Browse Our Obituaries to Honor Your Loved Ones and Find Comfort in Their Legacy in Sigourney and Surrounding Areas
Janice Bates
Jun 17, 2000
Janice Joan Bates, died at her home near Keswick, Iowa. She was born July 27, 1933 to Lloyd Orville and Margaret Marie McKeag White. She graduated from Thornburg High School. On August 20, 1953 she married Ned Lawrence Bates in Delta, Iowa. They made there home north of Thornburg and in 1971 they moved to Keswick. Janice loved the...
Donna M. Krier
May 15, 1989
Donna Mae Krier, 83, died April 22, 2017 at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born January 21, 1934 to Ollie and Opal Tressler Olive in Delta, Iowa. She graduated from Delta High School. On September 7, 1952 she married Earl Lawrence Krier at the Delta Christian Church. They lived and farmed...

Joe Greiner
Sep 24, 1988
Joseph Henry Greiner, 55, passed on August ��8, 2009 at Harmony House in Waterloo, Iowa. He was born September 25, 1953 in Washington, Iowa to Edmund Michael and Mina Edna Olson Greiner. He graduated from Sigourney High School and attended the University of Iowa. On September 24, 1988 he married Debbie Lavonne Hermanstorfer in Sigourney....

William "Bill" Clubb
Jun 2, 1988
William "Bill" Clubb, 81, of rural What Cheer, died Saturday at his home. He was born November 9, 1928, to Paul and Helen Marshall Clubb. He attended country school in Keokuk County. On December 31, 1947, he married Patty June Allgood in Sigourney. She died June 2, 1988. He farmed north of Martinsburg, worked various construction jobs...

Jim Johnson
May 28, 1988
Jim Johnson Sr., 69, of Delta formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Saturday, at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. He was born June 12, 1943 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to William and Vera Ferguson Johnson. He attended School in Cedar Rapids. Jim served in the United States Marines. He was married to Jane Adams. They...
Marie (Mrs. James) Snakenberg
Jan 26, 1978
Marie (Mrs. James) Snakenberg, 85, of Sigourney, died April 15th at Keokuk County Health Center. She was born on February 24, 1926, near Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, to John C. and Clara (Buch) Weber. She received her education at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School in Clear Creek. In 1940 the Weber family moved to Webster where...

Gordon Hinnah
Aug 6, 1977
Gordon Hinnah, 64, of Sigourney, died Wednesday at the Keokuk County Health Center, in Sigourney. He was born April 27, 1944 in Ottumwa to Herbert Henry and Freeda Schultz Hinnah. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1962. On August 6, 1977, he married Paula Sue Davis in Farson, Iowa. He lived and farmed east of Sigourney...

Emma Ruggles
Aug 17, 1973
Emma Ruggles, 92, of Delta, died Tuesday at the Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. She was born January 5, 1916, near Ollie, Iowa to John William and Effie May Knight Estes. She attended school in Ollie. She was baptized at the Ollie Baptist Church in 1933. On September 6, 1933, she married Otto Everett Ruggles in...
Dorothy Wilcox Wonderlich
Sep 28, 1970
Dorothy May Armstrong Wilcox Wonderlich joined her family and friends in the Heavenly Kingdom on February 7, 2015. Dorothy passed away peacefully at the Sigourney Hospital at 96 years of age. Dorothy was born July 10, 1918, to Harry and Bessie (Fahrney) Armstrong at the family farm near Deep River. Dorothy loved riding her horse "Old Mert"...

Alvin T. Miller
Oct 24, 1963
Alvin T. Miller was born November 14, 1940 at Iowa City, Iowa to Tobias J. Miller and Ruth Vanora (Yoder) Miller. In his youth he was baptized in the Old Order Amish Church and remained a faithful member until his death. On October 24, 1963 he was united in marriage to Martha (Miller) Miller. On...

Nancy Barnhart
Oct 12, 1963
Nancy Barnhart, 64, of Sigourney died Tuesday at the Keokuk County Health Center. She was born December 7, 1944 near Parnell to Al and Betty Core Garringer. She graduated English Valley High in 1963. On October 12, 1963, she married Maurice "Barney" Barnhart in Victor, Ia. They lived in Oskaloosa where she was employed at the Elmhurst...
Elsie May Bruns
Jun 11, 1961
Elsie May Bruns, 69, September 21, 2008 at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. She was born December 6, 1938 in Sigourney, Iowa to Alfred Morrison and Katharine Emma Cassens Northup. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1957. On June 11, 1961 she married John Wayne "Pee Wee" Bruns at St. Paul United Church...
Irene L. Clubb
May 26, 1957
Irene Louise Clubb , 90, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at Manor House Care Center in Sigourney. Irene was born March 16, 1921, to Mathias and Mary Conrad Osweiler near Clear Creek, Iowa. She attended and graduated from Ss Peter and Paul Catholic School in Clear Creek. As many young women did at that time, Irene worked...

Dennis Stevens
Nov 21, 1955
Dennis James Stevens, 55, died Wed., Oct. 13, 2010, from injuries due to a motorcycle accident in Loveland, Colorado. Dennis was born on Nov. 21, 1955, the son of Clifford and Gladys Luntz Stevens of Delta. He graduated from Sigourney High School with the class of 1974. He worked for a brief time at Amana Refrigeration in...
Kenneth Grimm
Dec 2, 1952
Kenneth W. Grimm, 82, died February 10, 2017 at Sigourney Health Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa. He was born July 16, 1934 to Leslie and Helen Cover Grimm near Millersburg, Iowa. He graduated from Thornburg High School. On December 2, 1952 he married Joyce Stout in Washington, Iowa she died March 16, 2004. Kenny served in the United States...

Ralph Raymond Walsh
Oct 25, 1947
Ralph Raymond Walsh, 83, died February 14, 2008 at the Ottumwa Regional Hospital in Ottumwa, Iowa. He was born June 5, 1924 near Barnes City to Edward and Verlie Colles Walsh. He attended country school in Mahaska County. On October 25, 1947 he married Henrietta Lisk in Oskaloosa, Iowa, she died August 28, 1993. They farmed in Keokuk Country...
Betty Derby
Jun 7, 1947
Betty Eldora Derby, 87, died March 11, 2015 at the Care Center in Sigourney, Iowa She was born February 13, 1928 to William and Margaret Wood Northup near Ollie, Iowa. She graduated from Ollie High School in 1947. On June 7, 1947 she married Everett Derby in Bloomfield, Iowa. They lived in Mt. Vernon, Delta and moved to Sigourney...

Floyd Seaba
Apr 20, 1947
Floyd Seaba, 83, of North English died Wednesday at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born on March 13, 1927 east of Sigourney, to Ralph and Cleo Beall Seaba. He graduated from Sigourney High School in 1945. He served in the US Army Air Corp in Okinawa during WWII. On April 20,...

Ruby Ryder
Sep 27, 1941
Ruby Ryder, 89, of Sigourney died Friday at Highland Ridge Care Center in Williamsburg, Iowa. She was born February 9, 1920 to Grover Cleveland and Emma Row Bird near Sigourney, Iowa. She graduated from Sigourney High School. On September 27, 1941 she married Ollie Albert Ryder in Lancaster, Missouri. She was employed by Kingsbury Homes for many...
Dorothy Denison
Oct 12, 1940
Dorothy Kathleen Denison, 85, of Sigourney, died April 28, 2008 at the University Hospital in Iowa City She was born March 2, 1923 near Wellman, Iowa to Nicholas S. and Amy Folger Snider. She graduated from Sigourney High School in 1940. On October 12, 1940 she married Claude W. Denison in Sigourney. She was employed...
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