IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Iva
Jarvis
January 12, 1926 – August 26, 2013
Obituary
Mary Iva (Pembridge) Jarvis, daughter of Arthur Robert and Cicely Isabelle (Jones) Pembridge, was born January 12, 1926 in Phillips County Kansas and passed away August 26, 2013 at the Colonial Villa in Alma, NE at the age of 87.
Iva grew up on a farm in rural Phillips County and went to Union Dale country school until it was closed. She went to 8th grade in Phillipsburg. She graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1943, took normal training and began teaching school. She also learned to shoot clay targets with her sister, Gladys and husband Wade Pfost. Soon she started going to turkey shoots and trapshoots with them. She became proficient with a shotgun. She competed at trapshoots from 1948 to 1990, winning numerous State and National awards, making friends as she went.
On August 28, 1956 She married Rex Jarvis in Reno, NV. To this union 3 children were born. Ellen, Juania and an infant son. After they were married, Rex began to shoot and they traveled and competed together. When they were old enough, Juania & Ellen also shot.
Iva was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Rex, an infant son, 3 sisters: Gertrude Andrews, Gladys Pfost, and Alice Chance, and nephew Don Andrews.
Survivors include her daughters, Ellen Runnion & husband Randy, and Juania Gale & husband Toube; her granddaughters Shayne Runnion, Angela Runnion, Beth Shelledy & husband Jason, and Sara Lewton & husband Jim Bob and her great grandchildren Alexis Mesmer, Jenna and Addison Shelledy, and Darren and Reed Lewton; nephews: Brian and Curtis Chance; nieces: Connie Nelson, Jean Hawes, and Loretta Andrews.
Funeral services will be held Friday, August 30, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. in the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, with Chaplain Linda Knipping officiating.
Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
Iva will lie in-state from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel with the family receiving friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday evening for visitation.
Memorials have been established to the Kansas Trapshooting Association Hall of Fame or Esophageal Cancer Research.
Iva grew up on a farm in rural Phillips County and went to Union Dale country school until it was closed. She went to 8th grade in Phillipsburg. She graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1943, took normal training and began teaching school. She also learned to shoot clay targets with her sister, Gladys and husband Wade Pfost. Soon she started going to turkey shoots and trapshoots with them. She became proficient with a shotgun. She competed at trapshoots from 1948 to 1990, winning numerous State and National awards, making friends as she went.
On August 28, 1956 She married Rex Jarvis in Reno, NV. To this union 3 children were born. Ellen, Juania and an infant son. After they were married, Rex began to shoot and they traveled and competed together. When they were old enough, Juania & Ellen also shot.
Iva was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Rex, an infant son, 3 sisters: Gertrude Andrews, Gladys Pfost, and Alice Chance, and nephew Don Andrews.
Survivors include her daughters, Ellen Runnion & husband Randy, and Juania Gale & husband Toube; her granddaughters Shayne Runnion, Angela Runnion, Beth Shelledy & husband Jason, and Sara Lewton & husband Jim Bob and her great grandchildren Alexis Mesmer, Jenna and Addison Shelledy, and Darren and Reed Lewton; nephews: Brian and Curtis Chance; nieces: Connie Nelson, Jean Hawes, and Loretta Andrews.
Funeral services will be held Friday, August 30, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. in the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, with Chaplain Linda Knipping officiating.
Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
Iva will lie in-state from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel with the family receiving friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday evening for visitation.
Memorials have been established to the Kansas Trapshooting Association Hall of Fame or Esophageal Cancer Research.
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