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Bradley Francis Bergan, 54, of rural Volga, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Brad was born April 11, 1964, in Elkader to Thomas Joseph \u201cJoe\u201d and Phyllis Marilyn (Walz) Bergan.<\/p>\nBradley Francis Bergan, 54, of rural Volga, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Brad was born April 11, 1964, in Elkader to Thomas Joseph \u201cJoe\u201d and Phyllis Marilyn (Walz) Bergan.<\/p>\n
Brad graduated from Central Community High School with the Class of 1982. He attended Iowa State University, graduating in May of 1984, where he earned a certificate in farm operation. Brad was united in marriage with Mary Jo Fleming on April 13, 1985 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Volga. He has been a farmer his whole life \u2013 beginning with his Dad, he had milked dairy cows for 30 years and he still continued to farm the family farm.\u00a0\u00a0 He worked at Fenton Repair and in September of 2017, started working for Moyna Construction.\u00a0 Brad served as a Sperry Township Trustee, was a member of St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Strawberry Point, Clayton County Farm Bureau and Harley Davidson Motorcycle Club. He enjoyed riding motorcycles, hunting, metalwork (yard art especially) and being outside.\u00a0 He loved his grandchildren and family and thoroughly enjoyed farming.\u00a0 He had a very creative mind, often going down to his shop and coming back out with a \u201cone of a kind\u201d creation.\u00a0 He always had a project or two brewing in the back of his mind.\u00a0 He also restored a few old tractors that he enjoyed taking on rides around the area.\u00a0 Brad was a kind, loving, hardworking husband, dad, and grandpa.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his wife Mary Jo of rural Volga; three children, Matthew (Mary) Bergan of Arlington, Justin (Shawna Staack) of Strawberry Point and Megan (Justin Stone) of Independence; three grandchildren, Josie, Abbigail and Joseph Bergan; his father, Joe Bergan of Elkader; mother-in-law, Donna Fleming of Volga; siblings, Cindy (Paul) Francis of Carroll, IA., Jerry (Susan) Bergan of Elkader, Craig (Angela) Bergan of Elkader, Julie (Matt) Dahling of Elkader and Mary Bergan of Central City; brothers-in-law, Paul (Lois) Fleming of Elkader and John Hird of Volga; sister-in-law, Jody (Paul) Stempfle of Maynard, IA.; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Brad was preceded in death by his mother, Marilyn Bergan; father-in-law, Lester Fleming and sister-in-law, Annette Hird.<\/p>\n
Visitation will be held from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm with a 7:00 pm Wake Service on Friday, July 13, 2018 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Elkader, Iowa.<\/p>\n
There will be a private family burial held at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Volga, Iowa at a later date.<\/p>\n
Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elkader, Iowa is helping the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bradley Francis Bergan, 54, of rural Volga, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Brad was born April 11, 1964, in Elkader to Thomas Joseph \u201cJoe\u201d and Phyllis Marilyn (Walz) Bergan. Brad graduated from Central Community High School with the Class of 1982. He attended Iowa State University, graduating in May of 1984, where he earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-bergan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","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=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}