Price, Robert L. 1927-1987

PRICE, PORTER, DAVIS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 10/6/2020 at 08:15:46

Ottumwa Courier, April 6, 1987:

Robert L. Price, 60, of Agency died at 6 a.m. April 5, 1987, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Des Moines.

He was born Feb. 1, 1927, in Troytown to John and Helen Porter Price. He was a former employee of John Morrell and Company and was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of the East End Pentecostal Church of God. He married Ethel Davis on April 10, 1952, in Ottumwa. She died in 1978.

He is survived by three sons, Ronald and Norris of Delta, and John Jr. at home; three daughters, Mary Livingston of Delta, Loretta Shepherd of Ottumwa and Rebecca Price at home; 10 grandchildren; four brothers, Leo Perkins of Missouri, Charles Price of Chillicothe, John Price of Ohio and William McFadden of Ottumwa; five sisters, Patricia Swan of Ottumwa, Rosie Essary of Floris, Joan Lowe of Illinois, Irene Cameron of Albia and Peggy Sykes of California; and several stepbrothers and stepsisters.

The service will [be] 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Johnson Funeral Chapel, the Rev. Loyal Kepker officiating. Burial will be in Shaul Cemetery.