Obituaries

Jan 17, 2024

Funeral Services are pending at Warner Funeral Home in Spencer.

     The daughter of Louis and Mary (Breon) Arndt was born on August 8, 1926 on a farm near Fonda, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Fonda and the Knoke area. She graduated from Fonda high school in 1943. She moved with her parents to first a farm near...

Jan 17, 2024

Jan 16, 2024

Caroline's wishes were to be cremated with Private Family Graveside Services at Garfield Cemetery in Webb, Iowa.

 

     Caroline Carrie (Fales) Miller was born on November 7, 1935 on a farm near Laurens, Iowa. She was the daughter of Roy and Mildred (Holcomb) Fales and would become the sister to four brothers. Caroline graduated from Webb High School in...

Jan 15, 2024

     Happy memories comfort us, as David Spenst, joined his Heavenly Father and family this week.  David Spenst passed away on January 15, 2024.

     He was born on April 27, 1929, to Peter and Aganetha (Nettie Friesen) Spenst in Morden, Manitoba, Canada.

     He was the oldest of 5 sisters, Berniece, Amy, Mary, Vivian and Annette and a...

Jan 13, 2024

 

     Betty Lou (Meyer) Hansen, 86,  passed from this life on Saturday morning, January 13th, 2024 from Sheldon Senior Care.  Betty was born on January 2, 1938 in Marathon, Iowa to Leo and Verlette Meyer.  Betty attended school in Marathon where she graduated high school in 1955.  On January 8, 1956, she was married to her lifelong partner,...

Jan 6, 2024

Betty June Hollander, 95, of Spencer passed away peacefully with her family on January 6, 2024. Betty was born on October 25, 1928 to Nels and Anna Ruby Nelson.  Betty lived her early years in Ayrshire, Iowa.

On October of 1946, Betty united in marriage to Amos Hollander in Worthington, MN.  With this marriage they were blessed with six children.  ...

Jan 1, 2024

   

     Nancy Nadine Geisinger, the daughter of Adolph “Rudy” and Lyla (Yates) Crawford, was born in Sheldon, Iowa on May 24, 1950.  She graduated from Sanborn High School in 1968 and UNI with a B.A. in elementary education in 1972.  Nancy was married and moved to Minneapolis, working in collection business.  Her two children, Stephanie Sue and Matthew John,...

Dec 31, 2023

Dec 28, 2023

          Mary Jean Schmidt was born on March 9, 1925 in Dubuque, Iowa to parents Frank John Kuhn, Jr. and Emelia Lena (Reuschel) Kuhn. She was the middle child with older brother Donald Kenneth and younger sister Frances Joyce. Mary Jean lived her early years in Dubuque, where many of her maternal relatives lived.

     In 1929, a...

Dec 22, 2023

Elli Marie Wiemers, daughter of Leland and Gail (Lakness) Roe, was born on August 19, 1968 in Watertown, SD. She grew up in the small farming community of Hazel, SD with her parents and siblings, Kent, Holly, Sonja, and Paul. She graduated from Hamlin Highschool and went on to attend South Dakota State University. 

At SDSU, Elli received her Bachelor’s...

Dec 22, 2023

 

     Wendy was born April 11, 1972 in San Bernadino, CA to Gary Glenn and Ruth Arlene Pfaff.  She graduated from Linn Grove High School in 1990.  She worked as a telemarketer in Royal and then as a CNA.  Her love for her residents carried to each facility she worked.  Growing up, she moved all over with her...

Dec 21, 2023

Perri Lyn Hughes, the daughter of Wayne "Grant" and Rosalie (Adams) Perkins was born on February 9, 1954 in Phoenix, AZ. Her childhood years were spent in the Phoenix area, where she graduated from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, AZ in 1972.

Perri married her husband Vern Hughes on June 13, 1990 and they made their home in Langdon, IA.

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Dec 20, 2023

     Harold (Gene) Eugene Blanchard was  born in Kossuth County Iowa. June 17, 1932 , the second son of M. Edward Blanchard and F. Lucille Newbrough Blanchard. His early years were spent on the farm near Irvington and then moving to the Lone Rock area. That is where he met and married Marvel (Schmidt) Blanchard. To this union four children were born....

Dec 14, 2023

    Richard (Rick) Allen Burgeson was born on July 25, 1954 to Charles and Velma (Shultz) Burgeson in Spencer, Iowa. Rick grew up on a farm outside of Royal. He graduated from Clay Central in 1972 and went to Iowa Lakes Community College.

     Rick married Robin Truckenmiller and had three children together and later divorced. Rick married Cheryl...

Dec 14, 2023

 

     So often when we say “Goodbye” to someone on their voyage from this life, we think of them as they are or have been in the final days, weeks, and years of their mortal existence.  We only offer scant recollections of some of the things they did or accomplished during their time on this mysterious blue ball we...

Dec 12, 2023

 

     Toni Rochelle Quillin was born February 25, 1964 in Sioux Falls, SD to Gerald and Sydney VerMeer.  Toni spent her early years in Spencer, where she graduated in 1982. 

     While in high school, she fell in love with the boy next door, Gregory Quillin, marrying him on October 20, 1983 at Bethany Lutheran Church in...

Dec 9, 2023

 

Douglas M. Rose

 

Doug Rose, born on Sept. 29, 1941, to Marion and Leota (Reidmiller) Rose of Hartley, Iowa,passed away Dec. 9th, 2023.

 

He is survived by children, Chad Rose of Des Moines, Iowa, Kyle Rose of Bucksport, Maine, Kalli Miller of Spencer, Iowa, and Kirk Rose of Anchorage, Alaska, as well as siblings David Rose, Linda...

Dec 7, 2023

    Wilbert Dale Bielfeldt, the son of John and Anna (Anderson) Bielfeldt, was born December 27, 1924, in Everly, Iowa. He received his early education and graduated from the Lake Center Consolidated School in Terril in 1942.  Following his schooling, Wilbert entered the U.S. Army serving during the Korean War in Germany.

 

    Wilbert married Rhoda Wegener in...

Dec 5, 2023

    Heidi Jo Kendall-Newgard, the daughter of Jack and Joan Kendall, was born January 14, 1957 in Billings, Montana.  The Kendall family moved from Billings, to Bloomington, Minnesota, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and finally Spencer, Iowa in 1969. The Kendall girls lost their mom on September 5, 1972 and were greatly affected by the untimely death of a young mother. Heidi...

Dec 5, 2023

 

     Our beloved Richard Henry Slawson, the son of William McGrath Slawson and Evelyn Elsie Slawson (Hagedorn), was born on January 16,1951 in Long Beach, California. When he was a young child his family moved to Everly, IA, where he then attended Everly Elementary and High School, graduating in 1969. He attended Iowa Lakes Community College for a short...