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Marvin Merle Stokesbary
1921 - 2007
- Marvin M. Stokesbary
Jan. 26, 1921 - May 15, 2007
Redwood Falls - Marvin Merle Stokesbary, 86, of Redwood Falls died Tuesday
at Immanuel-St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato.
The service is at 2 p.m. Saturday at United Methodist Church in Morgan.
Burial with military honors will follow at Crestlawn Gardens in rural
Redwood Falls.
Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Nelson-Martin Funeral Home in
Morgan and continues at the church Saturday for one hour before the service.
He was born Jan. 26, 1921, in Klemme, Iowa, to Clinton and Ada (Peterson)
Stokesbary. He grew up in the Garner and Mason City, Iowa, area, and
graduated from Klemme High School.
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He worked as a farm hand in Good Thunder and Amboy, then in Puyallup, Wash.,
before returning to Minnesota and enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He served
during World War II from 1942 to
1946 as an aviation machinist mate, stationed primarily in Hawaii.
On June 30, 1945, he married Kathleen Cole in Hanley Falls and they made
their home in Jacksonville, Fla. After his discharge from the Navy, they
moved to Beauford, Minn., where he
worked on the Ballard Brothers farm. They then lived and farmed in the
Mankato area until moving to Wells. In 1957 they moved to the Morgan area,
where they purchased a farm. While
farming, he sold Badger-Northland farm equipment and other short-line farm
machinery, feed from Hubbard, Milling, Big Gain and Kent Feed, and DeKalb
seed corn for more than 50
years. In 1985 the couple moved to Redwood Falls, where he continued as a
farm supply and equipment dealer.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church of Morgan, where he taught
adult education and served on various boards. He was also a lifetime member
of the Morgan VFW.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Arlyn (and Sandy) of Slayton, Ronald
(and Janet) of Longville and Curtis (and Kathy) of Redwood Falls; two
daughters, Jodell (and Ron) Winter of
Great Falls, Mont., and Mary Jean (and Randal) Koll of Belle Plaine; a
son-in-law, Henry Ripka of Owatonna; 21 grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Maxine (and Merlin)
Upmeyer of Garner, Iowa, Bonnie (and John ) Osnes of Forest City, Iowa, Ruth
(and Bob) Law of Clear Lake, Iowa, and Phyllis (and Dusty) Devens of Apache
Junction, Ariz.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Marilyn Ripka, and by three brothers
and one sister.
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May 2007
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- Marvin Merle Stokesbary: born 26 Jan 1921 Klemme,
Hancock County, Iowa - died 15 May 2007 Mankato, Blue Earth County,
Minnesota
Grave marker at Crestlawn Memorial Garden, Redwood Falls, Redwood County,
Minnesota
Son of Clinton Myron Stokesbary, born 1890 - died 1971 and Ada Malena
Peterson, born
1891 - died 1972
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- Husband of: Kathleen Adeline Cole, born 1920 -
died 2012
- Father of:
- Marilyn K Stokesbary Ripka (1948-1995)
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Brother of:
Lyle Clinton Stokesbary (1914-2002)
Marvin Merle Stokesbary (1921-2007)
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- source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 183099245
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