Bickel, Joan Hady

Joan Hady Bickel, 90, a resident of The Meth-Wick Community, died Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Her body has been donated to The University of Iowa College of Medicine. Family services will be held at a later date at Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City. Arrangements by Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids.

Joan was born in 1920 in Montgomery, W.Va., the daughter of John Lowry Hady and Frances Klace (Hady, McGeoch). She lived in Sheperds Town, Va., Doylestown and Philadelphia, Pa., Columbia, Mo., and Clermont, Fla. She graduated from Clermont-Minneola High School in 1938 and attended Florida State College, Tallahassee. In 1942, she graduated from The University of Iowa and in 1943, completed the dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In Boston that year she was married to Robert Moon Bickel.

Following World War II they established their home in Iowa City, had four children there and were longtime members of Trinity Episcopal Church. She was a research dietitian in the UI College of Medicine for nearly 30 years, retiring in 1983. In 1996, they moved to The Meth-Wick Community in Cedar Rapids and became members of Christ Episcopal Church there.

Surviving are three daughters, Frances (Charles) Disselhorst of Naples, Fla., Wendy (Jerry) Goldsmith of Clarence, Iowa, and Deborah (Marcus) Baukol of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; son, Robert Hampton (Yvonne) Bickel of Marengo; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Moon Bickel; and her brother, John Francis Lowry Hady.

Memorials may be directed to Trinity Episcopal Church, 320 E. College St., Iowa City, IA 52240-1628; Christ Episcopal Church, 220 40th St. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402; St. Luke's Hospice, 290 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402; or The Meth-Wick Community, 1224 13th St. NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.

Please sign the online guest book for Joan at  under obituaries.