Robert H. Diers

      WAYLAND - Robert H. Diers, 73, of Wayland, died Thursday, May 8, 2008, in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics following a lengthy illness.

      Funeral services have been set for 10 a.m. Monday, May 12, in the Swedeburg Evangelical Lutheran Church in Swedeburg, with the Rev. Fran Griffeth and Bishop Philip L. Hougen officiating. Burial will be in New Sweden Lutheran Cemetery near Lockridge. Open visitation without the family present will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Beatty Funeral home in Wayland. The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the church. Memorials may be made to Pulmonary Fibrosis Research at the University of Iowa, First Augustana Lutheran Church, or Diabetes Education at the Henry County Health Center.

      Mr. Diers was born Nov. 14, 1934, in Washington, the son of Harlan Julius and Edith L. (Graf) Diers. He married Mary Kathryn Sutton on March 21, 1954 in Hope Lutheran Church in Brighton.