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Conrad Gregg
CONRAD ROBERT GREGG
West Liberty
Conrad Robert Gregg passed away Friday, June 1, 2018 at Simpson Memorial Home of cancer.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, 2018, at the Community Center, 1204 North Calhoun St., West Liberty. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Community Center. Burial will be in the Oak Ridge Cemetery, West Liberty. Henderson-Barker Funeral Home in West Liberty is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.hendersonbarker
funeralhome.com. Memorials may be made to West Liberty Heritage Foundation.
He was born May 26, 1935. He was the son of Robert and Leola (Spinden) Gregg and a descendant of many of the first settlers to arrive in Iowa in the 1830s. He graduated from West Liberty High School in 1954. He married his high school sweetheart, Mildred (Milly) Heckart, on April 4, 1958. He was a radar technician for the Federal Aviation Administration and retired in 1982. He later worked for Kessler Electric and did maintenance on apartments, finally retiring in 2015.
Survivors include a brother, David Gregg of Nichols; sister, Caroline Nichols of Aiken, S.C.; daughter, Jeanie (Jim) Thurston; son, Jerry Gregg of Minnesota; grandchildren, Shawna (Josh) Earel, Stacey (Ben) Wojdak, Keith Chapman and Kara Spurrell of Coralville; and a great-grandchild. His wife preceded him in death in 1997.
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