Obituaries
Milda Schiernbeck
April 9, 2011
Milda Ella Hilda Schiernbeck was born August 22, 1918, the daughter of John and Lizze Bendixen Wiedemann. She passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2011, at the Morningside Rehab & Care Center in Ida Grove, Iowa, at the age of ninety-two. She was born on a farm in rural Schleswig, Crawford County, Iowa, and attended Hayes #9 Country School in...
Raymond Jepsen
April 4, 2011
Raymond Peter Jepsen was born September 21, 1919, the son of Julius and Anna Rossow Jepsen. He passed away on April 4, 2011, at the Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa, at the age of ninety-one. He was born in Denison, Iowa, and attended rural schools near his home through the eighth grade. He started working on farms as...
Nancy Leeper
April 2, 2011
Nancy Jo Leeper was born March 20, 1948, the daughter of Lyle and Josephine Evans Thompson. She passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011, at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of sixty-three. She was born in Ute, Iowa, attended high school there, and graduated with the class of 1966. She worked at Cronks Restaurant,...
Robert (Bob) Hawley
April 2, 2011
Robert Clair Hawley was born on September 10, 1932, the second child of Ted and Alice Brockelsby Hawley. He passed away on April 2, 2011, at Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of seventy eight. He had a happy childhood on the family farm in Milford Township, north of Vail, Iowa. Bob attended Vail High School, and...
Ruth Tech
April 2, 2011
Ruth Dorothy Tech was born April 2, 1919, the daughter of John and Pearl Savage Nollen. She passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of ninety-two. She was born in Buck Grove, Iowa, and attended school until the eighth grade. She married Garland Tech on February 2, 1940,...
Alvera Hanneman
April 1, 2011
Alvera Ruth Hanneman was born March 19, 1925, the daughter of Louis and Ida Reetz Sprock. She died Friday, April 1, 2011, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of eighty-six. Alvera was born in Charter Oak, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak. She received her...
Helen Jepsen
April 1, 2011
Helen Marie Jepsen was born June 12, 1920, the daughter of Peter and Ida Heide Jensen. She died Friday, April 1, 2011, at the Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa, at the age of ninety. Helen was born in Denison, Iowa. She was baptized in Christ on July 23, 1920, at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison and later confirmed there...
Rita Nissen
March 27, 2011
Rita Ellen Nissen was born August 16, 1951, the daughter of Harold and Margery Heffernan Fink. She died Sunday, March 27, 2011, at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of fifty-nine. From January 1970 until March 1996 she worked at Farmland Foods. She worked other part-time jobs and also went on to continue her education...
Dorothy Miller
March 23, 2011
Dorothea Clara Hilda Miller was born April 24, 1922, the daughter of Bernhard and Marie Bohlmann Carstensen. She died Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at the Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty-eight. She was born on the family farm near Charter Oak, Iowa. The family moved to Ricketts, Iowa, where she attended Ricketts Public School through...
Rhonda Hagge
March 20, 2011
Rhonda Sue Hagge was born March 28, 1967, the daughter of Dean and Phyllis (Eberle) Vollstedt. She passed away at her home in Westside, Iowa, on March 20, 2011, at the age of forty-three. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and graduated from Huxley High School with the class of 1985. She attended Nursing school at Des Moines Area...
Beatrice "Joy" Doyle
March 17, 2011
Beatrice Joy Doyle, daughter of Wilford and Elsie (Vandeman) Moore, was born January 12, 1925, at home near Botna, Iowa. She passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2011, at the McCreedy Home in Washington, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six. She attended country school and graduated from Manning High School in 1942. She attended Commercial Extension in Omaha, Nebraska, and...
Dorothy Becker
March 13, 2011
Dorothy Louise Becker was born March 31, 1931, the daughter of John and Theodora Janning. She died at Immanuel Medical Center, Sunday, March 13, 2011, at the age of seventy-nine. Dorothy was born in Carroll, Iowa, and received her education in Mount Carmel, Iowa. Later she attended the Ft. Dodge Beauty Academy where she graduated and began a career as...
Rowene Mae Wilken
March 11, 2011
Rowene Mae Wilken was born on May 29, 1912, the daughter of Henry and Anna Bornhoft Schoessler. She died at St. Anthonys Nursing Home in Carroll, Iowa, at the age of ninety-eight years and ten months. Rowene graduated from the Westside High School with the class of 1930, and was the first class that graduated from the new brick high...
Melvin Kuehnhold
March 10, 2011
Melvin Herman Jurgen Kuehnhold was born October 10, 1930, the son of Adolph and Ella Jepsen Kuehnhold. He died Thursday, March 10, 2011, at his home in Denison, Iowa, at the age of eighty. Melvin was born in Charter Oak, Iowa. He received his education in Hanover #4 and Schleswig Community Schools until the 9th grade. He joined the Navy...
Merle L. Thiedeman
March 10, 2011
Merle Louis Thiedeman, loving husband of Mary Ann Brockelsby Thiedeman, was born January 23, 1934, the son of Irwin and Gladys Jans Thiedeman. He died on Thursday, March 10, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of seventy-seven. Merle was born in Carroll, Iowa. He grew up on a farm outside of Westside and graduated...
Scenna M. Gorden
March 7, 2011
Scenna Mae Gorden was born November 22, 1926, the daughter of Gordon and Effie Rose Terrell. She died March 7, 2011, at the Dunlap Care Center in Dunlap, Iowa, at the age of eighty-four. She was born and raised in Dunlap, Iowa. She attended school there until her junior year in high school. Hard times forced her to quit school...
Rose Wellendorf
March 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
March 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
March 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
March 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...