Gary Bean

GARY BEAN

Cedar Rapids

Gary Allen Bean, 74, of Cedar Rapids, died Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City from a brain aneurysm. Funeral services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Jude Catholic Church, by the Rev. Mark Reasoner. A private family burial service will take place at St. John Cemetery. A vigil service will be at 4 p.m. Monday at Teahen Funeral Home, where friends may visit with the family from 4 until 8 p.m. Friends also may visit with the family on Tuesday after 9:30 a.m. at the church.

Survivors include his wife, Judi; son, Jeff (Kathleen) Bean of Cedar Rapids; daughters, Lisa Reinert of Dubuque and Lori VanDooren-Long of Cedar Rapids; 11 grandchildren: Adam and Katie VanDooren, Abby Long, Nicholas Reinert, Aubrey Reinert, Thomas, Monica, Mary Clare, Caroline, Michael and Matthew Bean; sister, Karen Zach of Cedar Rapids; sister-in-law, Joyce (Ernie) Ludvicek of Cedar Rapids; brother-in-law, Jerry Tichy (Cheri Young) of Cedar Rapids; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Gary was preceded in death by his parents; father- and mother-in-law, Jerry and Monica Tichy; and brother-in-law, Gene Zach.

Gary Allen was born Aug. 3, 1940, in Cedar Rapids, the son of Ithiel Burke and Gertrude Eloise Humbert Bean. He was part of the first graduating class of Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids, where he lettered as a starting quarterback for the J-Hawk football team. He then attended Coe College, where he played football and baseball. Gary married Judith Kay Tichy on June 6, 1964, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids.

Gary owned and operated Bean Software Services for many years, retiring in 1995. He played many sports throughout his life and was active on several recreational and church-sponsored adult softball and basketball teams.

Gary will be remembered by all who knew him as a man of great integrity. He was a man of quiet strength and wisdom for his entire family. A true family man, he was beloved by all his children and grandchildren.

He was a successful entrepreneur who loved his country and the freedoms it offered him to build and grow his own business.

After retirement, he spent his next years traveling south with his spouse of 50 years, Judi, and kept busy attending his grandchildren's school activities and sporting events.

Gary lived a full life to the end and his absence will be deeply felt. A great man gone far too soon.

Instead of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Wounded Warrior Project, CHFA/UNBOUND or Maryknoll Society to continue Gary and Judi's sponsorship of impoverished children around the world, or the St. Jude Catholic Church Haiti Fund, which is working to provide clean water to the citizens of Haiti.

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