Garry D. Geer Sr., 81, died Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
Graveside services will be held Saturday, June 11 at 11 a.m. at Collins Evergreen Cemetery in Collins, Iowa.
Arrangements are with Hoy Kilnoski Funeral Home & Crematory in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Garry was born in Macedonia, Iowa on June 17, 1940 to Ralph and Edith (Cook) Geer. He was on the Rifle Team at Abraham Lincoln High School, where he graduated in 1958. Over the years, he and the members of the Rifle Team would meet for a reunion and remained close.
In 1964, he married the love of his life, LaCinda Stevens in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They were blessed with two children, Garry Jr., and Virginia. Garry worked in the housing industry which took the family to Oregon, Wisconsin, Texas and settling back to the Midwest in Laurel, where he retired from Heritage Homes in 2015. He and Cindy moved to Persia, Iowa in 2021 to be closer to family.
Garry was an avid trap and skeet shooter which took him to multiple competitions and trips to the Nebraska State Games which awarded him top accolades.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Cindy, of Persia; son, Pastor Garry (Joy) Geer of Peoria, Illinois; daughter Virginia Lockard of Council Bluffs, Iowa; grandsons, Nicholas Lockard and Garrison Geer, granddaughters, Bethany (Matt) Willis, Miranda (George) Terry and Delaney Geer, four great grandchildren; sisters Janice Brown of Ft Myers, Florida and Loretta Ethridge of Jacksonville, Florida, nieces, and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother, brother, Gene Geer, and nephew, Tim Geer.
