Earl Maddocks

Earl Maddocks, Jr., the oldest of three children of Myrta (Melton) Maddocks and Earl Maddocks, was born at this parent's farm home near Glenwood, Iowa on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1922. Earl attended Pleasant Hill School in Ingraham Township through the eighth grade and graduated from Silver City High School in 1939. He then attended Iowa State College in Ames for two years until being drafted into the United States Army in 1942. From Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he was transferred to Camp Adair, Oregon for boot camp with the 96th Infantry Division. After completing Army Specialist Training in Maryland and Surgical Technician Training in Missouri, he was assigned to the Transportation Corp as a medic on a troop transport in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations. Earl was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946 and returned to Iowa State where he graduated in 1948. Earl taught Vocational Agriculture in Akron, Iowa and on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949, he was united in marriage to Betty Louise Olson at the Lutheran Church in Titonka, Iowa. Earl began working for the Creston Production Credit Association and they made their home in the Iowa towns of Bloomfield, Mount Ayr, and Winterset. In 1954, Earl and Betty moved to rural Glenwood and Earl returned to the farm. Their marriage was blessed with five children, Bruce, Carol Jean, Earl III, Alan Lee, and James Stephen.
Earl and Betty worked together on the farm. They operated a dairy for several years while the children were young and made many memories while milking, making hay, calving, and sharing lunches in the fields. The family were members of the Silver City Untied Methodist Church and enjoyed traveling, camping, and bowling.
In 1970, Earl retired from the farm and began working at the Glenwood State Hospital School. Earl and Betty had been married 54 years when Betty died on November 28, 2003. Earl continued to live at his home where he suffered a stroke on November 18, 2006. He later died at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa on November 22nd at the age of 84 years, 7 months, and 6 days.
Earl was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Mryta Maddocks; wife Betty Maddocks; son Bruce in 2000; and sister Irene McGrew.
He is survived by his children, Carol Maxwell and her husband Eric of Glenwood, IA, Earl (Bud) Maddocks and his wife Donna of Silver City, IA, Alan and wife Teresa of Hollywood, FL, and James Maddocks and wife Sandy of Montezuma, Iowa; daughter-in-law June Maddocks of Glenwood; 14 grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren; brother Deane Maddocks and wife Marion of Glenwood: brother-in-law Everett McGrew; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.