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Wayne "Swede" Decker
Apr 24, 2011
Wayne "Swede" Decker, 78 died April 24, 2011 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born October 23, 1932 to Willard A. and Georgina E. Owens Decker near Sigourney. He attended Sigourney Schools. He served in the United States Army. On February 10, 1957 he married Donna Jean Bruns in Sigourney. He was employed by...
Donald Clarahan
Apr 3, 2011
Donald Richard Clarahan age 84 passed away peacefully Sunday, April 3, 2011 in Sigourney, Iowa with his beloved family by his side. Don was born on the family farm North of Harper February 13, 1927 to the son of the late Richard Joseph Clarahan and Veolet Suzanna Sondag. He farmed most of his life and worked for...
Brian Bird
Mar 31, 2011
Brian Bird, 15 of Sigourney, died March 31, 2011, following a moped accident. He was born March 5, 1996 in Ottumwa, Iowa to Larry and Marie Roudabush Bird Jr. He was a freshman at Sigourney High School. Brian was active in football, basketball, track, baseball, FFA, and band Survivng are his father Larry Bird Jr. and fiancé Donna Pyle,...
Newell Hart
Feb 23, 2011
Newell Kirby Hart, 68, died February 23, 2011 at his home in Urbandale, Iowa. He was born August 15, 1942 to Arl and Maxmarian Knox Hart near Delta, Iowa. He graduated from Delta High School in 1960 and graduated from A.I.B. in 1962. On June 30, 1962 he married Karen Kay Kerr at the Delta Christian Church...
Kenneth Krier
Feb 22, 2011
Kenneth Henry Krier, 88, died February 22, 2011 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born September 13, 1922 to Henry M. and Christena Susan Wickenkamp Krier in Sigourney, Iowa. He attended Elmgrove #9 country school. On June 5, 1944 he married Anna Kathryn Hammes at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic...
Milford E. Walker
Feb 15, 2011
Milford E. Walker, 86, of Sigourney died February 15, 2011 at the Oskaloosa Care Center. He was born October 14, 1924 to Rollie and Circe Allen Walker near Middletown, Iowa. He graduated from Agency High School in 1942. On February 15, 1948 he married Mary Frescoln at the Batavia Methodist Church. He farmed near Batavia, moved and...
Jeff Shannon
Feb 14, 2011
Jeff Shannon, 48, of Oskaloosa formerly of Sigourney died February 14, 2011 at the Mahaska County Hospital. He was born October 27, 1962 to Raymond Patrick and Rose Mary Merz Shannon in Sigourney. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1981. In 1983 he married Michelle Scharf, they later divorced. He was employed at Anderson...
Tim "Tipper" Stevens
Feb 13, 2011
Timothy Allen "Tipper Stevens, 52, of rural Delta, died Sunday February 13, 2011, at his home. He was born February 10, 1959, in Sigourney to Allen Dean and Shirley Ann Wymore Stevens. He attended Sigourney High School. He was employed by Groves Masonary of Des Moines, and later at Pella Plastics. On April 19, 1991 he married...
Rosalie A. Davis
Feb 2, 2011
Rosalie Ann Davis, 63, died February 2, 2011 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born May 21, 1947 to Ted Raymond and Malinda Catharine Stephenson Shifflett in Webster, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On April 21, 1969 she married Donald Leon Davis in Sigourney. She was employed by Kings bury...
Bettie Montgomery
Jan 4, 2011
Bettie Jane Montgomery, 84, of Oskaloosa formerly of Delta, died January 4, 2011 at the Mahaska Health Partnership in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She was born April 20, 1926 in Rhodes, Iowa to Charles and Cora Belle Good Wignall. She attended Grant school, Rhodes Consolidated and graduated from Brooklyn Community High School in 1943. On May 20, 1943 she...
Gerald Spicer
Jan 2, 2011
Gerald D. Spicer, 84, of Hayesville, died January 2, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born September 8, 1926 near Hayesville to Charles and Jennie Beasley Spicer. He attended school in Keokuk County. Gerald served in the United States Army during World War II. On July 15, 1944, he married Cleda Leone Decker...
Leatrice Benson
Dec 30, 2010
Leatrice Joy Jackson Abell Benson, 78, of Sigourney, died Thursday, December 30, 2010 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born August 4, 1932 to George James and Nellie Mabel Rowe Jackson in Union County, near Afton, Iowa. She attended school in Ringgold and Union counties. She married Lavel R. Abell June 18,...
Roy Graham
Dec 23, 2010
Roy Dell Graham, 56, of Oskaloosa died Thursday, December 23, 2010 at the Mahaska Health Partnership in Oskaloosa. He was born February 15, 1954 in Sigourney to Capt Elisha and Sunshine Maye Chrisman Graham. He attended Sigourney High School. In 1980 he married Teresa Muntz. They were later divorced. He worked construction for various contractors....
Rebecca Baumert
Dec 7, 2010
Rebecca Jean Baumert, 86, formerly of Sigourney and Iowa City, died Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at the Greater Regional Medical Center in Creston. She was born February 1, 1924 in Iowa Falls to Roy and Mabel German. She graduated Iowa Falls High School in 1942. In March of 1948 she married Jesse W. Moon. They...
Charles "Bob" Hanchett
Nov 27, 2010
Charles "Bob" Hanchett, 94, of Sigourney, died Saturday, November 27, 2010, at the North English Care Center. He was born May 8, 1916 in North English to Charles Mason and Ada Marshall Hanchett. He graduated from North English High School in 1934. On December 24, 1938, he married Doris Eilleen Caskey. He drove the tank...
Elma Sellers
Nov 21, 2010
Elma Winifred Sellers, 94, died November 21, 2010 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born January 29, 1916 to John and Cora Butler Swink near North English, Iowa. She graduated from North English High School in 1933. On October 20, 1935 she married Cleland "Dick" Sellers in Lancaster, Missouri. She was employed at Gilberts...
Maurice "Barney" Barnhart
Nov 3, 2010
Maurice "Barney" Barnhart, 66, formerly of Sigourney, died Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at Maplewood Manor in Keota. He was born April 22, 1944 in Oskaloosa to Dean and Audrey Stull Barnhart. He graduated Sigourney High School in 1962, and attended William Penn College. On October 12, 1963, he married Nancy Lou Garringer in Victor. He was employed...
David "Flo" Follman
Oct 16, 2010
David Allen "Flo" Follman, 58, died October 16, 2010 at his home in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born July 10, 1952 to James Leroy and Donna Marie Hubbell Follman in Sigourney, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1970. He was employed as a janitor and a bus driver for the Sigourney Community School district and later as...
Tim DeWeese
Oct 8, 2010
Timothy Mark DeWeese, 51 of Olathe, Kansas died Friday, October 8th, 2010 resulting from a motorcycle accident. Visitation will be Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. and funeral services will be Thursday, at 10:00 a.m. at Holm Funeral Home in Sigourney, burial will be at McCormick Cemetary at Highland Center. Timothy Mark DeWeese was born on January 11,...
Charles Fair
Sep 6, 2010
Charles F. Fair, 69, of Keota, died Monday September 6, 2010, at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City. He was born April 4, 1941 near Sigourney to Orville James and Eulalia "Maudie" Augusta Sondag Fair. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1960. On October 28, 1961, he married Judy Ann Ingle at the Ollie...
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