Obituaries
Eldon James Biekert
Apr 6, 2008
Eldon James Biekert, the son of Herman and Magdeline Mulder Biekert, was born March 5, 1930 in Shell Rock, Iowa. He received his early education and graduated from Shell Rock High School in 1948. Eldon served in the United States Marines during the Korean War until his honorable discharge. Eldon married Lavonne Gates on September 1, 1956 in Worthington, MN....
Elgar Alvin Erichsen
Apr 2, 2008
Elgar Alvin Erichsen, the son of Hans and Martha (Grapenthin) Erichsen, was born January 16, 1919, in Brooke Township, Buena Vista County. His childhood years were spent on the family farm near Sutherland where he attended school and graduated from Sutherland High School in 1936. On October 5, 1947, Elgar was united in marriage to Edna Woodall at the United...
Clara Leona Hagedorn
Mar 31, 2008
Clara L. Hagedorn, the daughter of John and Pearl Sylvester Gilmore, was born September 18, 1914, in Sioux Rapids, Iowa. She received her early education and graduated from the Rossie High School. Clara continued her education at Mankato State and later graduated from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa. Clara married Donald G. Hagedorn on March 5, 1937, in...
Thomas Elmore Ball
Mar 28, 2008
Thomas Elmore Ball was born on May 10, 1943 in Spencer, Iowa. He was the youngest of Theodore and Velma Ball's six children. At the young age of eleven, Tom began working for local farmers to earn money for his own necessities. He has always been a strong and dependable worker. Tom was also an extraordinary athlete and competed at...
Alberta Beck
Mar 27, 2008
Alberta Juanita Beck, the daughter of Albert and Ethel (Snook) Hoffert, was born April 25, 1921 in Mallard, Iowa. Alberta graduated from high school in Royal Iowa. It was in Royal where Alberta met Orval. On February 16, 1941, Alberta married Orval Beck in Hawarden, Iowa. Following their marriage, they farmed in the Royal area for about 20 years before...
John Giza
Mar 25, 2008
John Andrew Giza, the son of John Philip and Magdalena Mary Sugel, was born December 13, 1923, in Genoa City, Wisconsin. His childhood years were spent in Chicago, IL, where he received his education. John married Frances "Nancy" Zerdin on May 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois and entered the military serving with the U.S. Army from 1943 until his honorable...
Robert Reed
Mar 22, 2008
Robert Lee Reed, the son of Levi and Mary (Newcomb) Reed, was born March 17, 1930 in Peterson, Iowa. He attended school at Peterson, Iowa, and was a truck driver all of his life. He started driving school bus at the age of sixteen. He hauled everything from ready-mix, gravel, farm products, molasses, petroleum products and beer. He was last...
Gladys L. Riedemann
Mar 22, 2008
Gladys Luceale Riedemann, the daughter of Robert and Anna (Treanor) Byers was born September 12, 1915, in Harrison Township, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in May City, where she attended country schools. Following school, Gladys remained at home helping her mother raise her siblings. She then went to work for a family with five children in which she made...
George Wardell Clark
Mar 20, 2008
George Wardell Clark, the son of Rolland "Rolla" and Fredricka "Freda" (Zach) Clark was born January 12, 1921, on the homestead farm near Royal, the same day his family received rural electricity. His childhood years were spent on the family farm near Royal where he attended country school. In his early years, his brother Bob would ride with him to...
Carol Hirschy
Mar 18, 2008
Carol was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa on March 24, 1924 to Clyde and Besse Bixler. Her parents moved to Everly and then Dickens. Carol attended high school in Dickens and she was a very successful basketball player for the team in Dickens. She attended Mitchell College and taught school. In 1946, She married Louis Samuel Hirschy. While living in...
Clayton James Nieman
Mar 17, 2008
Clayton Nieman passed away on March 17, 2008, surrounded by his loving family, after a long and valiant battle with cancer. He was born on Friday, July 13th, 1923, to George and Charlotte (Hronek) Nieman in Pocahontas, Iowa. Clayton moved to Spencer with his family in 1939. He graduated from Spencer High School in 1942. After graduation, Clayton worked as...
Alice Weisbrod
Mar 13, 2008
Alice Mae Weisbrod, the daughter of Charles and Lulu (Canfield) Norris, was born on April 11, 1909 in Modena, MO. Her childhood years were spent on a farm near Modena, MO, where she received her education up to the tenth grade. She continued her high school studies in Iowa, graduating in Marathon, IA as valedictorian of her class. Alice married...
Gladys Lehmann
Mar 11, 2008
Gladys Lehmann, the daughter of George and Mathilda Johnson, was born May 16, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. Gladys graduated from college with honors and was an accomplished pianist. In 1929, she married Joseph Lehmann and was a homemaker before returning to work for several companies in Chicago Gladys passed away at the Sutherland Care Center on Tuesday, March 11, 2008...
Linda Lorenzen
Mar 10, 2008
Linda Lorenzen, the daughter of Frank and Clara May (Radley) Lorenzen, was born on December 15, 1947, in Spencer, Iowa. Linda was raised in Spencer where she received her education and graduated from Spencer High School in 1966. Linda has worked at the Grand Tap the last 33 years, where she was a bartender. She loved to play pool and...
Betty Rust
Mar 9, 2008
Betty Beal Palmer Rust, the daughter of Charles Henry Palmer and Elizabeth Beal Twiss, was born October 12, 1912 in Delhi, Iowa. She spent her early years in Concord, NH before moving back to Iowa. Following graduation from Delhi High School, she attended Grinnell College and graduated in 1935 with a degree in music. Betty taught music in Webb, Garfield,...
Otis Marcley
Mar 8, 2008
Otis Robinson Marcley left this Earth on March 8, 2008. He was born on May 19, 1921 to Frank Nevins Marcley and Mary Bachelor in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Clara May Marcley, who resides at Northshire Nursing Care Center, his daughter and son-in-law, Lilly and Philip Walter of Colorado, and sister, Frances...
Sandra M. Grobe
Mar 7, 2008
Sandra Marian Feldhacker-Grobe, the daughter of Gilbert and Theresa (Wubben) Feldhacker was born March 13, 1951, in Milford, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Milford where she attended school. On July 13, 1991, she was united in marriage to her longtime companion Frederick Grobe, in Milford, Iowa. Following her marriage she worked at a couple different nursing homes in...
Lauri Beth Odor
Mar 7, 2008
Lauri Beth Odor was born July 16, 1949 in Des Moines, Iowa to Samson T. and Charlotte Rose Legvold. She grew up in Perry Iowa until her sophmore year of high school when the family then moved to Grundy Center for a year, before ending up in Oskaloosa, Iowa during the summer of 1965. After graduating from Oskaloosa High School...
Lonny Wayne Mckewon
Mar 6, 2008
Lonny Wayne McKewon, the son of Richard Greer and Marjorie Alice Boyd McKewon, was born October 15, 1947, in Sioux City, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in McCook Lake, SD, where he attended McCook Lake Elementary and Jr. High and later graduated from Jefferson High School in Jefferson, SD, in 1965. Following graduation, he entered the U.S. Navy and...
Evelyn Lucille Freeburg
Mar 6, 2008
Evelyn Lucille Freeburg, the daughter of Lewis and Amy Johnson Capener, was born May 4, 1922, in Palo Alto County, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in the rural Ruthven area where she received her education, graduating from Lake Center High School. Later she spent two years studying music at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Evelyn married Dale Pershing...
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