Darcy
Moses, 75
Rush
City - Darcy Moses, 75, died on Sunday,
December 7 2003 at Fairview Lakes Regional Medical
Center.
Funeral
services were held 
Wednesday
Dec. 10, at the First Lutheran Church of Rush City
with Pastor O'Shae officiating. Casket bearers
included Trevor, Moses and Sam Christenson, Tchevy
and Gavin Olson, Beau and Dane Carey, Dillon Kost,
Aleksander Anderson and Mason Zak.
Darcy
was born June 16, 1928 in Rush City to M.J. and
Emma Moses. He was the youngest of 10 children.
Darcy attended school and graduated from Rush City
High School. He joined the army after graduation,
stationed in Japan and later joined the Naval
Reserves. He then went on to graduate from the
Minnesota School of Business with an Associate
Degree.
After
college, Darcy worked in the dry goods store for
his dad and built his first home in Rush City. Next
he took a job selling for Aid Association for
Lutherans and moved to Granite Falls, where he was
superintendent of Sunday schools.
He
then moved to Brainerd where he sold water
softeners for Lindsay. That job took him to
Spencer, Iowa and then Omaha, Neb. Wanting to be
back in Rush City, he took a sales job with
Plastech Research. His main account was Arctic
Enterprises where he met Norma and married her in
July of 1976.
After
he retired from Plastech, he took a consulting job
with Crown Ironworks. While working there he
invented the Tricep, which separated the hulls from
the seeds of soybeans. He also invented an air
compressor front wheel bearing puller and laser
wheel alignment tool for the GMC Motor
homes.
Darcy
had made his career in Sales and Engineering but
his favorite pastime was inventing.
Survivors
include his wife, Norma; his daughters, Cindy
(Arlen) Lund of Pine City, Heidi (Randy) Carey of
Grantsburg, Wisc., Trudy Reinke of Minneapolis,
Wendy (Mike) Askay of Webster, Wisc., Polly
(Richard) Anderson of East Bethel, and Tammy
(Shawn) Zak of North Branch; 10 grandsons; four
granddaughters; two great-granddaughters; brothers,
Adrian (Leora) Moses of Idaho and Marlyn (Lois) of
Rush City; and sisters-in-law, Grace Moses of
Hudson and Mattie Moses of Rush City.
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