Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Irene Peiffer
Nov 15, 2012
Irene Florence Peiffer, 93, died November 15, 2012 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born February 26, 1919 to Nicholas and Thecla Halter Scheetz near Cosgrove, Iowa. She graduated from Cosgrove High School. She lived at home helping to raise the family. On October 23, 1945 she married Bernard Michael Peiffer in Cosgrove. They...
Harold Reynolds
Nov 7, 2012
Harold Earl Reynolds Jr., 79, died November 7, 2012 at the Serenity House in Oskaloosa. He was born February 18, 1933 to Harold Earl and Mary Ellen Hook Reynolds Sr. in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended school in Bondurant. On November 2, 1957 he married Dorothy Irene Martin in Oskaloosa. She died May 7, 1991....
Helen Follman
Nov 1, 2012
Helen Follman, 83, died November 1, 2012 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born August 23, 1929 in the Tick Ridge area near Ollie, the daughter of William Leslie and Margaret Wood Northup. She graduated from Ollie High School in 1948. On January 18, 1950 she married Wilford Leon Follman at the Christian Church parsonage in...
Dan W. Lucas
Oct 23, 2012
Dan W. Lucas, 88, died Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at the McCreedy Home in Washington, Iowa. He was born in his parents home in Sigourney, Iowa on August 20, 1924. He was the son of Fredrick Ellsworth and Fern Ann Iosbaker Lucas. He attended Sigourney High School. Dan served in the United States Marines in the South Pacific during...
Sarah Smithart
Oct 7, 2012
Sarah Lou Smithart, 69, died October 7, 2012 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. She was born October 13, 1942 to Lloyd Garland and Virginia Sipes Deitrich in Sigourney, Iowa. As a young girl Sarah delivered papers and show bills. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1960. On May 30, 1961 she married Russell...
Christine Crill
Oct 5, 2012
Christine Jane Root died October 5, 2012 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born east of Bloomfield, Iowa, � mile east of the Evens corner to Rex and Careta Shaffer Root on January 8, 1924. She was the sister of Ben Root, who was 2 years older and a guiding star throughout his lifetime....
Eillenn Nimtz
Sep 26, 2012
Eileen Dorothy Nimtz, 94, died September 26, 2012 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born December 23, 1917 to Glen and Katherine Beinhart Clubb near Sigourney. She attended Johnson country school. On October 30, 1940 she married Karl R. Nimtz in Keswick, Iowa. They lived and farmed in Van Buren Township until retiring and moved into...
Lydia Heath
Sep 26, 2012
Lydia Elizabeth Heath passed away September 26, 2012 at the Van Buren County Hospital with her family and loved ones present. She was born February 12, 1919 at Harper, Iowa to Ed and Kate McMillan. On August 3, 1957 she married Forrest Dale Heath in Amarillo, Texas. She was a mother and homemaker had raised seven girls...
Darlene Thomas
Sep 8, 2012
Darlene M. Thomas, 77 died September 8, 2012 at the Mahaska County Hospital. She was born October 27, 1934 to Willard Arvene and Georgina Owen Decker near Sigourney, Iowa. She attended Sigourney High School. She married twice, first to Joseph Leroy West then later to George Harry Thomas. Darlene worked for Sanners nursing home and had a...
Gladys Stevens
Aug 26, 2012
Gladys Marie Stevens, 101, died August 26, 2012 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born October 11, 1910 to Willie and Mrytle Sarver Lunt near Rose Hill, Iowa. She graduated from Rose Hill High School. On January 15, 1930 she married Clifford D. Stevens in Oskaloosa, Iowa. They lived and farmed near Delta. She was a...
Jenella Stull
Aug 9, 2012
Jenella Stull, 84, of Sigourney, died Thursday, August 9, 2012, at the Manor House in Sigourney. She was born September 10, 1927, near Oskaloosa, to Bert and Jennie DeJong Slings. On June 4, 1947, she married Samuel Stull Jr. in Oskaloosa. They lived and farmed in Keokuk County most of their married life. She worked...
Colleen Morgan
Aug 8, 2012
Colleen Erin Morgan, 52, of Hedrick, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at her home. She was born June 26, 1960 in Atlantic, Iowa, to Donald W. and Helen Horton Maher. She graduated from Logan View High School in Hooper, Nebraska. She moved to Sigourney in 1996 and provided Day Care in Sigourney for 10 years. She was...
Herbert Peiffer
Aug 1, 2012
Herbert Ignatius Peiffer died Wednesday, August 1, 2012, at his home near Sigourney, Iowa, of congestive heart failure. He was 85. Herbert was born on October 15, 1926, near Harper, Iowa, the second youngest of nine, to Henry L. Peiffer and Barbara Hammes Peiffer. He attended St. Peter and Paul Parochial School. He began farming the family...
Marlene Mitchell
Jul 22, 2012
Marlene Joan Mitchell, 68, died July 22, 2012 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born July 22, 1944 in Columbus, Ohio to Harold Robert and Cora Viola Schott Waldron. She graduated from high school in East St. Louis and attended beauty school in Columbus. On January 12, 1965 she married James Mitchell...
Joe Pitsch
Jul 8, 2012
John Joseph Pitsch 76, died July 8, 2012 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. He was born March 18, 1936 to John Lillig and Lucina T. Hein Pitsch in Ottumwa, Iowa. He attended Conner Country School #5 and Sigourney High School. He lived and farmed at the family farm. Joe moved into Sigourney in the 1970's and...
Bill Holm
Jun 12, 2012
Mark William "Bill" Holm, 85, of Sigourney, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, June 12, at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. He was born March 4, 1927 in Oskaloosa to Martin Melven and Mary Elmina Folsom Holm. He graduated from Oskaloosa High School in 1945. He served in the United States Army during WWII from June 1945...
Nancy Barr
May 22, 2012
Nancy Barr, 69, of Coralville, formerly of Keota, died Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. She was born on February 8, 1943 in Washington to William David and Margaret Frances Votruba Vinton. She attended school in Washington. On March 16, 1961, she married Roger Willis Barr at the Baptist Church in...
Kenneth Capps
May 5, 2012
Kenneth R. Capps, 88, of Pekin passed away May 5, 2012 at Sunnybrook Assisted Living in Fairfield. He was born May 29, 1923 in Pekin, the son of Ralph and Anna Hayes Capps. His birth was at the family home where he lived all of his life. On September 13, 1950 he married Betty Crouse in Sigourney,...
Thomas C. Park
Apr 25, 2012
Thomas Carroll Park, 75, of Sigourney, died Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at the Keokuk County Health Center. He was born December 4, 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa to Loren and Mildred Van Horn Park. He graduated High School in Dixon, Nebraska in 1955, served in the United States Air Force from 1955 to 1958 and then attended...
Janet Brainard
Mar 26, 2012
Janet Louise Brainard, 69, died March 26, 2012 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born July 23, 1942 to F Edward and Prudence Peterson Traut in Galesburg, Illinois. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1960. On June 11, 1961 she married Larry Lee Brainard at the United Methodist Church in Sigourney....
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