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Wesley Rudolph “Wes” Rowe

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Wesley Rudolph “Wes” Rowe

Birth
Grandview Township, Louisa County, Iowa, USA
Death
12 Aug 2018 (aged 91)
Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Grandview, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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WESLEY "WES" R. ROWE
Muscatine, Iowa - Wesley "Wes" Rudolph Rowe, 91, of Muscatine, passed away on Sunday, August 12, 2018, at Lutheran Living.

Funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home, 1931 Houser Street, Muscatine. Military Rites will be performed by the combined squads of the American Legion Post 27 and the V.F.W. Post 1565. A reception will follow funeral service at Grace Lutheran Church, 2107 Cedar Street. Private burial will take place in Grandview Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Wounded Warrior Project.

Wesley was born on February 8, 1927, in Letts, the son of Albert and Lydia Hingst Rowe. He married Mary Margaret Kuder on September 3, 1950, in Grandview. She preceded him on June 7, 1992.

He served for 30 years in the US Army and the Army Reserve. Wes was a member of the American Legion and the Moose Lodge.

Wesley retired from Eastern Iowa Light and Power Company after 23½ years.

Those left to honor his memory include one son, Craig Rowe and his wife, Lisa, of Olathe, Kansas; four grandchildren, Chris and Tyler O'Brien and Lauren and Mackenzie Rowe; and one brother, Lawrence 'Babe' Rowe of Grandview.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; one daughter, Mardell O'Brien and her husband, Mike; two brothers, Ted and Calvin Rowe; and four sisters, Florence Whitten, Mable Rowe, Gertrude Howe, and Jean Burgus.
WESLEY "WES" R. ROWE
Muscatine, Iowa - Wesley "Wes" Rudolph Rowe, 91, of Muscatine, passed away on Sunday, August 12, 2018, at Lutheran Living.

Funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home, 1931 Houser Street, Muscatine. Military Rites will be performed by the combined squads of the American Legion Post 27 and the V.F.W. Post 1565. A reception will follow funeral service at Grace Lutheran Church, 2107 Cedar Street. Private burial will take place in Grandview Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Wounded Warrior Project.

Wesley was born on February 8, 1927, in Letts, the son of Albert and Lydia Hingst Rowe. He married Mary Margaret Kuder on September 3, 1950, in Grandview. She preceded him on June 7, 1992.

He served for 30 years in the US Army and the Army Reserve. Wes was a member of the American Legion and the Moose Lodge.

Wesley retired from Eastern Iowa Light and Power Company after 23½ years.

Those left to honor his memory include one son, Craig Rowe and his wife, Lisa, of Olathe, Kansas; four grandchildren, Chris and Tyler O'Brien and Lauren and Mackenzie Rowe; and one brother, Lawrence 'Babe' Rowe of Grandview.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; one daughter, Mardell O'Brien and her husband, Mike; two brothers, Ted and Calvin Rowe; and four sisters, Florence Whitten, Mable Rowe, Gertrude Howe, and Jean Burgus.


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