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Bradshaw, Larry
Larry Bradshaw, 72, of Nevada, Iowa, died at his home on Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013. A gathering of friends and family will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday Jan. 18, at Bethel Church, rural Boone, with a 10 a.m. funeral service Saturday, Jan. 19, at the church and a 3 p.m. graveside service at Chester Center Cemetery, Grinnell.
Larry LeRoy Bradshaw was born Nov. 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, Minn., and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. He taught in Cedar Rapids Schools for 14 years before beginning his teaching career for 25 years at Iowa State University in Ames, where he received his Ph.D. in industrial education and technology.
He received the G. Harold Silvus graduate student award and later the Epsilon Pi Tau Laureate Award. He was a member of the Epsilon Pi Tau and Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. He spent a summer with the USAID Teach Corps in Kathmandu, Nepal and 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 State students to Korea on a work-study program.
After retiring from Iowa State, he spent the next five years at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas, 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 southwest 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 in Grinnell on Oct. 5, 1963.
He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Melinda (Dave) Connon of Earlham, Iowa, Jenny (Rick) Brenner of Antioch, Ill., and Betsy Eness of Ames; three grandchildren, Maxwell Eness, Kathryn Brenner and Bethany Connon; and his sister, Leeta House.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Arza Bradshaw.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to GIAL c/o Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, 414 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010.
Online condolences may be directed to www.grandonfuneralandcremationcare.com
Published Jan. 17, 2013 in The Gazette
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