David Good

DAVID GOOD

Cedar Rapids

David S. Good was born Nov. 11, 1946, in Lincoln, Neb. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on May 17, 2015, in Hallmar Care Center at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids.

A public Celebration of Life will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 19, in the Lundy Pavilion, Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, with remarks at 3 p.m. Both the 10th Street and the Eighth Avenue ramps will be available for parking. Bow ties and Team Good shirts are welcome to be worn.

Dave's family moved from Lincoln, Neb., to Pittsburgh, Pa., when Dave was 12.

He graduated from Bethel Park High School in 1965. In 1969, he graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University as a history and political science major. While there he served two terms as president of Phi Kappa Tau. He earned his juris doctor degree from the University of Iowa in 1972.

Following law school, Dave joined the law firm that became Nazette, Marner, Good, Wendt and Knoll. He continued with that firm, primarily practicing family law, until 1999 when Gov. Tom Vilsack appointed him to the Sixth Judicial District Court bench.

He was a lifelong member of the American Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association and Linn County Bar. He served as secretary for the Linn County Bar and on the Family Law committees for both the state and the Linn County bar, as well as serving on the Alternative Dispute Resolution, General Practice and Business committees for the state bar. Dave became a Sixth Judicial District trained roster mediator in 1996. In 1997, he became an Iowa State Bar Association Fellow. After Dave became a judge, he became a member of the Dean Mason Ladd American Inn of Court. He taught family law in the paralegal program at Kirkwood Community College for several years.

Dave married Betty (B.J.) Smith in 1969 and they later divorced. Emily, Dave's daughter, was born in 1978. Dave married Kathy Collison on Feb. 14, 1988.

Dave was athletic and loved the outdoors. He built his own canoe at age 12 and paddled it on the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska as well as through the Boundary Waters. He was an Eagle Scout. He loved camping and hiking. He ran marathons in Chicago (1986) and Stockholm (1987). He taught himself to juggle and run at the same time. After he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he ran two half marathons at Baylor University with his niece, Jennifer.

A bicycling enthusiast, Dave rode RAGBRAI many times on his single bike and five times with Kathy on their tandem bicycle. He rode two sections of the Great Divide Trail in Montana on his mountain bike with friends. He also did bicycle tours in Wisconsin, Michigan, along the Natchez Trace and on the Lewis & Clark Trail, among others. He downhill-skied in Colorado, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Dave gave the Iowa Tandem Club its name – PIGS – Paired Iowans Going Somewhere.

During high school, Dave spent a summer in Graz, Austria, as an American Field Service (AFS) student. This ignited his love of travel. He led a bicycle tour in Denmark and walked across England as well as visited many other foreign countries during his life.

Dave gave freely to many civic organizations. He was a founding member of the Child Protection Center and the Sixth Judicial District Kids First Committee, a charter member of the Daybreak Optimist Club, and an incorporator and 1992 president of the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival. He was a member of the Linn County board of Social Welfare and the East Central Iowa United Way. He was a blood donor (eight gallons). He was a Big Brother in the Big Brother Big Sister program.

After his diagnosis, he was the first person living with Alzheimer's disease to serve on the East Central Iowa Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, and became a board member emeritus. Team Good, named in honor of Dave, raised thousands of dollars to end Alzheimer's disease. Dave's civic contributions will live on through the Family Caregivers Center that Kathy is helping to create at Mercy Medical Center.

Dave lived at Hallmar Care Center for almost four years and was cared for by staff that embodied the Mercy Touch.

Dave was a warm, kind enthusiastic and fun person. One way he demonstrated this was through his bow ties and funky socks.

He is survived by his daughter, Emily, and her husband, Scott Bentrup, of Minneapolis; and his wife, Kathy, of Cedar Rapids. Also surviving him are his sister, Jan Rowley, of Prince George, Va.; his stepbrother, Todd Broadie, and his wife, Cindy Moran, of Milwaukee; his sister-in-law, Judy Good, of Bellevue, Neb.; as well as his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Skip and Lurea Ferry of Bettendorf, Iowa. He had a good relationship with his many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grand-nephews who survive him.

Preceding Dave in death were his parents, W. Stanley and Cleora (Hanscom) Good; his brother, Stephen Good; and Glenys (Broadie) Good, his stepmother.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the Family Caregivers Center of Mercy Medical Center or the Linn County Trails Association.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.teahenfuneral home.com.