Marvin "Mike" August Stock 1914 - 2000

STOCK HANKE BRODERSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/17/2014 at 00:09:13

Sioux City Journal
14 February 2000

IBP founder, board member Stock dies

ODEBOLT, Iowa — Marvin "Mike" August Stock, 85, of Odebolt died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000, at Stewart Memorial Community Hospital in Lake City, Iowa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Odebolt, with the Rev. Albert Buelow officiating. Burial will be in Odebolt Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be 4:30 to 8 p.m. today at Farber-Otteman Funeral Home in Odebolt.

Mr. Stock was born March 8, 1914, at Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of William and Emma (Hanke) Stock. He was baptized and confirmed at Peace Lutheran Church in Wall Lake. He attended rural elementary school and graduated from Odebolt High School in 1932. He became employed by the Adams Ranch as family chauffeur.

He married Margaret Brodersen on March 8, 1935, at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison.

He operated a D-X service station in Denison from 1935 to 1936. He farmed seven miles southeast of Odebolt until 1965. In 1957 he helped organize the Crawford County Pork Plant. In 1961 he was one of the original founders of IBP Inc. and served on the Board of Directors from 1961 to 1981. He also worked as a cattle buyer for IBP for 13 years.

He was an active member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wall Lake and later at Trinity Lutheran Church, Odebolt. He was a 4-H leader for 25 years and served 12 years on the Odebolt School Board, acting as president during the Odebolt-Arthur reorganization. He organized the Odebolt Ambulance Commission and had served on the Odebolt Rotary Club. He and his wife established the Stock Scholarship for Odebolt-Arthur seniors and student scholarships at Concordia University, Seward, Neb. He supported Concordia University at St. Paul, Minn., and Eternal Life Lutheran Church in Hong Kong. He judged beef corn-petitions at local and regional events for many years.

He enjoyed all sports and was an avid spectator.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Jean and Elmer Prescott of Rockwell City; a son and his wife, Bill and Janette of Minnetrista, Minn.; six grandchildren, Kelly Fischbach, Kent and Jay Prescott, Randy and Bradley Stock, and Susan Dankle; and 15 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife who died in 1995; a son, David; three brothers, Walter, Raymond and Harry; and a sister, Lulu Schmidt.