Dick L. Bissell

Dickie “Dick” Lee Bissell was born to Mary Margaret (Devereaux) and Kenneth Virgil Bissell on October 15, 1942 in Adams County, Iowa. Dick entered eternal rest on February 13, 2019 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa after suffering a stroke. He passed away at the age of 76 years, 3 months and 29 days.
When Dick was two years old, he moved with his parents to a farm eight miles northwest of Creston. It was on this farm that he was a partner with his dad in the Bissell and Son farming and livestock operation. He graduated from Cromwell Consolidated School in 1961 and was a member of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Dick was also a member of the Iowa Army National Guard with the Corning unit from 1963 to 1969. On August 6, 1972, he married Margie Sue Dillard in Indianola, Iowa. To this union, a son, Matthew Wayne Bissell, was born. They later divorced. Dick liked listening to Iowa football games on the radio during the harvest season. He thoroughly enjoyed riding one of his restored John Deere tractors on antique tractor rides locally, in Iowa and surrounding states. But most of all, he loved giving rides to his two grandchildren, Hayden and Kinsley, on his John Deere 730 whenever they came to visit him at the farm.
Left to mourn Dick’s passing are his son, Matt, Lake Elmo, Minnesota; grandson, Hayden Joseph Bissell; granddaughter, Kinsley Mae Bissell; sisters, Jane (Roland) Miller, Lenox, and Marcia (Robert) Vest, Ankeny; nephews, Brian Miller and Christopher (Lora) Vest; great-nephew, Zachary (Chelsie) Miller; great-nieces, Morgan and Brooke Miller, and Addison Vest; and other relatives and friends. Preceding Dick in death were his parents and nephew, Nicholas Vest.