GRAVES, Marvin N. 1914-2002

GRAVES, DEBERG, STAHL

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/7/2019 at 06:03:18

Marvin Graves, 87

Marvin Graves, 87, of Dike, died March 7 at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls from complications of Parkinson's disease and heart disease.

Funeral services were March 9 at Lincoln Center Christian Reformed Church, rural Grundy Center. Burial was in the Elmwood Cemetery in Dike. A memorial fund has been established.

Marvin was born on November 28, 1914 on a farm in Lincoln Township, Grundy County, the son of Henry and Ora (DeBerg) Graves. Marvin graduated from the Dike Community School in 1933 and started working in the Dike Savings Bank in 1935. On June 22, 1938, Marvin was united in marriage to Beulah Stahl in Holland at the home of her parents. Marvin and Beulah moved into a home in Dike.

In 1944, Marvin was called to serve in the Navy where he was stationed at San Diego for basic training and later served and graduated from fire control school. While being held over as an instructor, he contracted spinal meningitis and was hospitalized for eight months. He received his honorable discharge in 1946. He returned to Dike in 1946 as cashier and later president of the Iowa Savings Bank in Dike. Marvin also served as the board secretary for the Dike Community School for 36 years, resigning in 1978.

He was a faithful member of the Lincoln Center Christian Reformed Church for many years serving several terms as Deacon, Elder and many years as choir director as well as singing with his wife Beulah for 268 funerals.

Survivors include his wife Beulah of Dike, two sons, Wendell Graves and his wife Sidonie of Independence and Don Graves and his wife LaDonna of Dike; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Joe Graves of Grundy Center and Raymond Graves and his wife Johanna of Holland, MI; one sister, Irene Neuberger of Cedar Falls; two half-brothers, Lawrence Graves and his wife Dorothy of Dike and Dennis Graves and his wife Beverly of Reinbeck; two half-sisters, Evelyn Bootsma and her husband Garrold of Sibley and Beverly Tanis of Freeport, IL.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his step-mother, Gepka Graves; one sister, Leona Gronewold; and one half-brother, Harold Graves.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 14 March 2002, pg 11