Roy Louis GROVE

GROVE, SCHOENFELD, TRUSTY, BUTTERFIELD, OELKE, HANLEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/12/2010 at 18:13:20

Funeral services for Roy Louis Grove were held Saturday, August 5, 11 a.m. at Garden City United Methodist Church, Monona. Rev. Gary Dobbins officiated. Burial was in Monona City Cemetery. Schultz's Funeral Home, Monona was in charge of services.

Roy Grove was born March 11, 1910, near New Hampton, Iowa in Chickasaw County, to parents Abner and Julia (Schoenfeld) Grove. He was baptized in the Christian Republic Church, Republic, Iowa. He received his education in the New Hampton schools graduating from high school in 1928. He attended Iowa State University in Ames and received a teaching certificate.

On December 25, 1930, he was united in marriage to Marvelyn Alice Trusty, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. The couple had 3 children. He taught school in Klemme and Stanley, Iowa. In 1940 he moved to Monona where he owned and operated the Monona Feedmill and Hatchery until 1987.

He died at his home Wednesday, August 2, 1989. He was a member of the Brotherlove Masonic Lodge #204, Shriners, Monona Kiwanis and Garden City United Methodist Church. He also served on the school board.

Preceding him in death were his parents and 3 brothers, Charles, Lynn and Grant. Surviving are his wife, Marvelyn; one son, Dennis (Margaret) Grove of Harpers Ferry; 2 daughters, Jacquelyn (Alan) Butterfield of Stillwater, MN, and Judith (Gaylord) Oelke of Monona; 9 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; 3 brothers, Laurence and Glen of New Hampton and Warren (Bill) of New Hartford, Iowa; and one sister, Hazel Hanley, Vancouver, WA.

Honorary pallbearers: Jack Goltz, Don Wirkler, Harvey Landt, Elmer Radloff, George Smith, Bob Jacobson, Vern Hupfer, and Marlyn Henderson. Active pallbearers: Ned Fox, Larry Dawson, Wayne Landt, Lester Henderson, Andy Wold and Kermit Kling....