Marion "Cubb" Cubbage

CUBBAGE, KALLENBERGER

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 12/19/2008 at 12:28:39

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal Feb. 18, 2008
MARION CUBBAGE
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Marion G. "Cubb" Cubbage, 72, of Muscatine, died Sunday, February 17, 2008, at Unity Hospital.

Reverend Jerry Foote of the Mulford Evangelical Free Church will officiate the service. Honorary pallbearers will be Don McCleary, Henry Tober, Roger Tompkins, Frank Adkison, Larry Montgomery, David Bauerbach, and Bill McCormick. Burial will be in Island Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the family in care of Ardyth Cubbage.

Marion was born on September 27, 1935, in Muscatine, Iowa, the son of Herman and Leona Kallenberger Kyes Cubbage. He married Ardyth Elliott on February 11, 1978, in Cedar Rapids.

He graduated from Muscatine High School in 1953.

He served four years in the US Air Force.

He first worked at Home O Nize for a year and a half as a draftsman; he then worked for Carver Pump Co. for eight years in engineering and sales; he then worked as a sales representative for Torrance Electric Co. in Davenport for 28 years. He had lived in Muscatine, Cedar Rapids, and Grandview.

He enjoyed basketball, hunting, fishing, and motorcycle racing. He also enjoyed helping others with their computers and he was an all around handyman.

He had belonged to the American Legion, Elks Lodge, and the Moose Lodge, Issac Walton League, and Ducks Unlimited.

Survivors include his wife, Ardyth Cubbage of Muscatine; one daughter Cheryl Cubbage of Hermitage, Missouri; one step son Randy Brei; and one step daughter Lou Ann Lathrop of West Branch; three grandchildren; four step grandchildren; and two step great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one son Michael Cubbage, one brother Wayne Cubbage Sr., and one step daughter Kathy Carney.