Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Cecilia Anna Herman
Mar 26, 2019
Cecilia Anna Herman, 100, died March 26, 2019 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born September 30, 1918 near Sigourney to Peter and Magdalena Koch Wehr. She graduated from Sigourney Schools and attended Iowa Teachers College. Cecilia taught in many rural schools. On April 22, 1954 she married Elmer Gerhard Herman at St. Mary Catholic Church...
Marie Roberts
Mar 15, 2019
Marie Ann Roberts, 84, died March 15, 2019 at Parkview Manor in Wellman, Iowa. She was born March 20, 1934 to LaRue E. and Joy M. Pfaff Roberts in Sigourney, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1954. In April 1955 she enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. She was a driver and was a mail clerk...
Carolyn Walden
Mar 12, 2019
Carolyn Sue Walden, 55, died at her home March 12, 2019 in Delta, Iowa. She was born July 26, 1963 to Richard David and Connie Sue Thorburn Walden. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1981. Carolyn attended Indian Hills Community College and Buena Vista College she received degrees in X-ray Tech, Accounting and LPN. She was employed at...
Phyllis Manchester
Feb 26, 2019
Lora Phyllis Manchester, 86, died February 26, 2019 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born December 24, 1932 to John Loren and Ruth Yingling Holt in Mercer, Missouri. She graduated from Princeton High School in Princeton, Missouri. On August 1, 1953 she married Thomas Reid Manchester in Princeton, MO. Phyllis was employed by the...
Geneva Marie Winn
Feb 23, 2019
Geneva Marie Winn, 89, died February 23, 2019 at the Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield, Iowa. She was born January 26, 1930 to Henry Joseph and Florence Amlong Stein in Plank Township, Keokuk County, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at the Sigourney United Methodist Church. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1948. On November...
Lyle "Rip" Winn
Jan 23, 2019
Lyle Raymond “Rip” Winn, 89, died January 23, 2019 at the University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born March 2, 1929 to James Afton and Zola Irene Woody Winn on the family farm near Taintor in northern Mahaska County. Rips father purchased a farm in Keokuk County, they moved to it when Rip was 4...
Jan Probst
Jan 6, 2019
Mary Janice Probst, 81, died January 6, 2019 at Northern Mahaska Specialty Care in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She was born November 24, 1936 to Doris Smith and Norman Green in Sigourney, Iowa She attended Sigourney High School. She married George Morton and Robert Probst and they later divorced. Jan was employed at various places, the last ones being Adventureland Park...
Nadine Kerr
Nov 27, 2018
Nadine Marie Kerr, 94, died November 27, 2018 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born April 19, 1924 to Phillip Jack and Letha Jane Shisler Beasley. She attended school in Delta. On December 25, 1940 she married Emery Lacey Kerr at the Church of Christ parsonage in Sigourney. They lived near Tracey and later lived in...
Phyllis Seaba
Nov 25, 2018
Phyllis Jane Seaba, 92, of North English died Sunday at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City surrounded by her loving family. She was born on August 4, 1926, east of Sigourney to Herbert and Freeda (Schultz) Hinnah. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1945. On April 20, 1947, at the Bethel United Methodist Church she married Floyd...
Helen Barnhart
Nov 15, 2018
Helen Ann Barnhart 94, died November 15, 2018 at the Manor House in Sigourney. She was born March 2, 1924 in Sigourney to Charles and Coletta Sondag Webb. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1942. Helen taught rural school for two years at Stoney Point. On October 22, 1946 she married Raymond Dale Barnhart at the St. Elizabeth’s...
Henry Robert Williams
Nov 12, 2018
Henry Robert Williams, 90, died November 12, 2018 at the Northern Mahaska Specialty Care in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was born July 28, 1928 in Rockwell City, Iowa to Robert and Florence (Kephart) Williams. He attended school in Sigourney and served in the United States Army as a medic in Japan and Korea. On June 26, 1955 he married Marilyn...
Jean Hansen
Nov 10, 2018
Jean Ellen Hansen, 64, died November 10, 2018 at the Manor House in Sigourney. She was born November 28, 1953 to Roger Gordon and Roberta Kathleen Joesting Hansen in Charles City, Iowa. The Hansen family moved to Sigourney in 1970. Jean lived with her family and later lived at the Manor House. She was preceded in death...
Russell Veach
Nov 5, 2018
Russell Veach, 85, died November 5, 2018 at his home in Sigourney. He was born April 11, 1933 to Clarence Raymond and Emma Pfannebecker Veach near Moravia. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1952 and served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955. On February 15, 1958 he married Harriet Janet Johnston in Sigourney. ...
Debora (Morgan) Peska
Nov 3, 2018
Debora Morgan Peska, 61, died November 3, 2018 at her home in Delta, Iowa. She was born December 7, 1956 to Earl DeWayne and Karen Brown Morgan in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She attended Belle Plaine High school. On January 1, 1985 she married William “Bill” Dale Peska in Marengo. She was employed by Amana Refrigeration and later...
Edward Traut
Oct 21, 2018
F. Edward Traut was born on the family farm on September 25, 1920 to Cecil and Nellie Holland Traut. He attended grade school for 8 years and then went to Mt. Pleasant High School where he graduated in the spring of 1937. Edward worked on the family farm and did odd jobs in 1937 -1938 along with...
Glenn Dyson
Oct 19, 2018
Glenn Eugene Dyson, 95, died October 19, 2018 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born May 24, 1923 to Olan Rufus and Mary Pearl Kirkpatrick Dyson. He graduated from Keswick High School. On June 3, 1944 he married Dorothy Helen Cassens. They lived and farmed East of Stoney Point. In 1959, they moved to...
Bill Seaba
Oct 11, 2018
William Eugene “Bill” Seaba, 62, died October 11, 2018 at the University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born January 7, 1956 to Wilford Eugene and Ruth Elaine Harkins Seaba in Sigourney. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1974 and attended the University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College. He married Laura Malone and they...
Anna Lou Cochrane
Oct 9, 2018
Anna Lou Cochrane 91, died October 9, 2018 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was born January 2, 1927 to Glenn and Katherine Beinhart Clubb near Sigourney. She attended Sigourney schools. On December 28, 1946 she married Leland Charles Cochrane in Sigourney. They lived and farmed in the Lancaster area and moved to Sigourney in 1967. ...
Jeannine Klett
Oct 7, 2018
Jeannine Klett, 86, died October 7, 2018 at the Keota Health Care Center in Keota, Iowa. She was born March 30, 1932 to Frank and Elsie Mae Bensmiller Pfannebecker near Keota. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1950. On June 24, 1950 she married Lee Henry Klett in Sigourney. They lived and farmed south west of Sigourney. Jeannine...
Bette J. Harper
Sep 2, 2018
Bette J. Harper, 93, died September 2, 2018 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born August 3, 1925 to Joseph Dewey and Monna Maurine Lemley Schlatter in Wayland, Iowa. She attended Crawfordsville schools and graduated from Washington High School in Washington. Bette served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corp from 1944 – 1946...
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