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Thomas W. Berry | Visitation:
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
12:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Porter Funeral Home
712 10th Street
Hawarden, IA 51023
Service:
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
1:30 PM
United Methodist Church
803 13th Street
Hawarden, IA 51023
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| | | HAWARDEN, IOWA- THOMAS W. BERRY, 86, of Hawarden, Iowa formerly of Sioux City, died Thursday, January 13, 2005 at the Hawarden Community Hospital.
Funeral Service will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Hawarden with Rev. Tim Walker officiating. Burial will follow in the Grace Hill Cemetery at Hawarden with military rites conducted by the Hawarden American Legion and VFW. Visitation will begin at noon Tuesday, with a Masonic Service, which is open to the public, at 7:00 p.m. at the Porter Funeral Home in Hawarden.
Thomas W. Berry was born May 3, 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa. He entered the United States Army just prior to the beginning of WWII. He served with the 3rd Armored Division tank crew and was present at the Battle of the Bulge and Normandy. Following the war he married Dorothy Miller on December 27, 1950 at her parent’s home in Union County, South Dakota. They started their married life in Sioux City. Thomas worked as an electrician building power plants and atomic plants in Ohio, Kentucky and South Dakota. They returned to Sioux City in 1962 where he worked with other contractors. He retired in 1982 after working 15 years as an electrician at the Sioux City airport. The couple moved to Hawarden, Iowa in October of 2000.
Thomas was a member of the IBEW 231, Morningside Masonic Lodge 615, Scottish Rite, Abu Bekr Shrine, the United Methodist Church and the Hawarden American Legion Post 254. He was the past president of the Midwestern Shrine Cycle Corps.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy of Hawarden; 2 sisters-in-law, Alice Marie Kopp and husband Charles of Hawarden and Ruth Miller of Sun City, Arizona; a brother-in-law, J. Quinten Miller and wife Wanda of Beresford, South Dakota; and treasured nieces and nephews.
Thomas was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Robert Miller.
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