Delmar Diedrick


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Posted Online: Jan. 04, 2013, 5:17 pm
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Delmar Henry Anthony Diedrick, 93, Davenport, formerly of Mesa, Ariz., died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, at Kahl Home, Davenport.
Services are 11:15 a.m. Monday at Kahl Home Chapel. Visitation is 2-4 p.m. Sunday at McGinnis-Chambers, Bettendorf, and 10 a.m. to services Monday at Kahl Home. Burial is at St. Mary's Cemetery, East Moline.
He married Eleanore Ossowski Nov. 25, 1943. She died Aug. 2, 2004.
Surviving are children, Marcia Johnson, Janice Davis, Bettendorf, Gary, Galena, Ill.; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren.














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