BARTH, Marvin Max
BARTH, EARLEY, GARDNER, CANNON, STOLL, STEVENSON, PAYNE, MCDANIEL, DUNN, GEEDING, MANCHESTER, WOODALL, HORN, GLEASON, WILCOX, HARPER, LANE, SAGE, HIGGENS, ST, PIERRE, ALEXANDER, BURKE
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/29/2017 at 05:20:10
Marvin Max Barth
July 20, 1924 ~ September 02, 2017Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, September 07, 2017Marvin Max Barth, age 93, of Lamoni, Iowa, the son of Clayton Emery and Velma (Earley) Barth, was born July 20, 1924, in Harrison County, Missouri. He left this life on Saturday, September 2, 2017, at his Lamoni, Iowa home.
Marvin grew up in the Andover, Missouri area and attended Downey School. He then farmed with his father, Clate, and his grandparents, Charlie and Merl Barth. On June 2, 1945, he married Opal Maxine Gardner in Kansas City, Kansas. They made their home at Lamoni, Iowa. They were blessed with seven children, Ronald, Marjorie, Phyllis “P.J.”, Elaine, Lorraine, Charles “C.B.”, and Sharon.
In addition to farming, Marvin worked at Eastside Service in Lamoni, drove a truck for the Lamoni Creamery, worked at Farmer’s Co-Op in Lamoni, owned and drove a gravel truck, helping to build I-35, and was an assistant to the veterinarians at the Lamoni Vet Clinic. He also worked in several different states with his son on pipeline construction. In addition to all these jobs, he helped his wife at the Barth Dairy Cup, which they owned and operated for 45 years. They made a good team as she cooked and he ran the order window. They sold the business in 2009.
In earlier years, Marvin loved his horse, Pansy, who was like a member of his family. He enjoyed roller skating, ice skating, fishing, picking berries, hunting mushrooms, and cutting wood. Later, he and Opal enjoyed driving around the countryside.
As a teenager, he was baptized in the Downey Church of Christ.
Marvin had a great sense of humor and spent a lot of his time playing jokes on, or getting even with his friends, Charlie Cannon and Rex Stoll.
Preceding him in death were his parents; son, Ron Barth on November 8, 2014; grandson, Tim Stevenson; grandson-in-law, David Payne; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Chester McDaniel, Doyle Dunn, Bob and Lee Gardner, Jim Gardner, Don and Bonnie Gardner, Marvin Geeding, Pete Manchester, Bernice Woodall, Betty Gardner, and Louise Gardner.
Survivors include his wife of 72 years, Opal Barth, of Lamoni; children, Marjorie Horn of Lamoni, Phyllis “P.J.” and R.J. Gleason of Lamoni, Elaine and Bobby Wilcox of Russellville, Arkansas, Lorraine Harper of Liberty, Missouri, C.B. “Sam” and Candy Barth of Weatherby Lake, Missouri, and Sharon and Sherman Lane of Milo, Iowa; 15 grandchildren, Jackie Sage, Ronda Higgens, John Stevenson, James Stevenson, Joanna Stevenson, Tom Stevenson, Kris Stevenson, Kelly Payne, Sheldon Lane, Shannon St. Pierre, Sonya Alexander, Nick Barth, Jordan Barth, Joshua Barth, and Leslie Burke; 37 great grandchildren; 12 great, great grandchildren; siblings, Melba McDaniel of Davis City, Iowa, Maizel Dunn of Lamoni, Iowa, and Maurice and Jan Barth of Branson, Missouri; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Clarence and Penny Gardner, Everett Gardner, Doris Geeding, Lois Manchester, and Pat Gardner; many nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held at the Lamoni Community of Christ Church at 10 a.m. Thursday, September 7, 2017, with Eddie Bowman officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa. Visitation will be Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. at the Slade – O’Donnell Funeral Home in Lamoni, Iowa.
A memorial fund has been established by the Family.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2017
Decatur Obituaries maintained by Constance McDaniel Hall.
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