Ronald 'Ron' Stewart
Ronald "Ron"
Stewart, 72, died Sunday (June 4, 2006) at Newton Medical Center. He was born
Feb. 2, 1934, to Cecil and Ada Burley Stewart in Bloomfield, Neb. They preceded
him in death. He married Emma Topham Reid on Dec. 18, 1974. She survives of the
home. He graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1952 and attended the
University of Maryland and Bellevue College in Nebraska. He served in the U.S.
Air Force for 26 years. During his career in the Air Force, he served 10 years with
the Presidential Aircraft Fleet, first at Washington National Airport and later
at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. He served in Turkey for one-and-a-half
years, then at the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps at Grove City
College in Pennsylvania. He also did a tour of duty at DaNang, Vietnam, from
July 1970 to July 1971, and then at a Titan II Missile Wing at McConnell Air
Force Base. His final tour of duty was with the Strategic Air Command Inspector
General at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. This assignment took him to
almost every state in the union plus Guam, Okinawa, Japan, Thailand, England,
Spain and Germany. After his career in the Air Force, he spent 10 years as a
vending salesman for the Swanson Corporation in Omaha, Neb. He moved to Newton
in 1988 and worked part-time for five years as a custodian at Lincoln
Elementary School until his retirement.
He liked to bowl, play golf,
and loved to read both fiction and non-fiction. He was a 32-year member of the
American Legion.
Other survivors include:
daughters, Linda Wright of Papillion, Neb., and Cyndy King of Hailey, Idaho;
stepdaughters, Ginny Reid-Matern of Salisbury, Md., Julie Carroll of Evanston,
Ill., and Elaine Davis of Newton; brothers, Max Stewart of West Point, Neb.,
and Jerry Stewart of Guilford, Conn.; 10 grandchildren; and four
great-grandchildren.
He also was preceded in death
by: brothers, Norman and Bobby; a son, Kevin; and a daughter, Debbie.
He was cremated, and there
will be no service. Memorials have been established with Caring Hands Humane
Society in Newton.
