David A. Crook

David A. Crook, 62, of Newton died on Sunday, March 9, 2014, at the Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

A memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home & Crematory in Newton.

The family will greet friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, at the funeral home.

A private family burial will be held at a later date at the Palo Alto Cemetery in rural Newton.

Memorials to the Skiff Medical Center Cancer Clinic or to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the Central Iowa Trail Network may be left at the funeral home. Memorials also may be mailed to the funeral home; please add Attn: Crook Family on the envelope.

Those left to honor Dave’s memory are his wife, Sue of Newton; daughter, Emily (Cory) Barnard of Cedar Rapids; his three grandchildren, Logan, Talan and Sydney Barnard; sister, Deb (Marty) Cross of Newton; his nephews and mother-in-law, Vivian Stein of Newton.

He was preceded in death by his son, Ben in 1999, parents, and his father-in-law, Kenneth Stein.