Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas

Lucille Northup
Aug 13, 2016
Lucille Sarah Ann Northup, 91, died August 13, 2016 at the Keokuk County Health Center. She was born November 2, 1924 east of Sigourney to William and Grace Myers Fairchild. She attended county school at Stoney Point. On February 28, 1947 she married Gerald James Northup in Fairfield, Iowa. They lived and farmed east of...

Allan Denny
Aug 11, 2016
Allan Bruce Denny, 79, died August 11, 2016 at his home. He was born February 18, 1937 in Oskaloosa, Iowa to Glen and Kathleen Walden Denny. He graduated from Delta High School in 1955. On April 6, 1957 he married Ada Marie Lasater at the Delta Christian Church in Delta. They lived and farmed northwest...
Shirley M. Holeton
Aug 3, 2016
Shirley M. Holeton, 85, died August 3, 2016, at the English Valley Care Center in North English, Iowa. She was born May 31, 1931 to Leonard "Curly" and Myrtle Lane Kirkpatrick in Webster, Iowa. The family moved to South English when Shirley was 4 years old. Shirley graduated from South English High School in 1949....

Joan Gehrig
Aug 1, 2016
Joan Gehrig, 90, died August 1, 2016 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born February 27, 1926 to Theodore R. Downey and Nondress Allsup in Sigourney. She graduated from Sigourney High School and attended college for two years. Joan moved to Long Beach, California and was employed at Long Beach...

Raymond Bruns
Jul 15, 2016
Raymond Ralph Bruns, 97, of Sigourney, died Friday July 15, 2016, at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. He was born December 18, 1918 near Sigourney, to Henry William and Anna Nauman Bruns. He graduated from Sigourney High School. On January 24, 1941, he married LaVera Cecilia Flander in Sigourney. They lived and farmed...
Gladys Carriker
Jun 30, 2016
Gladys Maxine (Fry Hubbs) Carriker, 84 died June 30, 2016 at the Care Center in Sigourney. She was born April 24, 1932 to Harold L. and Jenny Florence Meaker Fry in Keokuk County, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1949 and attended Vennard College in Oskaloosa. Gladys married Harold I. Hubbs, they later divorced. She was employed...
A. J. Cavin
Jun 23, 2016
A.J. Cavin, 83, died June 23, 2016 at the V.A. Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born March 28, 1933 to Jesse G. And Lillian Smith Cavin. A.J. attended Sigourney schools and served in the United States Marines during the Korean War. On July 24, 1954 he married Geraldine B. Weber at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sigourney....

Elizabeth Aldinger
Jun 16, 2016
Elizabeth Lucile Aldinger, 92, died June 16, 2016 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born November 11, 1923 to George C. And Ida Pearl Spiess Wallerich in Sigourney, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School 1941. During World War II. Elizabeth went to Denver, Colorado and worked at Gates Tires. On April...

Julie R. Davis
Jun 1, 2016
Julie Roberta Davis, 60, died June 1, 2016 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born March 24, 1956 to Roger Gordon and Roberta Kathleen Joesting Hansen in Charles City, Iowa. The Hansen family moved to Sigourney in 1970. Julie graduated from Sigourney High School in 1974. On September 3, 1984...
Esther Nichols
May 12, 2016
Esther Marie Nichols, 88, died May 12, 2016 at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield. She was born April 14, 1928 to D.W. and Ethel Geneva Strohman Bruns in Sigourney, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1945. On September 10, 1946 she married Roy Lee Nichols at the United Methodist Church in Sigourney. Esther was a bookkeeper...
Sister Martha Mary Conrad
May 8, 2016
Sister Martha Mary Conrad, CHM, 76 died on May 8, 2016 at Bishop Drumm Retirement Center, Johnston, IA. Services at Bishop Drumm Our Lady of Peace Chapel are Sunday, May 15: Visitation 12 to 1 p.m.; Prayer Service at 1 p.m. In Sigourney, IA: Sunday, May 15 at Holm Funeral Home: Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m,. with famiy present;...
Frank Jacobs
May 7, 2016
Frank (Sonny) Claude Jacobs, 86, died May 7, 2016 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born March 7, 1930 to John Robert and LaRue Gwendlyn Moore Jacobs. He attended Webster school. On March 10, 1950 he married Evelyn Mary Peiffer at the Methodist Church parsonage in Sigourney. He worked at Hammes Sawmill, for Jim...
Kathie Hammes
May 4, 2016
Kathie Irene Hammes, 62, died May 4, 2016 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. She was born December 4, 1953 in Sigourney, Iowa to Hubert Leroy and Anna Mae (Kephart) Smith. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1972. On September 11, 1976 she married Ray Hammes at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Harper, Iowa. Kathie...
Jim Cassens
May 1, 2016
James Henry Cassens, 58, died May 1, 2016 at the Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Ottumwa, Iowa. He was born December 10, 1957 to Charles and Irene Adams Cassens in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1977. He was employed at Cassens' Mill all of his life. He was a member of the...
Darrell Conner
Apr 29, 2016
Hobart Darrell Conner, 84, died April 29, 2016 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born April 21, 1932 in Sigourney to Ellis Curtis Conner and Ola Belle Hermanstofer Conner. Darrell attended rural Keokuk County schools and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1949 and from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1953. On August 2, 1953...
Stanley Vogel
Apr 18, 2016
Stanley Charles Vogel, 87, died April 18, 2016 at Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, IA. He was born August 5, 1928 to Joseph and Maud (Clarahan) Vogel near Harper, IA. Stanley attended school in Harper. On November 15, 1950 he married Irene Harkins in Harper. Stanley had a brief enlistment in the Army at Camp Chaffee,...

Mary Dell Stice
Apr 12, 2016
Mary Dell Stice, 68, died April 12, 2016 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born November 2, 1947 to Warren O. Ray and Fern Lois Van Orsdall Ray in Sigourney, Iowa. She graduated from Pekin High School in 1965. She married Lloyd Morrison and later divorced. On July 27,...

Rose Marie Wickenkamp
Mar 18, 2016
Rose Marie Wickenkamp, 83, of Martinsburg, died Friday, March 18, 2016, at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. She was born March 16, 1933 near Salem, Iowa to Harry A. and Genevieve Pauly Moeller. She attended Catholic School in Houghton. On July 11, 1964, she married Floyd John Wickenkamp in Houghton, Iowa. They lived...
Rex Chacey
Mar 5, 2016
Rex Harold Chacey, 82, died March 5, 2016 at the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield, Iowa. He was born March 16, 1933 near Martinsburg, Iowa to Ray and Gladys Martin Chacey. He attended Martinsburg schools and graduated from Hedrick High School in 1951. He was a farmer all of his life raising sheep, hogs and cattle. He...

Elizabeth Snakenberg
Mar 4, 2016
Elizabeth Margaret Snakenberg, 94, died Friday, March 4, 2016, at the Sigourney Health Care Center. She was born July 15, 1921, near Sigourney to George and Clara Webb Dumont. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On November 24, 1941, she married Robert Louis Snakenberg at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sigourney. They lived and farmed...
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