Raymond S. Garvin

RAYMOND GARVIN MUSCATINE, Iowa - Raymond S. Garvin, 77, of 1733 Sweetland Road, died suddenly Monday, Dec. 16, 2002, at Unity Hospital. Services will be 1:30 p.m. on Friday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Dr. Paul Ausherman of the First Christian Church will officiate. Pallbearers will be James Garvin, Jonathon Garvin, Matthew Garvin, Jason Lawrence, Connor Lawrence, Harry Luchman, Rex Brandstatter and Wayne Behrens. Honorary Bearers will be Gilbert Behrens, Edmond Rinnert, William Shea, Donovan Campbell, Albert Bermel and Don Hallowell. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the First Christian Church or the American Heart Association. Mr. Garvin was born on Nov. 20, 1925, in Cedar County, the son of James and Anna VanZandt Garvin. He married Vera G. Green on Sept. 1, 1946, in Muscatine, Iowa. He was a member of the First Christian Church, and served as Assistant Commissioner for the Soil and Water Conservation District. He was a businessman in Muscatine and Davenport and he owned and operated Ray Garvin and Associates, a commercial cleaning ...[more]

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vice. He loved to hunt and fish and was an avid conservationist. He enjoyed and lived for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Vera G. Garvin of Muscatine; two sons, Dennis R. Garvin and his wife, Lorana, of Rockford, Illinois, and Gregory J. Garvin and his wife, Sue Ann, of Walcott; one daughter, Judith M. Lawrence and her husband, John, of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; five sisters, Lillian Luedtke of Muscatine, Anna Shea of Muscatine, Patricia Rinnert of Muscatine, Shirley Campbell of Nichols, and Phyllis Behrens of Tipton. He was preceded in death by his parents and four brothers, Edwin, Glenn, Ivan and Merle Garvin.