LEROY J. "DICK" ZERWAS

LeRoy J. "Dick" Zerwas, 88, formerly of Westside, died Monday, January 26, 1998, at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mass of the Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, January 29, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Carroll. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Carroll.

Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 28, at Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll. Rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. and there will be a Christian wake service at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Mr. Zerwas is survived by his four children, Richard Zerwas and his wife, Donna, of Detroit, Michigan, Arthur Zerwas and his wife, Mary, of Westside, Larry Zerwas and his wife, Carol, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and Mary Reed and her husband, Bill, of Bellevue, Nebraska; 13 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one brother, Francis Zerwas, and his wife, Rita, of Manning; two sisters, Sister Mary Agnese, FSPA, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Sister Mary Philip, FSPA, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; and one brother-in-law, Leonard Dinges, of San Diego, California.

LEROY J. "DICK" ZERWAS

LeRoy (Dick) Zerwas died Monday, January 26, 1998, at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 88. Dick was born on February 2, 1909, at Manning, Iowa, the son of Phillip and Agnes Mary (Brunnier) Zerwas. He married Rita Dinges on September 6, 1932, in Carroll, Iowa. Dick entered the United States Navy in October 1942 and served during World War II. He served with the Seabeas in the South Pacific and was honorably discharged in October 1945. Following their marriage Dick and Rita made their home in Manning. He and his brother's owned and managed the Manning Telephone Co. In 1959 the family moved to Westside where Dick owned and managed the Westside Independent Telephone Co. until his retirement in 1978. For the past four years he has made his home with his daughter Mary Reed in Bellevue, Nebraska.

He is survived by his children, Richard (Donna) Zerwas, Arthur (Mary) Zerwas, Larry (Carol) Zerwas, and Mary (Bill) Reed; 13 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; brother, Francis (Rita) Zerwas; sisters, Sister Mary Agnese, F.S.P.A. and Sister Mary Philip, F.S.P.A.; sister-in-laws, Mary Bengfort and Esther Clark; and brother-in-law, Leonard Dinges. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Rita, in 1975; and brothers, Robert and Eugene Zerwas.