Services will be held at 12:00pm on Friday, October 25th in the Runge Mortuary Chapel with visitation from 10:00am to 12:00pm with lunch to follow. He will be laid to rest at the National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal at 2:30 pm. Everybody is welcome to attend. Online condolences may be expressed at www.rungemortuary.com.
Michael was born January 1, 1947 to J. Albert Jr. and Barbara (Escher) deBlois in Trenton, NJ. On June 24, 1967 he was united in marriage to Lynn K. Pomazal at Holy Redeemer Church in Milwaukee, WI. He graduated from Notre Dame HS, Trenton, New Jersey where he participated in school plays, was on the golf team, JV football team and pitched on the baseball team. He was a pitcher in the Babe Ruth Little League and the City team. He was on the golf team while attending Mt. St. Mary's College in Emmetsburg, Maryland for two years before enlisting in the United States Navy for four years as an electronics technician. He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was also on the golf team, and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri.
After his internship at Davenport Osteopathic Hospital, he opened his family practice clinic in Walcott, Iowa in July 1978. His patients were like family to him and he always had a story to tell before they left their visit. He was a member of the American Osteopathic Association and Scott County Osteopathic Medical Society. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer in November 1997 which resulted in the closing of the Walcott Family Clinic.
His interests were numerous. Surfing and striped bass fishing at the Jersey Shore; fly fishing for trout even tying his own flies while enjoying searching for those special streams in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa; oil painting for relaxation while in college and medical school; tennis; pheasant and quail hunting with his prized Brittany Spaniel, Brookie Lynn; traveling around the Midwest with his wife, children and his horse Daylight; going to Field Trials to watch Brookie Lynn compete; golfing with past memberships at Wahkonsa Golf & CC and Geneva Golf & CC; a Civil War enthusiast; a vegetable gardener; a woodworker, making some beautiful furniture and turning the basement into a hardware store.
Those left to cherish his memory include his sons Michael (Elizabeth) deBlois, Jason (Kara) deBlois, and Scott deBlois; grandchildren, Nicholas (Hannah) deBlois, William (Bailey) deBlois, Joseph deBlois, Kaitlyn deBlois, Jessica deBlois, and Maverick deBlois; siblings, Donna Kudra, Patrick (Phyllis) deBlois, and David (Janine) and brother-in-law Michael (Deborah), sister-in-law Debra (Gary) Schultz.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Lynn, parents and four brothers (J. Albert III, Robert, Christopher and Thomas J.).
