749. Richard W Deloe
CAMANCHE -- Richard “Dick” W. DeLoe, of Camanche, died Thursday, October 18, 2007, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport, Iowa. Funeral Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 22, 2007, at the Camanche Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory. Visitation will be Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Left to honor his memory are his wife: Juanita of Camanche; two daughters: Kathy (Mike) Burnett of Goose Lake and Vicky Cornish of Camanche; two sons: Steve ( Peg) DeLoe of Eldridge, and Joe DeLoe of Bernard; eight grandchildren, Shawn (Carla) Bengtson, Glen Rose, Texas; Kyle ( Lindy) Bengtson, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.; Dr. Brandon Cornish, O.D., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Stacy Cornish, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ally Cornish, Camanche; Deni DeLoe, Eldridge; Lindsey DeLoe, Cedar Falls; Drew DeLoe, Davenport; and three great-grandchildren Bailee, Kimberly and Abby Kate; two sisters: Patricia (Robert) Wilson of Newcomerstown, Ohio, and Sheron Stralow of Ill.; one sister-in-law: Aletta Olson of Clinton; a brother-in-law: Gene Miller of Clinton, Iowa
Richard “Dick” W. DeLoe, 77, of Camanche, died Thursday, October 18, 2007 at Genesis Medical Center, West Campus, Davenport, Iowa. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 22, 2007 at the Camanche Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory with Rev. Paul Holmer officiating. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Following the services, the body will be cremated. Dick DeLoe was born on June 17, 1930 in Clinton, Iowa, the son of Theron P. and Alice B. (Hayes) DeLoe. He married Juanita McClelland on December 16, 1950 in Clinton, Iowa. Dick was a 1949 graduate of Clinton High School. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict from 1951 to 1953. Dick was employed as a pipe fitter for DuPont for 35 years, retiring in 1985. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Camanche. Dick loved to fish, camp, boat and hunt in his earlier years, later he enjoyed woodworking, wood carving and crocheting. He loved spending time with is family and attending his grandchildren’s school functions and extra curricular activities. Dick took delight in the newest members of the family, his great-granddaughters. Dick also made sure that all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren had a hand crocheted afghan to keep them warm at night. Left to honor his memory are his wife: Juanita of Camanche; two daughters: Kathy (Mike) Burnett of Goose Lake and Vicky Cornish of Camanche; two sons: Steve ( Peg) DeLoe of Eldridge, and Joe DeLoe of Bernard; 8 grandchildren, Shawn (Carla) Bengtson, Glen Rose, TX; Kyle ( Lindy) Bengtson, Santa Rosa Beach, FL; Dr. Brandon Cornish, O.D., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Stacy Cornish, Salt Lake City, UT; Deni DeLoe, Eldridge; Lindsey DeLoe, Cedar Falls; Ally Cornish, Camanche; Drew DeLoe, Davenport; and 3 great-grandchildren Bailee, Kimberly and Abby Kate; two sisters: Patricia Wilson of Newcomerstown, OH, and Sheron Stralow of IL; one sister-in-law: Aletta Olson of Clinton; many nieces and nephews; and life long friends of the family Vic and Marian Winklemann of Camanche. He was preceded in death by his parents, and an infant son.
750. Lyle Edward Deloe
People who met Lyle Edward DeLoe learned he was a devoted family man, a successful business owner, an avid fisherman and a math whiz who could multiply large numbers in his head.
But for most of his life, not even his family knew the details about his early role defending the United States against the Soviet Union on the front lines of the Cold War.
As a mechanical engineer in 1958, Mr. DeLoe was quietly sent to England to develop a crash training program for the Thor missile, a U.S. nuclear weapon. It was a dark time, when Americans worried daily about Soviet intercontinental missiles that could hit U.S. cities in hours.
As a rocket guidance expert, Mr. DeLoe was responsible for targeting the warheads at Russia. In 1961, when NATO and the Soviet Union faced off over the Berlin Wall, Western military officials warned the Sacramento engineer to be prepared to launch nuclear weapons.
"He later told us the British said to him, 'If the Russians blockade Berlin, we're going to war and we need your help,' " his son, Dean, said.
For security reasons, Mr. DeLoe never said much about his work on the Thor project and other defense programs until many years later. A quiet hero to family and country, he died Monday in Sacramento after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.
Mr. DeLoe was born in 1929 in Clinton, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, where he acquired a lifelong passion for fishing. He grew up in nearby Morrison, Ill., and attended the University of Illinois for two years, where his engineering studies were interrupted by the Korean War.
He entered an Air Force cadet program in 1951 and earned a commission as a second lieutenant. After an assignment in Texas, he was transferred to Mather Air Force Base in Rancho Cordova. He met Phyllis Baker, a Sacramento teacher, and they married in 1953.
Mr. DeLoe left the Air Force as a first lieutenant in 1958. The couple moved to Berkeley, where he graduated from the University of California with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. He turned down a scholarship offer for a master's degree program to take an engineering job with General Motors' electronics division.
Six months after he started, GM assigned him to work on the Thor project in England. Mr. DeLoe could not tell his wife details about the missile program, but she knew it was urgent when he came home one day with an arm swollen from multiple travel vaccinations.
"In those days it took months to get a passport, but he got a special passport from the State Department and was out in three days," Phyllis DeLoe said. "It was so sudden, it was a shock."
Other clues came when the couple settled in England, where "important people with flags on their cars were always coming to pick him up and take him somewhere," his wife said. For his work, Mr. DeLoe was honored by U.S. and Royal Air Force officials before the couple returned to Sacramento to start a family.
In 1961, he took a job at Aerojet on the Minuteman missile program. He was assigned to a team of experts working secretly in Albuquerque, N.M., to fix problems that left the U.S. arsenal vulnerable to electromagnetic damage from the detonation of huge Soviet warheads.
He left Aerojet in 1969 to join his wife running Associated Supply Co., which his father-in-law founded in 1938. He retired from the downtown Sacramento business in 1989.
In 1983, the couple joined the Sacramento Yacht Club, where Mr. DeLoe served as commodore in 1994. He worked on several construction projects at the West Sacramento club, including an expanded deck and new boat docks, stairways and ramps. He also indulged his love of fishing in the Sacramento River Delta, using a metal lure he adapted from salmon fishing in Canada.
"He was probably one of the greatest fishermen in the world when it came to striped bass," yacht club shipmate Mel Kerner said.
Lyle Edward DeLoe
Born: July 19, 1929Died: Feb. 6, 2006
Remembered for: Working on U.S. nuclear missile programs; operating a successful family business; active member and commodore of the Sacramento Yacht Club Survived by: Wife, Phyllis DeLoe of Sacramento; sons, Derek Edward DeLoe of Seattle and Dean Brian DeLoe of Stamford, Conn.; sisters Norma Coy of Cleveland, and Janet Habin of Sterling, Ill.; three grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
1065. Eric R Deloe
LEWISBURG - Eric Deloe has received the John B. McMurtrie Award from the Susquehanna Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Deloe, a senior at Lewisburg Area High School, is the son of Don and Brenda Adams of Lewisburg.
The award is presented in memory of McMurtrie, a former president of the Susquehanna Council and a Silver Beaver Award recipient.
After working through the full series of scouting merit projects and ranks, Deloe donated many hours of time working at the Raymond B. Winter State Park, a project that helped him earn his Eagle Scout badge in July 2001.
In addition to his scouting activities, Deloe has participated in the Lewisburg Area High School marching, concert and jazz bands and the school orchestra as a trumpet player and has served as a band maintenance manager.
He is a member of the Lewisburg bowling team and played on both varsity and junior varsity bowling teams for three years. He enjoys hunting and fishing.
He has served as the lighting manager and helped build scenery for the spring musicals at the high school. Recently he took a European trip to German, Austria, Italy and Switzerland to learn about the culture of those countries.
He is active at St. John’s United Church of Christ, Lewisburg, where he is a member of the youth group and has participated in a number of mission projects.
Eric R. DeloeEric R. Deloe, 18, of 19 Springhouse Drive, Lewisburg, died early Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, at home.
Eric was born in Bradford on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1984. He is the son of Don and Brenda (Byerly) Adams, Lewisburg, and Robert Deloe Jr., Bradford.
Eric, a Lewisburg High School Class of 2003 graduate, played trumpet in the Lewisburg marching and jazz bands and in the school orchestra. He also helped with school musicals as a lighting technician, and enjoyed bowling on the high school bowling team. Eric was a member of Boy Scout Troop 538, Lewisburg, where he served, most recently, as an assistant Scout Master. He earned his Eagle Award in April 2002, completing his Eagle project by helping to make the Rapid Run Nature Trail in R.B. Winter State Park handicap accessible, through the construction of a raised walkway and other trail improvements. In April 2003, Eric received the McMurtrie Award, given to those who are deemed to represent the highest ideals of Boy Scouting.
In September 2003, Eric was honored with the James E. West Fellow National Endowment Award. In addition to Boy Scouting, Eric enjoyed many other activities, including hunting, playing computer games and reading. Upon completion of high school, Eric's desire was to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
He was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ, Lewisburg, and was active in the youth group there.
In addition to his parents, Eric is survived by a younger brother, Loren C. Adams; maternal grandmother, Dorothy (Mattern) Byerly, Herndon; and paternal grandparents, Clara (Zande) Deloe, Bradford; and Clyde Adams, Dornsife.
A visitation will be held Saturday, Nov. 29, from noon to 3 p.m. at St. John's U.C.C., Lewisburg, followed by a memorial service at 3 p.m. officiated by the Rev. Paula Gustafson. At 7:30 p.m. a contemporary youth memorial service will be held Saturday, Nov. 29, at St. John's.
776. William Gail Deloe
Living in Leeper, PA.