Joan Bickel (Hady)
October 23, 1920 — July 20, 2011
Joan Hady Bickel, 90, resident of MethWick Retirement Community, died Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Her body has been donated to The University of Iowa College of Medicine. Family services will be held at a later date at Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, Iowa. Arrangements by Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids.
Joan was born in 1920 in Montgomery, West Virginia, the daughter of John Lowry Hady and Frances Klace (Hady, McGeoch). She lived in Sheperds Town, Virginia; Doylestown and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Columbia, Missouri; and Clermont, Florida. She was graduated from Clermont-Minneola High School in 1938, and attended Florida State College, Tallahassee. In 1942 she was graduated from The University of Iowa and in 1943 completed the dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In Boston that year she was married to Robert Moon Bickel.
Following WWII they established their home in Iowa City, had four children there and were long-time members of Trinity Episcopal Church. She was a research dietitian in the College of Medicine, U. of I., for nearly 30 years, retiring in1983. In 1996 they moved to the MethWick Retirement Community in Cedar Rapids and became members of Christ Episcopal Church there.
Surviving are three daughters, Frances (Charles) Disselhorst of Naples, Florida, Wendy (Jerry) Goldsmith of Clarence, Iowa, and Deborah (Marcus) Baukol of Thousand Oaks, California; son, Robert Hampton (Yvonne) Bickel of Marengo; eleven grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Moon Bickel; and her brother, John Francis Lowry Hady.
Memorials may be directed to Trinity Espiscopal Church, 320 E. College St., Iowa City, IA 52240-1628, Christ Episcopal Church, 220 40th St. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, St. Luke’s Hospice, 290 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52402 or MethWick Community, 1224 13th St. NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.
Joan was born in 1920 in Montgomery, West Virginia, the daughter of John Lowry Hady and Frances Klace (Hady, McGeoch). She lived in Sheperds Town, Virginia; Doylestown and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Columbia, Missouri; and Clermont, Florida. She was graduated from Clermont-Minneola High School in 1938, and attended Florida State College, Tallahassee. In 1942 she was graduated from The University of Iowa and in 1943 completed the dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In Boston that year she was married to Robert Moon Bickel.
Following WWII they established their home in Iowa City, had four children there and were long-time members of Trinity Episcopal Church. She was a research dietitian in the College of Medicine, U. of I., for nearly 30 years, retiring in1983. In 1996 they moved to the MethWick Retirement Community in Cedar Rapids and became members of Christ Episcopal Church there.
Surviving are three daughters, Frances (Charles) Disselhorst of Naples, Florida, Wendy (Jerry) Goldsmith of Clarence, Iowa, and Deborah (Marcus) Baukol of Thousand Oaks, California; son, Robert Hampton (Yvonne) Bickel of Marengo; eleven grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Moon Bickel; and her brother, John Francis Lowry Hady.
Memorials may be directed to Trinity Espiscopal Church, 320 E. College St., Iowa City, IA 52240-1628, Christ Episcopal Church, 220 40th St. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, St. Luke’s Hospice, 290 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52402 or MethWick Community, 1224 13th St. NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.
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