OBITUARY: Leo Foxen, Mitchell County, Iowa


                               Leo Foxen

[ Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted Aug. 7, 2002 ]

Funeral services for Leo Foxen, age 65, of New Haven will be at 10:30 am,
Friday, August 9, 2002 at St. Peter's Catholic Church in New Haven. Rev.
Ray E. Atwood wil officiate. Interment will be at the St. Peter's Catholic
Cemetery in New Haven with graveside service by the Osage American Legion
#278.

Visitation is from 5 pm to 8 pm Thursday at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral
Home in Osage with a Scripture Service at 7 pm, followed by a Rosary.
Visitation will also be available one hour before services at the church.
Leo died suddenly on Sunday, August 4, 2002 of a cardiac event at Mitchell
County Regional Health Center in Osage.

Leo Foxen was born April 15, 1937 in Burr Oak Township, Mitchell County, the
son of John "Jack" and Luella (McCann) Foxen. He graduated from St. Mary's
Academy in New Haven in 1955. Leo served in the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1959.
He was united in marriage to Mary Jane Thome on June 27, 1959 in Meyer, IA.
They lived in Osage for three years, moving to the family farm near
New Haven in 1962. In 1962 he graduated from tool and die making school.
Leo farmed and was employed by White Farm Equipment in Charles City for 33
years. In 1992 he started "L & M Machine Shop" in Riceville, retiring in
1999. He was an avid race car fan, enjoying NASCAR, tractor pulls, working
in his shop and being with his family.

Preceding him in death were his parents, two brothers Francis Foxen and John
Robert Foxen.

Leo is survived by his wife Mary Jane Foxen of New Haven, one son, Gene
Foxen and his son Cody of Emporia, KS, four daughters, Ann (John) Maas
and their children Ben and Pete of Kasson, MN, Joan (Brad) Butterfield and
their children Alison, Rhiannon  and Sara of Charles City, Jane Foxen of
West Des Moines, Lisa Foxen of Stewartville, MN, four sisters, Mary Lucena
(Don) Eden of Titonka, Alice Wilkins of Nora Springs, Delores (Urban)
Hemann of Austin, MN, Mary Coleman of Shawnee Mission, KS and one brother,
Don Foxen of rural Osage.

Champion-Buheit Funeral Home, Osage, 1-641-732-3706, is in charge of
arrangements.





Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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