Obituaries
J. Jeanette Baysinger
Aug 7, 2012
Jeannette Baysinger, the daughter of William and Clara (Seibel) Maurer, was born October 4, 1910 in Spencer, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Spencer where she received her education, graduating from Spencer High School. She later attended a Business school in Des Moines for 1� years. Following her schooling, she returned to Spencer where she worked as a secretary....
Virginia Ruth Lubbers
Aug 6, 2012
Virginia Ruth Lubbers, the daughter of Orin and Mabel (Anderson) Groe, was born July 5, 1929 in Mason City, IA. She graduated from Lake Mills High School in 1947, attended Drake University and the University of Iowa, graduating with a BSC degree in 1952. Virginia married Paul H. Martin in Lake Mills in 1952 and they moved to Chicago, where...
Arleen Lillian Ott
Aug 4, 2012
Arleen Lillian Ott, daughter of Julius Wm. and Ella (Riessen) Schroeder, was born on December 2, 1914, on the family farm in Muscatine County, IA. She was raised and received her early education, attending grade school in Blue Grass, IA. She attended Central High School in Davenport, IA, graduating in 1932. After high school she worked at Willey's Music &...
Virginia Ann Freeburg
Aug 4, 2012
Virginia Ann Freeburg, the daughter of Otto and Elsie Jaeger Moeller, was born June 11, 1924 on a farm in Royal, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Royal where she received her early education and graduated from the Royal High School. Virginia married John Raymond 'Ray' Freeburg on June 25, 1944 in Royal. Following their marriage, they lived in...
William N. Peterson
Aug 3, 2012
William Nelson Peterson, 83 of Kenmare passed away Friday evening August 3, 2012 in Kenmare. Funeral service will be Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Kenmare with the Rev. John Syvertson officiating. Visitation will be held Wednesday, August 8, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Thompson Larson Funeral Home in Kenmare. Burial will...
Margaret Mary Joynt
Aug 2, 2012
Margaret Mary Joynt, the daughter of Harold and Thelma Spear Theesfeld was born August 15, 1955 in Estherville, IA. Her childhood years were spent in the Mallard, IA area, where she attended Mallard schools. After graduating from Mallard High School in 1974 she married Pat Joynt. Margaret worked for Terra in Emmetsburg, IA, drove truck, worked at Pasqualies Pizza, and...
Catherine Marie Utley
Jul 31, 2012
Catherine Marie (Yunker) Utley, the daughter of Ada and George Yunker, was born November 11, 1922, in Yakima, Washington. She spent her childhood in Yakima and graduated from Yakima High School. She worked as a chauffeur for military dignitaries during WWII at Fort Lewis, Washington. She married Ray F. Utley on February 24, 1945 in Cheahalis, Washington. Following their marriage,...
Drew Alan William Marko
Jul 26, 2012
The infant son of Zachariah Marko and Amy Bauler. SERVICES There will be private family services only. OFFICIATING CASKET BEARERS VISITATION MUSIC INTERMENT
Dorothy Maxine Brausey
Jul 26, 2012
Dorothy Maxine Brausey, the daughter of Oliver and Amy (Crow) Domer, was born December 21, 1928 in Waterloo, IA. Her childhood years were spent in Waterloo where she received her education, graduating from Waterloo High School. After graduation, she worked for two years as a nanny for a doctor in Boone, IA, who had a handicapped child. Dorothy married Ralph...
Terry Ray Brugman
Jul 25, 2012
of Spencer, Iowa formerly of Sioux Rapids. Terry Ray Brugman, the son of Karl and Eva (Olhausen) Brugman, was born January 17, 1938 in Webb, Iowa. He was the 8th child of ten children. He was raised on a farm near Sioux Rapids, IA, where he received his education, graduating from Sioux Rapids High School. He entered the military and...
Robert 'Bob' Eugene Syndergaard
Jul 23, 2012
Robert 'Bob' Eugene Syndergaard, the son of Peter H. and Beatrice Rose (Brees) Syndergaard, was born July 2, 1927 in Royal, Iowa. His childhood years were spent on the farm near Peterson, where he received his early education at a country school north of Peterson. He later attended and graduated from Peterson High School in 1944. After his schooling, he...
Kristine Marie Garner
Jul 22, 2012
Kristine Marie Garner, the daughter of Orval and Macyl Hamann, was born on February 1, 1956 in Storm Lake, Iowa. She spent most of her childhood in Albert City and attended Albert City - Truesdale High School. She lived several years in Fonda where she raised her family. After moving to Spencer in 1996 she fought and won her battle...
Shirley Anna Marie Wede
Jul 21, 2012
Shirley Anna Marie Wede, the daughter of Theodore and Leila Klatt Toft, was born November 25, 1931 in Royal, Iowa. She received her early education and graduated from the Royal High School in 1949. On October 30, 1950, Shirley married Clarence Andrew Wede at the St. Louis Catholic Church in Royal. Throughout their marriage, they farmed and raised their family....
Edith Reinke
Jul 20, 2012
Edith Mae Reinke, the daughter of George and Idella Knau Reinke, was born January 27, 1913 in Manitoba, Canada. She received her early education in Geneva and then graduated from Hartley High School. Following her schooling, Edith worked at the Hartley Creamery, various waitress jobs in Hartley and later in Spencer. She also worked as a clerk in a 'dime...
Daniel Lee Roberts
Jul 20, 2012
Daniel Lee Roberts, the son of Elwin and Helen Peck Roberts was born in Curlew, IA on August 31, 1937. He attended school in Emmetsburg, IA. Daniel entered the U.S. Navy in 1956 serving on the USS Bremerton until his honorable discharge in 1960. He then attended a trade school in Ames, IA to become a bricklayer. He married Dona...
Mary Louise Stanford
Jul 19, 2012
Mary Louise Stanford, the daughter of John and Mabel Stearns Fredenburg, was born June 26, 1918 in Sutherland, Iowa. Mary received her early education and graduated from the Cherokee High School. Mary married William Stanford in 1938 in Sioux City, Iowa. Following their marriage, they lived in the communities of Sterling, CO, Albuquerque, NM and Rawlins, WY. Following the death...
Eddie Beck, Jr.
Jul 15, 2012
Eddie Beck, Jr., of Peterson, Iowa, died Sunday, July 15, 2012, at Cherokee Regional Medical Center, Cherokee, Iowa, where he was born 70 years earlier. He was born March 27, 1942 to Marie (Sump) and Edwin (Nubs) Beck and grew up in the hills and fields of the Beck Ranch in rural Sutherland, Iowa, and in Cherokee, where he graduated...
Marjorie Lou Joines
Jul 13, 2012
Marjorie is the mother of Julie Thiesen of Terril and the late Jolene Bates of Ruthven. Marjorie Lou Joines, the daughter of Harold and Lula Petersen Drake, was born October 25, 1918, at Sutherland, Iowa. She attended and graduated from the Larrabee consolidated school in 1936. She worked in an office in Cherokee before moving to Spencer, Iowa. On January...
Susan Marie Thomsen
Jul 11, 2012
Susan Marie Thomsen, the daughter of Bernard and Berma (Olson) Thomsen, was born March 24, 1942 in Spencer, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Spencer, where she received her early education in Meadow Township Country Schools #8 & #9. Susan later attended and graduated from Spencer High School in 1960. Susan spent a lot of time during high school...
Gertrude Ethel Sutherland
Jul 8, 2012
Gertrude E. "Trudy" Sutherland, the daughter of Charles and Sophia (Miller) Kiley, was born on July 19, 1922 in Dickens, IA. She received her early education at Brown Country School near Clinton, IA and then later moving to Decatur, IL. The family then moved back to Dickens where she finished her education graduating from Dickens High School in 1941. Trudy...