Kenneth "Neal" Cutler

K. Neal Cutler, 74, of Jefferson, formerly Sioux City, died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes, 1801 Morningside Ave., in Sioux City, with the Rev. Neil L. Peck officiating. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Sioux City. Visitation with the family will be 1 p.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.christysmith.com .
Neal was born on May 23, 1943, to Harry and Helen (Morrisey) Cutler. He grew up and attended Sioux City Public Schools, graduating from East High in 1961. After graduation, he entered the U.S. Navy and served from 1961 until 1965 as a radio man on the USS Sabine. After returning home, he worked as a bartender at the Patio Bar.
He married Mary Lou Vogel in 1972. To this union two children were born, Ben and Molly. The couple later divorced. In 1980, Neal went to work for Guarantee Roofing Co. as an estimator/salesman. He married Deborah Kae Berg in 1982. The couple divorced several years later. He retired in 1995 due to his health and was placed on a heart transplant list. In 2007, he went to Salt Lake City and received a new heart. This gift of life allowed him to continue on in his life and see many new things for ten more years. The biggest gift was the birth of his granddaughter, Amelia. She was the apple of his eye.
His hobbies included listening to rock-n-roll, riding motorcycle, telling stories, and hunting and walleye fishing on the Missouri River near Platte, S.D. Neal caught his trophy fish near there that he mounted and love to tell the story of how he caught it over and over to anyone who would listen.
Surviving are his daughter, Molly Bowman and her husband, Gene of Grimes, Iowa; granddaughter, Amelia Elizabeth Bowman of Grimes; brother, Harry Cutler and his wife, Marcia of Sioux City; nephews, Jeffrey Cutler and his significant other, Rhonda Foote, Joel Cutler and his wife, Stacey and Jim Cutler, all of Sioux City; and several grandnieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Benjamin Neal Cutler; and his sister, Beverly Burkhart.