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Roy
Kenneth Marsh Roy
Kenneth “Ken” Marsh, age 78, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, died suddenly on Saturday,
October 20, 2001, at the St. Luke’s
Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Ken was born on January 4, 1923 in Menlo, Iowa, the son of Roy Marsh and Ila Mae Short. He married Geneva Johnson on October 14, 1945, in the Baptist Church in Little Cedar, Iowa. He graduated from the Riceville High School and the University of Iowa with a Master’s Degree in history. He taught American government at the Roosevelt High School and the Jefferson High School for 35 years. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church where he served as head usher for 33 years and was on the Christian Education Committee. Ken served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific area during World War II. Preceding him in death were his son-in-law, Loren McAdam; and three sisters, infant Alice Ione Marsh, Naomi Kildal and Mae Eleanor Marsh. Those
that survive him include his wife,
Geneva; three daughters, Candi Thomson
and husband, Max of New Castle,
Pennsylvania, Laurie Fish and husband,
John of Shellsburg, Iowa and Julie
McAdam of Cedar Rapids; three sisters,
Eileen Varley, Alice L. Dow and Ione
Reese, all of Oregon; and five
grandchildren, Adam, Drew, and Jacob
Fish and Brooke and Joanna Thomson. |
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