Roger Dreismeier

ROGER DREISMEIER

Springville

Roger Dreismeier, 74, of Springville, formerly of Crofton, died Monday, March 21, 2016, at the Joan and Ed Hemphill Hospice unit at St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, at St. Isadore Catholic Church in Springville. Interment: Mayflower Cemetery, Oxford Junction. Friends may call from 4 until 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where a parish vigil service will be at 7.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettshonline.com.

Surviving are his wife, Rosemary; three children, Michelle (Gary) Klinzman, Ainsworth, Rodney (Andrea Grant) Dreismeier, Hiawatha, and Tammy (James) Dirks, Cedar Rapids; five grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Colton and Carli Grace Dirks, Tavia and Ryan Dreismeier; a great-grandson, Kamarrion Rylington; Roger's siblings, Delila Hayworth and Joan Roth, Omaha, Neb., Darlene Dreismeier, Sergeant Bluff, Jerald Dreismeier, Central City, and Sharon King, Garden Grove, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Jerome; and a grandson, Christian Dirks.

Roger Joseph Dreismeier was born July 30, 1941, in Crofton, Neb., the son of Joseph and Katherine (Meirose) Dreismeier. Roger graduated from Crofton Schools and then served in the U.S. Army. Roger married Rosemary Yarolem on Oct. 24, 1964, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Oxford Junction. The couple lived in the Martelle, Anamosa and Springville area. He worked at Link-Belt Speeder and then became a journeyman electrician for I.B.E.W. in Cedar Rapids.

Roger coached Pee Wee, Little League and Babe Ruth baseball and was a 4-H leader for the East Martelle Boys. He loved to go deer hunting and was the camp cook for the rest of the hunting party.