McKEE, Marvin D.
MCKEE, GILDNER, HOGAN, MERRIGAN, LEHMAN, SCANLON
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/24/2018 at 20:55:44
Obituary ~ Marvin D. McKee
February 26, 1923 ~ March 17, 2008The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
March 23, 2008BEDFORD, N.H. -- A Mass of Christian burial will be held at noon, Wednesday, March 26, at the Basilica of St. Mary, 88 N. 17th St., Minneapolis, Minn., for Marvin D. McKee.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Joseph S. Klecatsky & Sons Funeral Home, 1580 Century Point (Yankee Doodle Road at Coachman) Eagan, Minn., and also one hour prior to the Mass at church. Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Mendota Heights. Memorials preferred to the Basilica of St. Mary, Michael O'Connell Endowment Fund or The Educational Farm, 174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford, NH 03110.
Father, grandfather and long-time Twin Cities funeral director, Marvin McKee, passed away peacefully on St. Patrick's Day surrounded by his loving family and dogs in Bedford, N.H.
Marvin was born on Feb. 26, 1923, to Sidney A. and Velma (Gildner) McKee in Rock Falls, Iowa. He was raised in the area and graduated from Rock Falls High School in 1940. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served as a pharmacist mate. After World War II he returned to school at the College of Mortuary Science in St. Louis, Mo., and received his degree in 1947. He returned to the north Iowa area and was employed at the Bride Funeral Home in Manly. In 1951 he purchased the Colonial Funeral Home in Mason City (now Hogan-Bremer Moore) and operated it as the Hogan-McKee Funeral Home until 1967.
Marvin married Margaret J. Hogan in 1952 and they made their home in Mason City, raising three daughters. He also was a summer resident of Clear Lake with a cottage on its North Shore for over 20 years. In 1967 the family moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he was employed by Welander-Quist Funeral Home of Minneapolis and J.S. Klecatsky & Sons Funeral Home in Eagan, retiring in 2003 after 20 years of service. He was a 50-year member of the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association and helped countless families during their time of loss.
After retiring, he enjoyed spending time with his daughters, grandchildren and many friends both in Minnesota and New Hampshire. He moved to Bedford, N.H., in the summer of 2007 and spent time meeting the 2008 presidential candidates, "offering them advice." His passions included fishing, growing vegetables, pheasant hunting in Iowa, Democratic politics, spring breaks on Marco Island, Fla., all animals (especially his grand-dogs), his daughters, eight grandchildren and many dear friends and colleagues. He loved his family deeply and will be missed.
He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Margaret (1983), and survived by daughters, Kathleen "Katie" of St. Paul, Erin (Mike) Merrigan of Minneapolis; grandchildren, Conor, Bridget, Colin, Michael and Joe and Mary "Meg" (John) Lehman of Bedford, N.H., and their children, Colleen, Molly and Caitlin; sister-in-law, Mary Scanlon of Minnetonka, Minn.; and many loving nieces and nephews.
J.S. Klecatsky & Sons Funeral Home, 651-454-9488.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2018
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