04/25/2003
Ralph Edward Rankin passed away on Friday, April 25, 2003, of kidney failure, at Griffin
Nursing Center.
Ralph graduated in 1949 from Knoxville, Iowa High School.
He was 72 when he died.
The body was cremated and no services are planned.
He lived all his life in Knoxville.
He worked and later owned the Coast to Coast store in Knoxville.
He was retired from Pella Corp. and the Iowa National Guard.
He was an avid sports fan, especially following the Yankees and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
He enjoyed helping with Babe Ruth years ago.
He was preceded in death by his father, Lloyd Jay Rankin, one sister, Katheryne Sims, and one brother, Ken Rankin of Fairbanks, Alaska.