Vos, Marvin Louis 1933-2005

VOS, MOES, BRANDERHORST, ARTHUR, WATTS

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Date: 8/21/2005 at 15:55:56

LYNNVILLE — Marvin Louis Vos, 72, of Lynnville died of a heart attack Friday, Aug. 12, 2005, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Sully Christian Reformed Church in Sully with a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. Burial will be at Sully Cemetery. Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella is handling arrangements.

A time for lunch and fellowship with the family will be held at the Sully Community Center following burial. For those desiring, memorials may be made to Sully Christian Grade School or "Back to God Hour."

The son of Joe C. and Elizabeth Johanna (Moes) Vos, he was born May 13, 1933, on the family farm south of Sully. He attended the Sully Christian Grade School and completed the eighth grade. He worked as a farm hand for farmers in Poweshiek and Jasper County. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. He served in Germany and was honorably discharged in the fall of 1955.

On Dec. 14, 1956, he married Joan Wilma Branderhorst at the First Christian Reformed Church in Oskaloosa. They farmed in the Searsboro, Monroe and Lynnville areas. He drove a tank wagon for Leighton Gas & Oil from 1971 to 1975, and later drove truck for Macy Stockyards from 1975 to 1979. He and his family eventually settled back north of Sully on a farmstead, where he lived the remainder of his life. In March of 1995, he took a job driving truck for Ron Williams Trucking, which he did until Monday, Aug. 8, 2005, when he suffered a heart attack.

Mr. Vos was a lifetime member of the Sully Christian Reformed Church. He taught Sunday School for many years and was active in 4-H as a leader and also on the 4-H county extension board. He enjoyed deer hunting and fishing. He and his wife enjoyed traveling often to Rutledge, Mo., to attend flea markets.

Survivors include his wife; their seven children and their spouses, Verlan and Lori Vos and Beverly and Cecil Arthur, all of Searsboro, Loren and Tammy Vos, Keith Vos and Doug and Brenda Vos, all of Sully, Brian and Sandy Vos of New Virginia and Julie and Scott Watts of Runnells; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; and five brothers and their spouses and one sister-in-law, Lois (Raymond) Vos of Pella, Clifford and Mildred Vos of Reasnor, Robert and Pearl Vos of Lynnville, Creston and Evelyn Vos of Ankeny, Gene and Linda Vos of Pella and Norman and Connie Vos of Pella.

He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Raymond Vos.

The Newton (IA) Daily News, Monday, August 15, 2005