Marvin D. Pickering (2012)

PICKERING, MOORMAN, DONHAM, BROWN, MEASE, SPAINHOWER, HUTCHINSON, CAIN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 1/24/2012 at 07:52:07

Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa
January 24, 2012

MARVIN D. PICKERING, Winterset

Marvin D. Pickering, 65, of Winterset, died Saturday at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2012, at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset. Following the funeral service his body will be cremated with the cremains being interred in the Union Chapel Cemetery in Madison County at a later date.

Marv was born on May 7, 1946, at Des Moines, Iowa to Roy and Hazel (Moorman) Pickering. He grew up in Winterset and graduated from Winterset High School in 1964. Having lived several years in Carlisle he returned to Winterset in 1992 and had worked for Mahle Tennex as a machine operator. He was married to his long time companion Diana Kay Brown Donham. Marv had been a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Marv is survived by his wife, Diana Pickering of Winterset; children, Andy (Nicky) Pickering of Winterset, Adam (Amy) Pickering of Carlisle, Mindy (Brent) Spainhower of Des Moines, and Molly Pickering of Carlisle; step-children, Gary (Miranda) Donham of Winterset, Tim (Rene Cain) Donham of Winterset, and Kim (Dan) Hutchinson of Des Moines; sister, Sue (Jim) Mease of Winterset; six grandchildren; and eight step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and step-daughter, Rae Lynn Donham.

Visitation will be Wednesday from noon to 8 p.m. at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home. A rosary will be recited at 5 p.m. His family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be directed to his family for a future designation.