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Joyce O'Farrell Gapinski
Jun 16, 2010
Joyce LaVonne Gapinski was born to Charles and Helen (Blum) O'Farrell at Okoboji, Iowa on May 7, 1934. She received her education in Arnolds Park and graduated from Arnolds Park High School. On March 2, 1953 she married Bernard Gapinski at Moorhead, Minnesota and four children were born to this union. She lived in North Carolina while her husband was...
Jeanne Arp
Jun 14, 2010
Jeanne Adell Tay was born on September 15, 1926, in Boone, II, to Florence (Whitney) and M. Owen Tay. She graduated from Spirit Lake High School in 1944, and married Marvin Arp on May 29, 1945. They lived In Okoboji until 1960, then in Sioux Falls, SD, for the next thirty years. There she pursued a college education and was...
Virgil Perkins
Jun 5, 2010
Virgil Everett Perkins was born October 8, 1918 in Winterset, Iowa, the son of Fred and Alma (Handy) Perkins. He was raised and received his early education in the Winterset Community. Virgil was united in marriage to Estella Dodds on April 20, 1940 in Spencer, Iowa. The couple lived in Spencer and Spirit Lake before moving to Lake Park, Iowa...
Elfriede Gerstandt
May 31, 2010
Elfriede Gerstandt was born April 5, 1928 in Paullina, Iowa, the daughter of Elsie (Brandt) and Herman Ploen. She continued her education and graduated from Iowa State Teacher's College. On February 19, 1950, Elfriede was united in marriage to Albert Gerstandt in Paullina. They lived in Paullina and Peterson before moving to Spirit Lake, Iowa in 1969. She attended the...
Paul Braunschweig
May 31, 2010
Paul Braunschweig, Jr. was born August 9, 1927 in Waterman Township, Iowa in O'Brien County to Paul Braunschweig Sr. and Bertha (Gieser) Braunschweig. Paul grew up in rural Sutherland. He was baptized in infancy at the Lutheran Church in Sutherland. He received his education in rural O'Brien County. He married Marilyn Mae Fogelman on August 24, 1949 in Jackson, MN....
Sharon Bragg
May 29, 2010
I was born, Sharon Kay Basler, the daughter of Billy Dale Basler and Beatrice June Williamson Basler, on November 19, 1942 in Lake City, Iowa. My father was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas in the Army Air Corps and came home on leave when he heard of my birth. I was the oldest of three children. My sister is Sheryl...
Gladys Norton
May 24, 2010
Gladys Norton was born March 16, 1928 in Sheldon, Iowa, the daughter of Mary (Smith) and Frank Eich. She spent her young life on a farm in Matlock, Iowa receiving her elementary education at Dale Number 8 and graduating from high school in 1946 in Sioux City, Iowa. On January 3, 1948, she was married to Ervin Norton in Dakota...
Edward Stary
May 23, 2010
Edward Ray Stary was born in Dallas County, Iowa near Redfield on January 15, 1915. He was the youngest of four children to Edward T. and Olive F. (Cave) Stary. He went to country school through the 7th grade and finished his education at Redfield Consolidated School in Redfield, Iowa. He married Marie Masters on February 9, 1935 and they...
Irma Gano
May 23, 2010
Irma Leona Gano was born to Charles and Mable Booth south of Marcus, Iowa on March 20, 1914 and baptized in the Methodist Church at Quimby, IA. She attended country school thru the eighth grade in Tilden Twp and then attended high school at Grand Meadow, where she graduated in 1931. She then attended junior college at Cherokee where she...
Mike Welle
May 14, 2010
Michael Lynn Welle was born August 15, 1951 to Lester D. and Pearl E. (Arms) Welle at the Welle farm southwest of Milford, Iowa. Mike was the youngest of eleven silblings. He received his early education at Okoboji Township Consolidated School and graduated in 1969 from Milford Community High School. He was united in marriage to Marcia S. Wells on...
Raymond Krieger
May 9, 2010
Raymond Leslie Krieger was born August 2, 1923 in Terril, Iowa to Claude and Herma (Leighter) Krieger. He graduated from Terril High School in 1941. Raymond served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II from February 17, 1943 to January 10, 1946. Much of this time was spent in Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe. On August...
LaVerna Switzer Lee
May 7, 2010
LaVerna Switzer Lee was born July 4, 1915 in Spencer, Iowa, the daughter of Harry and Ida (Swanson) Lundquist. She was educated through the eighth grade and lived most of her life in the Spirit Lake area. On May 7, 1933, LaVerna was united in marriage to Vern Switzer in Spencer. Vern passed away May 29, 1976. She was later...
Bambi Sheley
May 3, 2010
Bambi Dean Sheley was born to Bonnie Ingvall and Darrald Smith on June 8, 1949 in Spencer, Iowa and was later raised by Bonnie and John Ingvall. She lived and was educated in Spencer before moving to Milford, Iowa in 1976. She lived briefly in San Diego and Ocean Beach California before returning to Milford. She was united in marriage...
Wilbert Thee
May 1, 2010
Wilbert H. "Bud" Thee was born October 22, 1922 in May City, Iowa, the son of John, Sr. and Mathilda (Bieldfelt) Thee. He was raised on the family farm near May City and attended Harrison Township School. Bud was united in marriage to Mildred Leth on November 23, 1944 in Worthington, MInnesota. Bud loved and operated the Thee family farm...
Myrtle Ulman
Apr 29, 2010
Myrtle I. Ulman was born in Seneca, South Dakota, the daughter of Michael E. Stevens and Nellie (Ford) Stevens. She graduated from Huron High School and later attended college in Mankato, Minnesota. Myrtle taught school in South Dakota in a one room school house. In 1935, she married Guy Ulman and they raised a family in Rapidan, Minnesota. Over the...
Gwen Miller
Apr 15, 2010
Gwendolyn Ruth Miller was born September 27, 1930 at the family home east of Arnolds Park, Iowa, the daughter of Curtis Eugene Bundy and Marie Mildred (Longshore) Bundy. She graduated from Arnolds Park High School. On February 8, 1949, Gwen was united in marriage to Leland Earl Miller in Arnolds Park. The family made their home in Milford, Iowa and...
Beverly Whitmer
Apr 8, 2010
Beverly Whitmer age 78, died April 8, 2010 at her Tucson home after a yearlong battle with cancer. She was and forever will be a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, daughter, employer and friend. Beverly Jean was born December 5, 1931, in Montgomery, Iowa to Edna and Layton Vick. She grew up working in the family business known as...
Pauline Marie Hartung
Apr 7, 2010
Pauline Marie Hartung, age 86, of Spirit Lake, passed away April 7, 2010 at Franklin General Hospital Nursing Facility in Hampton, Iowa near her daughter's home. She was born on December 20, 1923 in her home in Lottscreek, Iowa to William and Marie (Davis) Voigt. She grew up in the Rural Kossuth Co./Cylinder area and graduated from Cylinder High School...
Phyllis Holle
Apr 7, 2010
Phyllis Dorothy (Ihnen) Holle was born March 29, 1925 in her grandparent's bedroom in Holstein, Iowa to Harry and Selma (Bremer) Ihnen. In 1942, she graduated from Excelsior High School and married her neighbor friend, Sylvester Holle on June 27, 1943. Phyllis raised thousands of chickens; bottle fed many lambs, chased pigs and fed cows. Many gardens were planted, fields...
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