Argyle Leon Frey (2014)

FREY, BLIZZARD, SMITH, BROWN, HUTSON, MOULIN, QUINN, WOOLLUMS, MARLIN, MILLER, FRY, VOSS, SCADDEN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/26/2014 at 21:13:11

Powers Funeral Home, Creston, Iowa
March 22, 2014

LEON FREY, Creston

Leon Frey, 70, of Creston passed away Friday, March 21, 2014 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Mary O'Riley will officiate. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 with family receiving friends from 6-8:00 p.m. Tuesday at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Memorials are to the family of Leon and Denise Frey. Online condolences can be made under the obituary category atwww.powersfh.com.

Argyle Leon Frey was born September 5, 1943 in Winterset, IA to Ruth Isabelle Blizzard and Arthur Leon Frey. He lived south of Thayer on a farm and attended country school until the 8th grade and high school at Mt Ayr and graduated from East Union in 1961. He entered military and served the U.S. Navy for 4 years. He later graduated from Buena Vista with a BA in accounting. On January 28, 1968 Leon was united in marriage to Jerene Ann Smith in Des Moines. They later divorced. 

April 17, 1977, he was united in marriage to Denise Ann Brown in the Little Brown Church in Nashua and settled in Creston. Leon was a carpenter by profession, building several homes in Creston. Leon retired as a Union Carpenter, local 106 of Des Moines.

Survivors include five children Donovan Brown of Tarkio, Mo.; Jona Hutson of Shenandoah, IA.; Kara Moulin of Grimes, IA.; Amanda Quinn of Creston and Lindsey Frey-Woollums of Afton; one brother Robert (wife Rita) Frey of Afton; one sister Donna Marlin of Creston; a brother-in-law, David Smith of Ithaca, N.Y.; three sisters-in-law, Darcy (husband Maynard) Miller in West Point, Miss., Deanne "Annie" Fry in Cambria, Calif. and Dori (husband Dan) Voss of Fayetteville, N.C. and 11 grandchildren,

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Denise Frey on March 20, 2014, a brother Roger Frey, his nephew David Marlin and one niece Jaqueline Scadden.