Lawrence “Bish” Bishop, 80, of Tingley died Sept. 11, 2014 at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday, September 15 at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home, 205 W. Monroe St., Mount Ayr. The Rev. Bruce Giese is conducting services. Burial will be in the Tingley Cemetery with military rites. Open viewing will be 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday with the family present 9 to 11 a.m. Monday. A memorial fund has been established in his name. Online condolences may be left at www.watsonarmstrongfh.com.
Lawrence Bishop, son of Ruby (Robinson) and Merwin Bishop, was born May 6, 1934 in Lewis, Iowa. Bish served his country in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Japan. On November 21, 1960, he married Florence Osborn in Council Bluffs. The family moved from Lewis to Tingley in 1968.
Bish worked construction, but will be most remembered for working at Nichols Elevator in Arispe and England’s Service Station in Tingley for several years.
Bish is survived by his wife Florence Bishop of Tingley; step-son Darrell Clark of Littleton, Colo.; daughters Sherry (Bobby Kibbe) Briner of Tingley and Lori (Paul) Tull of Creston; grandchildren April (Justin) Hansen, Joshua (Schianniah Parsons) Briner, Kaden Kibbe, Kody Kibbe, Bethany (Toby) Burgess, Kristen (Edman) Floyd, and Brandon Tull; great grandchildren Clayton, Dustin, and Jasmine Hansen, Austin and Alice Briner, Kaitlyn, Keigan, and Levi Burgess, Navaeh, Mikalya, Jayson, and Serenity Floyd; sister Berniece Ihrke of Atlantic; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, an infant son Melvin Lee Bishop and his siblings Rosemary McGowen of Texas, Gertrude Swinford of Duncan, Okla., Robert Bishop of Omaha, Neb., and Richard Bishop of Atlantic.