Ronald D. Pinney 1946-2002

PINNEY, SPADE, LOCKE, DANNER, LYNCH, GRADY, GREGORY, CURRY, CORNWELL

Posted By: C. Tucker (email)
Date: 5/5/2011 at 07:05:54

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [Sunday 6-16-2002] p. 3A

MR. RONALD D. PINNEY, 56

Mr. Ronald D. Pinney, age 56 of Holiday Lake, Iowa, near Brooklyn, Iowa, died Thursday, June 13, at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell, Iowa. Funeral services are set for 1:30 p.m. Monday from the Estel Perrin Avey Funeral Home, with Pastor William Spencer officiating. Burial will follow in the Bethel Grove Cemetery near Liscomb. Military rites will be conducted by the Harry C. Harter Post 839 of the VFW. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m., with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. to receive friends. He was born April 24, 1946, in Marshalltown, the son of Albert and Katherine Spade Pinney. His first marriage was to Elaine Locke. He later was united in marriage to Lynda Danner, and she survives. Survivors include his mother, Katherine Pinney of Marshalltown; four daughters, Tiffany Lynch of Green Mountain, Crystal Pinney of Marshalltown, Angela Grady of Marshalltown and Susan Gentry of Marshalltown. There are nine grandchildren surviving. One brother and three sisters also survive: Donald Pinney of Marshalltown, Phyllis Gregory of Merced, Calif., Donna Curry of Bemidji, Minn., and Patty Cornwell of Marshalltown. Preceding him in death was his father and grandparents. Ronald was raised and educated in Marshalltown and graduated from Marshalltown High School in 1964. He immediately entered the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam until 1967. Following this, he returned to Marshalltown and worked at Swift & Company, then Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids. Ron then moved to Eddyville where he owned and operated Ron's Body Shop, later coming back to Marshalltown where he did body and fender work at his home. In 1994 they moved to Holiday Lake, where he continued to do body work until ill health forced his retirement. One of his interests was fishing, and he proudly displayed his trophy Bass.