Bio: Bedessem, Robert “Bob” (IGA Mgr. - 1975)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Bedessem, Kohnert, Foote

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/09/1975

Bedessem. Robert “Bob” (IGA Manager - 1975)

Rober “Bob” Bedessem, is the new manager at the Neillsville IGA Foodliner. He succeeds Clark Kohnert, who resigned to manage his own store in Pigeon Falls. Bedessem worked under James Foote, a native of Neillsville, in Manitowoc and became co-manager of the Copps Discount Store there before being transferred to the Neillsville store. He is a 1972 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and worked as a frozen produce manager at the Copps store there while in school. In Manitowoc he was in charge of the discount store’s food department. Bedessem is single; has hobbies hunting, fishing and water skiing.