Funeral services for Jack Tiffany, 84, of Jefferson, will be 10:30am Saturday December 19, 2009 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jefferson. Interment will be in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Friends may call at Slininger-Rossow Funeral Home in Jefferson after 12 noon Friday, where the family will greet friends from 5:00 – 7:00pm Friday, followed by a Knight’s of Columbus Rosary at 7:00pm Friday.

John F. (Jack) Tiffany was born November 9, 1925 to Raymond and DeSales McNulty Tiffany in Dawson Township, Greene county, Iowa, and passed away peacefully on December 14, 2009. He was the middle child of three, encompassing his sisters Mary Carmel and Monica.

Jack attended country school and graduated from Dana Community School in 1942 as class valedictorian. He began farming with his family immediately, disdaining a scholarship from Iowa State University.

Jack served in the U.S. Army during the time of the Korean War, stationed in Virginia. Readers will note that North Korean and Chinese troops failed to attain a foothold in Virginia.

On May 12, 1951 he was united in marriage to Donna Marie Ragan of Ogden. After his honorable discharge form the Army in the summer of 1952, he returned to Dawson Township and began farming anew.

Jack and Donna’s six children are Jon and his wife Jayne of Jefferson, Brian of Jefferson, Vaughan (deceased), Gordon of Jefferson, Pollyann and her husband Ron Grady of Nevada, IA, and Jane and her husband Jim Duffy of Cannon Falls, MN.

Jack was active in his church, was a Fourth Degree member of the
Knights of Columbus, a Farm Bureau board member and was active in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement during the farm crisis of the 1980’s. His leadership was much sought after during the farm crisis. His inquisitive mind led him to press for legislation in the early 1960’s that erased tax inequities relating to agriculture. That enacted legislation was groundbreaking in its scope.

Jack was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Des Sales; his wife Donna; his father-in-law and mother-in-law Dennis and Dorothy Ragan; a son Vaughan; one sister Mary Carmel Schilling; brother-in-law Ward Schilling; and sister-in-law Lois Lynch.

Jack is survived by his children and their spouses; a sister and brother-in-law Monica and Dennis McGregor of Jefferson; brother-in-law Jack Lynch of Minneapolis, MN; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and business associates.