Ray Verle GRIFFIN

GRIFFIN, MILLER, ADAMS, GILBERT, CHRISTIANSON, KLECKNER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/1/2009 at 11:54:48

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
June 21, 2000

WEBSTER CITY - Ray Griffin, 68, of Webster City, died Sunday (June 18, 2000) at his home. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Foster Funeral Home in Webster City, with Cindi O'Brien, ministry assistant, officiating. Burial will be in the Cass Township Cemetery, north of Webster City, with graveside military rites conducted by the American Legion Post No. 191. Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the Foster Funeral Home and on Thusday until time of services.

Ray Verle Griffin, son of Bryan and Mary (Miller) Griffin, was born Feb. 28, 1932, on a farm northeast of Webster City. He attended school at Blairsburg. In 1942, the family moved to Buffalo Center. He graduated from high school at Buffalo Center in 1949. During the Korean War, he served with the U.S. Navy on the hospital ship Repose and the cruiser Quincy. Following his discharge, he started farming at Buffalo Center in 1954. He moved to a farm northeast of Webster City in March of 1961. He retired from farming in 1997. He was a former member of the Mulberry Center United Methodist Church and American Legion Post No. 191.

He is survived by a brother, Lee Griffin, of Buffalo Center; sister, Ruth Adams, of Webster City; nephews, Michael Adams, of Dodge Center, Minn.; Bryan Gilbert and James Adams, both of Webster City and Ed Griffin, of Buffalo Center; nieces, Julie Christianson, of Eden Prairie, Minn. and Amy Kleckner, of Altoona. He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Kathryn Gilbert; nephew, Steven Griffin; and niece, Maureen Griffin. Foster Funeral Home.