Harlen L. Price
May 5, 1915 — August 20, 2010
Harlen L. Price, 95, of Independence, formerly of Troy Mills, died Friday, August 20, 2010, at West Village Care Center. Services: 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 23, 2010, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Center Point by Pastors Sherry and Leo Andersen. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery, rural Coggon.
Survivors include three children, Dwayne and Mary Price of Cedar Rapids, Lois and Roger Doyl of Walker, and Lucile and Frank Zieser of Walker; a sister, Helen Smith of Perham, Minnesota; eleven grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; and seventeen great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Eleanor; two brothers, Harrison and Cecil; and two sisters, Vera Price and Sarah Annis.
Harlen was born May 5, 1915, the son of Clarence and Mary Addeline (Mote) Price in Linn County. He graduated from Troy Mills High School in 1934. He operated Price’s Garage in Troy Mills all his life until retiring in 1973. On November 10, 1935, he married Eleanor Evers at Spring Grove Church. The couple lived in Troy Mills. Eleanor died December 23, 1998. Harlen moved to Independence in December of 2001.
Harlen loved fishing, especially during his retirement years.
Survivors include three children, Dwayne and Mary Price of Cedar Rapids, Lois and Roger Doyl of Walker, and Lucile and Frank Zieser of Walker; a sister, Helen Smith of Perham, Minnesota; eleven grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; and seventeen great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Eleanor; two brothers, Harrison and Cecil; and two sisters, Vera Price and Sarah Annis.
Harlen was born May 5, 1915, the son of Clarence and Mary Addeline (Mote) Price in Linn County. He graduated from Troy Mills High School in 1934. He operated Price’s Garage in Troy Mills all his life until retiring in 1973. On November 10, 1935, he married Eleanor Evers at Spring Grove Church. The couple lived in Troy Mills. Eleanor died December 23, 1998. Harlen moved to Independence in December of 2001.
Harlen loved fishing, especially during his retirement years.
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