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Leo Stolba
LEO STOLBA
Marion
Leo Stolba, 89, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 1, followed by a Memorial Service at 11 a.m. at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Center in Marion, by the Rev. Will Jackson.
Leo was born Jan. 12, 1925, the son of Edward and Anna (Dvorak) Stolba in Cedar Rapids. On Nov. 27, 1999, he married Carol Fatka at Salem United Methodist Church. Leo served with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He worked as a carpenter and mechanical drafter.
Survivors include his wife, Carol; his children, Teresa Stolba, Tim (Cara) Stolba, Jeri (Jerry) Robinson, Kimberly (Jasper) Boyd, Alison (Jason) Laube and Stacie (James) Beckerman; 18 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and two brothers, Louis (Gerry) and Bob (Marcella).
He was preceded in death by his parents; his previous wife of 31 years, Margaret Robinson; two children, Norma Jean Schuetzle and Kurt Stolba; five brothers; four sisters; and a great-grandson, Blake Stark.
He was a member of American Legion Hanford Post No. 5, Trojan Masonic Lodge No. 548 A.F. & A.M. of Marion and was a deacon at Calvin-Sinclair Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids.
A memorial fund has been established in Leo's memory.
Please sign the online guest book for Leo at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
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