Marshall Tim Ferdig

FERDIG ELLIOT MORGAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/25/2010 at 19:46:23

Sioux City Journal
5 October 2008

HORNICK, Iowa -- Marshall Tim Ferdig, 85, of Hornick died Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Climbing Hill, Iowa, with the Rev. Jim Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Westfork Township Cemetery, Climbing Hill. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes, Sioux City.

Marshall was born Feb. 17, 1923, in Smithland, Iowa, the son of Frank and Rose (Elliot) Ferdig. He attended country schools and graduated from Climbing Hill High School in 1941.

On June 26, 1943, he married Betty Ruth Morgan in Sioux City. The couple lived in the Climbing Hill area all of their married life and on the same farm for the past 58 years.

He was a member of First Baptist Church in Climbing Hill and served on the church board. He also served on the school boards for both Climbing Hill and Woodbury Central. He had served on the R.E.C. Board. Marshall loved spending time with family and friends. Farming was the love of his life. He was truly a man of the earth.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Betty Ruth Ferdig of Hornick; his children, Janice (George) Stille of Detroit, Mich., Ron (Mary) Ferdig of Omaha, Dennis (Nancy) Ferdig of Moville, Mark (Sandy) Ferdig of Bellevue, Neb., Gale (Sheryl) Ferdig of Elk Point, S.D., Lynn (Pamela) Ferdig of Omaha, Sherry (Kenny) Peavey of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Marlena Jo (Larry) Chingren of Sioux City; 25 grandchildren; 57 great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Jewell (Juanita) Ferdig of Sioux City, and Gayle Ferdig of South Sioux City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, five brothers and a great-grandchild.