Victor Edwards (2010)
BERKLAND, EDWARDS, FRISCH, HENNINGAR, LAUER, PLATT, WALLACE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 5/13/2010 at 14:59:08
Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Thursday, May 13, 2010VICTOR EDWARDS, Macksburg
Victor Edwards, 82, died Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Madison County Health Care System in Winterset.
A visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday, May 13, 2010, at Ochiltree Funeral Service and Aftercare in Winterset, where the family will be present to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 14, 2010, at the Macksburg United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Moon Cemetery, rural Macksburg. Memorials may be directed to Middle River Hospice of Winterset.
Victor was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, on March 26, 1928; the son of Joshua and Bertha (Platt) Edwards. When Victor was five, the family moved to IA and he later graduated from Macksburg High School. He married Delores Berkland at the Candlelight Chapel in Las Vegas on December 23, 1983.
Victor was a farmer most of his life and enjoyed raising cows. He also owned and operated Victor Edwards Trucking and had served on the board of directors for the Farmers Cooperative in Macksburg.
Victor enjoyed traveling to AZ and loved to golf. He liked to hunt and fish and looked forward to the skillet throw at Macksburg's Annual Skillet Days.
Victor is survived by his wife, Delores Edwards of Macksburg, a son, Dennis Edwards (Liz) of Orient; a daughter, Linda Hennigar (Randy) of Greenfield; a son, Steve Wallace of Dubuque; daughter, Cathy Frisch of Indianola; a sister, Esther Lauer of Winterset; ten grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Gale and Forrest; and two sisters, Lola and Velma.
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