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Eugene (Gene) Leslie Suddendorf, 96, of Postville, Iowa passed away Saturday, February 5, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Center in Postville, Iowa.\u00a0 Eugene was born September 23, 1925 to Arthur Frederick and Martha Elizabeth (Montour) Suddendorf on a farm in Monona Township in Clayton County, Iowa.<\/p>\n
Eugene was a member of St Paul Lutheran Church in Postville.\u00a0 He was baptized on May 9, 1926, at Pilgrim Evangelical Church in Monona.\u00a0 He was confirmed March 24, 1940, at St Paul Lutheran Church in Monona.\u00a0 He attended Evergreen Grove County School in Monona.<\/p>\n
He worked on farms in Monona Township until 1947.\u00a0 He then moved to Postville where he worked as a Lineman for the Allamakee-Clayton Rural Electric Co-Op (REC).\u00a0 He retired from the REC in 1987.\u00a0 For a number of years Gene and Maxine, along with Maxine\u2019s parents, Otto and Florence Appel, owned and operated The Palm Cafe in Postville.<\/p>\n
On April 6, 1948, he married Maxine Appel at St Paul Lutheran Church in Postville.\u00a0 Three sons were born to this union.<\/p>\n
Gene enjoyed fishing, playing cards, and watching baseball on TV.\u00a0 He loved his grand and great-grandchildren and enjoyed \u201coccasionally\u201d teasing them in a playful manner.\u00a0 Even more so, he relished the tricks they played on him in return.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his children Ronald (Sandra) Suddendorf of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gary (Kathe) Suddendorf of Saline, Michigan and Kevin (Wendy) Suddendorf of Houston, Texas; grandchildren, Jessica (Michael) Jansen, Erich (Stephannie) Suddendorf, Kylie Suddendorf and Kole (Karrigan) Suddendorf and great-grandchildren, Madalyn Jansen, Dylan Jansen, Juliette Suddendorf and Xavier Suddendorf.<\/p>\n
He is preceded in death by his wife, Maxine (Appel) Suddendorf; his parents, Arthur and Martha (Montour) Suddendorf; sister and brother-in-law, Irene and Jack Messler, brother and sister-in-law, Kenneth and Mardella Suddendorf and brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Rita Suddendorf.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be at 11:00 am on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa with a visitation from 9:30 am until time of services at the church on Thursday. Rev. Lynn Noel will be the Officiant.<\/p>\n
Interment will be at Postville Cemetery, Postville, Iowa.<\/p>\n
Schutte- Grau Funeral and Cremation Service, Postville, is helping the family with the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene (Gene) Leslie Suddendorf, 96, of Postville, Iowa passed away Saturday, February 5, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Center in Postville, Iowa.\u00a0 Eugene was born September 23, 1925 to Arthur Frederick and Martha Elizabeth (Montour) Suddendorf on a farm in Monona Township in Clayton County, Iowa. Eugene was a member of St Paul Lutheran Church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[529],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-suddendorf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12572,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions\/12572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}