Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
Loren L. "Jumbo" Moomaw, age 85 of Des Moines, passed away on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at Altoona Nursing and Rehab. Memorial services will be held on Friday, November 21, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. at the Colfax United Methodist Church. The family will greet friends following the service at a luncheon in the church fellowship hall. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Mercy Hospice or the Altoona Nursing and Rehab Activity Fund. Condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.
The son of Melvin Loren and Helen Grace (Zachary) Moomaw, Loren was born on November 8, 1929, in Prairie City, Iowa. He graduated from Prairie City High School in 1948. He went to work at Maytag after high school and worked there for almost forty years retiring in 1988. On December 28, 1971, he was united in marriage to Mary Ann Dunlap-Harrelson in Las Vegas, Nevada. Loren was a member of the Staves Methodist Church in Des Moines.
Those left to honor his memory include his wife, Mary Ann; children, Bryan (Karen) Moomaw of Newton, Debra (Mike) Williams of Runnells, Michael (Billie) Moomaw of Newton and a step daughter, Sue Van Gorp of Kansas City. Also surviving are seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and siblings, Marilyn (Don) Osborn of Prairie City, Joyce Walker of Prairie City and Dale (Barb Moomaw of Arkansas. Preceding him in death were his parents, two brothers-in-law, Lionel Wiggins and Buck Walker and a step son, George "Bud" Harrelson.