Robert 'Bob' Harry Daut

Bob Daut GREENFIELD, Iowa -- Robert 'Bob' Harry Daut, 74, of Greenfield, passed away on Saturday, September 8, 2012, at Adair County Memorial Hospital in Greenfield. Funeral Service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at the Greenfield United Methodist Church. Burial will take place in Greenfield Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, at the Greenfield United Methodist Church. Memorials can be made to the Coach Bob Daut Memorial Fund to be established by the family at a later date. The Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield is in charge of the professional arrangements. Bob was born on August 2, 1938, in Muscatine, the son of Elmer Matthew Daut and Leona V. Schneekloth Daut. He was baptized and confirmed in the Presbyterian Church at Wilton. At the time of his death, he attended the Greenfield United Methodist Church where he was a man of deep faith. He attended Wilton Community Schools, Wilton Junction, Iowa, graduating in 1956. Bob attended Drake University on a football scholarship from 1956-1960, was a proud member of the 1958 Sun Bowl Team, co-captain as a senior and played baseball his senior year...[more]

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ceiving the Holmes-Cowper Trophy for highest GPA for a senior athlete. He majored in health and physical education and minored in social studies. Bob married Linda Bland in 1960. To this union three children were born: Alan Matthew, Karen Michele, and Janice Lyn. Bob taught and coached at Manchester, West Delaware (196l-62); Mitchellville, SE Polk, (1962-64); Hawarden, West Sioux (1964-66); Columbus Junction, Columbus Community (1966-72); and Greenfield Community Schools, later Nodaway Valley (1972-99). Bob was a member of the Iowa Football Coaches Association and IFCA Hall of Fame. He achieved his 200th victory in 2006 as interim head coach at Nodaway Valley. He coached four playoffs teams, was named Southwest Iowa Coach of the Year (1977 & 1992), had 11 Tall Corn Conference Championships, one District (1992), one Sectional Baseball (1976) and one Tall Corn Conference Softball (1988). On August 2, 1980, Bob was united in marriage to Sharon Adamson Lesiak in Davenport. He was an excellent loving step-father to Tracy and Patrick Lesiak. This was Bob's 40th year in Greenfield. Upon arriving in the summer of 1972, he was the elementary baseball coach where he had a great impact on the lives of all children. He was a firm believer of the fundamentals of all sports. This followed right into high school where he did an outstanding job as a role model, teacher, coach, leader and mentor setting the bar very high for his players and students, as Bob himself was a perfectionist. And the thing is he was and always will be a "Coach." He has touched countless lives in his teaching and coaching careers with his dry sense of humor. The numerous calls and visits he received from his former Drake football teammates, friends, students, players and coaches meant so much to him. Bob also had a very serious side to him. He was an avid reader, especially of history, and was a walking book of knowledge and dates. He had over 200 books in his library -- on coaching, sports, politics and religion. Those left to cherish his memory are his loving wife, Sharon of 32 years; a son, Alan of Altoona; two daughters, Karen of Altoona, and Janice and friend, Ilmar, of Hoboken, New Jersey; step-children, Tracy Marvin of Littleton, Colorado, and Pat Lesiak and wife, Ann, of Kansas City; grandchildren, Brandon Foster, Jessica Marvin, and Katelyn and Tyler Lesiak; a sister, Dorothy Hohnbaum of Davenport; a niece, Ann Hanson and husband, Jeff, of Davenport; and a nephew, Steven Hohnbaum and wife, Claudia, of Wichita, Kansas, plus many many friends. He was preceded in death by his father (1958); mother (1987); a sister, Jeanne (1966); and in-laws, Harold (2012) and Wilma Adamson (2010).