Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Lorena Bair
Feb 20, 2014
Lorena Bair, 89, died at the Keokuk County Health center February 20, 2014. She was born May 2, 1924 to, John C. and Clara (Buch) Weber near Clear Creek, Iowa. She attended school to 8th grade at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School. On April 12, 1947 she married Melvin "Tub" Bair at Our Lady of Lourdes...
Letha Culp
Feb 18, 2014
Letha Horras Culp, 98, died February 18, 2014 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born July 11, 1915 to Harry C. and Millie Eastburn Horras on the family farm. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1930. Letha was employed by Mrs. Etter, the State Legislature in Des Moines, Department of Agriculture...
Sandra Conner
Feb 13, 2014
Sandra Sue Conner, 67, of Glenwood, Iowa, formerly of Sigourney, died Thursday, February 13, 2014 at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She was born May 2, 1946, the daughter of Samuel Neal and Bertha Leona Morrison Conner. She lived at the Glenwood State Resource Center most of her life. She was preceded...
Janice Lanman
Feb 10, 2014
Janice Lea Haines Lanman, 53, died February 10, 2014 at her home in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born April 27, 1960 to John and Grace Messerschmitt Haines in Sigourney. She attended Sigourney High School. She was employed at the Townhouse Café and Jenny's Café in Sigourney. On June 6, 2005 she married Jimmy Lanman. She...
Janet Hinrichsen
Feb 2, 2014
Janet Sue Hinrichsen, 69, died February 2, 2014 at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born January 26, 1945 to Roscoe and Jesse Bess Griffth in Mason County, Kentucky. She graduated from Franklin Local High School in Locast Grove, Ohio. She married Gene Criswell they later divorced. Janet was employed by the FBI...
Lucina Pitsch
Feb 1, 2014
Lucina Theresia (Hein) Pitsch, 99, died on February 1, 2014, at the Manor House in Sigourney, IA. She was born on April 30, 1914, to John and Mary Behrendt Hein near Portsmouth, IA. She attended Catholic school at Portsmouth. Her father died when she was 8 years old, and her mother died when she was 12 years...
Lora Utterback
Jan 30, 2014
Lora M. Utterback, 94, of Sigourney, died January 30, 2014 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born August 7, 1919 to William Henry and Florence Hayes Wilkening South of Sigourney. She attended Sigourney High School for 3 years and she received her High School Equivalence Diploma in November 1982 at the age of 63. On June...
Marie Landers
Jan 28, 2014
Mildred Marie Landers, 85, died Tuesday, January 28, 2014, at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born June 18, 1928, near Delta the daughter of Ralph and Letha Sawyer Landers. Graduated from Delta High School. Marie lived with her parents on a farm north west of Delta on what is now Hwy 92. She walked...
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...
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