OBITUARIES

Apr 30, 2009

Verna Dumont Adams, 83, of Sigourney, died Thursday, April 30, 2009 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney. She was born June 7, 1925 to Fred and Gertrude Beckly Colbert. She attended rural schools in Keokuk County and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1941. On April 3, 1943, she married Elmer Dumont at...

Apr 28, 2009

James "Jim" L. Mather, 59, of Sigourney, died Tuesday April 28, 2009 at the Jefferson Co. Hospital in Fairfield. He was born September 11, 1949 in Sigourney to Edgar James and Mildred Irene Clubb Mather. He graduated from Tri-County High School. On July 27, 1985, he married Evalyn Kay Beggs in Sigourney. He farmed in the Keswick-Webster area and...

Mar 17, 2009

Raymond Herman, 93, died March 17, 2009 at the Sigourney Care Center. He was born June 8, 1915 to Jacob and Mary Haupert Herman north of Sigourney. He attended Webster High School. Raymond served in the United States Army. On April 11, 1950 he married Rita Jean Weber at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sigourney. They lived...

Mar 7, 2009

Agnes Cecilia Jaeger, 92, died March 7, 2009 at the Marshalltown Veteran's home in Marshalltown, Iowa. She was born February 2, 1917 in Keokuk County to August A. and Anna Mary Striegel Peiffer. As a child she attended Clear Creek school. On October 17, 1969 she married Tobias Jaeger at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sigourney. She...

Feb 16, 2009

Malcolm Elmer Bruns, 94, died February 16, 2009 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born August 1, 1914 near Sigourney to George and Alvina Beinke Bruns. He attended grade school at Conner #5 and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1933. He married Bernadeen Standfield on November 6, 1935 at St. Paul...

Jan 23, 2009

Eveleen B. Ulin, 87, died January 23, 2009 at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. Eveleen was born on a farm near Clear Creek, Iowa to Michael and Cecelia Streigle Hammes on February 8, 1921. She spent her childhood on the family farm and attended country school near Clear Creek. On August 25, 1943 she...

Jan 7, 2009

Russell Dean Noller's life will be celebrated on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at a memorial service at 11:00 a.m. at the Holm Funeral Home in Sigourney. Mr. Noller, 79, died on January 07, 2009, at the Sigourney Care Center following a brief hospitalization. He was born May 6, 1929 in Sigourney, the son of Earl D. and...

Jan 2, 2009

Dorothy Genevieve Conrad, 83, died January 2, 2009 at the Keokuk County Health Center in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born September 13,1925 in Harper, Iowa to Michael and Margaret Sondag Redlinger. She graduated from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School and attended Hamilton Business School in Davenport. She was employed at Keokuk County State Bank. On January 27, 1948 she...

Dec 31, 2008

Richard A. Cook, 89, resident of Albuquerque, formally of Sigourney, passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2008. He is survived by his loving wife of 69 years Juanita; two sons Mark Cook and his wife Rose and Nile Cook and his wife Joan; grandchildren Sheri Weber and her husband Fernando, Scot Cook and his wife Stephanie, Cheryl Crusan...

Dec 31, 2008

Douglas Malcolm Decker, 46, died December 31, 2008 at his home in Iowa City. He was born February 1, 1962 to Wayne (Swede) and Donna Jean Bruns Decker in Sigourney, Iowa. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1980. Doug moved to Iowa City to work for Quality Care and later at Goodwill doing janitorial work. He...

Dec 29, 2008

Nancy Norene Bower, 63, died December 29, 2008 at the Parkview Manor in Wellman, Iowa. She was born March 8, 1945 to Levi Linden and Ila Gosney Bower in Sigourney, Iowa. She lived in Webster, Sigourney, Oskaloosa and had lived at Parkview Manor since 2007.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers...

Dec 25, 2008

Jaenette H. Good, 84, of Minneapolis, formerly of Sigourney, died December 25, 2008, at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. She was born October 3, 1924, in Harper to Frank and Elizabeth Klett Sondag. She attended country school near Harper. On December 29, 1949, she married Oliver David Good in South English. She worked for many years at...

Dec 8, 2008

Kathy (Nana) L. Benson, 63, died December 8, 2008 at her home in Riverside, Iowa. She was born March 12, 1945 near Delta, Iowa to Harvey Robert and Loretta Agnes Cheney Benson. She graduated from Delta High School in 1962. She was employed at Johnson County Care Facility - Chathum Oaks from 1968 until her retirement in...

Dec 7, 2008

Eleanor K. Shifflett, 97, died December 7, 2008 at the Manor House in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born September 15, 1911 south of Bethel Church to Fredrick and Wilhemina Strubing Schultz. She attended country school. On February 12, 1932 she married Virgil LeRoy Shifflett in Sigourney. She was a homemaker and later worked as a food server...

Dec 5, 2008

Sandra Louise Dage, 64, died December 5, 2008 at her home in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born January 7, 1944 in Ottumwa, Iowa to Edgar and Edna Meyers Cary. She attended school in Ottumwa. She was a dietician at the Keokuk County Head start and later was a cook at the Manor House in Sigourney. On April 4, 1970...

Nov 21, 2008

Ida Mae Icenbice 75, died November 21, 2008 at her home in Sigourney, Iowa. She was born March 19, 1933 to Fredrick and Nellie Wallerich Mewes in Sigourney, Iowa. She attended Sigourney High School. On July 25, 1969 she married William D. Icenbice at the Methodist Church in Sigourney. She was employed at Kingsbury Homes until 1972....

Oct 27, 2008

LaVinnia M. Vogel, 89, of Sigourney, died Monday October 27, 2008 at the Sigourney Care Center in Sigourney where she has been a resident since September. She was born May 22, 1919, the only child of William J. and Anna Becker Peiffer of rural Sigourney. She grew up on the family farm west of town,...

Oct 18, 2008

Marcalene Elsie Seaba, 81, died October 18, 2008 at the Sigourney Care Center. She was born September 15, 1927 near Keswick, Iowa to John and Elsie Messinger Bonnater. She graduated from Thornburg High School in 1945 and graduated from cosmetology school in 1947. She worked as a beautician at Keystone, Oskaloosa and Sigourney. She later worked at...

Oct 17, 2008

William Cletus Hammes, 43, died October 17, 2008, at the Sigourney Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born February 19, 1965 in Sigourney to Cletus Michael and Beverly Rae Glandon Hammes. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1984. He was employed by Iowa Culvert Builders of Sigourney, Iowa Bridge and Culvert of Washington, and McCulloughs...

Sep 14, 2008

William Glen Shafer Marco Island, FL William Glen Shafer, 81, of Marco Island joined his heavenly family on September 14, 2008 after a two-year battle with cancer. Bill was born April 17, 1927 in Sigourney, Iowa to the late William Glen Shafer and Jennie Michel Shafer. He was raised in this small southeast Iowa town during the...