{"id":9948,"date":"2020-09-05T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=9948"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:28:44","slug":"richard-thomas-connell-mcgregor-iowa-september-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2020\/09\/richard-thomas-connell-mcgregor-iowa-september-6-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Thomas Connell, September 5, 2020,  McGregor, Iowa,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-small_image wp-image-10094 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Connell-Rick-news-pic-250x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Connell-Rick-news-pic-250x336.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Connell-Rick-news-pic-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Connell-Rick-news-pic-68x91.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Connell-Rick-news-pic.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Richard Connell, 73, of McGregor, Iowa died Sunday, September 6, 2020 at his home. Richard T. Connell was born March 11, 1947 to Gerald (Dutch) Connell and Avis Breitsprecher Connell of Marquette.\u00a0 He was a graduate of MarMac High School and the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Journalism.\u00a0 Upon graduation he enlisted in the Army and served with the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning) in Vietnam.\u00a0 Upon his return he went to work as a reporter for KOEL, Oelwein; as a news director at KRNA, Iowa City.\u00a0 From there he became an anchor\/reporter at KIMT-TV Mason City, KCCO-TV Alexandria, MN and KDLT-TV Souix Falls, SD.\u00a0 In the early \u201890\u2019s he returned to McGregor to take care of family affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Richard is survived by one sister, Nancy Haskin (Dale) of Banks, OR; a niece, Jane Manderino (Brian) of Sammamish, WA and a nephew, Charles Haskin (Carrie) of Maple Park, IL.<\/p>\n<p>He is preceded in death by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a Graveside Service with Military Rites held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in McGregor, Iowa<\/p>\n<p>Thornburg-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of McGregor, Iowa is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Connell, 73, of McGregor, Iowa died Sunday, September 6, 2020 at his home. Richard T. Connell was born March 11, 1947 to Gerald (Dutch) Connell and Avis Breitsprecher Connell of Marquette.\u00a0 He was a graduate of MarMac High School and the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Journalism.\u00a0 Upon graduation he enlisted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[816],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-connell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","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=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}