Our father, Richard “Dick” Cline, 79, passed away Sunday, July 31, 2016. A private memorial service will be scheduled and held near Des Moines, at a later date.
Dick was born Nov. 11, 1936, in Newton (Jasper County) to Donald and Claudia (Warfield) Cline. Dick was the youngest of three boys (Alvin and Paul Cline, both deceased). A lifelong resident of Newton, Richard “Dick” graduated from Newton High School with the class of 1955. Following graduation, he relocated to Des Moines where he met and fell in love with Carolyn Jane Grant. They were married for 59.5 years at the time of his death. Dick and Carolyn raised three children on the south side of Des Moines, Rhonda Jane (Fueston) of Worthington, Minn., Richard Carl of Zimmerman, Minn., and Rebbecca Renee’ (Stanley) of Columbia, Mo.