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Betty Engel
Nov 4, 2009
Betty Engel was born October 1, 1958 in Wagner, South Dakota, the daughter of Edward and Kathryn (Koppen) Koupal. She graduated from Spirit Lake High School. Betty worked as a department manager at WalMart for many years. She was united in marriage to Bryan Engel on February 16, 2002. Betty passed away November 4, 2009 at her home in Spirit...
Ruth Ann Robinson
Oct 30, 2009
Ruth Ann Robinson was born January 11, 1935 in Spencer, Iowa, the daughter of William and Vera (Falline) Price. She graduated from Spencer High School. Ruth lived in the Lakes Area her entire life. She worked as a fabric cutter at Style Craft in Milford for many years. Ruth attended Good News Community Church in Okoboji. Ruth loved all her...
Teleen Wilson
Oct 30, 2009
Teleen Bernice Wilson was born to Oscar and Anna (Knudtson) Wilson on September 9, 1914 at Milford, Iowa. She grew up on a farm west of Milford, where she attended school at #1 Westport Township and graduating from Okoboji Consolidated School in rural Milford. Teleen was united in marriage to Glen F. Wilson on August 26, 1936. She jokingly told...
Daniel Ostermann
Oct 27, 2009
Daniel Constant Ostermann died at Lakes Regional Hospital on October 27, 2009, after a long and courageous battle with Mylo Displastic Syndrome and congestive heart failure. He was born in Ocheyedan, Iowa, on November 18, 1925, to Gus and Redina (Bremer) Ostermann. He attended schools in the Ocheyedan area and in 1942 at the age of 16 went to Alaska...
Louis Carstensen
Oct 27, 2009
Louis Henry Carstensen was born October 12, 1916 to Chris and Irene (Voss) Carstensen in Minneota Township in Jackson County, Minnesota and passed away at Lakes Regional Hospital in Spirit Lake on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at the age of 93 years and 14 days. Louie started school in Jackson County at Sioux Valley School on Sept. 1, 1921 and...
Marie White
Oct 27, 2009
Former Dickinson County, Iowa resident Marie D. White age 100 passed away on Oct. 27 at the Good Samaritan Center Lodi Wis. Marie was born Dec. 4, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York to Danish immigrants, Chris and Pauline Pedersen Kreutzkampf. In 1923 the family moved west and settled in Terril, Iowa and engaged in farming. Marie was united in marriage...
Maxine Morphew
Oct 19, 2009
Maxine Louise "Forbes" Morphew was born July 18, 1917 in Harris, Iowa, the daughter of DeWitt and Florence "Fuller" Forbes. She attended and graduated from the Harris Consolidated School. She was united in marriage to Lee William Morphew on April 30, 1944 in Harris, Iowa. She lived in Harris and Montgomery before moving to Spirit Lake fifty-seven years ago. She...
Dorothy Arnold
Oct 16, 2009
Dorothy Elaine Arnold, daughter of Carl and Christine Arnold, was born September 23, 1915, at home in Schaller, Iowa. Dorothy grew up on farms in the Lake Park, Iowa area and graduated from Swea City High School in 1935. Dorothy graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa in 1939 as a music education major. She taught elementary and high...
Georgene Guthrie
Oct 16, 2009
Georgene Elizabeth Guthrie was born May 27, 1930 at Milford, Iowa to George and Bernadine (Schemmel) Wintz. She passed away October 16, 2009 at the Milford Nursing Center at the age of 79. Born as the fourth of eleven children, Georgene lived her entire life in Milford except for a few years in Glenwood, MN. She worked at the egg...
Wilma Dodds
Oct 16, 2009
A memorial visitation for Wilma Dodds, 90, of Spirit Lake will be held Tuesday, October 20, 2009 after 5:00pm at the Turner Funeral Home in Spirit Lake. Mrs. Dodds passed away Friday, October 16, 2009 at Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake. Wilma Dodds was born August 9, 1919 in Swea City, Iowa, the daughter of Oscar and Mabel (Godfredson)...
Susan Lee
Oct 15, 2009
Susan Lee, age 60 of Madison, MN, formerly of Spirit Lake, Iowa passed away suddenly at her home in Madison on October 15. Funeral services will be Monday, October 19, 2009 at 2:00PM at the First Lutheran Church in West Okoboji. Burial will be at Lakeview Gardens Cemetery in Spirit Lake. Susan is survived by her husband, Lonnie of Madison;...
Alice Goetsch
Oct 14, 2009
Alice Gaye Goetsch was born on December 6, 1937 in Ogden, Utah, the daughter of Lee Claire and Alice Belle (Lee) Taylor. She was raised and educated in Ogden, until she moved to Iowa in 1956. Alice was united in marriage to Larry K. Goetsch at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Spirit Lake in 1959. Alice and Larry made their home...
Betty Schroder
Oct 11, 2009
Betty Lorraine Schroder was born to Cecil and Louise (LaLone) Young at Woodbine, Iowa on February 9, 1930. She graduated from Okoboji Consolidated High School. On October 30, 1949 she married Russell John Schroder in Dickinson County. They lived on a farm near Melvin for a couple years, then in Arnolds Park, during their children's school years and at Milford...
Verne Sheldon
Oct 7, 2009
Verne E. Sheldon, age 74, passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Verne and his twin brother, Virgil, were born November 29, 1934 on their family farm in Spirit Lake, IA to Roy and Mary Sheldon. Verne's elementary years were spent at Superior School. The family moved to Herman, MN in 1948 where...
Duane Dutton Osborne
Oct 4, 2009
Duane Dutton Osborne was born August 18, 1910 at Carroll, Iowa to Nicholas Wellington Osborne and Anna Orchit Dutton Osborne. He graduated from Terril High School in 1929. On June 2, 1937 he married Alma Oteila Vagle at the Methodist Church in Terril. During his working life he was a farmer, manager/part owner of a grain elevator, was head custodian...
Marie Daggett
Oct 3, 2009
Marie Daggett was born on November 29, 1919 near Sanborn, Iowa to Albert and Etta (Pietens) Kuiper. She was baptized in the First Christian Reformed Church in Sanborn, Iowa on December 28, 1919. She attended school there through the grades. On December 14, 1937, Marie was united in marriage to Wilbur Daggett in Ocheyedan, Iowa. Over the years they lived...
Hazel Dean
Oct 1, 2009
Funeral services for Hazel Dean will be held Monday, October 5, 2009 at 10:30AM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux Valley, MN. Hazel passed away October 1, 2009 at eighty-eight years of age. Hazel Edith Fischer was born on October 29, 1920, to Ida and Wilheim (Willy) Fischer at Hartley, Iowa. Her parents traveled from Germany to America in the...
Terry Cox
Sep 25, 2009
Family services will be held at a later time for Terry L. Cox, 55 of Milford who died Friday, September 25th at the Daugherty House Hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Terry Luverne Cox was born to John Eldon and Rosemary (Mills) Cox at Fort Dodge, Iowa on November 30, 1953. He graduated from Fort Dodge High School and then...
Orville Waimer
Sep 21, 2009
Orville Benner "Bud" Waimer was born November 29, 1912 in Mc Louth, Kansas, the son of Oscar Henry and Alta Virginia (Nordick) Waimer. He came to Arnolds Park when he was eleven years old with his parents, sister, Evelyn and brother, Mike. Bud was employed on the Alaskan Highway and later enlisted in the US Navy. He served during WWII...
Eileen Devoll
Sep 11, 2009
Eileen Doris De Voll was born on March 11, 1928 in Bath England. She came to the United States in 1948 and lived in Minnesota where she met and married Carroll De Voll. The couple lived in Madelia, MN until 1952 when they moved to Spirit Lake. After Carroll's death in 1975 Eileen met and married Fred Winebrinner. They resided...
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