BETTENDORF -- Services for Robert M. Acker Sr., 78, a resident of Lecanto, Fla., formerly of Bettendorf, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at McGinnis, Chambers & Sass Funeral Home, Bettendorf. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.

Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Acker died Monday, April 30, 2001, at his home.

He founded, owned and operated Johnson Farms Dairy in Waterloo for many years, retiring in 1964.

Robert Acker was born March 23, 1923, in Waterloo, Iowa, the son of Dr. Wesley H. and Gertrude (McFarlane) Acker. He was a graduate of Iowa State University.

He married Geraldine H. Kies in Waterloo in January 1945. She preceded him in death Nov. 5, 1985. He married Muriel F. Kirk in Chetek, Wis., in June 1988.

He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and was recalled to active duty during the Korean War.

Memorials may be made to Citrus County Hospice or Genesis Hospice.

Survivors include his wife, Muriel; his daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Michael Schmicher, Colorado Springs, Colo., Marge and Michael Burke, Davenport, Janet Eppard, Plano, Texas, and her fiance, Michael Williams, Julie and Randall Willman, Iowa City, Catherine Padavich, Bettendorf, and Susan and Michael DeFrieze, Eldridge, Iowa; his sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Lois Acker Jr., Ashburn, Va., and Joseph Acker, Marion, Iowa; 19 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; his sister, Betty Sauer, Rochester, Minn.; and his brother, Dr. Richard Acker, Waterloo.

Robert Acker (1923)