Robert Rickels

ROBERT RICKELS

Anamosa

Robert Rickels, 84, of Anamosa, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be 11 Saturday morning, Feb. 28, at St. John Lutheran Church, Monticello, with military honors. Friends may call after 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The Rev. Reed Stockman will officiate at the services. Goettsch Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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

Surviving are his son, Mike (Suzi) of Fort Dodge; his granddaughter, Katie; and three sisters, Arlene Appleby and Jo Bader, both of Monticello, and Kay (Lynn) Kuhns of Center Junction.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Deloris.

Robert Floyd Rickels was born June 23, 1930, at the John McDonald Hospital, Monticello, the son of Willis and Thoela Darrow Rickels. Robert graduated from Monticello Community Schools with the class of 1948. He was a bookkeeper at the Amber Creamery and worked at Energy Manufacturing before enlisting in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Robert Rickels married Deloris Catlett on Jan. 3, 1953, at First Presbyterian Church, Monticello. The couple lived in Monticello for five years and then for a year in Des Moines before making their home in the Cedar Rapids area.

Robert was employed by Northwestern Bell for 31 years. After his retirement the couple moved to Anamosa in 1993.

Robert enjoyed hunting, fishing and looking for morels. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, rural Monticello, the Marion American Legion and the Anamosa VFW.