Gene L. Scrivner

BURT, DOWNS, EPEAK, HINERICHSEN, JOHNSON, LEHMAN, PETERSON, SCRIVNER, WART

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/28/2006 at 16:48:02

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
July 19, 2002

Gene Scrivner, Indianola

Gene Lehman Scrivner, 80, died of a blood disorder July 6, 2002, at Mercy Hospice Center in Johnston.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 9, at Kale Funeral Home in Truro with Pastor Jim Patrick officiating. Burial was at St. Charles Cemetery.

Gene Scrivner was born Sept. 17, 1921 to Robert A. and Mattie (Lehman) Scrivner of St. Charles. He was rasied in St. Charles, grduating from St. Charles High School in 1940. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corp from 1945 to 1947. On Dec. 4, 1949, he was united in marriage to Joy Bell Downs, who died in 1968. On April 4, 1970, he married Mary Catharine Johnson.

Gene owned a gas station and produce house in St. Charles and livestock and grain hauling trucks. He also was a truck driver for Rock Island Motor Freight for 20 years, retiring in 1971. He had resided in St. Charles and Norwalk, moving to Indianola in 1994 and to Wesley Acres in Des Moines in December of 2001.

He was a member of V.F.W. Post 8142 in Winterset, Model Lodge 315 A.F.&A.M. in St. Charles, Retiree Union Local 147 and St. Charles Parish Church. He was a past member of the St. Charles Lions Club. He also had been a volunteer fireman for 36 years with the St. Charles and Norwalk departments.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, three brothers and two sisters.

He is survived by his wife, Catherine, of Indianola; a daughter, Nancy Hinerichsen (husband Denis) of Grimes; a son, Gary Scrivner (wife Julie) of Indianola; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Peterson (husband Charles) of Xenia, Ohio; a stepson, Perry Johnson (wife Anne) of St. Charles; five brothers, Ivan, Scrivner (wife Helen of St. Charles, Grant Scrivner of Winterset, Joe Scrivner of Eagle Rock, Mo., Paul Scrivner (wife Betty) of Hanley and Charles Scrivner of Springfield, Ill.; three sisters, May Ewart of Pineville, Mo., Mary Peak (husband Frank) of Knoxville and Lois Burt (husband Dean) of Cedar Rapids; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to Mercy Hospice in Johnston or Salt & Light (in care of Jim Patrick, Indianola).

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