Roy Kenneth Marsh

November 14, 2001

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.

Memorial services were held at the Calvary Baptist Church, in Cedar Rapids, on Tuesday, October 23. Burial was in the Liberty Cemetery, Little Cedar.

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.
© 2001 Mitchell County Press