Enrique ''Ricky'' Ferreira

Enrique Ferreira MUSCATINE, Iowa - Enrique "Ricky" Ferreira, 76, of Muscatine, died at his home following an extended illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The Rev. Bernie Weir will officiate. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dustin Ferreira, Ian Ferreira, Nick Ferreira, Ben Ferreira, Erin Ferreira, and Dena Ferreira. Honorary pallbearers will be John Streger, Tricia Lutfak, Simone McCune, Ashley Ferreira, Daniel Ferreira, Michael Ferreira, Stephen Ferreira, and Sabrina Smith. Organist will be Larry Schaapveld and cantor will be Paul Kraushaar. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Friday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Enrique Ferreira Memorial Scholarship Fund for high school seniors pursuing language or engineering. Mr. Ferreira was born Feb. 22, 1924, in Bogota, Colombia, the son of Eduardo and Maria Josepha Sampedro Ferreira. He married Alicia Sampedro Barriga on Jan. 11, 1947, in Bogota, Columbia. Ferreira through association with Roy J. Carver of Muscatine worked on Carver's interest in pumps for irrigation systems in Colombia South America in the ear...[more]

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1950's. He later accepted an opportunity to join Carver Pump in 1954 while in Colombia and in 1956 moved with his family to Muscatine to be part of Carver Pump and Bandag operations. He worked for Bandag in various positions and was involved in many of the innovative patented recapping equipment Bandag developed. Mr. Ferreira traveled extensively in servicing Bandag franchise dealers equipment world wide and in training Bandag's service engineers until his retirement in 1985 after 35 years of employment. Survivors include his wife, Alicia Ferreira of Muscatine; a daughter, Maria Bowell and her husband, Duncan, of Houston, Texas; four sons, Oscar Ferreira of Murrieta, Calif., Herman Ferreira and his wife, Luann, Diego Ferreira and his wife, Debbie, and Robert Ferreira and his wife, Lisa, all of Muscatine; 11 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; five sisters, Elvira Carrillo, Cecilia Convers, Inez Ferreira, Lucilla Ferreira, and Alicia, Ferreira, all of Bogota, Colombia; a brother, Luis Ferreira of Muscatine; and several nieces and nephews in Columbia and the United States . He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Elena