Obituaries

Kenneth Victor Chamberlain

Kenneth Victor Chamberlain

Mar 27, 2007

Kenneth Victor Chamberlain, the son of Ralph and Alice Runion Chamberlain was born April 7, 1907 in Spencer, Iowa. His childhood years were spent on a farm north of Spencer, where he received his education in country schools and later graduated from Spencer High School. Ken married Cecelia Jones on August 22, 1934 in Sioux Falls, SD. Following their marriage,...

Colleen Collette Lage

Colleen Collette Lage

Mar 27, 2007

Colleen Collette Lage, the daughter of William R. and Opal A. Eisenmann Collins, was born February 9, 1929, in Dysart, Iowa. She received her early education and graduated from the Arnolds Park High School in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Colleen married Robert Keith Lage on June 1, 1947, in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Following their marriage, they lived in Arizona, Colorado, Gillett...

Rodney John Haburn

Rodney John Haburn

Mar 26, 2007

Rodney John Haburn, the son of Mervin "John" and Betty Ann Hanson Haburn, was born August 6, 1952, in Cherokee, Iowa. He received his early education in Washta schools. His family moved to Spencer, Iowa, in 1961, where he continued his education, graduating from Spencer High School. Rodney entered the military in 1970 and served his country with the U.S....

Mabel Pauline Rose

Mabel Pauline Rose

Mar 26, 2007

Mabel Pauline Rose, the daughter of Harry and Clara (Bruhn) Prince, was born on April 11, 1911, on a farm in Poweshiek County near Grinnell, Iowa. Her family moved to Pipestone, MN when she was 5, where she received her early education and graduated from High School. Following graduation, she moved with her family to Sioux City, IA, where she...

George L. Mallory

George L. Mallory

Mar 20, 2007

George L. Mallory, the son of Robert Holloway Mallory and Elizabeth Heafer Mallory, was born Aug. 14, 1919, in Henderson, Ky. His childhood years were spent in the Henderson area, where he received his early education. He graduated from Weaverton High School in Henderson in 1937. In 1943 he entered the United States Army and attained the rank of Staff...

Ruth Elizabeth Kaus

Ruth Elizabeth Kaus

Mar 15, 2007

Ruth Elizabeth Kaus, the daughter of Elmer and Carrie Kessler Nitzsche, was born April 5, 1918 in Spencer, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in the Langdon area, where she received her early education at Lake Center School and later graduated from Lake Center High School in 1936. Ruth worked for three years at the Fettes and Swallum Hospital in...

Ronald Gene Steuben

Ronald Gene Steuben

Mar 14, 2007

Ronald Gene Steuben, the son of Peter and Elfie Schoelerman Steuben, was born June 2, 1931 in Spencer, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in Everly, Iowa, where he received his education, graduating from Everly High School in 1949. Following high school, he began his farming career. Ron married Shirley Thorman on December 1, 1955 in Sheldon, Iowa. Following their...

William Price

William Price

Mar 13, 2007

William Dale Price, the son of William and Vera Falline Price, was born on October 19, 1930, in Spencer, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in Spencer where he received his early education. On November 18, 1950, William entered the military, serving in the United States Navy. After serving in the Navy for 4 years he was honorably discharged in...

Ella M. Nielsen

Ella M. Nielsen

Mar 13, 2007

Ella Marjoria Nielsen, the daughter of Arthur Tillson and Valda Kristofferson Guthrie, was born September 4, 1918 in Milford, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Milford, Iowa, where she received her education in Milford schools. Ella married Donovan Irving Nielsen on October 2, 1937 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Following their marriage, they lived in Spencer,...

Kathryn Bauman

Kathryn Bauman

Mar 12, 2007

Kathryn Rosalyn Bauman, the daughter of Thixton and Maude (Ferris) Miller, was born January 14, 1924 in Clay County, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent on a farm north of Royal. She attended and graduated from the Everly Consolidated School. Kathryn married Warren Frank Bauman on August 19, 1941 in rural Spencer, Iowa. Following their marriage, they resided on the...

Virginia Davis Coughenour

Virginia Davis Coughenour

Mar 11, 2007

Virginia Davis Coughenour, the daughter of Edward and Elsie Lake Davis, was born February 13, 1919 in Spencer, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Spencer where she received her early education and graduated from the Spencer High School. Following high school, Virginia continued her education at Morningside College, Drake University and Julliard School of Music in New York. While...

Robert Martin Kunert

Robert Martin Kunert

Mar 11, 2007

Robert Martin Kunert, the son of Edward Herman and Marie McNalley Kunert, was born April 28, 1937 in Emmetsburg, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in Emmetsburg, where he received his education at St. Ellen's Catholic School, moving to Spencer, Iowa in 1943, where he attended Sacred Heart Schools through the 8th grade. His class was the first 8th grade...

Viola Sassman-Goodwin

Viola Sassman-Goodwin

Mar 9, 2007

Viola Sassman Goodwin, the daughter of Carl and Ermal Moses Reusch, was born September 7, 1921 on a farm near Paulina, Iowa. Viola married Robert George Sassman on June 27, 1940. They had three children. In 1955, Robert's life was taken in an explosion of a fuel line. On May 6, 1960, Viola married Glen Charles Goodwin. With this union...

Raymond Farquhar

Raymond Farquhar

Mar 8, 2007

Raymond Leroy Farquhar, the son of James and Eva (McElwain) Farquhar, was born July 18, 1916, on the family farm in rural Sutherland, Iowa. His childhood years were spent in Sutherland where he attended country schools and graduated from Sutherland High School in 1934. Following graduation Raymond helped area farmers and worked at the Sutherland Creamery from 1939-1940. In November...

Betty Williamson

Betty Williamson

Mar 8, 2007

Betty Ann Williamson, the daughter of Frank Oscar and Henrietta J. Petersen Rinehart, was born February 4, 1924 in Worthington, MN. Her childhood years were spent in South Dakota and later Everly, IA, where she received her education, graduating from Everly High School. Following high school, she moved to California and worked as a telephone operator on Catalina Island, CA....

Patricia Rose Johansen

Patricia Rose Johansen

Mar 7, 2007

Patricia Rose (Beemer) Johansen was born June 17, 1934, in Hampton, IA. She passed away at her home on March 6, 2007, in Spencer, IA. She was preceded in death by her parents, Leslie and Vera Beemer of Hampton, IA; sister, Jean Webb of Escondido, CA; brother, Rex Beemer of St. Paul, MN, and her husband, Roy E. Johansen of...

Wanda Woodall

Wanda Woodall

Mar 7, 2007

Wanda Lee Woodall, the daughter of Andrew H. and Minnie (Bunjer) Snow was born May 6, 1928, at Lake Park, Iowa. They told her she weighed less than 4 pounds and they kept her warm in a shoe box by or on the oven door. She attended school in Lake Park, Iowa, where she graduated in 1945. In 1947, she...

Saundra Faye Newcomb

Saundra Faye Newcomb

Mar 6, 2007

Our wife and mother, Saundra Faye Rogers Newcomb, was the daughter of Earl and Francis Stowe Rogers. She was born June 26, 1938 in Worthington, Minnesota. Her childhood years were spent with her mother and sister in Denison and Spencer, Iowa. She graduated from Spencer High School in 1956. Mom attended Cosmetology school in Sioux City, Iowa. Mom married her...

Charles Henry Thurston

Charles Henry Thurston

Mar 5, 2007

Charles "Chick" Henry Thurston, the son of Charles E. and Neenah Thurston, was born August 18, 1919 in Spencer, Iowa. He received his education and graduated from Spencer High School and later joined the Coast Guard. On August 11, 1946, Charles married Ruth (Fraser) at the First Christian Church in Spencer, IA. Following their marriage, he worked in sales at...

Ida Augusta Jungjohan

Ida Augusta Jungjohan

Mar 2, 2007

Ida Augusta Jungjohan, the daughter of Henry and Ella Jones Hass, was born July 28, 1912 in Sutherland, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Sutherland, where she received her education in a country school. Ida married Clarence Henry Jungjohan on December 10, 1930 in Sutherland, Iowa. Following their marriage, they farmed near Sutherland for many years. She was a...

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