IVH

I do not think of this place much.....

....although I went up this drive way for five years to go to my job. It was a good job but I was offered a new job, new last name along with a new location 18 plus years ago (I said YES!!).

The reason for my thoughts so much the last few days is that a man that not only served his country at one time as a soldier but has spent a major portion of his life being a true servant of God. Early Sunday he died with full honors...this morning many are gathered to remember him....people have been touched by his life and from what I understand he was a joy to have in the home. I can tell you he would be so very different from most that abide there. Soldiers can be pretty rough characters, having indulged in so much that V.S. would not have, talk about things that would make a grown man blushed but I understand that he was gracious there and highly thought of. Yes, today I think of IVH alot, I did not really fit in either but I loved my job, the people I worked with and the residents that lived there. How neat it would have been if V.S. and I could have been there at the same time but we know that it wasn't to be....

Vernon Spinner Vernon Leroy Spinner, 89, passed away on November 7, 2010 in Marshalltown, IA. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November10, 2010 at 11 a.m. at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. until service time on Wednesday. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Chester, Illinois. Memorial may be directed to the family. He was the son of Everett Lee and Nina (Tindall) Spinner and was born on January 15, 1921, in Granite City, IL. When Vernon was four, his family moved to Rockwood, IL, where they farmed, and he attended country school there through the eighth grade. In 1935 the gospel came to their community and later that year Vernon made his choice to serve the Lord. Vernon moved to East St. Louis, MO when he was 18 and worked at a packing house. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands where he served as an Army Medic at the Army hospital for almost four years. After his time in the Army, Vernon returned to Peoria, IL, where he worked until he entered the ministry on January 13, 1947. He labored in Illinois for ten years, Wisconsin for nine years, and Minnesota forfor eleven years and Iowa for over 30 years. In 2008, when he was no longer able to be active in the ministry, he moved to the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, where he stayed until the time of his death. Vernon enjoyed hunting, fishing, and while at the Veterans Home, reading, crafts and gardening.