Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Kenneth Hammes
Jan 23, 2014
Kenneth Leander Hammes, 83, died January 23, 2014 at his home in Solon, Iowa. He was born on February 22, 1930 near Clear Creek to Michael and Cecilia Striegel Hammes. He spent his childhood on the family farm south of Harper and attended school at Ss Peter and Paul School in Clear Creek. He served...
Fern Dyson
Jan 17, 2014
Fern Dyson, 99, died January 17, 2014 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born November 7, 1914 in a log cabin in the timber near Gretter School, to Charles Mason and Ada Marshall Hanchett. She attended Gretter School and graduated from North English High School in 1934. As a young girl Fern...
Richard Denny
Dec 21, 2013
Richard Ward Denny, 73, died December 21, 2013 at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born March 27, 1940 in rural Sigourney to Charles Marshall and Wilda Rae Johnson Denny. Richard attended country school and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1957. On January 1, 1961 he married Delores Van Fleet at St. Paul's Evangelical...
Beatrice Clubb
Nov 20, 2013
Beatrice Clubb, 88, died November 20, 2013 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born March 19, 1925 near Clear Creek to Michael and Cecilia Striegel Hammes. She attended school at Ss Peter and Paul School in Clear Creek. On February 23, 1949 she married George Paul Clubb at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church....
Roberta Hansen
Nov 17, 2013
Roberta Kathleen Hansen, 83, died November 17, 2013 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born August 22, 1930 to August and Annabelle Tumilson Joesting in Rockford, Iowa. She graduated from Rockford High School in 1948. On July 22, 1949 she married Roger Gordon Hansen at the Zion Lutheran Church in Rockford, Iowa....
James "Jim" Yates
Nov 7, 2013
James David Yates, 69, of Des Moines, died Thursday, November 7, 2013, at his apartment. His was born September 2, 1944, in Sigourney, to William "Bill" Harry and Evelyn Lucille Pottenger Yates. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1962 and later from AIB in Des Moines. He worked for King's Delivery in Des Moines...
Dean Barnhart
Oct 20, 2013
Dean Barnhart, 88, of Sigourney, died Sunday, October 20, 2013, at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. He was born on November 16, 1924 near Sigourney, to Edward Harris and Gertrude Ruth Stokesberry Barnhart. He attended country school. On June 20, 1943, he married Audrey Kathleen Stull in Sigourney, Iowa. He served in the U. S....
Iona Streigle
Oct 17, 2013
Iona Streigle, 85 died October 17, 2013 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. She was born October 21, 1927 to Ira Roscoe and Millie Iona Downey Beall. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1945. On December 8, 1946 she married Warren E. Streigle at the Sigourney Christian Church. They farmed east of Sigourney until...
John Flanegan
Sep 19, 2013
John Richard Flanegan, 78, died September 19, 2013 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born December 26, 1934 to Samuel Dwight and Flora Mae Kleinschmidt Flanegan in West Lancaster Township, Keokuk County, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1954. On July 15, 1956 he married Carol Ruth Lampert...
Rudy Reed
Sep 18, 2013
Rudy Alan Reed 72, died September 18, 2013 at his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was born August 26, 1941 to Gerald T. and Veda Beryl Stevens Reed. He graduated from Delta High School and served in the United States Air Force. He was a truck driver for many years. He was preceded in death by...
Dorothy Kerber
Sep 2, 2013
Dorothy Mae Kerber, 96, died September 2, 2013 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born August 25, 1917 to Nicholas F. and Anna Goeldner Hammes near Clear Creek, Iowa. She attended Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School. On September 10, 1940 she married Gordon Denver Kerber at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Clear Creek....
Yvonne "Bonnie" Mallinger
Aug 30, 2013
Yvonne "Bonnie" Mallinger, of Ottumwa formerly of Sigourney, died August 30, 2013 at the Hospice House in Ottumwa, Iowa. She was born June 30, 1924 to Clarence Guy and Emily Evelyn Bennett Brace Engle. In early life she was a professional dancer and dance instructor. At the age of 9 years Bonnie danced and performed at the...
Shirley Cavin Murray
Aug 19, 2013
Shirley Arlene Murray, 77, of Bloomfield, formerly of Ollie, died Monday, August 19, 2013, at the Davis County Hospital, in Bloomfield. She was born January 27, 1936, in Fairfield, Iowa, to Frank and Bessie McClain Cavin. She graduated from Ollie High School. On October 30, 1967 she married Walter "Bucky" Murray. Shirley's life was her...
Richard Weber
Aug 11, 2013
Richard Nicholas Weber, 86, of Sigourney, died Sunday August 11, 2013 following an extended illness with COPD. He had been at the Manor House since July 8. He was born February 17, 1927, in Clear Creek to John C. and Clara (Buch) Weber. He graduated from Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School. He farmed all of his...
Betty Bruns
Aug 10, 2013
Betty Lorraine Bruns, 74, of Deep River, Iowa, died Saturday, August 10, 2013, at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center. She was born December 3, 1938 in Des Moines, Iowa to Claire Everrett and Gertrude Northup Jackson. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On August 11, 1957, she married Myron Bruns at the E&R Church in...
Ruth Eldridge Johnson
Aug 9, 2013
Ruth Eileen Eldridge Johnson, 81, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2013 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa following a long illness. Ruth was born November 16, 1931 in Keota, to Francis Aloysius and Margaret Peiffer Shannon. She married Robert W. Eldridge on February 11, 1950. She is survived by her eight children: Cathy Uttech (Mitch) of Steamboat Springs, Colorado,...
Ella Williamson
Jul 12, 2013
Ella Williamson, 99, died July 12, 2013 at the Sigourney Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born May 13, 1914 to Edward and Ella Ahrenholz DeVries in Woodstock, Minnesota. She attended school in Calhoun County, Iowa. On April 6, 1935 she married George Williamson in Lake City, Iowa. They lived in Lake City and moved to Bemidji, Minnesota...
Juanita Etter
Jul 12, 2013
Juanita Edith Etter passed away at the age of 92 on July 12, 2013, at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born September 24, 1920, to Earl and Hilda Koch Sterrett in What Cheer, Iowa. She graduated from What Cheer High School. On September 16, 1948, she married Cotton Etter of Sigourney, Iowa. Mrs. Etter was a...
Bertha Ragan
Jun 15, 2013
Bertha Ragan, formerly of Sigourney, died on June 15, 2013, at the Silverado Assisted Living facility in Lake Zurich, Ill., following a lengthy illness. She was born January 15, 1913, in Dexter, Minn., the daughter of Grant Ragan and Eva Fauth Ragan, deceased. A graduate of Sigourney High School in 1931, she worked as a...
Verena Snakenberg
May 28, 2013
Verena Magdalena Snakenberg, 92, passed into eternal life on May 28, 2013 at the Sigourney Care Center in Sigourney surrounded by members of her loving family. She was born April 11, 1921 near Harper to Peter J. and Pearl C. (Sondag) Adam. Verena graduated from St. Elizabeth High School in Harper and attended St. Joseph School of...
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