Billy 'Bill' Lee Beeding

Billy Lee 'Bill' Beeding WAPELLO, Iowa - Billy Lee Bill Beeding, 73, Wapello, formerly of Oakville, died Sunday, April 26, 2009, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at Iowa City. Funeral Service will be 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, 2009, at the Solid Rock Baptist Church, Wapello. Reverend Sue-Ellen Sherman and Rev. Dan Doolin will officiate. Burial will follow at the Wapello Cemetery. The family and friends will gather for a lunch and fellowship at the Solid Rock Baptist Church following the burial. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello, family will meet friends, 6-8 p.m. A memorial fund has been established for the benefit of the Louisa County Habitat for Humanity, the Wapello Community Ambulance Service, the Oakville United Methodist Church, the Solid Rock Baptist Church and the Great River Hospice. 'Bill' was born on May 11, 1935, in Port Louisa, the son of Clarence Melvin and Helen Luella Wheeler Beeding. He married Barbara Barb Hainey on November 3, 1956, in Iowa City. He attended country school at Port Louisa. He worked in maintenance for 27 years at Grain Processing...[more]

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Corporation in Muscatine, retiring in 1990. He also did roofing work and a lot of tree trimming. He did cement work for Raymond Marquardt in Oakville and notably helped pour the main Russell Street in Oakville. He enjoyed reading western books and being outdoors hunting, trapping, fishing, and arrowhead hunting. He also enjoyed camping and woodworking. He had helped with Boy Scouts and the Louisa County Habitat for Humanity. He attended the United Methodist Church at Oakville and the Solid Rock Baptist Church at Wapello. He is survived by his wife, Barb Beeding; three children, Marvin Beeding and wife, Cindy, of Oakville, Tereasa Wykert and husband, Jack, of Wapello, and James Beeding and wife, Mary, of Shawnee, Kansas; 10 grandchildren, Kristen Marshall, Daniel Beeding, Jessica, Samantha, and Jeramy Wykert and Christopher, Alex, James, Amanda, and Seth Beeding; five great-grandchildren, Nicolas and Lucas Lieb, Raven and Jaclynn Wykert, and Jaxon Marshall; five sisters, Stella Foster and Beverley Spitznogle, both of Wapello, Evelyn June Clayton of Letts, Bonnie Oberly and Anna Moore, both of Wapello; two brothers, Clyde Pete Beeding of Muscatine and Jerry Beeding of Wapello; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; infant daughter, Kay Lee; three sisters, Vivian Foster, Alice Hamilton and Helen Florene Wixom; and four brothers, Omer, Ronald, Harold Herb, and Terry.