OBITUARIES

Jan 23, 2016

Charles Alvin Grove, 92, died January 23, 2016 at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born November 26, 1923 near South English Iowa to Homer A. And Dorothy Newsom Miller Grove. He graduated from South English High School and attended Iowa State. Charles served in the United States Army during World War II...

Jan 15, 2016

Dennis Dee Rankin, 68, died January 15, 2016 at his home. He was born November 16, 1947 in Sigourney to Russell and Doris Allene Olive Rankin. He attended school in Delta and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1965. Denny worked for Rock Island Railroad and was drafted into the Army January of 1968 and served to...

Oct 19, 2015

Irene V. Harkins Vogel, 83, died October 19, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born October 9, 1932 to Paul and Marjorie Messerschmitt Harkins at the Ottumwa Hospital. Irene attended country schools, in kindergarten she rode her horse to the rural Ben Butler School in Highland Center. The family moved to the family...

Oct 15, 2015

Ernest Leonard Green, 92, died October 15, 2015 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born February 2, 1923 to Ernest Leonard and Elva Beall Green Sr. near Hedrick. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1940. He was employed by the Federal Reserve Bank in Des Moines. On February 2, 1945 he married Rosemary...

Oct 12, 2015

Wilma May Atwood Donhowe, 63, died October 12, 2015 at her daughter's home in Grimes, Iowa. She was born February 4, 1952 in Sigourney, Iowa to Arley Ellsworth and Marie Lucille Dyson Atwood. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1970. This is how she described her life:

"After graduating high school, I set out...

Oct 10, 2015

David Stanley Holeton, 58, died October 10, 2015 in Fort Madison, Iowa, following a traumatic brain injury. He was born September 21, 1957, in North English, Iowa, to Milford Stanley and Shirley Marie Kirkpatrick Holeton. He graduated from English Valleys High School in 1976. David married Luci Hartwig in 1986, they later divorced. He was...

Oct 1, 2015

Minnie Irene Fry , age 84, of Winfield and formerly of West Chicago, passed away October 1, 2015, in Geneva, Illinois. She was born on March 6, 1931 in Thornburg, Iowa to George and Grace Souer. Minnie was married in 1951 to the late Ken Fry. She was a founding member of Faith Community Church in West...

Sep 27, 2015

Mary Jane Goll, 83, died September 27, 2015 at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She was born January 11, 1932 to Guy and Nettie Rose Silvers near What Cheer, Iowa. She grew up south of Delta. She went to country school north of Hedrick grades K - 1 and 2nd - 8th at Davenport Country School...

Aug 29, 2015

Kenneth Benjamin Seaba, 79, died August 29, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born January 14, 1936 to Benjamin Henry and Letha Leora Ulin Seaba east of Sigourney. He attended Garibaldi School. On October 12, 1957 he married Patricia Ann Rose in Eldon, Iowa. They lived and farmed in...

Aug 6, 2015

Jimmy David Wilcox, 74, died August 6, 2015 at Serenity House in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was born September 11th, 1940 to David and Dorothy May Armstrong Wilcox at the family home near Parnell, Iowa. Jim attended Plank #10, and Geribaldi county schools. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1959. On July 30, 1961 he married Rose...

Jul 11, 2015

Lloyd Willie Pilcher, 94, of Sigourney, died Saturday, July 11, 2015, at the Keokuk County Health Center. He was born October 11, 1920, in Davis County to Stewart and Maude Hazel Brookshire Pilcher. He attended county school. He worked at John Morrell, the Ottumwa Brick Factory, Martinsburg Lumber, and farmed in the Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, and Delta area....

Jun 15, 2015

Phyllis May Renner, 94, died June 15, 2015 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born on July 13, 1920 to Clarence "Pat" and June Shipman Glandon in South English, Iowa. She attended country school. On September 5, 1938 she married George Louis Renner in Burlington, Iowa. She was employed at the West Side Café...

Jun 5, 2015

Julie Kay Nimtz, 72, died June 5, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born June 25, 1942 to Warren William and Nancy Ann Hamilton Stull in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On October 14, 1962 she married Maurice "Mort" Nimtz at the Methodist Church in...

May 30, 2015

Colleen Carman Kiefer, 91, died May 30, 2015 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. She was born January 20, 1924 to Edgar and Nancy Nelson Mather in Coatsville, Missouri. She attended a country school in Missouri and later worked for Minnie Tollenaar for a few years. On May 1, 1945 she married Richard Peter Kiefer at...

May 26, 2015

Dale Arthur Long 78, died May 26, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born December 10, 1936 to James and Marjorie Keck Long in Gallatin, Missouri. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California in 1955. He moved back to Iowa and on July 26, 1958 he married...

May 21, 2015

Beverly Rebecca Chambers, 90, died May 21, 2015 at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born January 8, 1925 near Millersburg, Iowa to George F. and Viola Back Killian. Beverly attended Garabali country school. On August 26, 1944 she married Raymond Louis Chambers at the Methodist Church in Fairfield. They lived...

Mar 28, 2015

Carol Ann Dillon, 77, died March 28, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born September 15, 1937 to Morris Earl and Ada Margurite Yoakum Johnson near Webster, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School and attended the University of Iowa. Carol raised her children in Iowa and Texas and...

Mar 12, 2015

Charlotte Louise Kirkpatrick Fagen went to be with Jesus on Thursday Morning, March 12, 2015. She was born to Edward L. and Rovena (Fry) Kirkpatrick, in Keota, Iowa, on March 1, 1918. Charlotte and Walter Fagen Jr. were married February 15, 1936 and celebrated fifty-two years of marriage. Her husband preceded her in death on September 4, 1988. Charlotte...

Mar 4, 2015

Steve Alan Smith of Hesperia CA passed away at his home on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. He was born March 16, 1954 in Sigourney, the son of Donna Braden Smith and Robert Smith. A 1972 graduate of Sigourney High School, he served in the US Air Force from 1972 to 1975. He had worked in construction in...

Feb 7, 2015

Marian P. Freyslaben, 91, of Delta, died February 7, 2015, at her daughter's home in Delta. She was born February 4, 1924, in Rock River, Wyoming, to John and Mable Coson Kelly. She graduated high school in San Francisco. On June 21, 1942, she married George Augusta Freyslaben in San Francisco. She worked as a secretary at...