Harvey A. Peden

Harvey A. Peden ATALISSA, Iowa -Harvey A. Peden, 56, died Monday, May 11, 2009 while planting corn on one of the family farms North of Atalissa. Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 15, 2009, at the West Branch United Methodist Church. Reverend Scot Patrick will officiate. Burial will be at the Masonic Cemetery, Tipton. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at the Henderson-Barker Funeral Home, West Branch. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Harvey Peden memorial fund. Harvey was born on April 21, 1953, in Davenport, the son of George and Marian Meier Peden. He was a graduate of West Branch High School in 1971, and attended the Farm Operation Program at Iowa State University. He married Joetta Lanfier on August 7, 1976, in West Branch. He had farmed east of Springdale his entire life. He was a former member of the Jaycees and past FFA president. He received the Iowa FFA farmer degree. He was a member of the I-Club, Farm Bureau and was a University of Iowa Foundation supporter. He enjoyed playing volleyball and had grown and sold sweet corn in the area for 24 years. He is survived by his w...[more]

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, Joetta Peden of Atalissa; his mother, Marian Peden of Atalissa; three daughters, Shanelle Peden of West Branch, Alicia Peden of Arlington, Virginia and Haley Peden of Ames; a brother, David Peden and wife, Kathy, of West Branch; two sisters, Marcia Kennedy of Houston, Texas and Stacie Pridotkas and husband, Tony, of Fairfax, Virginia; nieces and nephews, Scott Peden and wife, Stacy and Shane Peden and wife, Pam, George Pridotkas, Leila Pridotkas; and many friends. He was preceded in death by his father and a sister, Susan.