Robert Tighe

October 21, 1937 – October 14, 2024

Robert Tighe, 86, died peacefully at his home on Monday, October 14, 2024, surrounded by his family.

Services will be held at 11:00 am Tuesday morning, October 22, 2024, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Monticello. Visitation will be held at 4:00 pm Monday. Visitation will continue on Tuesday morning from 10:00 until service time at the church.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Elizbeth Annette O’Neill, his parents, Paul and Julia Tighe, stepmother, Florence Renz Tighe, brothers, John (Jean), Louis (Helen) and Paul, Mark, sisters, Mary (Felix) Dorcey, Patricia (Joe) Dorcey, Ramona (Lee) Kovensky. Robert Francis Tighe was born October 21, 1937, at Sioux City, Iowa, the son of Paul and Julia Todd, Tighe. His mother died when he was twelve, and father married his caring stepmother, Florence. He has one living brother Richard Tighe, of Webster City.

Bob married Elizabeth O’Neill on November 26, 1959, in South Sioux City, Nebraska. He was the head football coach at Arcadia and Emerson Nebraska, LeMars Gehlen High School, then Eagle Grove, Iowa. In 1972 he started his career with State Farm Insurance, and moved to West Branch, Iowa, and then on to Monticello in 1990. He retired from State Farm in 2003.