Hometown: Maquoketa, Iowa March 19, 1918 - March 22, 2013

Lloyd George Rich, 94 passed away at Maquoketa Care Center on 3/22/2013 A celebration of Lloyd's life will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at Lahey Funeral Home in Maquoketa, burial with military honors will be at the Union Cemetery in rural Maquoketa. Friends will call after 1 PM at Lahey's on Wednesday. Lloyd was born in Maquoketa 3/21/1918 to his parents, Thomas and Bessie (Lary) Rich and raised in rural Maquoketa. He had stories of riding his horse Bill to country schools and of hauling his class mate around in a Model T truck at High School. Lloyd went into the Navy at the age of 17 until he was 20. He returned to Maquoketa to help out at the farm. He than went to Pennsylvanian working at a fabrication business that made drilling equipment. Whilst going to College in Pennsylvania he met and married Ilona Szinte . When WW2 broke out. Lloyd enlisted back into the Navy Seabees. He landed in North Africa. After the war Lloyd moved back to Maquoketa with his wife and son Thomas. They started their Welding Business in Maquoketa 407 W. Platt after working in a welding shop in De Witt and at Clinton Engines helping in maintenance. He built a boat for Mr. Thomas. He made Go-Carts in the 60's. 80 % of Iron hand rails on homes in Maquoketa and surrounding towns were made by Lloyd. He traveled extensively to include every winter they lived in South Texas until 2007. Lloyd and Bobbie owned and managed rental properties to include an apartment complex in Chicago. Lloyd has flown a single place airplane in most of the places he had lived and visited. Lloyd was always involved in politics and was on the Maquoketa Airport Commissions for years. In his later years he loved mowing his yards with his tractor. Lloyd will be remembered by his family, his sons Thomas of Carbondale, and Roger and his wife Janie of Davenport. Three grandchildren; Jon, Lisa and Kayla Rich and one great grandson, Gavin Rich. Lloyd was preceded in death by his wife, Ilona "Bobbie" in December 2007, His parents, Two sisters and two brothers. Burial: Union Cemetery, Maquoketa, Iowa