OBITUARIES

Apr 21, 2008

Glen Baumert, 72, died April 21, 2008, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born September 4, 1935 near Keota Iowa to Floyd and Pearl Brock Baumert. He attended Keota High School. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War. On March 21, 1972 he married Rebecca German Moon at the Little Brown Church...

Mar 14, 2008

Jimmy LeRoy Seevers found eternal peace with his Lord at age 85, on March 14, 2008. His passing was witnessed by God at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney.

Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at the Holm Funeral Home in Sigourney. Burial will be at Rock Creek Cemetery near...

Feb 11, 2008

Beverly June Lippard, 66, died February 11, 2008 at her home in Delta, Iowa. She was born August 17, 1941 in Sigourney, Iowa to Charles and Virginia Shaull Langfitt. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1959. On September 27, 1959 she married Wallace Dean Lippard in Sigourney. She was a homemaker and later was employed at...

Feb 11, 2008

Ruth Marie Clubb, 93, died February 11, 2008 at the Ottumwa Regional Hospital in Ottumwa, Iowa. She was born February 8, 1915 north of Sigourney, Iowa to Fred and Anna Hackert Clubb. Ruth attended country school. She lived and helped her parents on the family farm. In October of 1960 she moved into Sigourney where she was...

Feb 5, 2008

Claude E. Fleming, 70, of Hedrick, died Tuesday February 5, 2008 at the V.A. Medical Center in Des Moines. He was born Oct. 9, 1937 in Martinsburg to Claude L. and Ruth Faye Pottorf Fleming. He graduated from Hedrick High School in 1957. In 1959 he entered the United States Marines, where he served 14 months in Vietnam. He...

Jan 30, 2008

John Edward Seiwert, 74, died January 30, 2008 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born September 11,1933 in Keswick, Iowa to Clemens Peter and Ruth Morrison Seiwert. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1950. He lived and farmed with his parents east of Sigourney. In 1989 they moved to Sigourney and had been a resident...

Jan 15, 2008

Helen Kolosick of Tucson, AZ, formerly of Delta died Jan. 15, 2008 at her daughter's home. She was born Feb. 12, 1913 in Hills, Iowa to Albert Joseph and Romana Birrer Schilse. She attended school near Hills. On Dec. 29, 1934, she married Clarence Kolosick. Helen was a cook for many years in Sigourney and surrounding areas and was...

Jan 14, 2008

Albert Everett Bower, 67, died January 14, 2008 at his home in What Cheer, Iowa. He was born February 17, 1940 in Ottumwa, Iowa to Levi L. and Ila Murial Gosney Bower. He attended school in Webster, Iowa. He was a bus driver for M.T.C.and drove semis for many years.

He was preceded in by his parents,...

Jan 10, 2008

John Beecher Clough died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois of complications resulting from a strangulated hernia.

He was born on January 3, 1914 in Osceola, Iowa, the son of Otto Clough and Grace Bristol Clough. He grew up on a farm east of Osceola, graduated from Osceola High...

Jun 17, 2000

Janice Joan Bates, died at her home near Keswick, Iowa. She was born July 27, 1933 to Lloyd Orville and Margaret Marie McKeag White. She graduated from Thornburg High School. On August 20, 1953 she married Ned Lawrence Bates in Delta, Iowa. They made there home north of Thornburg and in 1971 they moved to Keswick. Janice loved the...

May 15, 1989

Donna Mae Krier, 83, died April 22, 2017 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born January 21, 1934 to Ollie and Opal Tressler Olive in Delta, Iowa. She graduated from Delta High School. On September 7, 1952 she married Earl Lawrence Krier at the Delta Christian Church. They lived and farmed...

Sep 24, 1988

Joseph Henry Greiner, 55, passed on August ��8, 2009 at Harmony House in Waterloo, Iowa. He was born September 25, 1953 in Washington, Iowa to Edmund Michael and Mina Edna Olson Greiner. He graduated from Sigourney High School and attended the University of Iowa. On September 24, 1988 he married Debbie Lavonne Hermanstorfer in Sigourney....

Jun 2, 1988

William "Bill" Clubb, 81, of rural What Cheer, died Saturday at his home. He was born November 9, 1928, to Paul and Helen Marshall Clubb. He attended country school in Keokuk County. On December 31, 1947, he married Patty June Allgood in Sigourney. She died June 2, 1988. He farmed north of Martinsburg, worked various construction jobs...

May 28, 1988

Jim Johnson Sr., 69, of Delta formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Saturday, at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. He was born June 12, 1943 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to William and Vera Ferguson Johnson. He attended School in Cedar Rapids. Jim served in the United States Marines. He was married to Jane Adams. They...

Jan 26, 1978

Marie (Mrs. James) Snakenberg, 85, of Sigourney, died April 15th at Keokuk County Health Center. She was born on February 24, 1926, near Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, to John C. and Clara (Buch) Weber. She received her education at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School in Clear Creek. In 1940 the Weber family moved to Webster where...

Aug 6, 1977

Gordon Hinnah, 64, of Sigourney, died Wednesday at the Keokuk County Health Center, in Sigourney. He was born April 27, 1944 in Ottumwa to Herbert Henry and Freeda Schultz Hinnah. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1962. On August 6, 1977, he married Paula Sue Davis in Farson, Iowa. He lived and farmed east of Sigourney...

Aug 17, 1973

Emma Ruggles, 92, of Delta, died Tuesday at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. She was born January 5, 1916, near Ollie, Iowa to John William and Effie May Knight Estes. She attended school in Ollie. She was baptized at the Ollie Baptist Church in 1933. On September 6, 1933, she married Otto Everett Ruggles in...

Sep 28, 1970

Dorothy May Armstrong Wilcox Wonderlich joined her family and friends in the Heavenly Kingdom on February 7, 2015. Dorothy passed away peacefully at the Sigourney Hospital at 96 years of age. Dorothy was born July 10, 1918, to Harry and Bessie (Fahrney) Armstrong at the family farm near Deep River. Dorothy loved riding her horse "Old Mert"...

Oct 24, 1963

Alvin T. Miller was born November 14, 1940 at Iowa City, Iowa to Tobias J. Miller and Ruth Vanora (Yoder) Miller. In his youth he was baptized in the Old Order Amish Church and remained a faithful member until his death. On October 24, 1963 he was united in marriage to Martha (Miller) Miller. On...

Oct 12, 1963

Nancy Barnhart, 64, of Sigourney died Tuesday at the Keokuk County Health Center. She was born December 7, 1944 near Parnell to Al and Betty Core Garringer. She graduated English Valley High in 1963. On October 12, 1963, she married Maurice "Barney" Barnhart in Victor, Ia. They lived in Oskaloosa where she was employed at the Elmhurst...