Obituary Record

Rodney Steven Block
Died on 8/11/1997
Buried in Holy Cross (Catholic Church) Cemetery

Date of Death: 11 August 1997

Burial: Holy Cross Cemetery, Blair, NE

Findagrave Memorial: 146908787

No newspaper name given.

Rodney Block, 37

Rodney Steven Block, 37, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa died Monday, August 11, 1997, due to complications from a year-long battle with stomach cancer.

Services were August 13, with burial in the Blair Cemetery.

Block was born in Huron, South Dakota and was raised in Blair. He graduated from Blair High School in 1978. He attended Ozark Bible College in Joplin, Missouri for 1 and ½ years. He received an associate degree in radio and television communications from Brown Institute from Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1984. On November 3, 1984 he married Ann Lillard.

Survivors are his wife, Ann; four children, Tammany, Gabrielle, Hall, and Wilson; his mother, Pearl Block of Blair; sisters, Janice Farrell of Gulfport, MO; Emily Nappolini of Blair; Lois Kuhr of Washington, Utah; Corinne Gearhart of Missouri valley, Iowa and Robin Henderson of Yorktown, VA; brothers James of Murrieta, California; Roger of Omaha and Michael of Camano Island, Washington.

He as preceded in death by his father, Emil and a sister, Geraldine, who died in infancy.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~

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