Alvin A. Arp (1918-1998)

Source: Joyce (Hansen) George

Alvin A. Arp, 79, Council Bluffs

Alvin A. Arp, 79, of rural Council Bluffs died Thursday, January 1, 1998, at his home. Funeral services were 9 a.m. Monday, January 5, 1998, at the Raynor-Hardiman Funeral Home in Glenwood. Burial was in the Plumer Cemetery with Rev. Arlyn Sturtz of Trinity Lutheran Church in Glenwood officiating.

Mr. Arp was born September 14, 1918, at the family farm south of Council Bluffs to Adolph and Nellie (Karr) Arp. He served in the Army during World War II. He was united in marriage to Darlene Rohrberg on December 28, 1947 in Mineola. On August 6, 1983, he married Lois Hetzel in Tabor.

He was a lifelong farmer and enjoyed all the things that went with farming, especially his tractors and geese. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Glenwood.

Mr. Arp was preceded in death by his first wife, Darlene in 1979. Survivors include his wife, Lois; three daughters, Joyce Hahn and her husband Wayne of Bellevue, Nebraska, Sue Pedersen and her husband Merlin of Council Bluffs and Nancy McClenathan and her husband Robert of Claremont, Illinois; three step-daughters, Barbara Delisle of Morgan Hill, California, Janet Steinhauer of Fresno, California, and Kathryn Kennedy of Wake Village, Texas; one sister, Lucille Kotrba of rural Council Bluffs, nine grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren.

Memorials are suggested to the Trinity Lutheran Church of Glenwood or Salem Lutheran Church of Council Bluffs.