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Richard A. Cobean | Service:
Saturday, March 14, 2009
2:00 PM
Graveside Service
West Linn Cemetery
Rural Linden, IA
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| | | RICHARD A. COBEAN
Richard A. Cobean was born the oldest son of Winfield Scott Cobean and Mabel Lucinda White on the family farm near Linden, Iowa in Dallas County, Iowa on February 27, 1913 and died at the West Bridge Care and Rehab Center in Winterset, Iowa on March 12, 2009 at the age of 96 years and 14 days.
Richard attended elementary school in Linden. He eventually moved to Earlham, where he and his brother LeRoy lived for many years. LeRoy and his brother were self-employed as day laborers, mostly within the agricultural business. They often worked as hired hands for the elevator shoveling coal off of railroad cars, shoveling corn, shelling corn, cleaning trees out of fence rows and terraces, as well as working at numerous other farm jobs for area farmers. Richard also mowed lawns and shoveled snow for many people in Earlham. Richard enjoyed the many cats he kept at his home in Earlham and was once headlined in the Des Moines Register for his love of cats. In 1994, Richard moved to Des Moines to a care center for a couple years and in 1997 moved to the care center in Winterset for the last 12 years of his life.
Richard was preceded in death by his parents Winfield and Mabel Cobean and his brother LeRoy Coben. He leaves no known family.
In Loving Memory of
Richard A. Cobean
Age 96
Born February 27, 1913 - Dallas County, Iowa
Died March 12, 2009 - Winterset, Iowa
GRAVESIDE FUNERAL SERVICE
2:00 pm March 14, 2009
West Linn Cemetery
Rural Linden, Iowa
OFFICIATING
Pastor Linda Burnett
INTERMENT
West Linn Cemetery
Rural Linden, Iowa
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Dexter Earlham Redfield
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I’M FREE
Don’t grieve for me for now I’m free.
I’m following the path God laid for me.
I took His hand when I heard His call.
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day.
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
I’ve found my peace at the close of the day.
If parting has left a void.
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss.
Ah yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with time of sorrow.
I wish you sunshine of tomorrow.
My life’s been full. I’ve savored much.
Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all to brief.
Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up you hearts and share with me.
God wanted me now, He set me free.
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