Obituaries

Mar 10, 2025

     Mary was born August 11, 1943, to Lawrence and Alice (Glackin) LeClair of Royal, IA. She was the first of their ten children. She grew up in rural Royal, graduating from Clay Central High School. She graduated from St. Joseph Mercy School of Nursing in Sioux City, IA. as an RN in 1965. The same year she married...

Jul 30, 2025

Services are pending with Warner Funeral Home of Spencer.

Jul 30, 2025

   Merrell Lee “Buzz” Butler was born on November 5, 1934 in Wayne, MI. As a youngster his family moved around a lot a working on several farms. The family did rent a farm from the Henry Ford Family. He graduated from high school in 1952 in Mason, MI. After high school, Merrell farmed with his brother before entering into...

Jul 29, 2025

Jul 28, 2025

James “Jim” Taylor passed away on July 28, 2025 at Spencer Hospital. James was born on February 15, 1937 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Glenn and Alice (Verner) Taylor. He grew up on the family farm in Pottawattamie County, west of Oakland, on land purchased by his ancestors in the 1840s. He graduated from Carson High School in 1954.

James was...

Jul 27, 2025

Nile Clyde Brown, the son of Clyde and Velma (Burkhart) Brown was born on October 26, 1940 in Spencer, IA. His childhood years were spent in the Webb, IA area, where he attended school and graduated Garfield-Webb High School in 1958. He then attended Iowa State University.

Nile married Sharen Gibson on June 10, 1962 in Webb, IA. To this union,...

Jul 27, 2025

Madonna Jeanne Vogt, 90, of Spencer, Iowa passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 27 at St. Luke Lutheran Nursing Home.

Those blessed to have shared in Donna’s life are her children Tom (Melanie) of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Julie (Larry) Jindrich of Emmett, Idaho and Joe (Karen) of Raymore, Missouri; grandchildren Lindsay and Ryan (Emily) Vogt, Katie (Paul)Medel, Dan (Caitlin) Jindrich, and...

Jul 18, 2025

Jed Cameron never met a stranger—and if he did, they didn’t stay strangers for long. Born on March 18, 1983 to Mark and Sharon Cameron, Jed lit up every room he walked into with the most infectious smile and a heart full of kindness, mischief, and love.

A proud son, brother, nephew, cousin, uncle, godfather, and friend, Jed wore many hats—and...

Jul 18, 2025

   Cathy Jo (Fear) Petersen was born on May 17th, 1958 to Dawain and Joan (Fick) Fear in Ames, Iowa. She attended school in Spencer, Iowa and graduated from Spencer High School in 1976. After high school Cathy attended Iowa State University where she obtained a degree in English and Psychology, graduating in 1980.

   She married James Petersen on August...

Jul 16, 2025

Velma Fern Boonstra, the daughter of Cornelius and Ann (Mouw) VanDriel was born May 2, 1928 in Orange City, IA. Her childhood years were spent in Orange City where she attended school and graduated from Orange City High School in 1945. She then attended Northwester Jr. College and graduated with a teaching degree in 1947.

Velma married Norman Boonstra on July...

Jul 14, 2025

William Charles Burgeson, the son of Charles Edward and Velma Marie Shultz Burgeson, was born May 8, 1944, in Spencer, IA. Bill received his education in Royal and graduated from Royal High School in 1962.

Bill married Carol Lyster on July 26, 1969 in Linn Grove, IA. As newlyweds, they lived in a farmhouse just down the road from where Bill...

Jul 11, 2025

   Lois Charlene Fairchild, the daughter of Carl and Hulda (Dahlberg) Wessman, was born on March 11, 1930, in Marathon, Iowa. She was raised and received her education in Marathon, graduating from Marathon High School.

   On June 18, 1947, she married Roger Fairchild in Jackson, MN. Following their marriage, the couple lived in the Marathon and Sioux Rapids area for...

Jul 9, 2025

Beverly Joy (Donaldson) Bovee was born to Floyd and Mayda (Hoppe) Donaldson at a farm east of Webb, Iowa on January 18th, 1931. She started school at Garfield, a country school near their farm. When she was in the first grade, they moved to a farm south of Webb and she finished the first grade in Webb. In the second...

Jul 4, 2025

Patricia (Patti) Ann Scott was born to Larry and Betty (Fear) Walton on February 26, 1966 in Hartley, IA. Her childhood years were spent in Everly, where she attended Everly Community School and graduated in 1984. In the fall of 1984 she attended NIACC in Mason City, IA and graduated May 10th 1985 with an accounting clerk degree.

On December 7,...

Jul 3, 2025

Maureen Kadous, aged 84, passed away peacefully on July 3, 2025 in San Antonio, TX.

   She was born November 27, 1940, in Emmetsburg, IA to James and Nora (Nolan) Brennan, the 2nd of 6 children.

   After graduating high school in 1958, Maureen attended Emmetsburg Junior College before moving on to the University of Iowa, where she obtained her teaching certificate....

Jun 30, 2025

Steven DeGangi, the son of Dominick A. DeGangi and Lucile M. DeGangi, was born May 1, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In early childhood years his family resided among Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; and Cleveland, OH. About 1968 the family relocated to Hollywood, FL where Steven attended high school. He graduated from McArthur High School in 1974. He also graduated from...

Jun 25, 2025

Jack passed away peacefully at Spencer hospital in his sleep on June 25, 2025 after years of battling cancer. He was known for his kindness to others and great sense of humor.

He was a beloved husband. He married Mary Mondt Schomaker on June 8, 1991. He had a very special relationship with her son Michael (Casey)Jones and Casey's daughters Kayla...

Jun 23, 2025

Sarah Machholz, 88, of Spencer, formerly of Muscatine, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 23, 2025 at Spencer Hospital. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Snyder & Hollenbaugh Funeral and Cremation Services of Wapello. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 1:30p.m. at Wapello Cemetery....

Jun 23, 2025

Bert Nystrom was born in a small town south of Stockholm Sweden in 1929. He often skied or biked to school, graduating the 8th grade, and going to work in a saw mill, and working as a farm hand.

In 1949, when he was 20 years old, and his sister Ingrid was just 14, the family emigrated to the US, and...

Jun 22, 2025

Marilyn Beck passed away peacefully on June 22, 2025 in Spencer, Iowa. She was born on July 1, 1936 in Milford, IA to Wilbur and Augusta Leitch. Growing up as the eldest of three children on her parent’s farm east of Milford, Marilyn was no stranger to hard work. She was named valedictorian of her Arnolds Park High School class...