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Obituaries

Charlie Thompson

Charlie Thompson

December 23, 2011

Charles Lynn Thompson was born June 22, 1941, the son of Gilbert and Ordella (Fossel) Thompson. He passed away Friday, December 23, 2011, at his home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of 70. Charlie was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He was baptized in Christ in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 12, 1941, and later confirmed at St. Paul...

Rev. John Mattson

Rev. John Mattson

December 18, 2011

John Matt Mattson was born May 8, 1933, the son of William and Selma Aho Mattson. He passed away Sunday, December 18, 2011, at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of seventy-eight. John was born in Ironwood, Michigan, and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1950. He earned his Bachelor of Theology...

Fritz Berger

Fritz Berger

December 17, 2011

Julius Max Fritz Berger was born May 25, 1913, the son of Max and Emma Sprenger Berger. He passed away at the Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, on Saturday, December 17, 2011, at the age of 98. Fritz was born in Sebnitz, Germany, and attended the public grammar school. Then he went to a vocational school to become a...

Betty Petersen

Betty Petersen

December 11, 2011

Betty Darlene Petersen was born February 28, 1928, the daughter of Joseph and Sophie Bertram Hulsebus. She passed away Sunday, December 11, 2011, at her home in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 83. Betty was born in Buck Grove, Iowa. She attended rural school and then started working at Evelyns Caf in Denison. It was while employed there, she...

Harry Petersen

Harry Petersen

December 7, 2011

Harry Fredrich Petersen was born August 6, 1912, the son of Fritz and Clara Grill Petersen. He died on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, at Eventide in Denison, Iowa, at the age of ninety-nine. Harry was born on the family farm in Otter Creek township by Schleswig, Iowa. He was baptized in the Catholic faith on May 17, 1941, and confirmed...

Laura Mae Cose

Laura Mae Cose

December 2, 2011

Laura Mae Cose was born September 4, 1922, the daughter of Henry and Katherine Frahm Schurke. She died at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Friday, December 2, 2011, at the age of eighty-nine. She was born on the family farm in Milford Township near Deloit, Iowa, and baptized on October 6, 1922. She was confirmed in the...

Albert Adams,

Albert Adams,

November 26, 2011

Albert William Henry Adams, Jr., was born June 11, 1931, in Denison, Iowa, the son of Albert William Charles and Marie Sophie Andresen Adams. He passed away Saturday, November 26, 2011, at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, at the age of eighty. Albert was baptized on August 30, 1931, at Zion Lutheran Church and later confirmed there on...

Vernon Greder

Vernon Greder

November 25, 2011

Vernon Frederic Greder, a faithful husband of 66 years and patriarch to a more than 40 member family, died Friday on the same Crawford County, Iowa soil on which he was born, raised and where he farmed for four decades. He was 87. Vernon married Marie Fredericks on February 22, 1945 and raised five children Kay, Linda, Frederic, Rodney and...

Donald Burgess

Donald Burgess

November 24, 2011

Don Burgess was born March 10, 1930, in Everly, Iowa, to Asa and Irene Erskine Burgess. He died at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, on November 24, 2011, at the age of 81. His early years were spent in Everly, but he and his family moved to California during WWII. Because his parents worked many hours at...

Eugene Schneider

Eugene Schneider

November 19, 2011

Eugene Allen Schneider was born December 29, 1954, in Denison, Iowa, the son of Vincent and Frieda Lorenzen Schneider. He passed away at his home in Carroll, on Saturday, November 19, 2011, at the age of fifty-six. Gene was baptized in Christ on March 13, 1955, at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison, and later confirmed on March 30, 1969, at...

Darla Neubauer

Darla Neubauer

November 15, 2011

Darla Jean Neubauer was born August 20, 1954, the daughter of Wilbert and Julie Feddersen Prussing. She passed away Wednesday, November 15, 2011, at her home in Athens, Alabama, at the age of fifty-seven. Darla was born in Denison, Iowa, and baptized in Christ on September 19, 1954, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig, Iowa. She was confirmed on April...

Berniece Thomsen

Berniece Thomsen

November 11, 2011

Berniece Marian Thomsen was born in Charter Oak, Iowa, on September 3, 1920,the daughter of Fred and Edith Wessel Keiner. After suffering a stroke, she died Friday, November 11, 2011, at the Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, at the age of 91. She was educated in various area schools. Berniece was united in marriage to Fritz Thomsen on February...

Wayne Mcminemee

Wayne Mcminemee

November 11, 2011

Wayne Herbert McMinemee was born August 6, 1920, the son of William and Freda Mattson McMinemee. He passed away at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, on November 11, 2011, at the age of ninety-one. Wayne was born on a farm in Paradise Township in Crawford County, Iowa. He was baptized at the First Lutheran Church in Omaha,...

Helen Hester

Helen Hester

November 10, 2011

Helen Henrietta Hester was born March 29, 1915, the daughter of Andreas and Bertha Stender Hinrichsen. She died Thursday, November 10, 2011, at the Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of ninety-six. Helen was born in Goodrich Township near Denison. She was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison. She later joined her husband in...

Jerry Meseck

Jerry Meseck

November 4, 2011

Gerald Delaine Meseck was born July 3, 1950, the son of Delaine and Erma Samuelson Meseck. He passed away at his home in Charter Oak, Iowa, on Friday, November 4, 2011, at the age of sixty-one. Jerry was born in Denison, Iowa. He was baptized in Christ at the United Methodist Church in Charter Oak, Iowa, on October 8, 1950,...

Wesley Ahrenholtz

Wesley Ahrenholtz

November 2, 2011

Wesley LeRoy Ahrenholtz was born September 10, 1924, the son of Peter and Sallie Jedele Ahrenholtz. He passed away on November 2, 2011, at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven. Wes was born on a farm near Defiance, Iowa. He grew up in the area and received his education in the Defiance schools. He...

Ruth Schmidt

Ruth Schmidt

November 1, 2011

Ruth Lillian Schmidt was born January 2, 1929, the daughter of William and Gertrude Schneider Asmus. She passed away November 1, 2011, at the Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa, at the age of eighty-two. Ruth was born in Denison, Iowa, and was baptized at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison, Iowa, and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig,...

Harlan Samuelson

Harlan Samuelson

November 1, 2011

Harlan Burl Samuelson was born January 15, 1925, the son of John and Iona Jones Samuelson. He passed away on November 1, 2011, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of eighty-six. Harlan was born in Cornell, Iowa, and received his education in the Linn Grove Community Schools. He farmed with his father and then...

Rita Powers

Rita Powers

October 31, 2011

Rita Elizabeth Powers was born September 9, 1925, the daughter of Nicolas and Hilda Van Erdewyk Loew. She passed away on Monday, October 31, 2011, at the Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six. Rita was born in Maple River, Iowa, receiving her education in the St. Ann Catholic High School in Vail, Iowa. She furthered...

Nancy Holzfaster

Nancy Holzfaster

October 29, 2011

Nancy Lee Holzfaster was born January 20, 1936, the daughter of Carl and Helen Laursen Hansen. She passed away at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa, on October 29, 2011, at the age of seventy-five. She was born in Scranton, Iowa, and received her education in the Exira Community Schools. She worked at the Ice Cream Parlor and then at...