Brickley, Eric Lloyd

Eric Lloyd Brickley, 66, died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, at Silvercrest of Anamosa.Services will be held at 10:30a.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the United Methodist Church in Anamosa. The Rev. Laurie Riley will officiate at the service. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Goettsch Funeral Home in Anamosa. Interment will be at the Riverside Cemetery in Anamosa.

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

Surviving are his mother, Doris of Anamosa; twochildren, Jill (Brad) Heims of Monticello, and Jeff (Beth) Brickley of Livingston, Ky.; and six grandchildren, Baylie, Jake, Jarod and Brandie Heims and Sam and Caroline Brickley.

He was preceded in death by his father, Lloyd.

Eric Lloyd Brickley was born Feb. 8, 1945, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was the son of Lloyd and Doris Larson Brickley. He was a 1963 graduate of Anamosa High School and a graduate from American Institute of Business. Eric worked in retail for Montgomery Ward and Sears, and then began working on the family farm with his father for several years. Later he became an electrical technician for Musco Lighting and then for Sign Productions. He was a lifetime member of the United Methodist Church in Anamosa, a member of Ducks Unlimited and club member of National Geographic. He loved playing his drums for his band (The Versitile's), hunting, reading and he loved his dogs. Eric was a loving son, father and grandfather and will be missed dearly by those closest to him.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Above and Beyond hospice of Monticello or the United Methodist Church in Anamosa.

Published in The Gazette Sept. 13, 2011.