Officials with the Iowa National Guard say funeral services have been scheduled for retired Maj. Gen. Warren G. “Bud” Lawson of Ankeny, the 26th Adjutant General of Iowa, who passed away on Wednesday, August 10th, at the age of 83. The visitation for Gen. Lawson will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 3-7 p.m. at the Camp Dodge Pool Pavilion, 7105 NW 70th Ave., Johnston, Iowa. The Lawson family will be present during that time.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Camp Dodge Pool Pavilion, followed by inurnment at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter at 2 p.m. The Iowa National Guard will provide full military honors. In case of inclement weather, the funeral service will be held at the Camp Dodge Freedom Center drill hall.

As part of the celebration of his life, the family encourages a tailgating atmosphere to honor Gen. Lawson’s love for the University of Iowa and his Hawkeye football career. Participants are encouraged to wear black and gold, or the colors of their favorite team. Participants may enter Camp Dodge through the main gate at 7105 NW 70th Ave., Johnston. Photo identification (a driver’s license or military ID card are acceptable) is required for admittance to Camp Dodge for individuals 16 years of age and older.

ALL motorcyclists (drivers and passengers) on Camp Dodge are required by Department of Defense policy to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) consisting of helmet, eye protection (full-face shield or goggles or sunglasses), gloves, long pants, long-sleeved shirt or jacket, and over-the-ankle footwear while operating on Camp Dodge.

Lawson retired as the Adjutant General of the Iowa National Guard on June 19, 1999, following more than 44 years of military service in the U.S. Army and Iowa National Guard, including 14 years as the Adjutant General of Iowa. As Iowa’s Adjutant General, he was responsible for the administration, training, and operations of more than 9,500 Iowa National Guard Soldiers and Airmen.

Officials say he effectively guided the Iowa National Guard through the Iowa Farm Crisis in the 1980s, the response for the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 at the Sioux City Airport (1989), Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-91), reactivation of the 34th Infantry Division (1991), floods of 1993, and the Port Neal complex chemical plant explosion near Sioux City (1994). He was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis in 1999.While at Iowa, Lawson played center for the Hawkeyes football team (1952-54), and was named Iowa’s Most Valuable Player in 1954.

In 1967, he deployed to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade as assistant operations officer and personnel officer.

Lawson is survived by his wife, Bobbie and their daughter, Laurie. He was preceded in death by his son, Lance. The family respectfully requests no flowers, food or gifts, please. Memorials may be directed to the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Iowa at http://www.alz.org/greateriowa/ .

For additional information, go to http://www.dignitymemorial.com/ankeny-funeral-home-and-crematory/en-us/index.page.

A Facebook post about a sheriff’s deputy who did “high fives” with a sick boy in the hospital has gone viral. Woodbury County Deputy Sheriff Kyle Cleveringa pulled a car over in Sioux City at about three a.m. Wednesday because a tail light and the light above the license plate weren’t working. When he walked up and spoke to the driver, Mindy Mathewson told the deputy her one-year-old son was having trouble breathing.

“I peeked in the backseat and I could hear he was audibly having some issues with breathing,” Cleveringa says, “…so I just kind disregarded the traffic stop.” Cleveringa told the woman to keep driving to the hospital and he followed her all the way inside. “I saw she had a bunch of stuff in the vehicle and so I just offered to help her out and carry some of the stuff in while she went to the emergency room,” Cleveringa says. “And then she obviously had her hands full trying to hold her kid, fill out paperwork — the typical stuff you do when you go to the hospital.”

Mathewson went on the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Facebook page to thank the deputy. She explained it was Cleveringa who held the boy while she filled out that paperwork. Mathewson wrote that the deputy did some “high-fives” with the one-year-old while he comforted her sick child, plus he gave the boy a stuffed toy truck. Mathewson ended her post with a P.S. that her son is now fine and she promised to “get the lights fixed ASAP!”

The post was shared nearly 800 times in the first 24 hours it was up and has been “liked” thousands of times. The deputy says he was just doing his job. “I got two pieces of advice when I started this job:…’Don’t forget where you come from and remember who you serve,'” Cleveringa says. “She’s a part of the community and the sheriff’s department is big on community policing and community interaction and that’s one of the things that I like about working here.”

Cleveringa started working at the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Department three and a half years ago. He’s been a patrol deputy for the past year and wasn’t even scheduled to be working on Wednesday morning. He was filling in for a colleague who just had a baby.

(Radio Iowa)

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Two men who pleaded guilty in the 2011 robbery and fatal shooting of a northwest Iowa man have been sent to prison. On Thursday 26-year-old Devery Hibbler, of Dumas, Arkansas, was given 35 years and 35-year-old Robert Beaver, of Sioux City, was given 20 years in prison. A third man involved, 26-year-old Courtland Clark, of Flowery Branch, Georgia, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.

All three pleaded guilty in federal court to interference with commerce by robbery, and Clark and Hibbler also pleaded guilty for a weapons offense. Prosecutors say the men entered marijuana dealer Tony Canfield’s Sioux City home in May 2011 to steal marijuana and cash. Prosecutors say Beaver beat and held Canfield’s wife while Clark and Hibbler struggled with Canfield, who was shot by Hibbler.

Police in Creston report a Central Iowa man who was previously arrested twice within the past week for allegedly Failing to Comply with the State’s Sex Offender Registry, was arrested again Thursday afternoon. 30-year old James Jack Clark, of Pleasant Hill, was taken into custody at around 1-p.m. Thursday on several Union County warrants for Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Clark was also recently charged with Theft in the 5th Degree. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 cash or surety bond, and a $300 10% bond.

Creston Police said also, a woman residing in the 400 block of Wyoming Avenue reported Thursday, that sometime that same day, someone keyed both sides of her vehicle. The damage was estimated at $1,000.

Shelby County Emergency Management Coordinator Bob Seivert reports 911 service to Shelby has been restored. Seivert said late Thursday evening that 911 service and long distance in Shelby had been disrupted due to a Windstream Fiber line being cut. But again, as of this morning, the service has been restored.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a student moved a car off a Des Moines high school campus rather than remove a Confederate flag from it as requested by school officials. Someone called East High School Thursday morning after noticing the flag in the student parking lot. Des Moines Public Schools spokeswoman Amanda Lewis says school staffers soon identified the student owner of the car and asked him to put away the flag. Lewis says the car was then driven out of the lot and parked elsewhere instead.

Lewis says the presence of Confederate flags at school last year prompted at least three incidents involving fights. She says the district supports the student’s right to expression, but the district’s first priority is ensuring school safety. Lewis says no disturbance arose from the flag Thursday.