Marvin Meis 1943 - 2009

PLENDL, MEIS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/25/2020 at 12:18:16

Sioux City Journal
16 July 2009

Marvin Meis

OYENS, Iowa ( Died Sioux City)- Marvin Meis, 66, of Oyens died Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Remsen, Iowa, with the Revs. Eugene Murray, William McCarthy and Tim Hogan officiating. Burial will be in St. Catherine Cemetery, Oyens, with military rites conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3328 and American Legion Post 220 of Remsen and Wasmer Post 241 of Le Mars, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a rosary at 3 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7 p.m., at Fisch Funeral Home and Monument in Remsen.

Marvin was born Jan. 19, 1943, in Le Mars, Iowa, the son of Arthur and Christine (Plendl) Meis. He was raised in the Oyens area. He attended school at both St. Catherine Grade School in Oyens and St. Mary High School in Remsen, graduating in 1961. After school, he started farming.

He joined the U.S. Army National Guard on March 16, 1964, and served until his honorable discharge on May 10, 1968. He was a cattle feeder.

He was a member of St. Catherine Catholic Church, American Legion Wasmer Post 241 and the Sportsman's Club in Remsen. He loved trips to South Dakota with Butch and Dan, plus those short trips to Denison and Dunlap, Iowa, every week in the winter.

Survivors include his parents, Arthur and Christine Meis of Oyens; his brother, Dennis Meis and his wife, Jan of Le Mars and their children, Jeff and Jamie Meis, Tammy Petersen, Ryan Meis and Jodi Nori; his brother, Paul Meis and his wife, Kathy of Oyens and their children, Lindsey and Jared Meis; his sister, Kathy and her husband, Ed Schumann of Brainerd, Minn., and their children, Randy, Wade, Darryl, Aaron and Clint Schumann; and his sister, Diane Dunham of Hanson, Mass., and her children, Jon Dunham, Christa Oxner and Keene Dunham.

He was preceded in death by a nephew, Dean Meis; and a brother-in-law, Ed Dunham.

Pallbearers will be Dan Krier, Jamie and Jeff Meis, Aaron and Wade Schumann and Nathan Tentinger.