Cleo Woodard

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     Cleo Dean Woodard was born on July 4, 1938, in Mondamin, Iowa to parents Roby and Emma (Gregg) Parker. Cleo graduated from Mondamin High School in 1957. She worked as a waitress and her future husband James “Jim” Woodard would stop in the café for coffee or lunch. They were married on October 4, 1959, in Mondamin.  The couple lived in Omaha for a while and then moved to the Dunlap area in 1965. Cleo worked as a waitress at the Far Out café in Dunlap, then Eventide Nursing Home in Denison and Rose Vista Nursing Home in Woodbine as a nurses aid for 27 years. She then worked in housekeeping at the Dunlap Specialty Care.

     Cleo loved to cook, watch the birds, do word searches and keep up with her grandkids.

     Cleo died on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at the Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha at the age of 84 years, nine months and 12 days.

    Cleo was preceded in death by her parents and all of her siblings, two infants siblings, her twin sister, Carol Jean (died at birth) Francis Parker, Bob Parker, Eugene Parker, Lee Parker, Ralph Parker,  Lola     Anderson, Helen Wakehouse, Pat Marshall, Lois Wiggins and Dorothy Hizar. She is survived by her three children, James Woodard and his wife   Nancy of Charter Oak, Iowa, Francis Woodard of Omaha, Nebraska and Norma and her husband Larry Rodasky of Dunlap, Iowa; six grandchildren; seven great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.