Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Lee, Marvel May 20, 1966
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Marvel Lee Dies
of Heart Attack			(From the collection of Vivian Norby Andersen)

	Marvel Lee, 75, of Onawa passed away quite suddenly at the Burgess 
Memorial Hospital in Onawa Friday, May 20.  He suffered a heart attack at his 
home and died shortly after reaching the hospital.  Marvel was a resident of 
the Soldier community most of his life where he farmed.
	Funeral services were held at the Soldier Lutheran Country Church on 
Monday, May 23 at 2:00 p.m.  Pastors Harry C. Sorensen and F. W. Thommsen 
officiated.  Mrs. George O. Brown was soloist and Mrs. Eugene Baltz was at the 
organ.  Songs were “If I Gained The World” and “Behold A Host.”
	Interment was in the Soldier Valley Cemetery under the direction of 
Pearson Funeral Home.  Active bearers were Bryce, Elliott, Murl, Gale and 
Virgil Lee and Elmer Thompson.  Honorary bearers were Herbert Holverson, Ward 
Jones, Chris Gregerson, Clarence Bergstrom, Newell Lund, Harold O. Boe and 
Oscar Holverson.
	Marvel Lee, a resident of Onawa the past 18 years, passed from this 
life at the Burgess Memorial Hospital in Onawa on Friday, May 20, 1966 at the 
age of 75 years, two months and 22 days.  Death came as the result of an 
apparent heart attack which occurred about an hour earlier at his home.  Mr. 
Lee was born February 28, 1891 at Ute, Iowa, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell 
Lee.
	He engaged in farming all of his active life in the Soldier community 
until his retirement in February 1948 when he moved to Onawa to make hs(sic) 
home. He was united in marriage to Cora Thompson on December 10, 1913.  To 
this  union two sons were born, Marion and Everett.  Marion passed away in 
infancy.  Cora preceded him in death in 1918.  On February 8, 1922 he was 
united in marriage to Ida Thompson at the Soldier country church.
	Since making his home in Onawa he was a faithful member of the Trinity 
Lutheran Church.
	He is survived by his widow, Ida; two sons, Everett at Appleton, Wis., 
and Myrlin of Onawa; one daughter, Marjorie (Mrs. Clark Ruffcorn) of Onawa; 
eight grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. David Wilson of West Liberty, Iowa; four 
brothers, Elmer and George, both of Soldier, Amos of West Des Moines, Iowa and 
Orren of Moorhead, also a number of other relatives and a host of friends.


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