Yeomans hangs it up

By: 
Robert Maharry

As longtime Grundy County Deputy Ken Yeomans reflected on his tenure during his first day of “unemployment” on Friday, he realized that he wasn’t the only one who was retiring.
           
“It’s also my family. Just recently I learned of the stress… the kids have opened up on going through school, the stuff that they’ve (been) put through,” said Yeomans, a husband, father of three and grandfather of 10. “You don’t think of the things that your kids go through being a cop’s kid. They’ve been worried about my safety all the time.”
           
After a 40-year law enforcement career that began in his native Iowa Falls and ended with a 27-year stint in Grundy County, Yeomans worked his last day Thursday, and he’s now the second deputy with over 25 years of service to the county to retire in the last three months (Ron Tordoff was the first).
 
His first job was as a dispatcher and reserve officer with the Iowa Falls Police Department, and he then moved to Laurens in northwest Iowa for three years as an officer. Citing a desire to get closer to home, Yeomans took a job with the Grundy Center Police Department in 1982—interestingly enough, the position opened up when now-Chief Deputy Tim Wolthoff left the city department to accept his current position under Sheriff Rick Penning. Eight years later, he joined the county force just months after Tordoff, and Yeomans stayed in that post for the remainder of his career. 
 
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