Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Minnie Fry
Oct 1, 2015
Minnie Irene Fry , age 84, of Winfield and formerly of West Chicago, passed away October 1, 2015, in Geneva, Illinois. She was born on March 6, 1931 in Thornburg, Iowa to George and Grace Souer. Minnie was married in 1951 to the late Ken Fry. She was a founding member of Faith Community Church in West...
Jane Goll
Sep 27, 2015
Mary Jane Goll, 83, died September 27, 2015 at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She was born January 11, 1932 to Guy and Nettie Rose Silvers near What Cheer, Iowa. She grew up south of Delta. She went to country school north of Hedrick grades K - 1 and 2nd - 8th at Davenport Country School...
Kenneth Seaba
Aug 29, 2015
Kenneth Benjamin Seaba, 79, died August 29, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born January 14, 1936 to Benjamin Henry and Letha Leora Ulin Seaba east of Sigourney. He attended Garibaldi School. On October 12, 1957 he married Patricia Ann Rose in Eldon, Iowa. They lived and farmed in...
Jim Wilcox
Aug 6, 2015
Jimmy David Wilcox, 74, died August 6, 2015 at Serenity House in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was born September 11th, 1940 to David and Dorothy May Armstrong Wilcox at the family home near Parnell, Iowa. Jim attended Plank #10, and Geribaldi county schools. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1959. On July 30, 1961 he married Rose...
Lloyd Pilcher
Jul 11, 2015
Lloyd Willie Pilcher, 94, of Sigourney, died Saturday, July 11, 2015, at the Keokuk County Health Center. He was born October 11, 1920, in Davis County to Stewart and Maude Hazel Brookshire Pilcher. He attended county school. He worked at John Morrell, the Ottumwa Brick Factory, Martinsburg Lumber, and farmed in the Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, and Delta area....
Phyllis Renner
Jun 15, 2015
Phyllis May Renner, 94, died June 15, 2015 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born on July 13, 1920 to Clarence "Pat" and June Shipman Glandon in South English, Iowa. She attended country school. On September 5, 1938 she married George Louis Renner in Burlington, Iowa. She was employed at the West Side Café...
Julie Nimtz
Jun 5, 2015
Julie Kay Nimtz, 72, died June 5, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born June 25, 1942 to Warren William and Nancy Ann Hamilton Stull in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On October 14, 1962 she married Maurice "Mort" Nimtz at the Methodist Church in...
Colleen Kiefer
May 30, 2015
Colleen Carman Kiefer, 91, died May 30, 2015 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. She was born January 20, 1924 to Edgar and Nancy Nelson Mather in Coatsville, Missouri. She attended a country school in Missouri and later worked for Minnie Tollenaar for a few years. On May 1, 1945 she married Richard Peter Kiefer at...
Dale Long
May 26, 2015
Dale Arthur Long 78, died May 26, 2015 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born December 10, 1936 to James and Marjorie Keck Long in Gallatin, Missouri. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California in 1955. He moved back to Iowa and on July 26, 1958 he married...
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...
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