Obituaries
Obituaries for Turner Jenness Funeral Home
Gwendolyn Jean Beard
Oct 22, 2011
Gwendolyn Jean Beard was born March 23, 1926 to Frank Upchurch and Etoy (Barker) Upchurch in Apex, North Carolina Jean graduated from high school in 1944. She married James O. Beard and they spent their married life in Spirit Lake, Iowa and Raleigh, North Carolina. Four children were born to this union. Jean was a member of the Baptist Church....
Velda Joens
Oct 21, 2011
Velda Pearl Noble Joens was born February 22, 1916 to Ray and Christina Noble in Ocheyedan, Iowa. She grew up on the family farm with her sister and four brothers. Velda was united in marriage to Frank Joens on March 9, 1938. They were married thirty-two years until his death in 1970. The couple farmed north of Lake Park for...
Millie Minor
Oct 20, 2011
Mildred Ruth (Millie) Minor was born to Sherman and Lena (Frye) Shugart at Laddonia, Missouri. About a year after Millie's birth her mother died and she was raised by her father and six older sisters. Later the family moved to Iowa and she attended school at Tama and Lake Park. On August 26, 1937 she was married to Thorvald Severtson...
Emery Brandt
Oct 18, 2011
Emery Clause Brandt passed away October 18, 2011. Emery was born July 28, 1924 to Edward and Marie (Wiebener) Brandt on his grandfather Clause Wiebener's farm in Sioux Valley, Jackson County, Minnesota. In 1940 he was confirmed in the Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux Valley, Minnesota by Pastor Martin Lieske. There were nine class members. Emery loved his Lord and...
Rosella Pixler
Oct 16, 2011
Rosella Pixler was born November 20, 1914 in Crofton, Nebraska, the daughter of Edward and Rose Feldhacker. She was united in marriage to Kenneth Pixler on May 2, 1934 in Menaminee, Nebraska. Ken and Rosella moved to Spencer in 1935. Rosella was a member of the Senior Center and Catholic Daughters. She enjoyed cooking, dancing, walking, bingo and playing cards....
Norma Dykstra
Oct 13, 2011
Norma Eileen Dykstra passed away, Thursday, October 13, 2011 at Hospice of the Valley patient care unit in Mesa, Arizona. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer on September 2nd and wanted to spend her remaining days in the Arizona sunshine that she loved. Norma, daughter of Lewis Edward Veverka and Wanda Maxine Saunders, was born March 8, 1931, in Grinnell,...
Kade A Longelin
Oct 11, 2011
Kade Alexander Longelin was born December 4, 2003 to Christina and Travis Longelin in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Kade passed away October 11, 2011 at Sanford Children's Hospital. Kade was our courageous little one who had many surgeries. He became the love of all of his family, and he showed his love with his big smile. Kade loved to hear...
Ryan Bush
Oct 3, 2011
Ryan Lee Bush was born June 12, 1975 in Spirit Lake, Iowa, the son of Shane and Bette (Soat) Bush. He graduated from George Little Rock High School and then attended South Dakota State University. Ryan served in the United States Army. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served in Iraq and Kuwait. Ryan's greatest joy was...
Robert Walters
Oct 2, 2011
Robert K. "Bib" Walters, the son of Kloa Walters and Lyle Lauter Walters was born at Spencer, Iowa on May 15, 1926. He attended Milford Community School, graduating in 1944. Bib entered military service in the U.S. Army after graduation and received some of his training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Upon arrival in France, he was assigned as a combat...
Paul Benson
Sep 25, 2011
Paul Vernon Benson, age 90, went home to be with the Lord and his lovely wife, Dorothy, on September 25, 2011. He made his first stop at the Lakes Regional Health Care and then proceeded on to his eternal home. Paul Vernon Benson was born on April 24, 1921, in Plymouth County, Iowa, to Werner and Esther (Pearson) Benson. He...
Mildred Thee
Sep 24, 2011
Mildred Florene Thee was born February 15, 1924 in Hartley, Iowa, the daughter of Emil and Florence (Wing) Leth. She was raised in Hartley and graduated from Hartley High School. Following graduation, Millie joined the War Effort by working in a Munitions plant in Los Angeles, California. After returning to Hartley she was united in marriage to Wilbert (Bud) Thee...
Donna Turner
Sep 22, 2011
Donna Lee Turner was born September 22, 1960 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of James and Ruth (Hunter) Allen. She lived in Hawaii, California, Virginia, Arkansas and Alaska before moving to Iowa. Donna was united in marriage to Wes Turner on May 7, 2005. Donna owned Gibs Lounge in Milford for eighteen years. Donna was a very sociable, well liked...
Nels Nordblad
Sep 21, 2011
Nels Arthur (Art) Nordblad, the son of Nana and Carl Nordblad, was born July 2, 1923 on a farm near Ruthven, Iowa. He was baptized in Spencer Swedish Lutheran Church and confirmed in Zion Lutheran Church in Ruthven. Art attended rural school No. 7 through eighth grade near Ruthven. In 1944 Nels enlisted in the Army. He served two years...
Myona Heerde
Sep 20, 2011
Myona (Onie) Darlene Vander Stouwe-Heerde, with a faith more powerful than words, went home to be with our Lord and her beloved husband, Julius Heerde, September 20, 2011 at the Spencer Municipal Hospital at the age of 88. Onie was born August 14, 1923 in Maurice, Iowa to parents Alfred Vander Stouwe and Alice Kooiker-Vander Stouwe. Onie graduated from the...
Ben Place
Sep 20, 2011
Benjamin Lee Place was born March 27, 1977 in the Charleston Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Ben spent his young years going to Hunley Park Elementary School. In College Park Middle school he learned to play the snare drum. And the beat goes on and on and on! He participated in band in both Stratford High School and Spencer...
Clara Turner
Sep 13, 2011
Clara B. Turner was born November 28, 1919 at Hartford, Arkansas to William and Monte Crabtree Steele. On February 14, 1939 she was united in marriage to Cecil Turner of Russellville, Arkansas. He was an Assembly of God minister and in the early years they traveled across the south as an evangelist. He then pastored churches in Arkansas, Oklahoma and...
Joyce Lockwood
Sep 10, 2011
Joyce A. Lockwood, the daughter of Opal Sigrid Mae (Swanson) and Edward Louis Ducommun, was born November 21, 1923 in Marcus, Iowa. She was a graduate of Cleghorn High School in 1941, and was a graduate of the National Business Institute in Sioux City, Iowa. She worked at Cherokee State Bank until her first child was born. Joyce was united...
Peter Hegeman
Sep 8, 2011
Peter Hegeman was born December 13, 1950 in Noordwijk, Netherlands, the son of Henry and Helen (Van Diggelen) Hegeman. He received his degree in Public Administration from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. After graduation, Pete worked as a Field Auditor with the State of Iowa, a City Clerk in Estherville, Iowa and a Deputy City Clerk in Hawarden, Iowa....
Frances Carlson
Sep 6, 2011
Frances Jean Carlson was born November 15, 1929 in Peterson, Iowa, the daughter of John and Agnes Mueller. She was raised in Peterson, graduating from Peterson High School. Frances was united in marriage to Eldon Carlson of Marathon, Iowa, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. The couple made their home in rural Marathon, where they farmed and raised...
Norma Senn
Sep 3, 2011
Norma Senn was born on January 24, 1917, on her parents' farm in Round Lake, MN. Her parents were Amanda (Mangelsen) Osterkamp and George Osterkamp. Norma had three younger brothers named Raymond Osterkamp (deceased), Alvin Osterkamp (died 9/7/1968), and George Osterkamp (died 6/1/1970) and two older sisters Rose Osterkamp Untiedt (deceased) and Ella Osterkamp Lage who still resides at Hilltop...
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