Funeral Services for Richard Stanley Dowd will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church in Albert Lea. The Rev. Dwight Netzer will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. Military honors will be accorded by Albert Lea veterans organizations.

Visitation will be from  4  to 7 p.m. Friday at Bonnerup Funeral Service in Albert Lea and one hour before services at the church.

Stan died Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea.  He was 85.

He was born May 11, 1929, in Albert Lea, the son of Harvey N. and Henrietta B. (Larson) Dowd. He graduated from Scarville High School in Scarville, Iowa, and went on for training at Gale Institute (Brown Institute) in Minneapolis.

Stan married Wanda A. Nelson Feb. 4, 1951, at First Presbyterian Church in Albert Lea. They had just celebrated 64 years together.

He entered the U.S. Army in March of 1951, where he served until his honorable discharge in March of 1953. While in the service Stan had served in the Signal Corp as a teletype operator.

Following his years of service Stan and Wanda made their home in Albert Lea.

Stan worked at Wilson & Co. and Farmstead as a receiving clerk from 1952 until retiring in 1990. He had also worked as a meat cutter at Wayne’s Grocery Store on South Broadway for more than eight years. He was a member of the Senior Center, American Legion and very active in First Presbyterian Church. Stan loved to visit and enjoyed keeping up with all his relatives, neighbors and friends.

Dowd is survived by his loving wife, Wanda, of Albert Lea; three children, Janet  (Dan) Hooker of Austin, Ronald Dowd (Debbie Williams) of Farmington and Julie  Dowd of Blaine; three grandchildren, Carolyn (Todd) Dube, Christopher Hooker and fiancee, Melissa, and Jamie (Nathan) Coleman; five great-grandchildren, Alex, Michael and Lauren Dube, and Zoe and Katelyn Coleman; brother, Donald Dowd, of Albert Lea; and sisters-in-law and brother-in-law Mary Dowd and Ardis Jensen, both of Albert Lea, Sherman and Patricia Nelson of Tucson, Arizona, and Mary Sue Dowd of Albert Lea; and many nieces and nephews.

Stan was preceded in death by his parents Harvey and Henrietta Dowd; his sister, Beulah Martinson Randall; brother, Robert Dowd; and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law Hubert Martinson,  Mac Randall,  Marge Dowd, Nila and Earl Taylor, and Oliver Jensen.