Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Beverly Chambers
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...
Carol Dillon
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...
Charlotte Fagen
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...
Steve Smith
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...
Marian P. Freyslaben
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...
Gene Thompson
Jan 10, 2015
Eugene "Gene" Thompson, 85, died January 10, 2015 at Parkview Manor in Wellman. He was born April 8, 1930 in Floris, Iowa to Emery and Nora Rodefer Thompson. He attended Floris, Bloomfield and Ottumwa schools and graduated from Ottumwa in 1950. He was baptized in Sauk Creek River at twelve years old and joined the Baptist Church...
Richard "Dick" Martin
Dec 26, 2014
Richard A. Martin, 88, died peacefully in the early morning hours of December 26 at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa. His loving wife and daughter had been with him throughout his illness, and the "Martin 3" were blessed to share one last very special Christmas Day together. Born on July 25, 1926, in Hedrick, Iowa,...
Arlene Clarahan
Dec 26, 2014
Arlene Evelyn Sheesley Clarahan, age 80 of Sigourney, passed away December 26, 2014 in Sigourney with her loving family by her side. Arlene was born March 10, 1934 in Ottumwa, IA, daughter of the late Elmo and Mamie Sample Sheesley. She graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1952 and later met the love of her life, Donald...
Dorothy Fry
Dec 25, 2014
Dorothy Kathryn Fry, died December 25, 2014 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born April 25, 1924 to Otto and Emma Dumont Schmid near Lancaster. She attended Country school and St. Elizabeth's Catholic School in Harper Iowa. She worked as a dental assistant. On February 7, 1946 she married Harley Lewis Fry...
Crystal M. Aldrich
Dec 22, 2014
Crystal Marie DeMoss Aldrich passed away on Monday, December 22, 2014 at the Manor House. She was born July 29, 1918 in Wyoming, IA to Viola Ireland DeMoss and William E. DeMoss. She was the youngest of 3 sisters and a younger brother. Crystal graduated from Wyoming High School in 1936. She worked at the...
Grace M. Haines
Dec 18, 2014
Grace Mae Haines, 95, died December 18, 2014 at the Sigourney Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born December 4, 1919 to Raymond and Nellie Wiseman Messerschmitt near Hedrick. She attended school in Hedrick. On July 12, 1937 she married John Andrew Haines in Lancaster, Missouri. They lived in Des Moines, Grinnell and Keokuk...
Carol Appleget
Dec 9, 2014
Carol Doris Appleget, age 91 passed away Tuesday December 9, 2014 in Lilburn, Georgia. Carol was born to John W. and Clara "Pearl" Cook October 12, 1923 at their farm east of Delta, IA. She attended graded school in Delta and taught school in a one room rural school house to 7 pupils in 4 grades after...
Lawrence "Buck" Watson
Dec 4, 2014
Lawrence "Buck" Watson, 73, died December 4, 2014 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born May 6, 1941 to Lawrence Glen "Lank" and Lucille Adelyn Bond Watson near Rubio, Iowa. He graduated from English Valley High School in 1960. On October 15, 1960 he married Shirley Grace Ulin at St. Paul Evangelical...
Richard E. Disney
Dec 1, 2014
Richard Ernest Disney, 76, of Weiser, Idaho, passed away Monday, December 1st. He was born to the late Richard and Ena Disney, March 5, 1938, in Washington, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1956. Richard served in the Army Reserve and worked for the Bell System and then Pacific Bell and retired after...
Miriam Lawrance
Nov 23, 2014
Miriam Louise Lawrance, 84, died November 23, 2014 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born August 1, 1930 to Burley and Ethel Lisk Roberts near Delta, Iowa. She graduated from Delta High school in 1948. On July 22, 1950 she married Donald Jack Larwrance at the United Methodist Church in...
Yvonne Haines
Nov 22, 2014
Yvonne Marie Haines, 77 died November 22, 2014 in Chickasha, Oklahoma. She was born February 2, 1937 to Rex and Inez Dean Short near Hedrick, Iowa. She attended school in Delta, Iowa and received her G.E.D. in Colorado. She married Duane Lang and they later divorced. Yvonne was employed at Coor's and retuned to Iowa...
Mary E. Dickinson
Nov 12, 2014
Mary Elizabeth Dickinson, 83, died November 12, 2014 at the University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born April 15, 1931 to Robert William and Viola Magdalena Sieren Martin near What Cheer, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1949. On December 26, 1949 she married Stanley Schmidt at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sigourney,...
Raymond Conklin
Nov 6, 2014
Raymond Ernest Conklin, 86, died November 6, 2014 at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born October 12, 1928 to Rollie and Blanche V. Brumback Conklin in Sigourney, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1948 and served in the United States Army. On May 27, 1951 he married Anita Jean Patterson at the Delta Christian...
Dolores Bowman
Oct 8, 2014
Dolores June Bowman, 83, died October 8, 2014 at her home north of Keswick, Iowa. She was born October 6, 1931 to Frank and Ester E. Howard Lisle in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from Keswick High School. She married Rex L. Bowman. They lived and raised their family north of Keswick. She was employed...
Kathy Long
Sep 24, 2014
Kathryn Ann Long, 77, died September 24, 2014 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born July 22, 1937 to Doney and Lola Ritter Smich near Keswick, Iowa. She attended Sigourney schools. On July 26, 1958 she married Dale Arthur Long in Sigourney. She was employed at the Sigourney Maid-Rite. They...
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