Obituaries
Rose Wellendorf
Mar 6, 2011
F Rose Wellendorf was born June 9, 1915, the daughter of Edward Ankeny and Rella Fulton. She passed away on March 6, 2011, at the Morningside Rehab and Care Center in Ida Grove, Iowa, at the age of ninety-five. She was born in Bedford, Iowa, and attended Fort Dodge Community Schools in Fort Dodge, Iowa, until moving to Ida Grove,...
Russell Wood
Mar 6, 2011
Russell Anthony Wood was born March 26, 1965, the son of Lloyd and Rose Mary Lee Wood. He passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 6, 2011, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa, at the age of forty-five. Russell, known to many as "Russ," was one of eight children. He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. In his younger...
Doris Culmer
Mar 4, 2011
Doris Marie Pitula Culmer was born on November 26, 1917, in the upstairs living quarters of the Soo Line Railroad depot in Lehr, ND. Her father, Bruno Paul Pitula, born in Chicago to a Catholic Polish immigrant family, was a telegrapher and station agent for the Soo Line in the Dakotas. There he met and married Kathryn Weber, a young...
Dale E. Gerdes
Mar 2, 2011
Dale Edward Gerdes was born April 4, 1931, the son of Gerd and Martha Schoneboom Gerdes. He died on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, at the Regency Park Nursing and Rehab Center in Carroll, Iowa, at the age of seventy-nine. He was born in Odebolt, Iowa, and attended Wall Lake Community Schools graduating with the class of 1948. He farmed until...
Viola M. Landgraf
Mar 1, 2011
Viola Marie Landgraf was born April 11, 1923, the daughter of Peter and Annie Boyle Heeren. She died on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven. She was born in rural Milford Township, Denison, Iowa, and baptized in Christ at the First Baptist Church in Denison on April 13,...
Karen K. Reisz
Feb 27, 2011
Karen Kay Zimmer Reisz was born February 23, 1947, to Donald (Cactus) and Betty Koenck Zimmer. She passed away Sunday, February 27, 2011, at her home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of sixty four. She was born in Carroll, Iowa, and grew up on the family farm in Crawford County, near Boyer, Iowa. She received her education in the...
Larry R. Petersen
Feb 22, 2011
Larry Richard Petersen was born February 15, 1941, the son of Richard and Caroline (Quandt) Petersen. He died Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at the Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa, at the age of seventy. He was born in Blue Island, Illinois, where he was baptized in Christ by Rev. Walter Ferne. His family had moved there from Iowa...
Roger H. Petersen
Feb 22, 2011
Roger Henry Petersen was born October 4, 1941, the son of Walter and Hazel Carlson Petersen. He died Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of sixty-nine. He was born in Schleswig, Iowa. He was baptized in Christ on November 16, 1941, and confirmed on June 9, 1957, at Immanuel Lutheran Church...
Robert F. Demey
Feb 21, 2011
Robert Frederick DeMey was born June 29, 1949, the son of Robert J. and Gwenith Brink De Mey. He died Monday, February 21, 2011, at the Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa, at the age of sixty-one. Robert was born in Denison, Iowa, and grew up and received his education at the Dow City Community Schools. He entered the...
Delbert Gierstorf
Feb 16, 2011
Delbert Herman Gierstorf was born September 2, 1927, the son of Chris and Lizzie Schwartz Gierstorf. He died on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of 83. Delbert was born at the family farm in Morgan Township near Schleswig, Iowa. He was baptized in Christ at St. Paul Lutheran Church,...
Henrietta Reimers
Feb 15, 2011
Henrietta Adela Reimers was born February 2, 1921, the daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina Berndt Preuss. She passed away Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, at the age of ninety. Henrietta was born in Denison and received her education at Hanover School #6 in rural Denison. She was baptized in Christ on March 26, 1921,...
John Keairnes
Feb 8, 2011
John Collins Keairnes was born September 9, 1943, the son of Loren and Jane Collins Keairnes. He died Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of sixty-seven. John was born in Denison. He graduated from Ar-We-Va High School in Westside, Iowa, with the class of 1962. On June 1, 1965, he was...
Lorena Petersen
Feb 5, 2011
Lorena Laura Louise Petersen was born May 1, 1916, in Denison, Iowa, the daughter of Henry and Marie Kiepe Fredericks. She died at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, on Saturday, February 5, 2011, at the age of ninety-four. Lorena grew up on the family farm northwest of Denison, attending Hanover #7 school until the eighth grade. She...
Ruth Bell
Feb 4, 2011
Ruth Marie Bell was born February 17, 1936, in Denison, Iowa, to Meinhardt and Hilda Jepsen Jaacks. She died Friday, February 4, 2011, at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of seventy-four. Ruth was baptized in Christ on April 26, 1936, and confirmed on April 2, 1950, at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison, Iowa. She graduated...
Edna Schroeder
Feb 3, 2011
Edna Margaret Schroeder was born March 23, 1925, at home on a farm in Washington Township, near Manilla, Iowa, to Frank and Anna Stoltz Roecker. She passed away Thursday, February 3, 2011, at the Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty-five. Edna was baptized at St. Peter and Pauls Catholic Church in Defiance, Iowa. She received...
Rita Lally
Jan 30, 2011
Rita Mae Kelly Lally was born December 10, 1921, the daughter of Clarence and Grace Dieter Kelly. She died Sunday, January 30, 2011, at the Reed House in Denison, Iowa at the age of eighty-nine. Rita was born in Emerson, Nebraska, and graduated from Vail High School with the class of 1939. She worked in Denison until she married T....
Mary Kuehnhold
Jan 29, 2011
Mary Ella Kuehnhold was born June 9, 1929, the daughter of Lewis and Isetta Blodgett Carey. She died Saturday, January 29, 2011, at the Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, at the age of eighty-one. Mary was born in Dunsmuir, California. She received her education and graduated from the Chico High School in 1947. She cared for her family before working...
Charles Segebart
Jan 25, 2011
Charles William Segebart was born June 29, 1935, the son of William and Marie Andresen Segebart. He passed away on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of seventy-five. Charles was born in Manilla, Iowa. He was baptized in Christ on September 22, 1935, and confirmed on April 12, 1950, at Trinity Lutheran...
Harold Auld
Jan 20, 2011
Harold "Smiley" Franklin Auld was born September 16, 1920, in Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, to Frank Elmer Auld (1883-1946) and Bertha Ann Nixon (1887-1987). His paternal grandparents, Thomas Locke Auld (1854-1943) and Mary Jane Orchard (1852-1886), and his maternal grandmother, Laura Belle Varner (1857-1947), came to Iowa in the 1850s. His maternal grandfather, Franklin Peck Nixon (1856-1903), was born in...
Helen Schuldt
Jan 20, 2011
Helen Gondeline Schuldt was born September 13, 1918, the daughter of Julius and Lena Clausen Hass. She passed away Thursday, January 20, 2011, at the Manilla Manor in Manilla, Iowa, at the age of ninety-two. Helen was baptized in Christ on April, 13, 1919, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Aspinwall, Iowa, by Rev. Dr. John Luepke and later confirmed on...
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