OBITUARIES

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...

Doris Conner

Feb 24, 2016

Doris Mae Rockwell Conner, 82, died February 24, 2016. She was born January 5, 1934 in Oskaloosa, Iowa to Harry William Rockwell and LaRue Everhart Rockwell. Doris attended schools in Mahaska County as well as elementary schools in Oskaloosa, Fremont, and Sigourney. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1951. Attended Iowa Wesleyan College receiving a two-year...

Jack Walker

Feb 10, 2016

Jack Ray Walker, 58, of Sigourney, Iowa passed away on February 10, 2016. Jack was born on September 20, 1957 to Milford and Mary Frescoln Walker in Ottumwa, Iowa. Jack graduated from Hedrick High School in 1975 and he attended Indian Hills Community College where he graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in Culinary Arts. On...

Eugene Weber

Feb 9, 2016

Eugene L. Weber, 72, died February 9, 2016 at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born January 15, 1944 to Raymond and Bessie Henry Weber near Keota, Iowa. He graduated from St. Elizabeth High School in 1962. On February 5, 1966 he married Virginia Ann Vittetoe at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Harper. They lived and farmed...

Mary Louise Sieren

Feb 3, 2016

Mary Louise Sieren, 87, died February 3, 2016 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born December 2, 1928 near Sigourney to Ralph and Cleo Beall Seaba. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1946 and attended the Iowa Teachers College in Cedar Falls and received her teaching certificate. She taught at 3 country schools...

Mickey Tremmel

Jan 31, 2016

Mickey A. Tremmel, 57, died Sunday January 31, 2016, at his home.

Sevices at a later date.

Charles Grove

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...

Dennis Rankin

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...

Irene Vogel

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...

Ernest L. Green, Jr

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...