BILL DODSON, 70, of Greenfield, died Saturday, July 1st, 2017, at the Kavanagh House on 56th Street in Des Moines, Iowa.  Funeral services for BILL DODSON will be held 10:30-a.m. Thursday, July 6th, at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Fontanelle. Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.

An open visitation will be held on Wednesday. July 5th, at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Fontanelle from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., with the family visitation from 5-until 7-p.m.; Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.

Burial will be in the Greenfield Cemetery with full military graveside rites conducted by the Greenfield American Legion Head-Endres Post No. 265 and V.F.W. Post No. 5357 & Fontanelle American Legion Carlson Post No. 247.  A luncheon will be held at the church following the committal services at the cemetery.

The family requests that memorial gifts be designated for cancer research at Mayo Clinic, memorials can be made online at: www.mayoclinic.org/development or mailed to Department of Development, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street S.W., Rochester, MN 55905 or to the HCI Hospice Care Services at Kavanagh House: 900 56th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50312 in care of Bill Dodson.

BILL DODSON is survived by:

His wife – Karen.

His son – Michael (Jessica) Dodson.

His daughters – Teresa (Jesse) Lund, and Julie (Kevin) Brunsvold.

His daughter-in-law: Jean Wheeler (Fiancé Wayne Lonnevik).

His brother and friend – Pete (Sandie) Dodson, also his brothers Howard (Karen) Myers, Robert Myers.

His sisters – Donna Reed, Marilyn Trees, Karen (Jeff) Larson.

10 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, a host of other relatives and friends.