Obituaries

Jan 24, 2024

Jan 24, 2024

Marvin was born May 10th, 1929 to Peter Hans and Lena (Wilken) Schmidt. He grew up in Everly spending summers on the Wilken Farm. He graduated from Everly High School in 1947 and enlisted in the US Army. He served in the Korean War where he was wounded twice and was laying behind enemy lines for 7 days until he...

Jan 24, 2024

       Jim was born February 4th, 1940, in Mason City, Iowa to Magdalen (Mag) and John Bleich. In 1956 Jim’s father passed away of cancer. He and his mother lived in Britt, while Johnette, Jim’s sister was in college. Jim’s mother asked him to move to Wesley where she was a schoolteacher, but Jim wanted to finish school in...

Jan 24, 2024

Tracy Lee Nielsen was born on April 29th, 1956, in Spencer, Iowa, to Howard and Dorothy (Olson) Nielsen.  He was married to Karla Renee Bank on January 18th, 2002, in Spencer.  She survives.  

Tracy spent his whole life in Spencer and was a talented architectural draftsman.  One of his greatest joys was seeing the homes he drew and design come...

Jan 21, 2024

Memorial Services will be held at a later date.

Jim passed away January 21, 2024 at Keelson Harbour at the age of 91.

He was born October 4, 1932 near Pipestone, MN to Guy Edgar Fairchild and Bernice Belle (Noble) Fairchild.  The family moved to Sioux Rapids, IA when Jim was 7.

Jim graduated from Sioux Rapids in 1950 and farmed with his...

Jan 17, 2024

Funeral Services are pending at Warner Funeral Home in Spencer.

     The daughter of Louis and Mary (Breon) Arndt was born on August 8, 1926 on a farm near Fonda, Iowa. Her childhood years were spent in Fonda and the Knoke area. She graduated from Fonda high school in 1943. She moved with her parents to first a farm near...

Jan 17, 2024

Jan 16, 2024

Caroline's wishes were to be cremated with Private Family Graveside Services at Garfield Cemetery in Webb, Iowa.

 

     Caroline Carrie (Fales) Miller was born on November 7, 1935 on a farm near Laurens, Iowa. She was the daughter of Roy and Mildred (Holcomb) Fales and would become the sister to four brothers. Caroline graduated from Webb High School in...

Jan 15, 2024

     Happy memories comfort us, as David Spenst, joined his Heavenly Father and family this week.  David Spenst passed away on January 15, 2024.

     He was born on April 27, 1929, to Peter and Aganetha (Nettie Friesen) Spenst in Morden, Manitoba, Canada.

     He was the oldest of 5 sisters, Berniece, Amy, Mary, Vivian and Annette and a...

Jan 13, 2024

 

     Betty Lou (Meyer) Hansen, 86,  passed from this life on Saturday morning, January 13th, 2024 from Sheldon Senior Care.  Betty was born on January 2, 1938 in Marathon, Iowa to Leo and Verlette Meyer.  Betty attended school in Marathon where she graduated high school in 1955.  On January 8, 1956, she was married to her lifelong partner,...

Jan 6, 2024

Betty June Hollander, 95, of Spencer passed away peacefully with her family on January 6, 2024. Betty was born on October 25, 1928 to Nels and Anna Ruby Nelson.  Betty lived her early years in Ayrshire, Iowa.

On October of 1946, Betty united in marriage to Amos Hollander in Worthington, MN.  With this marriage they were blessed with six children.  ...

Jan 2, 2024

Alix Allyn Petersen 

August 8 1957 - January 2 2024

 

Alix Allyn Petersen was born August 8th, 1957 in Spencer, Iowa to her Father Billy Dee Petersen and Mother Ginger Lee Petersen. 

Alix was the elder sibling to her sister Allison and her brother Eric.

Alix grew up in Boise, idaho after living her very early childhood years in Iowa and Wyoming. 

Being a responsible...

Jan 1, 2024

   

     Nancy Nadine Geisinger, the daughter of Adolph “Rudy” and Lyla (Yates) Crawford, was born in Sheldon, Iowa on May 24, 1950.  She graduated from Sanborn High School in 1968 and UNI with a B.A. in elementary education in 1972.  Nancy was married and moved to Minneapolis, working in collection business.  Her two children, Stephanie Sue and Matthew John,...

Dec 31, 2023

Dec 28, 2023

          Mary Jean Schmidt was born on March 9, 1925 in Dubuque, Iowa to parents Frank John Kuhn, Jr. and Emelia Lena (Reuschel) Kuhn. She was the middle child with older brother Donald Kenneth and younger sister Frances Joyce. Mary Jean lived her early years in Dubuque, where many of her maternal relatives lived.

     In 1929, a...

Dec 22, 2023

Elli Marie Wiemers, daughter of Leland and Gail (Lakness) Roe, was born on August 19, 1968 in Watertown, SD. She grew up in the small farming community of Hazel, SD with her parents and siblings, Kent, Holly, Sonja, and Paul. She graduated from Hamlin Highschool and went on to attend South Dakota State University. 

At SDSU, Elli received her Bachelor’s...

Dec 22, 2023

 

     Wendy was born April 11, 1972 in San Bernadino, CA to Gary Glenn and Ruth Arlene Pfaff.  She graduated from Linn Grove High School in 1990.  She worked as a telemarketer in Royal and then as a CNA.  Her love for her residents carried to each facility she worked.  Growing up, she moved all over with her...

Dec 21, 2023

Perri Lyn Hughes, the daughter of Wayne "Grant" and Rosalie (Adams) Perkins was born on February 9, 1954 in Phoenix, AZ. Her childhood years were spent in the Phoenix area, where she graduated from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, AZ in 1972.

Perri married her husband Vern Hughes on June 13, 1990 and they made their home in Langdon, IA.

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Dec 20, 2023

     Harold (Gene) Eugene Blanchard was  born in Kossuth County Iowa. June 17, 1932 , the second son of M. Edward Blanchard and F. Lucille Newbrough Blanchard. His early years were spent on the farm near Irvington and then moving to the Lone Rock area. That is where he met and married Marvel (Schmidt) Blanchard. To this union four children were born....

Dec 14, 2023

    Richard (Rick) Allen Burgeson was born on July 25, 1954 to Charles and Velma (Shultz) Burgeson in Spencer, Iowa. Rick grew up on a farm outside of Royal. He graduated from Clay Central in 1972 and went to Iowa Lakes Community College.

     Rick married Robin Truckenmiller and had three children together and later divorced. Rick married Cheryl...