CONOVER, Ray Allen

CONOVER, PLOWMAN, SCHWEITZER

Posted By: Connie Street, volunteer (email)
Date: 9/11/2003 at 00:17:14

CONOVER, Ray Allen

Graveside funeral services for 54-year-old Ray Conover of Grandview, Iowa, will be held at 11 am Friday, Nov. 17, 2000, at the Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, with military rites. Visitation will be held from 6-7 pm Thursday at the Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home, Columbus Junction, Iowa.

Mr. Conover died Monday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, after the discovery of a massive brain tumor on Sunday. A memorial has been established at the funeral home for his daughter's education or to his church.

Ray Allen Conover was born July 29, 1946, in Muscatine, Iowa to Jess and Grace Plowman Conover.

Ray was previously married and to this union two sons were born, Randy and James Conover. Ray later married Marilyn Schweitzer, August 6, 1988, in Columbus Junction.

Ray was an Army Veteran. He was currently employed at the HON Co., Muscatine, where he had worked for the past 34 years.

He had been a Boy Scout Leader for many years and loved camping, boating, and wood-working. He loved to watch eagles and feeding the birds, especially the finches. He loved helping people in need. He was a member of the Muscatine Baptist Chapel.

Survivors include his wife, Marilyn, Grandview; a daughter Jennifer Conover, at home, Grandview; two sons, Randy Conover, Eddyville, Iowa and James Conover and his wife Vickie, St. Joseph, Mo.; two grandchildren, two brothers, Marvin Conover and his wife Carolyn Stanberry, Mo.; and Kenneth Conover and his wife Doris, Wilton, Iowa; a sister, Carolyn Mann and her husband Verlin, Dearborn, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister.

Wapello Republican November 16, 2000.

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