Edward N Aduddell

Memorial services for Edward N. ‘Ed’ Aduddell, 89, Lawrence, will be at 1 pm Saturday at RumseyYost Funeral Home & Crematory, with the Rev. Nancy Thellman officiating. A visitation will follow the service. Ed died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 19, 1927, in Webster City, Iowa, the son of Edward L. and Theodosia G. Wahl Aduddell. He graduated from Des Moines North High School, and entered the service of the United States Army as a paratrooper. He attended Grinnell College, where he played football, and later reentered the Army, serving in the Infantry during the Korean War, where he earned two purple hearts and a bronze star. He returned to Grinnell to graduate. Ed was a salesman for Celotex, and retired as sales manager in 1989 after more than 25 years of service. He was also a builder. He and his wife retired to the Lake of the Ozarks. He enjoyed building, hunting, and coaching football. He was a member of the Elks Club, the Morgan County (Mo.) Library Board, and the Gravois Mills United Methodist Church, where he helped build an addition to the church. Ed married Nancy J. Nicolaus on June 27, 1953, in LaGrange, Ill. She survives. Other survivors include three children, David Aduddell and wife Pat, Lawrence, Jan Duffy and husband Michael, Ames, Iowa, and Robert Aduddell and wife Pam, Gravois Mills, Mo.; a sister, Mary Sowder, Coral Gables, Fla.; six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, siblings Joyce, John, Robert, and Charles Aduddell, and Margaret Lindquist, and one great grandson. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Gravois Mills United Methodist Church, in care of the funeral home, 601 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS, 66044. Online condolences may be sent at rumseyyost. com