Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Karen Pitts
Mar 27, 2013
Karen Leoda Pitts, 72, of Sigourney, died Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. She was born April 11, 1940 in Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of William and Helen Maxine Zwer Webster. She graduated from Ottumwa High School, and took nurses training at St Joseph's Hospital in Ottumwa. She worked at Sunnyslope...
Margaret Conner
Feb 23, 2013
Margaret Charlotte Conner, 91, died February 23, 2013 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. She was born July 26, 1921 to Gustave and Margarete Lohr Krueger near Montezuma, Iowa. She attended school in Montezuma. On December 25, 1937 she married Robert Harrison Conner in Sigourney. Margaret was a waitress and cook at many...
Clayton Crill
Feb 16, 2013
Clayton Huff Crill, 89, died February 16, 2013 at the Serenity House in Oskaloosa. He was born April 7, 1923 the son of Howard Clayton and Fennella Fear Crill on the family farm west and north of the rural Keokuk County town of Springfield. He and his older sister, Annetta, walked and rode horses to...
Eloise C. Richardson
Jan 28, 2013
Eloise C. Richardson, 95, died January 28, 2013 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born November 3, 1917 to Michael and Agnes Ritzinger Deimerly in rural Sigourney. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1935 and moved to Ottawa Illinois. In 1939 she married Thomas Robert Richardson. Eloise was employed by Sears...
Arthur "Dick" Streigle
Jan 20, 2013
Arthur Dick Streigle, 78, died January 20, 2013 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born August 30, 1934 to Arthur Delbert and Minnie Pearl Stull Streigle near Sigourney. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1952. Dick served in the United States Air Force from 1954-1958 earning the rank of Staff Sergeant....
Charles Grimes
Jan 16, 2013
Charles Edward Grimes, 68, died January 16, 2013 at his home near Webster, Iowa. He was born July 28, 1944 to Charles Edward and Bessie Burian Grimes in Clarksville, Maryland. In 1962, he graduated from Glenelg High School in In Glenelg, Maryland. On June 20, 1964 he married Barbara Furstenberg in Olney, Maryland. Charles was employed at...
Angela Decker
Jan 16, 2013
Angela Jean Decker, 51, of Wyoming, Iowa died January 16, 2013 at her daughters home in Monticello, Iowa after a short battle with cancer. She was born September 1, 1961 to Sharon Kay Toney and Leroy David Decker in Marengo, Iowa. Angela was later raised by Bill and Patricia Decker. She attended school in Keswick and Sigourney....
Brian Reed
Jan 11, 2013
Brian Scott Reed, 48, of Sigourney, died January 11, 2013, at his home. He was born June 24, 1964, in Oak Park Illinois to Ronald and Carol McKay Reed. He graduated from Payson High School in Payson, Arizona. In 1988 he moved to Marengo, Iowa and later moved to Sigourney. He worked construction for Steb...
Mary Beth Spitzer
Jan 2, 2013
Mary Beth Spitzer, 79, of Melrose, died Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at Mercy Hospital in Centerville, Iowa. She was born October 20, 1933 in Hedrick, Iowa. She graduated from Hedrick High School. She lived in the Ottumwa-Albia area all of her life, most recently at Melrose. She owned and operated antique/second hand stores in the...
Ruth Wright
Dec 25, 2012
Ruth Elenora Wright, 91, formerly of Webster, died Tuesday, December 25, 2012, at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born February 19, 1921 in Sigourney to Add and Helen Corellia Vittetoe Stevenson. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On January 18, 1945, she married Derald Wright in Sigourney. After their marriage they lived mostly in...
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...
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