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Pierre Lee “Pete” Gombert

Birth	:	28 Mar 1932 Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	19 Nov 2021 Hiawatha, Linn County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.1032982, -91.2975006
Description	:	Pierre "Pete" Gombert age 89, died Friday, November 19, 2021 at the Oldorf Hospice House, Hiawatha, following a brief illness. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:00 Tuesday morning, November 23, 2021, at St. Isadore Catholic Church, Springville with interment in the Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa with Military Honors. Friends are invited to join the family for the funeral mass. The family will greet friends following the interment at Sally's in Springville in a final celebration of Pete's life. Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa has taken Pete and his family into their care. Mask... Read More	Pierre "Pete" Gombert age 89, died Friday, November 19, 2021 at the Oldorf Hospice House, Hiawatha, following a brief illness. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:00 Tuesday morning, November 23, 2021, at St. Isadore Catholic Church, Springville with interment in the Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa with Military Honors. Friends are invited to join the family for the funeral mass. The family will greet friends following the interment at Sally's in Springville in a final celebration of Pete's life. Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa has taken Pete and his family into their care. Mask are not required but are highly recommended. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Kim, a grandson, Daniel Gombert, and siblings, Ramona Ehlts, Clair Gombert, Owen Gombert, Jon Gombert. Pierre "Pete" Lee Gombert was born to Christian and Zelma Edwards, Gombert, in Maquoketa, Iowa on March 28, 1932. He attended school in various small Iowa towns, such as Otter Creek, Wyoming, and Onslow. He made his way to Kewanee, IL., as a young man, where he worked as a farmhand. Pete served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Upon his departure from the service in 1954, and his return to the United States, he resumed driving trucks for different shipping companies and started logging for a man on Nine Mile Island, near Dubuque. He started logging on his own with a horse-drawn flatbed, using it to pull the timber up to his truck. During this time, he was working at John Deere as a machine operator. where he met Lois Duehr his future wife, was married on October 21, 1967, at Marion, Iowa. After he had saved enough money, he bought equipment to start logging in a more professional and efficient manner, selling his logs to local buyers. Pete obtained a list of international lumber contacts and was able to persuade German, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, and Dutch companies to buy logs from him. At one point, eighty-five percent of the red elm that left the USA was sold by Pete. As railroads started to consolidate in the 1970s, Pete saw a new business opportunity. He designed a machine he called a rail sled. His brother, Owen, built it from Pete's design, and it worked well enough that he was able to buy up old railroad lines, and salvage the railroad ties, rails, and even the gravel bed, salvaging a mile of track per day. Pete retired in 1989. He then renovated the buildings that previously housed his timber and salvage business, into storage buildings that he still rents out to this day. He then began to build homes and duplexes on his land, South of Anamosa. In 1993, he formed a neighborhood association that has more than 50 families living there today. Never one to be idle, Pete kept one of his original dump trucks. He used it to deliver the black dirt he sold from his property. Goettsch Funeral Home

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Pierre Lee “Pete” Gombert's memorial is located at: Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones County, USA.
When did Pierre Lee “Pete” Gombert death?
Pierre Lee “Pete” Gombert death on 19 Nov 2021 in Hiawatha, Linn County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 42.1032982
Longitude: -91.2975006

Family Members:

Parent

Christian Gombert

(1905 - 1979)

Zelma M. Edwards Gombert

(1911 - 1968)

Siblings

Ramona Carmen Gombert Ehlts

(1929 - 1998)

Corp Claire Dee Gombert

(1930 - 1954)

Owen Frank Gombert

(1934 - 1986)

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