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Evelyn Crane
7/7/1924-12/7/2011

Evelyn D. Crane was born in Des Moines, Iowa, July 7, 1924, the only child of Emmett Orin and Rosa Patava Groves. When she was a small child the family moved to Port Angeles, Washington, where she was raised and graduat...

 
Thelma Lyman
4/14/1916-11/23/2011


Thelma Fern Lyman, the daughter of Dale and Bessie Brogden Cose, was born April 14, 1916, in Deloit, Iowa. She lived all of her single life in Deloit and attended school there.
On February 15, 1932, Thel...

 
Joyce Johnson
2/12/1948-11/21/2011

Joyce Elaine Johnson was born at Denison, Iowa, February 12, 1948, the daughter of Edward and Edna Beerman Bandow. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the sacrament of Holy Baptism at Zion Luthera...

 
Kay Justice
6/21/1944-11/20/2011

Kay Justice passed away November 20, 2011 in Bentonville, AR. She was born June 21, 1944 in Dow City, Iowa to George “Ben” and Laura (Wilder) Houston. Kay was the eighteenth of twenty children.

Kay a...

 
Esther M. Soenksen
6/28/1918-11/14/2011

Esther M. Soenksen was born June 28, 1918, at her present farm home north of Deloit, Iowa, the daughter of Fredrick and Laura Reincke Hansohn. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of ...

 
Wayne W. Kruger
7/14/1936-11/4/2011

Wayne Walter Kruger was born at Buck Grove, Iowa, July 14, 1936, the son of Walter Frederick and Louise Anna Hesse Kruger. He was raised on the family farm south of Vail and graduated from the Westside High School with ...

 
Joshua H. Potter
5/10/1989-11/3/2011

Joshua Herman Potter was born in Sioux City, Iowa, May 10, 1989. He was raised in Denison, Iowa, where he received his education, graduating from Denison High School with the class of 2008. During high school he was act...

 
Lorene McCullough
2/22/1915-10/27/2011

Allie Lorene McCullough was born February 22, 1915 in Lawrenceville, IL, the third of nine children of Harry and Launa Eagle Riley. She weighed only two pounds at birth and was so small that she fit into a shoebox and h...

 
E. Joan Gangestad
3/15/1924-10/26/2011

Evelyn Joan Gangestad was born March 15, 1924 at Portsmouth, Iowa, the daughter of William and Anna Greiner Feser. She received her education at the St. Mary Catholic School in Portsmouth.
On November 18, 1946, ...

 
Cristina Barragan
4/1/1959-10/13/2011

Cristina Sotelo de Barragan was born in Santa Rita, Jalisco, Mexico, April 1, 1959, the youngest of 15 children of Bernardo and Guadalupe Rodriguez Sotelo. She was raised in Santa Rita where she received her education. ...

 
Francis H. Krohnke
4/4/1940-10/9/2011

Francis Harold Krohnke was born at Denison, Iowa, April 4, 1940, the son of Harold and Margaret Miller Krohnke. He was raised on the farm at Schleswig and graduated from the Schleswig High School with the class of 1958....

 
Robert H. Dieter
2/9/1924-9/23/2011


Robert H. Dieter was born at Vail, Iowa, February 9, 1924, the son of George E. and Loretta Monaghan Dieter. He was raised on the family farm one mile north of Vail and graduated from St. Ann High School with th...

 
H. Blair Baughman
10/3/1936-9/16/2011

 Harold Blair Baughman was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, October 3, 1936, the son of Harold and Hallene McIntosh Baughman. The family resided in Dow City before moving to Denison when Blair was in the third grade. ...

 
Marilyn Beth Argotsinger
5/21/1929-9/7/2011

Marilyn Beth Argotsinger was born on a farm in Goodrich Township, Crawford County, Iowa, May 21, 1929, the daughter of Eldridge and Virgil Marie Darling Winey. During her formative years the family moved to Deloit where she received her education ...

 
Howard E. Krohnke
11/15/1917-9/6/2011

Howard Ernest Krohnke was born in Schleswig, Iowa, November 15, 1917 to Edward and Amanda Henkel Krohnke. He was baptized at Friedens Evangelical Church in Schleswig and attended the country school. Later he farmed with his father and family and w...

 
Richard Johnston
11/28/1933-9/5/2011

Richard Johnston was born on the farm at Kiron, Iowa, November 28, 1933, the son of Martin and Cora Larson Johnston. At age three his family moved to the Johnston family home place northwest of Kiron. He received his education at Kiron, graduating...

 
Dennis Raymond Hansen
12/29/1946-9/1/2011

Dennis Raymond Hansen was born at Denison, Iowa, December 29, 1946, the son of Raymond and Elvira Haase Hansen. He was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at Zion Lutheran Ch...

 
Catherine Ann Kelly
3/20/1929-8/30/2011

Catherine Ann Kelly was born in Waterloo, Iowa, March 20, 1929, the daughter of Martin and Margaret McGrath Lilly. She was raised at Fonda, Iowa, where she received her elementary and high school education at Our Lady o...

 
Betty Ann Andresen
7/21/1946-8/21/2011

Betty Ann Andresen was born at Denison, Iowa, July 21, 1946, the daughter of Louis A. and Margaret Hoemann Hinricksen. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at Zion Lut...

 
Kiara Jazmin Oropeza
2/2/1996-8/16/2011

NACIO EN SANTA RITA JALISCO, MEXICO EL 2 DE FEBRERO DE 1996. HIJA DE ANTONIO OROPEZA Y FELECITAS FIERRO, ESTUDIABA EN DENISON HIGH SCHOOL. A ELLA LE GUSTABA EL FUTBOOL BAILAR Y COMVIVIR CON SU FAMILIA Y AMIGOS. ERA UNA ...

 
Leota  Hall
2/1/1916-7/23/2011

Leota Ellen Hall was born February 1, 1916 to Elizabeth Ila Seamans and Harry M. Drorbaugh at their farm home near Cromwell, Iowa. The family moved to a farm one mile west of Kent, Iowa in March of 1917. Her father farm...

 
Ward Anderson
4/10/1925-7/22/2011

Ward Kenneth Anderson was born at Isle, Minnesota, April 10, 1925, the son of Eric and Hulda Biostrom Anderson. He was raised in Mille Lacs County, receiving his elementary education in the Eastwood Grade School. He the...

 
Inez M. McElwain
9/20/1912-7/18/2011

Inez Marie McElwain was born at Red Oak, Nebraska, September 20, 1912, the daughter of Burt and Jenny Miller Ball. The family moved to the farm at Oto, Iowa, where she was raised, receiving her education in the rural an...

 
Wilbur Gottsch
3/30/1933-7/16/2011

Wilbur Gene Gottsch was born at Carroll, Iowa, March 30, 1933, the son of Rudolph Claudius and Lena Magdalena Thies Gottsch. He was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at Zion Lutheran Church, Denison, ...

 
John Wesley Larson
10/10/1931-7/2/2011

John Wesley Larson was born October 10, 1931, to Clifford and Ethel (Turin) Larson at their home in Hayes Township, Kiron, Iowa. He attended school in Kiron, IA, and was on the basketball team graduating in 1949. He accept...

 
Edward H.  Dahleen
12/26/1931-6/14/2011

Edward (Eddy) Dahleen was born on a farm in Ida County, northwest of Kiron, Iowa, December 26, 1931, the son of Henry and Catherine (Simons) Dahleen. He was baptized December 31, 1944, and later confirmed at St. John&rs...

 
Ivan H Rowedder
8/24/1925-6/3/2011

Ivan H. Rowedder was born in Manning, Iowa, August 24, 1925, the son of Herman and Katie Karstens Rowedder. He was raised in the Manning area and received his education in the rural schools of Crawford County. Following...

 
Rodney (Pete) Bell
6/17/1948-6/1/2011

Rodney (Pete) Bell was born in Denison, Iowa, June 17, 1948, the son of William and Lois North Bell. He was raised at Vail, Iowa, and graduated from the Ar-We-Va High School in Westside in 1966 with a football scholarsh...

 
Mabel S. Greene
2/26/1917-5/30/2011

Mabel S. Greene was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, February 26, 1917, the daughter of Willy F. and Elizabeth Winter Scheel. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Chur...

 
Marlyn Schmitz
1/6/1922-5/18/2011

Marlyn Elizabeth Schmitz was born in Kiron, Iowa, January 6, 1922, the daughter of Raymond N. and Elizabeth Lundell Larson. She was raised there and was a graduate of the Kiron High School.
On October 16, 1941, Marlyn was united in marriage...

 
Delores Hollander
7/21/1933-5/16/2011

Delores Edith Helms Hollander was born in Dawson, Iowa, July 21, 1933, the daughter of William Edwin and Laura Amelia Woolson Helms.
She grew up in Perry, Iowa, where she married Frank Lee Potter and had two children, Barbara and David.

 
Henry Ewoldt
12/26/1936-5/16/2011

Henry John Ewoldt was born in Denison, Iowa, December 26, 1936, the son of Emil Henry and Leonora M. Grill Ewoldt. His early years were spent on the farm near the Five Mile House south of Westside, Iowa and he was baptized November 21, 1937 at the...

 
Ralph E. Bilsten
2/24/1932-5/14/2011

He was a loving son to Garnett and Ralph Sr., brother to six siblings, husband for 59 years-11 months to his wife Eva, father to Mark, Jan and Jodi, father-in-law to Pat Jepsen, Rob Simmens and Bob Hall, grandfather to ...

 
Ida Hennings
12/8/1907-5/6/2011

Ida Hennings was born near Denison, Iowa, December 8, 1907, the daughter of George Washington and Martha Custis Streeter Zea. She received her education in the rural schools near their home and Denison Community Schools...

 
Leonard Benson
7/25/1933-5/6/2011

Leonard G. Benson was born northeast of Kiron, Iowa, July 25, 1933, the son of Kermit G. and Jessie Nelson Benson. He attended the Kiron Schools, graduating from high school with the class of 1951. After high school, Leonard attended barber school...

 
Betty J. Georgius
11/21/1931-4/26/2011

Betty J. Georgius was born at Castana, Iowa, November 21, 1931, the daughter of Jerry and Hannah Shullenberger Hall. She was raised there where she graduated from high school with the class of 1949.
Betty was un...

 
Glenn Donald  Beck
9/6/1936-9/6/2009

Glenn Donald Beck, 73, of Lexington, SC, home town of Denison, IA died on September 6, 2009 after a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Beck was the son of the late Glenn William Beck and Margaret Blackman (Beck) Schimer...

 
William Quinn Norelius
5/5/1928-3/27/2011

William Quinn (Papa Bill) Norelius, the son of E.A. and Lucille Quinn
Norelius is survived by his wife, Diane (Jenkins) Norelius, three children
– Kris Norelius and husband Dan Ertel of Eugene, Orego...

 
Roberta  Yankey
8/25/1920-3/26/2011

Roberta Yankey was born in rural Denison, Iowa, on August 25, 1920, the daughter of Robert Baer and Anna Miles. She attended rural school and graduated from Denison High School in 1936. After teaching for 2 years, she m...

 
Erwin M. Beenken
12/13/1927-3/10/2011

Erwin M. Beenken was born at Titonka, Iowa, December 13, 1927, the son of Dirk and Etta Harringa Beenken. He was raised there where he graduated from high school with the class of 1945. His post high school degrees incl...

 
Sarah Elizabeth (Beth) Clark
9/12/1917-2/25/2011

Sarah Elizabeth (Beth) Clark, daughter of the Rev. Clyde Jesse Hall and Mary Beecher Hall was born September 12, 1917, in Singapore, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, where her father was a Methodist Missionary. The family ret...

 
Laura M. Heue
2/18/1920-2/12/2011

 

Laura M. Heue was born in Carroll, Iowa, February 18, 1920, the daughter of Bernard and Mary Lammers Janning. She spent her younger years in the Mt. Carmel community and attended Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Sc...

 
Linda Carstensen Sample
8/25/1953-2/9/2011

Mrs. Linda Sample, age 57, of Rutherford, TN passed away February 9, 2011 in Loanoke County Arkansas. Services will be Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 2:00pm at Leitherland Funeral Home in Rutherford, TN with Rick Hawse an...

 
Elnora Miller
3/17/1924-2/7/2011

Elnora J. Miller was born at Dunlap, Iowa, March 17, 1924, the daughter of Alva and Dorothy Neville Treft. She was raised on the farm there and during her teenage years was employed as a live-in housekeeper for two area...

 
Maria Cantu
10/12/1944-2/6/2011

Maria del pilar Cantu was born in Mexico, October 12, 1944, the daughter of Luis Casanova and Inocencia Alaniz. She was raised in Mexico where she received her education.
Maria was united in marriage with Hector ...

 
Lawrence Slater
5/16/1939-1/29/2011

In Loving Remembrance

Lawrence Edward Slater, Age 71, died early Saturday, January 29, 2011 in his sleep at the Manilla Manor in Manilla, IA, releasing him from the pain and suffering ...

 
Marie Berg
4/20/1912-12/25/2010

Marie Berg passed away on Christmas morning at Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa. She was born April 20, 1912 in Galva, Iowa to Jennie Wisch Holdorf and Henry Holdorf. She was baptized in infancy in Galva and co...

 
Elizabeth Lownes
8/9/1916-12/19/2010

Elizabeth Lownes was born at Denison, Iowa, August 9, 1916, the daughter of Rudolph Peter Ferdinand and Emma Marie Moeller Schramm. She was raised on the family farm, as well as spending a few of her formative years wit...

 
F.W. "Bill" Fastje
8/3/1921-12/18/2010

Frederick William “Bill” Fastje, Jr. was born in Denison, Iowa, August 3, 1921, the son of Frederick William and Marie Alice Namanny Fastje. He was raised in Denison graduating from the Denison High School w...

 
Hollis H. Keele
8/8/1916-12/15/2010

Hollis Harl Keele was born August 8, 1916 in Hendrickson, Missouri, son of Harlin and Pearl (Sexton) Keele. He was raised with three older sisters and three younger sisters. At the age of eight, he moved and attended school in Laurens, Iowa. As he...

 
William G. "Bill" Houston
1/11/1935-12/3/2010

William Gene “Bill” Houston, the 11th child of George and Laura Wilder Houston, was born January 11, 1935, at Dow City, Iowa. He received his education in Dow City where he graduated from high school with the class of 1953. Following h...

 
Elmer W. Rusch
5/19/1919-12/1/2010

Elmer W. Rusch was born on a farm west of Schleswig, Iowa, May 19, 1919, the son of Christian and Minnie Claussen Rusch. Raised on the farm, he was baptized and confirmed at the Evangelical and Reformed Church in Schles...

 
Arthur "Ace" Nelson
8/23/1918-11/28/2010

Ace Nelson was born at Logan, Iowa, August 23, 1918, the son of Nels and Emelia Larson Nelson. He was raised at Logan where he graduated from high school with the class of 1938. He then furthered his education for one y...

 
Nathan Cain Douglas Morgan
11/11/1981-11/23/2010

Nathan Cain Douglas Morgan was born in Albion, Nebraska, November 11, 1981, the son of Curt and Elizabeth Stamp Morgan. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, until moving to Denison, Iowa, when he was in the second grade. He c...

 
Gary L. Hurlbert
2/10/1949-11/22/2010

Gary “Chico” Hurlbert was born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 10, 1949, the son of Claire and Betty Hurlbert. He was raised in Nebraska receiving his education at Boystown in Omaha.
On May 6, 1968, he ...

 
Willard Gustafson
9/21/1912-11/17/2010

Willard O. Gustafson was born September 21, 1912 to Carl and Amanda Lundberg Gustafson on the homestead located northeast of Kiron, Iowa.
He attended the Kiron Public School after which he went into farming.

 
Dr. Paul S. Baker
6/10/1921-11/6/2010

Dr. Paul S. Baker was born in Carroll, Iowa, June 10, 1921, the son of Linzy Page and Elna Marie Swanson Baker. He was raised in Carroll where he received his grade and high school education. Interested in accounting, P...

 
James F. Slater
3/28/1925-11/5/2010

James Franklin Slater was born at Denison, Iowa, March 28, 1925, the son of Carl and Hattie Groth Slater. After completing his education in the rural schools he farmed with his father.
On February 14, 1948, Jim ...

 
Margaret Albertsen
11/30/1933-11/1/2010

Margaret Wilma Albertsen was born November 30, 1933, the daughter of Ernest and Anna Meggers Meeves. The family lived on a farm near Arion, Iowa. Margaret was baptized February 11, 1934, at Zion Lutheran Church, Denison...

 
Lucien Bender
11/25/1915-10/20/2010

 

 

 

 

Lucien J. Bender, age 94, of Denison, formerly of Chicago and Las Vegas, died Wednesday, October 20, 2010, at Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison.
Cremation rites have been accorded ...

 
Gloria Evangeline Peterson
5/19/1922-10/16/2010

Gloria Evangeline Peterson, 88, died peacefully in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 16th, 2010, at Odebolt Nursing and Rehab. Her death followed a week to ten days of failing health.
She was born on M...

 
Maxine Magill
1/31/1920-9/18/2010

Maxine Magill was born on a farm in Milford Township, Vail, Iowa, January 31, 1920, the daughter of Ralph and Lillian Osterlund Pieper. She was raised on the farm and graduated from the Vail High School with the class o...

 
Thomas Edward Alberts
5/2/1961-8/28/2010

Thomas Edward Alberts was born May 2, 1961 in Council Bluffs, Iowa to Lavern and Mary Jean Alberts. Tom grew up in Denison, and graduated from Denison High School in 1979, where he enjoyed playing sports, and the tuba. ...

 
Leona Naslund
10/7/1918-8/7/2010


Leona Naslund was born on a farm in Willow Township, Monona County, Iowa, October 7, 1918, the daughter of Nicholas and Emma Christiansen Ohl. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacra...

 
Larry Waldemar
7/27/1939-8/3/2010

Larry F. Waldemar was born on the family farm near Deloit, Iowa, July 27, 1939, the son of Clarence and Myrtle Clauson Waldemar. He was raised on the farm and received his education in country schools, graduating from t...

 
James Trierweiler
10/26/1934-7/31/2010

James Michael Trierweiler was born at Woodbine, Iowa, October 26, 1934, the son of Raymond and Corine Blum Trierweiler. The family moved to a farm near Defiance when he was three years of age where they resided for three years before moving to the...

 
Darrell H. Swanson
3/22/1936-7/29/2010

Darrell Herbert Swanson was born March 22, 1936, on a farm in Long Branch in Shelby County, Iowa, the son of Herbert and Irene (Stolz) Swanson. He attended Country Schools in Crawford County, Iowa where he grew up worki...

 
Rochelle Gottsch
12/15/1941-7/10/2010

Rochelle Renee Gottsch was born at Dunlap, Iowa, December 15, 1941, the daughter of Ralph and Georgia Stilson Koski. She was raised on the farm at Dunlap and graduated from the Dunlap High School with the class of 1959. Following high school she a...

 
Jack Alan Lundell
6/24/2010-6/24/2010


Jack Alan Lundell, infant son of Brad and Sarah Gierstorf Lundell, was stillborn at 8:25 p.m., Thursday, June 24, 2010, at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa.

When looking back over the life of Jack, many may think ...

 
Ramona Krock
12/28/1921-6/3/2010

Ramona Jordan Krock was born on the farm in Milford Township, Deloit, Iowa, December 28, 1921, the daughter of Tracy and Grace Lingle Jordan. She was raised there receiving her elementary education in the rural schools before graduating from the D...

 
Jean Nelson
1/24/1924-5/31/2010

 Jean Nelson was born in Omaha, Nebraska, January 24, 1924, the daughter of Frederick and Daisy Chandler Rupp. Raised in Omaha, she was baptized and confirmed at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church and graduated from South High School with the c...

 
LaVerne A. Slechta
3/7/1913-5/23/2010

LaVerne A. Slechta was born at Burns City, Indiana, March 7, 1913, the daughter of Joseph Belden and Rose Swayze Crane. In January of 1914, the family moved to Iowa and settled in Vail area. She received her elementary ...

 
Regenia "Jean" Kregness
2/7/1915-5/18/2010

Regenia “Jean” Kregness was born in Sioux City, Iowa, February 7, 1915, the daughter of Henry and Goldie Williams Brandt. She was raised there graduating from Central High School and Briar Cliff College.

 
Hazel Olson
9/3/1920-5/7/2010

Hazel Henrietta Buchanan Olson, 89, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho passed away Friday, May 7, 2010 at the Boundary Community Hospital in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Hazel was born on September 3, 1920 at home in Crawford County, Iowa, the daughter of H...

 
Keith Blake Koch
5/30/1952-5/2/2010

Keith Blake Koch, 57, of Plymouth, Minnesota, died Sunday, May 2, 2010. Keith, formerly of Denison, Iowa, was the son of Kenath B. Koch and Annabelle Blake Koch.
He is survived by three brothers, Thomas Koch of Atlanta, Georgia, Robert Koc...

 
Anna M. Dethmann
11/4/1913-4/30/2010

     Anna Marie Dethmann was born on the farm south of Denison, Iowa, November 4, 1913, the daughter of William and Christina Atler Kruthoff. She was received into God’s Kingdom through the Sac...

 
Marguerite  Lengeling
3/29/1918-4/16/2010

Marguerite Mary Lengeling was born in Carroll, Iowa, March 29, 1918, the daughter of Charles A. and Amelia Mueller Neumayer. She was raised on the farm and received her education at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School. She then attended Cosmetology Scho...

 
Mildred Hutchinson
8/16/1920-4/4/2010

       Mildred Ruth Hutchinson was born on the family farm in Milford Township, Denison, Iowa, August 16, 1920, the daughter of Eathen and Ollie Turpin Crane. She was raised on the farm and...

 
Mary Louise Olerich
5/16/1934-3/24/2010

     Mary Louise Olerich was born in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, May 16, 1934, the daughter of Jesse and Dorothy Ware Parker. When she was nine years old the family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she ...

 
Darrell Ward Fryar
12/22/1924-2/24/2010

Darrell Ward Fryar was born at Marathon, Iowa, December 22, 1924, the son of Louis Vern and Muriel Wittmer Fryar. He was raised on the farm east of Rockwell City, Iowa, and graduated from the Rockwell City High School.
From March of 1946 u...

 
Deloris M. Hedstrom
10/23/1931-2/17/2010

DeLoris Hedstrom was born at Arion, Iowa, October 23, 1931, the daughter of Alva and Millie Anderson Davis. She was raised at Arion and received her elementary education there. During her high school years she made her home with an aunt and uncle ...

 
Leo Joseph Clinton
12/9/1924-2/16/2010

Leo J. Clinton, the son of Charles and Ellen Sullivan Clinton was born in Denver, Colorado, December 9, 1924. The family made their home at Buck Grove, Iowa, where he attended the country school before graduating from the Denison High School with ...

 
Donald Marion  Lutz
4/25/1928-2/14/2010


Donald Marion Lutz was born on the farm in Goodrich Township, Denison, Iowa, April 25, 1928, the son of Paul Carl and Hulda Hantelmann Lutz. He was raised on the farm and received his education in the rural schools and Denison High School....

 
Margaret Kuhl
3/27/1915-2/6/2010


Margaret Kuhl was born on the farm at Manning, Iowa, March 27, 1915, the daughter of Emil and Pearl Esycheck Jennings. She was raised at Manning where she graduated from high school with the class of 1933. She furthered her education at Si...

 
Richard H. Beatty
5/22/1932-2/3/2010

Richard H. Beatty was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, May 22, 1932, the son of Frank C. and Mabel Owen Beatty. He was raised there and graduated from Ottumwa High School. Following high school he began his college studies at Drake University in Des Moines,...

 
Gerald R. Crichton
12/23/1931-1/26/2010

Gerald Robert Crichton was born December 23, 1931, in Ravinia, South Dakota, the son of James and Alberta Branaugh Crichton. He was raised in Ravinia, receiving his education there. From June of 1952 until his honorable discharge in May of 1954, ...

 
Anna May Klinker
5/3/1915-1/25/2010

Anna May Klinker was born in Denison, Iowa, May 3, 1915, the daughter of Peter John and Garnet Lucille Norman Klinker. She was raised in Denison where she graduated from Denison High School with the class of 1933. She then attended Francis Shim...

 
James R. Gustafson
11/24/1943-12/18/2009

James R. Gustafson was born in Odebolt, Iowa, November 24, 1943, the son of Russell and Ellen Nelson Gustafson. He was raised on the farm in Wheeler Township, four miles north of Kiron, Iowa, with his sister, Mari, two years his senior, and consi...

 
Lillian Athey Lass Luvaas
1/22/1927-12/15/2009

Lillian Athey Lass Luvaas was born in Exeter, Missouri, January 22, 1927, the daughter of Frank and Selma Watke Athey. At age three she moved to Denison where she received her education, graduating from the Denison High School with Normal Training w...

 
Fred H. McClellan, Jr.
7/7/1939-11/25/2009

Fred H. McClellan, Jr. was born in Denison, Iowa, July 7, 1930, the son of Fred H. and Janetta Hamilton McClellan, Sr. He was raised in Denison where he graduated from the Denison High School with the class of 1949. Following high school he was emp...

 
Carl E. Evilsizer
8/12/1923-10/28/2009

Survivors include a nephew, Ron Evilsizer and wife Carol of Denison....

 
Larry Burl Webb
11/14/1945-10/15/2009

Larry Burl Webb was born at Macy, Nebraska, November 14, 1945, the son of Albert and Frances L. Ueding Webb. He was raised at Macy where he received his education. Following his education Larry served his country in the United States Army from Jun...

 
Besse E. Guhl
11/3/1918-10/13/2009

Besse Evelyn Guhl, daughter of William and Besse (McClellan) Stueart was born at Bredenbury, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 3, 1918, and died Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of 90 years,...

 
Albert F. Stehr
10/24/1905-9/19/2009

Albert F. Stehr was born in Stockholm Township, rural Kiron, Iowa, October 24, 1905, the son of William F. and Elsie Katherine Koch Stehr. He was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism and confirmed in Christian F...

 
Cecil M. Walker
7/31/1915-9/1/2009

Cecil M. Walker was born in Talmage, Nebraska, July 31, 1915, the daughter of Clifford and Elizabeth Mehaffey Cade. When she was two months old the family moved to Griswald, Iowa. At Age 4, Cecil moved to Harlan, Iowa, and made her home with a gre...

 
James Mearl Bral
11/16/1933-8/31/2009

James Mearl Bral was born August, 11, 1924, in Vail, Iowa, the son of Frank Oscar and Bess Ione Crampton Bral. He was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism in Vail, Iowa, July 10, 1938 and confirmed in his Chris...

 
Merlin D. Olbertz
11/16/1933-8/23/2009

Merlin D. Olbertz was born in Denison, Iowa, November 16, 1933, the son of Frank Herman and Mabel Hertha Pithan Olbertz. He was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism in December of 1933 at St. John’s Lutheran Chu...

 
Mildred Lydia Joachim
9/10/1925-8/10/2009

Mildred Lydia Schoenfeldt was born on September 10, 1925 in Elma, IA, to Ben and Laura Schoenfeldt. She was the youngest of three; her older brother was Harold, and her older sister Aleatha. Mildred was baptized and confirmed at St. Peter’s Luthera...

 
Daniel Altamirano
1/7/1965-8/10/2009

Daniel Altamirano was born in Juarez, Mexico, January 7, 1965, the son of Ignacio and Francisca Lujan Altamirano. He was baptized in San Miguel, Juarez and resided in Mexico until age 2 when the family moved to El Paso, Texas. When he was 9 years o...

 
Lois E. Dorfler
7/24/1939-8/3/2009

Lois Eileen (Carothers) Dorfler was born on July 24, 1939 to Andrew and Marjorie (Gessmann) Carothers in Manilla, IA. She was baptized and confirmed in the First Presbyterian Church in Manilla. She married John Milo Dorfler on July 12, 1964 in the ...

 
Maurice Adelbert "Delbert" Sjogren
4/2/1916-7/24/2009

Maurice Adelbert “Delbert” Sjogren was born in Kiron, Iowa, April 2, 1916, the son of Swan Maurice and Emma Mathilda Miller Sjogren. He was raised at Kiron where he graduated from the Kiron High School. Following high school he was employed as a ca...

 
Lillian R. Beatty
4/5/1931-7/18/2009

Lillian R. Beatty was born in Corning, Iowa, April 5, 1931, the daughter of William and Grace Hoskinson Ray. She was raised in the Corning area where she received her education. Following high school she attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iow...

 
Ruth Mae Fleming
2/26/1917-7/7/2009

Ruth Mae Fleming was born in Denison, Iowa, February 16, 1917, the daughter of James D. and Lillie I. Carlson Fleming. She spent her early years in Denison before being graduated from the Odebolt High School. She then attended the University of Min...

 
Deloris (Tootie) Knowles
4/22/1926-7/3/2009

Deloris A. K. Knowles Denison, Iowa Deloris "Tootie" Arlene Kern Knowles, 83, died Friday, July 3 at her home in Denison of multiple organ failure after a long illness. She was born April 22, 1926 to Anthony and Susan “Kitty” Kern in Oelwein, I...

 
Bertha  Sanchez Moreno
5/9/1951-6/12/2009

Bertha Sanchez Moreno nació en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, el 9 de mayo 1951, la hija de Jose Dolores Sanchez. Se crió y se educó en Mexico donde en su vida adulta era duena de un restaurante. En 1996 se mudó a Minnesota antes de mud...

 
Maria de Jesus Araujo Sanchez
3/10/1981-6/12/2009

Maria de Jesús Araujo Sanchez nació en Queretero, Mexico el 10 de marzo 1981 la hija de Jose Antonio Araujo Vasquez y Bertha Sanchez Moreno. Vivía de niña en Mexico hasta que mudarse a los Estados Unidos en 1996. Llegó a Denison en 1998 y se graduó...

 
Daniel Alejandro Resendiz Araujo
10/6/1996-6/12/2009

Daniel Alejandro Resendiz Araujo nació en Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico el 6 de octubre 1996 el hijo de Juan Resendiz y Catalina Araujo Sanchez. La familia se mudó a Denison en 1996 donde Daniel se crió y acababa de terminar el sexto grado en Denison Com...

 
Eunice A. Friedrichsen
7/5/1918-5/14/2009

Eunice Anna Friedrichsen was born on a farm near Aspinwall, Iowa, July 5, 1918, the daughter of Louis and Christina Lorenzen Ranniger. She was received into God’s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism in 1918 at Zion Lutheran Church...

 
Larry Walter Anderson
8/21/1945-4/12/2009

Larry W. Anderson was born August 21, 1945 in Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, IA, the son of Wayne B. and Helen Shirley Boerner Anderson. He attended Kiron Public Schools in Kiron, Crawford County, IA, where he was active in band and acting i...