Maurice K. Van Note, 87, of Palo, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, at Keystone Care Center. A Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 18, at the Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home in Cedar Rapids, with Pastor Bill Reirden officiating. Private burial for family and close friends will follow at the Palo Cemetery. The family will greet friends ahead of the service, starting at 9:30 a.m. A livestream of the funeral service may be accessed on the funeral home website under the obituary for Maurice Van Note, at the video tab starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18.

Maurice Keith Van Note was born Aug. 19, 1935, in Cedar Rapids, the oldest of three boys born to Glenn and Lillian (Millburn) Van Note. He graduated from Palo Consolidated High School in 1952 and studied business at Coe College. After three years, he transferred to the University of Iowa (to avoid taking a foreign language class), attaining an accounting degree in 1968. Maurice married Pamela Corio on Feb. 19, 2000, at Hillside Wesleyan Church and they enjoyed 20 years of marriage prior to her passing in 2020.

Early in his career, Maurice was an accountant for Wilson Meat Packing, where he tracked pickled pigs' feet, but his love of all things farming soon lured him away. Through the years he spent countless hours establishing Vlieland Farms and the home of registered Holsteins with rolling cropland. His passion for farming extended to the classroom where he supported agricultural courses at Kirkwood Community College for future generations, as well as serving as a 4-H Leader for the Clinton Roughriders club. He was a 66-year member of both the Iowa Holstein Association and the Holstein Association USA, as well as a 43-year member of the US Southdown Association. Maurice was a faithful member of the Hillside Wesleyan Church where he enjoyed the fellowship of congregants, especially the Agape Sunday School class. He enjoyed farming, reading, keeping up with various sports teams, and listening to polka & gospel music. In his later years, he enjoyed recounting stories of years gone by with memories of farming with Belgian & Percheron horses in his early years, planting with the Super H Farmall, showing Holsteins at World Dairy Expo and building a farm from the ground up to raise dairy cows, sheep and a family rooted in agriculture.

He is survived by his three children, Kristyn (Shaun) Yoder of Wellman, Iowa, Bryan (Adrien) Van Note of Moseley, Va., and Lynette (Eric) Bossler of Van Horne, Iowa; 10 grandchildren, Alyssa, Mikaela, Cameron and Lincoln Yoder; Blake and Mackenzie Van Note; and Morgan, Dylan, Colton and Courtney Bossler. In addition to his immediate family, Maurice is also survived by Pam's children and grandchildren.

Preceding Maurice in death were his parents and two brothers, Wallace and Vernon Van Note.

The family would like to thank the Keystone Care Center for the loving care they provided for the past two years. You truly were the caretakers that became family.

Monetary gifts made in lieu of flowers will be used to honor Maurice's lifelong dedication to agriculture through a donation to Linn County 4-H.

Online condolences may be left for the family at cedarmemorial.com under obituaries.

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