Graves, Gerald Guy 1912 - 2001

GRAVES, JOBES, SUHN, PETERS, STIMSON

Posted By: Cindy Maust Smith (email)
Date: 11/6/2020 at 19:42:26

The Osceola County Gazette-Tribune, Wednesday, September 12, 2001, Sibley, Iowa, Page 5

Funeral services for Gerald G. Graves, 88, of Melvin, were held Sept. 8, at the United Methodist Church of Melvin with Rev. Sylvia Kennedy officiating. Interment was at Baker Township Cemetery, Melvin. Arrangements were under the direction of Sanborn Funeral Home, Sanborn.

Gerald Guy Graves, the son of Louis and Grace (Jobes) Graves, was born at Melvin on Nov. 28, 1912. He lived his youth at Melvin and graduated from the Melvin High School. Gerald continued his education at Iowa State University at Ames.

He married Lois Suhn on May 31, 1938, at Watertown, S.D. They have resided in the Melvin community during their married lifetime where Gerald owned and operated a farm drainage business and later he was engaged in farming for several years. Gerald died at the Prairie View Nursing Home at Sanborn on Sept. 4.

Gerald is survived by his children, Jay and Mary Graves of Phoenix, AZ; and Toni and David Peters of Golden Valley, MN, his son-in-law, Philip Stimson of Storm Lake; 5 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one daughter, Karen.