Melvin Leroy Orr

MELVIN ORR MUSCATINE, Iowa #45;- Melvin Leroy Orr, 82, of Muscatine, died Sunday, September 14, 2003, at Riverbend Nursing Center. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Reverend Wade Duroe of the Hillcrest Baptist Church, will officiate. Pallbearers will be Melvin's grandsons. Honorary Pallbearer will be Melvin's great grandson, Matthew Orr. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Military Rites will be provided by the Combined Squads of the American Legion Post 27 and the V.F.W. Post 1565. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Mercy Hospice, Iowa City. Melvin was born on May 18, 1921, in Wapello, the son of Lloyd and Emma Wehmeyer Orr. He had been a resident of Muscatine all of his life. He married Genevieve E. Sell on November 30, 1942 in Kahoka, Missouri. He had worked in the Muscatine area as a welder for many years, retiring in 1988. He had served in World War II, as a PFC in the Army Air Corps. He was in the Pacific Theatre, serving three years in New Guinea, Biac and the Guadal Canal. He...[more]

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d been a machinist in the motor pool. Survivors will include his son, Richard Orr and his wife, Linda, of Muscatine; his daughter, Connie Motto and her husband, Vincent, of Blue Grass, Iowa; five grandchildren, Jeffery Orr, Mitchell Orr, Scott Orr, Richard Orr Jr., and Vincent Robert Motto; eight great grandchildren; two brothers, John Orr and his wife, Dorothy, of Muscatine and Harlan Orr and his wife, Karen, of Muscatine; and three sisters, Margaret Boysel, of Muscatine, Jean Borgstadt, of Davenport, and Wanda White and her husband, Ed, of Crawfordsville. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Genevieve in 1992, two brothers and two sisters.