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Brooke \u201cBuck\u201d Mathew Alber, 49, of Hawkeye, Iowa died Sunday, August 14, 2022 at his home. Buck was born on November 7, 1972 to Gerald (Gary) Dean and Marvel Joy (Frederick) Alber in West Union, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Eldorado. \u00a0He graduated from North Fayette High School in 1991.<\/p>\n
Buck was married to Dawn Blue and two daughters were born to this union. They later divorced. He had a relationship with Lillian Coonfare and one son was born to this union.<\/p>\n
Buck had several jobs over the years, but his favorite job of all was over-the-road trucking. Buck liked all sports especially the Minnesota Vikings, Tony Stewart Racing, and Iowa State Cyclones.\u00a0 He would even cheer for the Iowa Hawkeyes if they weren\u2019t playing the Cyclones.\u00a0 He enjoyed local stock car races and demo derbies.\u00a0 He loved country music and enjoyed listening to Garth Brooks and enjoyed singing at Karaoke events.<\/p>\n
Buck loved his family.\u00a0 He ALWAYS talked so highly of his children and siblings.\u00a0\u00a0 He was proud of everyone\u2019s achievements and would share those stories as if they were his own.\u00a0 Buck was diagnosed with Myotonic Dystrophy in 2010 which limited his activities.\u00a0 Even with the diagnoses, he kept a positive attitude and strived to remain independent. \u00a0Buck was very conservative with his spending.\u00a0 He hired a pro bono barber.\u00a0 The barber\u2019s name was Tyler Alber.\u00a0 Odds are Tyler never got paid.<\/p>\n
Surviving Buck are his three children, Randi Jurgensen of Cresco, Iowa, Rikki (Timmy) Schwab of St. Lucas, Iowa and Tyler Alber of Volga, Iowa; one granddaughter, Alexa Grace Jurgensen; and seven siblings, Randy (Linda) Alber of Boone, Iowa, Steve (Chrisanne) Alber of Protivin, Iowa, Jeff (LuAnn) Alber of Ossian, Iowa, Joy (Ric) Miller of West Union, Iowa, Tad Alber of West Union, Iowa, Kristi (Marty) Rupprecht of West Union, Iowa and Chad Alber of Sumner, Iowa, and several nieces and nephew. Buck was preceded in death by his parents, Gerald and Marvel Alber.<\/p>\n
Graveside Service will be held at 11:00 am on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at St. Peter Lutheran Cemetery in Eldorado, Iowa with Presiding Minister Isaiah Stansbery as the officiant.<\/p>\n
All are welcome to attend the Celebration of Life Luncheon following the burial at the West Union Event Center in West Union, Iowa.<\/p>\n
Burnham-Wood-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of West Union, Iowa is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brooke \u201cBuck\u201d Mathew Alber, 49, of Hawkeye, Iowa died Sunday, August 14, 2022 at his home. Buck was born on November 7, 1972 to Gerald (Gary) Dean and Marvel Joy (Frederick) Alber in West Union, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Eldorado. \u00a0He graduated from North Fayette High School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1026],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-alber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","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=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13456,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions\/13456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}