Laverne Dale Fox "Vern"

Vern Fox 1928 (13years old)

Vern Fox 1946-48

Georgia (Lewis) Fox Graduation Picture 1939

Vern Fox

Georgia and Vern at the Fox roller rink

Camanche,Iowa 1952

Vern Fox 1981

Vern and Georgia Fox tombstone

Camanche, Iowa

Laverne Dale Fuchs/Fox

Vern Fox

L D Fox

Laverne was called by all the name listed above, mostly called Vern. Laverne Dale Fuchs was the Name that he was born with. Laverne was born August 12, 1915 in Laurens, Iowa. He grew up on a farm.

Vern Fuchs had the spelling of his last name changed from Fuchs to Fox along with too other brothers (Carl and Lloyd) to cause less problems with the pronunciation of are last name both meaning Fox.

Vern father Charles was 51 years old and his mother was 45 years old when Vern Came Along, his next youngest sibling was 13 years younger. Vern grew up in Laurens,Iowa. He went to school only into the ten year of high school. After school he went to work for his brother Otto Fuchs,in the roller skating business. Vern's brothers Carl and Lloyd. Vern would make this business his life's work. My father (Vern is my father) worked for Otto moving around the country working in the rinks as Otto right hand man or on his own running his brothers business's.

On June 15, 1939 Vern Fox started to learn to fly airplanes and on August 21, 1939 he soloed. He was living in Dubuque, Iowa at the time. On January 2, 1942 he paid $1360.00 for a Cub Cadet (J3F-65) tail # NC 38506 airplane of his own. Everything appeared to be going his way. The entry's in his pilot log book stopped in march of 1942. This is part theory and part of what I was told by my father. Vern was a private man. He told me that he only had the plane about 3 months before he found out that he had Tuberculosis, and confined to a hospital for those who had tuberculosis they called them sanitariums back then. There were very few drugs to use on tuberculosis (TB) then.They used bed rest, My father said that the first 6 months that he laid flat on his back with not even a pillow! He also said that he had a lot of time to think about what was really important in live. My father had 4 long years to think about what was important in his life. I think that what made him such a good father and husband to his wife my mother. At one time after m Father told my mother that he would have liked to become an aircraft instructor for pilots for WW II.

It appears that after his release from the hospital he was put on his brother Carl's pay roll, after that his brother Lloyd Fox had a job in Des Monies,Iowa area selling and installing popcorn machine's.That where my father (Vern) met His wife.

On October 5, 1947 my father was married to Georgia Marie Lewis in Des Monies, Polk Co.,Iowa. At the time my mother was working in a clothing store.

During my father and mother traveling around their two son's were born in Wisconsin

In 1952 my father (Vern) bought a roller skating rink in Camanche, Iowa, this was not a probable rink. This rink was operated until until 1981 by Vern Fox and the help of his two sons.

then his older son bought the rink and operated it until 2000

Vern love to travel and go fishing in his sons boat on the Mississippi river.

Laverne Dale Fox died on September 17, 1997 of congenial heart failure and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Camanche, Iowa on September 21, 1997.

Georgia Marie Lewis was born November 12, 1921 in Linn Grove, Iowa Georgia father was Thomas Lewis and Ruth (Penn) Lewis her mother. Georgia had two brothers Thomas Willis Lewis and Robert Joe Lewis.

Georgia worked with her husband Vern in the roller skating business early in their marriage. At one point they were running two rinks.One rink in Fundulac,Wisconsin and the other in Green Bay, Wisconsin Georgia managed one and her husband Vern ran the other. After they bought the rink in Camanche, Iowa, Georgia was still involved in the skating rink. At the point were there two sons were old enough she stayed at home to raise theirs sons. After the dead of her husband she stayed living in here home with some help from her family. She believes in doing all she can for her self. As of October 2007 she is still blessing her family.