did the last couple of things he wanted to do, sat down in his favorite chair, chatted with his sister, daughter, and granddaughter for about twenty minutes, and then quietly died with neither preamble nor hesitation. He had been diagnosed with late-stage metastatic cancer a week earlier. According to his family he was always decisive, resolved, and quick. He never hesitated once in his life, and he tended to do a thing the very second after deciding what was to be done.
He was born during his mother's first marriage to James Tyrone "Ty" Speck, and was later adopted by her second husband Curt Ring.
His vivid energy made him a difficult teen. His step-father tried to raise him for a time after the divorce, as both he and his mother felt Ring needed a strong male role model, but he found the challenge was too great.
He lived happily on the farm near Stuart with his grandparents for a year or two, being a great help to them, and this ended when they became too ill to continue living on the farm. Some of his teen years were spent in group homes for troubled teenage boys.
His older daughter Sarah was born to his girlfriend Debbie when he was 17, and was raised by her mother and grandmother.
After the teenage couple split and he attained his GED, he returned to the farm for a few years with a new girlfriend Kathy, and a child was born and placed for adoption.
He later moved to Iowa City for the mental health resources. His good friend Mike Seaton moved in with him and stayed until his untimely death.
During this time, he met and married Victoria Huff, and his second daughter April, was born. The marriage was brief, and the two remained friends for life.
He was a man of great imagination. He loved inventing jokes and stories, and retelling good ones he had heard. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and dealt with it well. He was a relaxed and sociable man. His family said "that when reality blurred, the stories and conversations were directed to people the rest of us could neither see nor hear, and when reality was crisp, then they were directed to us."
Being a man of no hesitation, when he was younger he was hard to keep up with, and quite good in a fight. He sometimes found trouble interesting, but he preferred the non-adversarial kind. If pushed beyond a certain point, he would simply switch from walking away from the problem to demolishing the problem. Bare knuckled, he once left four bikers lying in a parking lot when they followed him out of a bar instead of letting him peacefully set his beer down and leave. A trooper picked him up as he was walking home, and on searching, found a knife in his boot that had stayed there throughout the fight. He was released, and somewhere there are four bikers who will sheepishly think twice about ever again walking into a bar and hassling some guy just for having long hair.
As a man of unusual resolve, made of quite stern stuff, he once sat down on a box in the railroad yard where he worked for many years, and had a coworker pull one of his molars with a large pair of pliers. Any man who sits still for that, certainly won't blink when his number is up.
He was preceded in death by his mother Janice Elaine Sweet, originally of Stuart; and grandparents Linford Leigh and L. Violet Sweet who were from Stuart.
David Edward Ring is survived by his sisters Emilie Read (Charles Read) and Della Deming; his daughters Sarah Lorenzen (Nick Lorenzen) and April Huff-Ring; and his grandchildren Hailey and Luke Lorenzen.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE
Cleveland Cemetery
Monday, September 06, 2021
10:00 AM
North of Stuart, Nebraska 68780
He did the last couple of things he wanted to do, sat down in his favorite chair, chatted with his sister, daughter, and granddaughter for about twenty minutes, and then quietly died with neither preamble nor hesitation. He had been diagnosed with late-stage metastatic cancer a week earlier. According to his family he was always decisive, resolved, and quick. He never hesitated once in his life, and he tended to do a thing the very second after deciding what was to be done.
He was born during his mother's first marriage to James Tyrone "Ty" Speck, and was later adopted by her second husband Curt Ring.
His vivid energy made him a difficult teen. His step-father tried to raise him for a time after the divorce, as both he and his mother felt Ring needed a strong male role model, but he found the challenge was too great.
He lived happily on the farm near Stuart with his grandparents for a year or two, being a great help to them, and this ended when they became too ill to continue living on the farm. Some of his teen years were spent in group homes for troubled teenage boys.
His older daughter Sarah was born to his girlfriend Debbie when he was 17, and was raised by her mother and grandmother.
After the teenage couple split and he attained his GED, he returned to the farm for a few years with a new girlfriend Kathy, and a child was born and placed for adoption.
He later moved to Iowa City for the mental health resources. His good friend Mike Seaton moved in with him and stayed until his untimely death.
During this time, he met and married Victoria Huff, and his second daughter April, was born. The marriage was brief, and the two remained friends for life.
He was a man of great imagination. He loved inventing jokes and stories, and retelling good ones he had heard. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and dealt with it well. He was a relaxed and sociable man. His family said "that when reality blurred, the stories and conversations were directed to people the rest of us could neither see nor hear, and when reality was crisp, then they were directed to us."
Being a man of no hesitation, when he was younger he was hard to keep up with, and quite good in a fight. He sometimes found trouble interesting, but he preferred the non-adversarial kind. If pushed beyond a certain point, he would simply switch from walking away from the problem to demolishing the problem. Bare knuckled, he once left four bikers lying in a parking lot when they followed him out of a bar instead of letting him peacefully set his beer down and leave. A trooper picked him up as he was walking home, and on searching, found a knife in his boot that had stayed there throughout the fight. He was released, and somewhere there are four bikers who will sheepishly think twice about ever again walking into a bar and hassling some guy just for having long hair.
As a man of unusual resolve, made of quite stern stuff, he once sat down on a box in the railroad yard where he worked for many years, and had a coworker pull one of his molars with a large pair of pliers. Any man who sits still for that, certainly won't blink when his number is up.
He was preceded in death by his mother Janice Elaine Sweet, originally of Stuart; and grandparents Linford Leigh and L. Violet Sweet who were from Stuart.
David Edward Ring is survived by his sisters Emilie Read (Charles Read) and Della Deming; his daughters Sarah Lorenzen (Nick Lorenzen) and April Huff-Ring; and his grandchildren Hailey and Luke Lorenzen.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE
Cleveland Cemetery
Monday, September 06, 2021
10:00 AM
North of Stuart, Nebraska 68780
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