Rankin, Jeffrey Harold – 1956-2008

HOAGLAND, MADSON, MUTHOMI, RANKIN, RICHTER, VERPLOEG

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/9/2016 at 20:21:44

Jeffrey Rankin passed away at the age of 52 years on Tuesday morning, October 21, 2008, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House in Pella.
On January 1956, Richard and Karen Hoagland Rankin gave birth to their first child, whom they named Jeffrey Harold. Jeffrey Harold Rankin was born in Newton, Iowa. Jeff was raised on a farm and lived his entire life in rural Reasnor, Iowa. He attended the Lynnville-Sully Grade School and graduated from Lynnville-Sully High School in Sully, Iowa, with the class of 1974. Subsequent to high school Jeff took college courses as an adult at Marshalltown Community College at Marshalltown in Engineering.
Jeff and Kathryn Kay Madson were united in marriage on May 27, 1978, at the Nazareth Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Jeff supported his family by working in the Engineering department, and also as a Quality Tech Inspector at Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella, Iowa. He had been an employee there for 30 years.
Survivors are his wife, Kathryn K. Rankin, his five children: Krista J. Rankin of Waukee, Iowa; Rachel R. Muthomi and her husband, Emmanuel of Ames, Iowa, Jonathan M. Rankin and his wife, Shelly of Des Moines, Iowa, Sarah B. Rankin and Jenny M. Rankin both at home; three grandchildren; his parents, Richard and Karen Rankin of Reasnor; one brother, James Rankin and his wife Jeanette of Pella; two sisters, Peggy Jo and her husband, Pat Richter of Bath, Maine, and Lisa and her husband Scott Ver Ploeg of Hartville, Missouri, and numerous other relatives.
Source: Monroe Legacy; 06 November 2008