Jerold LeRoy Sargent

Jerold “Jerry” LeRoy Sargent, 85, passed away peacefully at his home in Tarpon Springs, Florida on May 28, 2025. He was born May 21, 1940, in Maxwell, Iowa to LeRoy Sargent and Marjorie (Anderson) Sargent.

Attending Open Bible College in Des Moines, Iowa, would lead him to the love of his life, Della (Keller) Sargent, and they married on May 27, 1961, in South Dakota. They were married for more than 56 years, raising four children together.

In the late 1960s, Jerry moved his family to the Kansas City area, where he built a successful career as a computer engineer and eventually became a regional manager for Hitachi Corporation. He and Della retired to Denton, Texas in 1996, and after Della’s death in 2017, he relocated to the Clearwater, Florida area.

Throughout his life, Jerry was always someone to whom people gravitated. He had a magnetic personality, and to him, no person was a stranger. It was a gift that made him successful in business and in his life in general.

Jerry had a love of many sports. Most weekends you could find him watching golf, football, basketball or baseball. He played basketball in high school and as a young adult became an avid golfer and bowler. Throughout his life, he was a Kansas City Chiefs fan, and was extremely proud that his great nephew, Leo Chenal, was drafted by the Chiefs in 2022.

Jerry was preceded in death by his parents, LeRoy and Marjorie Sargent; his wife, Della Sargent; his son, Fredrick Sargent; his twin sister, Janice Ferguson, and brother, Robert Sargent.

Survivors include his children, Jeffrey Sargent (Steve) of Vienna, Virginia, Sheila Devereux of Vero Beach, Florida, and Sheryl Fosberg (Holly) of Carbon, Indiana; his brother, Richard Sargent of Prescott, Arizona and sister, Robin Iiams of Guymon, Oklahoma; along with many adoring grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.

A Celebration of Jerry’s Life will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 1:00 pm with Dinner reception to follow at A.Ives Reid Celebration Center 609 Minnie Ave. Belton, Mo. 64012. Interment will be at Mount Zion Cemetery in Polk County, Iowa. Arrangements have been entrusted to Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home in Clearwater, Florida.

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