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Eldean William Drewes was born on January 30, 1927 in Forest City, Iowa.\u00a0 His parents were William and Alma Drewes.\u00a0 Eldean passed away on May 22, 2017, at the age of 90, at Keystone Cedars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<\/p>\nEldean William Drewes was born on January 30, 1927 in Forest City, Iowa.\u00a0 His parents were William and Alma Drewes.\u00a0 Eldean passed away on May 22, 2017, at the age of 90, at Keystone Cedars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<\/p>\n
After graduating from high school in 1945, Eldean spent two years in the Army Signal Corps at the close of World War II.\u00a0 He then returned and began his college career.\u00a0 He received a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa.\u00a0 After twelve years as band director, he returned to earn his Master\u2019s Degree in Administration from the University of Northern Iowa.\u00a0 In all, he served 34 years in the public schools in Postville, Iowa, as band director and High School Principal.<\/p>\n
In 1953, Eldean married Audrey Pepper and they parented two daughters, Linda (Pat) Hall of Andrews, Indiana, and Carol (Paul) Collingsworth of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.\u00a0 They have six living grandchildren: Phillip (Rachel), Bryan (Erica) and Drew Hall, and Timothy, Sarah and Rachel Collingsworth; and two great granddaughters, Alexis and Ava Hall.<\/p>\n
Preceding Eldean in death were his parents, a sister, Dorrine Prudhom, and a granddaughter, Kelsey Marie Collingsworth.<\/p>\n
Eldean loved to fish and some of his best memories were those with all of the family on their yearly vacation to the lake and of the times spent together at special occasions in their lives.\u00a0 Eldean will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, teacher and friend.\u00a0 He dedicated his life to education and to his family, and always had words of wisdom for those he loved.\u00a0 He will be dearly missed.<\/p>\n
Eldean was active in many organizations over the years, the American Legion; Kiwanis; Iowa Bandmasters Association; Iowa Association of Secondary School Principals; National Association of Secondary School Principals; Iowa State Music Association; Iowa NCA Committee; Postville Drum and Bugle Corps; and the Postville Lions Lawn Chair Brigade.<\/p>\n
A Celebration of Life Gathering and Service <\/strong>will be held at Schutte-Grau Funeral Home in Postville from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Monday, June 19, 2017 with a brief service at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Inurnment <\/strong>will be held in the Postville Cemetery following the service.<\/p>\n The family would like to thank Keystone Cedars and UnityPoint Hospice for their loving care of Eldean.<\/p>\n The family requests donations may be made to:\u00a0 Camp Courageous, PO Box 418, 12007 190th<\/sup> Street, Monticello, Iowa 52310-0418.<\/p>\n Online condolences may be left for the family at www.graufuneralhomes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eldean William Drewes was born on January 30, 1927 in Forest City, Iowa.\u00a0 His parents were William and Alma Drewes.\u00a0 Eldean passed away on May 22, 2017, at the age of 90, at Keystone Cedars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After graduating from high school in 1945, Eldean spent two years in the Army Signal Corps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-drewes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}