OBITUARY
Name: Robert F. Kabrick
From: The Clinton Herald,
Clinton, Iowa
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 1997
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at First
United Presbyterian Church, for Robert F. Kabrick, 82, of Clinton. He died
Saturday at the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City. The Rev. Wayne Peach
will officiate. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Nelson Funeral
Home, Clinton. Burial will be in Clinton Lawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be
Donald Utroska Jr., James and Donald McLuckie, Steven Rucci, and Jess and Nathan
Heileman. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert and James Snell, Robert Boegel,
David Clizbe, Robert Walliker, Harold Dekker, Robert Smith, Pete Cottral and Bob
Cassidy.
He was born June 7, 1914, in Spencer, to Clarence and Susan Faulkner Kabrick. He
married Wava Shelmidine, June 16, 1938, in Nashua. She died in 1966. He then
married Charlotte Colvin Heileman in 1967 in Clinton. She died in 1975. He later
married Arlee Colvin McLuckie in 1981 Clinton.
He was a graduate of Spencer High School and of
Hamilton Business College in Mason City. He was a veteran of World War II,
serving in the United States Navy. He had been employed in sales promotions with
Standard Oil Company, Mason City, and with Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City,
as a family counselor. He owned and operated Clinton Memorial Park Cemetery from
1955 to 1976. He was last employed in public relations with Gateway State Bank
in Clinton from 1977 to 1984. He was a member of First United Presbyterian
Church, the Western Star No. 100 AF. & AM, the Clinton Consistory and the High
Twelve. He was a past member of the Masonic and Scottish Rite Bodies, and the
Clinton Gyro. He was past president of the Clinton Rotary from 1963-1964, the
American Legion Post No. 190, past president of Iowa Association of Cemeteries
from 19677 to 1968, and past board member of the Clinton Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Candice (Donald) Utroska of Lake
Forest, Ill.; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Barbara (Joseph) Rucci of Waukesha, Wis.;
three stepsons, Arthur Heileman of Milan, Ill., David McLuckie of Rockford,
Ill., and Steven McLuckie of Hopkinsville, Ky.; two grandchildren; and a
brother, Jack Kabrick of Mason City.