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Richard Biggart
December 18, 1935 – January 11, 2019 |
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| Richard Biggart, 82, died Friday at his home, surrounded by his family following an illness of several months.Life celebration services were held 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, January 15, 2019, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where military honors were accorded by the United States Air Force. Interment was in the Wilcox Cemetery, rural Anamosa. Friends called from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Monday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa. Surviving is his loving wife, Shirley of fifty-nine years; three children, Carolyn and Betty Biggart of Anamosa and Lloyd (Sherry) Biggart of Atkins; five grandchildren, Melinda, Ally, Kyra and Alex (Autumn), Chris (Jessica); and seven great-grandchildren, Azrael, Liliana, Kayden, Kendall, Skylar, Terrence and Floyd Jr. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Ed; and two sisters, Pearl Luker and Mabel Boner.Richard Franklin Biggart was born December 18, 1935, at home on the farm on Buffalo Road in Linn County. He was the son of Edward and Lois Fern (Burlingham) Biggart. He went to the Freemont Country School and graduated from Springville High School in 1955. He then attended Upper Iowa College. Richard served in the United States Air Force from 1957 until 1963. He married Shirley Williamson on August 2, 1959, at the Prairie Chapel Church in rural Linn County. The couple lived in Whittier after Richard’s discharge from the service. He was employed at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids for twenty-eight years, retiring in 1990. In 1969, they moved from Whittier to a farm in the Viola-Stone City area. They moved into Anamosa in 2012.Richard was always busy helping other people build houses or sheds or building something for himself. He was interested in other cultures, ideas and history. He took a Chinese cooking class at Kirkwood and was proficient in making different dishes. He and Shirley hosted a number of foreign exchange students, three of them were Eddy Martinez from the Dominican Republic, Inger Lene Omholsteen from Norway and Hanoch Ehrlich from Israel. He was also deeply patriotic.Richard loved all sports, playing basketball in high school, high school track and the Drake Relays. He had season tickets for many years for the Iowa Women’s Basketball season and was a lifelong Cubs fan. He played golf at both Wapsi and Fawn Creek Country Clubs.
Submitted by: Janet A. Brandt
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