Obituaries
Dwight Joseph 'Joe' Miller
Mar 12, 2011
Dwight Joseph "Joe" Miller, the son of Frank and Ruth (Eastman) Miller, was born May 24, 1930 in Sioux Rapids, IA. His childhood years were spent in the Greenville/Rossie area, where he received his education, graduating from Greenville/Rossie Consolidated School in 1948. Following his schooling, he entered the military and served with the U.S. Marine Corp from 1949, until his...
Barton Earl Smoot
Mar 9, 2011
Barton Earl Smoot, the son of Glenn and Cora (Smith) Smoot, was born and baptized at home in Laurens, Iowa on March 6, 1949. Royal became his lifelong home in 1954, when his family moved to the Opera House on Main Street. Bart was confirmed at Trinity Lutheran in Royal, and was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Bart was...
Loretta Effie Viola Wegener
Mar 6, 2011
Loretta Effie Viola Wegener, the daughter of Alvin and Isabel Swan Yerex, was born April 11, 1923 in Lamont, Alberta, Canada. Her childhood years were spent in Lamont, where she graduated High School. Loretta attended Olds College, in Alberta and worked in a fur store as a seamstress. It was during this time that she met Merlyn Wegener, while he...
Marguerite Mae Winthers
Mar 6, 2011
Marguerite 'Daisy' Mae Winthers, the daughter of Fred and Madeline Rushinberg Loehr, was born April 20, 1921, in Harlan, Iowa. Daisy received her early education and graduated from the Kirkman High School in 1939. She then attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake. Daisy married Raymond Sherman Winthers on November 17, 1941, in Papillion, NE. Following their marriage, they farmed...
Terry Allan Dailey
Mar 3, 2011
Terry Allan Dailey, the son of Larry and Sherry Johnson Dailey was born October 5, 1960, in Storm Lake, IA. Terry grew up in Spencer, IA, where he graduated from Spencer High School. After graduation, Terry attended the University of Northern Iowa before transferring to Iowa State University. Terry married Beth Van Hofwegen and to this union, a daughter, Tara...
Marvin Schumann
Feb 26, 2011
Marvin Schumann, the son of Richard and Katherine Zehms Schumann, was born February 8, 1936 in Cole Camp, MO. His childhood years were spent in Manson, Iowa where he received his early education and graduated from high school. Following his schooling, Marv entered the United States Army on March 1, 1955 and served as a Private until his honorable discharge...
J.W. 'Pat' Kenney
Feb 26, 2011
Joseph William 'Pat' Kenney, the son of Willis and Leone (Stratton) Kenney, was born March 23, 1925 in Cherokee, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in Cherokee, where he received his education, graduating from Cherokee High School. Following his schooling, he entered the military and served with the U.S. Navy during WWII. He was very proud of the service to...
Russell 'Blaine' Click
Feb 25, 2011
Russell 'Blaine' Click, the son of Andrew and Mila (Euler) Click, was born October 15, 1923 on the family farm North of Gaza, near Primghar, Iowa. He grew up on the farm near Gaza, where he received his education, graduating from Gaza High School. Blaine married Donaline Luhrs on February 14, 1945 in Paullina, IA. They moved to the town...
Bonnie Lou Harson
Feb 20, 2011
Bonnie Lou Harson, the daughter of Harold and Lula (Eddy) Fay, was born on September 9, 1935, in Palo Alto County. She was raised on a farm south of Emmetsburg, she attended and graduated from the Emmetsburg High School. Bonnie married Harold Harson on September 9, 1954, in Emmetsburg. Following their marriage, they lived in the Emmetsburg area for several...
Debra Deanne Morris
Feb 17, 2011
Debra Deanne Morris, the daughter of Kenneth and Diane Gabhart Griffin, was born September 13, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA. She was raised in the San Fernando Valley and Sylmar, California areas where she received her education. Debra married Lee Morris on February 14, 1983 in Las Vegas, NV. Debra and the children moved to the Dickens and Spencer area...
Bertha Marie French
Feb 16, 2011
Bertha Marie French, the daughter of Otto and Marie Riechmann Rudnick, was born November 29, 1910 on the family farm, near Lincoln Township, IA. She attended grade school at Trinity Lutheran Church where she was baptized in 1910 and confirmed in 1925. She graduated from Grey High School in 1929 and then went on to Secretary School in Omaha, NE....
Jane Helen Thompson
Feb 15, 2011
Jane Helen Thompson, the daughter of Harry and Dorothy (Sager) Garrelts, was born June 14, 1930 in Ayrshire, IA. Her childhood years were spent in Ayrshire, where she received her education, graduating from Ayrshire High School. She later continued her education, graduating from Colorado Women's College in Denver, CO in 1949. Jane married Russell 'Jim' Thompson on October 19, 1952...
Delores Ellenwood Sebastian
Feb 14, 2011
Delores Ellenwood Sebastian, the daughter of Jessie and Frances Yost Faulkender, was born May 13, 1933 in Spencer, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in the Spencer area where she had received her early education in country schools and later Spencer High School. Dee married James Benjamin Ellenwood on July 1, 1950 at Jackson, MN. Following their marriage, they made...
Betty Lou Miller
Feb 13, 2011
Betty Lou Miller, the daughter of Leonard and Mildred Smith Anderson, was born November 6, 1928, at home in Alta, IA. Her childhood years were spent in the Alta area, where she graduated from Alta High School in 1946. Betty moved to Storm Lake, IA, for a couple of years before she married Dwight Miller on January 19, 1957, in...
Richard Allen Nissen
Feb 13, 2011
Richard Allen Nissen, the son of Allen and Pam Wittrock Nissen, was born February 12, 1982 in Atlantic, Iowa. Richard's family moved to Sheldon when he was a young boy. Rich attended elementary and high school in Sheldon where he graduated in 2001. He continued his education at Northwest Iowa Community College in Computer Programming. Rich moved to Spencer, Iowa...
Dorothy Loats
Feb 12, 2011
DorothyLoats,the daughter of George and Stella Wagner Peterson, was born January 28, 1921 in Titonka, Iowa. She was a graduate of Titonka High School and Iowa State University. Dorothy married Arthur Loats on August 26, 1945 in Titonka, Iowa. Following their marriage, they lived in Hampton, Iowa. In 1947, they moved to Spencer, Iowa. Dorothy worked at J.C. Penney's in...
Robert Warren Carpenter
Feb 12, 2011
Robert W. Carpenter, the son of Warren E. and Ferne R. Mandelkow, was born May 5, 1933 in Spencer, Iowa. He received his education in the Spencer schools, graduating from Spencer High School in 1952. Bob married Carol Rose Gordon on September 17, 1953 in Hannibel, MO and to this union were born 3 children: Roberta Rose, Robert Joseph and...
William Bailey 'Bill' Boyd
Feb 12, 2011
Bill was born on October 14, 1932 in Newton, Iowa. He spent most of his childhood in Mansfield, Ohio and Waterloo, Iowa. He graduated from West Waterloo High School in 1950. He attended Iowa State College and graduated in 1956 with a degree in Geology and four minors (Zoology, Botany, Forestry and Physics). In college, while on a mapping internship...
Wayne Fred Peters
Feb 10, 2011
Wayne Fred Peters, the son of Otto and Alberta (Baumeister) Peters, was born September 6, 1928 in Everly, Iowa. He graduated valedictorian of his class from Everly High School in 1946. He married his true love, Shirley Pfitzenmaier on July 30, 1950, and they farmed for many years northeast of Everly. To this union were born two children, a son,...
Leola "Lee" Mae Steffen
Feb 9, 2011
Leola "Lee" Steffen, the daughter of Lambert and Jeanette (Groenewoud) Petersma, was born April 8, 1920 in Lynnville, IA. Her early years were spent in Lynnville, where she received her elementary and high school education. In 1938, she played basketball with the Lynnville, Iowa basketball team in the state tournament in Des Moines. After high school, she worked in the...
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