MARSH, Roy Kenneth 1923-2001

MARSH, SHORT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/18/2010 at 19:17:45

OBITUARY: Roy Kenneth Marsh 1923-2001

Roy Kenneth "Ken" Marsh, age 78, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died suddenly on Saturday, October 20, 2001 at St. Luke's Hospital. Memorial services were held at Calvary Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids on October 23, 2001. Burial was in the Liberty Cemetery, Little Cedar.

Ken was born January 4, 1923 in Menlo, Iowa the son of Roy Marsh and Ila Mae Short. He married Geneva Johnson on October 14, 1945 in the Baptist Church in Little Cedar, Iowa. He graduated from Riceville High School and the University of Iowa with a master's degree in history. He taught American government at Roosevelt High School and Jefferson High School for 35 years. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church where he served as head usher for 33 years and was on the Christian Education Committee.

Ken served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific area during World War II.

Preceding him in death were his son-in-law, Loren McAdam; and three sisters, infant Alice Ione Marsh, Naomi Kildal and Mae Eleanor Marsh.

Those that survive him include his wife, Geneva; three daughters, Candi Thomson and husband, Max of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Laurie Fish and husband, John of Shellsburg, Iowa and Julie McAdam of Cedar Rapids; three sisters, Eileen Varley, Alice L. Dow and Ione Reese all of Oregon; and five grandchildren, Adam, Drew, and Jacob Fish and Brooke and Joanna Thomson.

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Nov. 14, 2001]