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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...
James Johnson
Sep 10, 2009
James B. Johnson, age 92, of Spencer and formerly of Spirit Lake, passed away at 12:45 PM on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at Spencer Municipal Hospital following a brief illness. James Benjamin Johnson was born January 4, 1917 in Dalton, Nebraska to Thomas Jefferson Johnson and Myrtle Belle (Jordon) Johnson. James grew up in Holden, Missouri along with his sister,...
Arleen Rohwer
Sep 10, 2009
Arleen Ruth DeMuth Rohwer was born October 19, 1923 at Milford, Iowa to James and Regina (Schaf) DeMuth. She graduated from Milford and received nurse's training at Sioux City. On June 3, 1946 she married George Rohwer in Milford and they lived in Sheldon for four years before returning to Milford to care for her parents and raise 6 children....
Ruth Baker
Sep 9, 2009
Ruth E. (Duncan) DeSpain Baker was born June 3, 1921 the daughter of Edward and Alma (McCord) Duncan in Denison, Iowa. Ruth left us in peace at her home on Little Emerson Bay to join her husbands and children Ed, Tom, and Ann on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Ruth was born on a farm in Paradise Township west of Denison,...
Bill Coultier
Sep 8, 2009
Bill Ray Coultier was born October 31, 1944 in Estherville, Iowa the son of Raymond Cleveland and Laura Elizabeth (Newton) Coultier. He was raised and educated in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he graduated high school. He attended the University of Iowa for two years prior to entering the US Army in 1965, where he served during the Vietnam War until...
Stephen Graff
Sep 3, 2009
Stephen K. (Steve) Graff of Spirit Lake, IA, died September 3 in the Hospice Care Unit at the Spencer Municipal Hospital. He was 59. The Turner Funeral Home in Spirit Lake is in charge of arrangements. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m and again at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 7, at the funeral home. Visitation with family...
Alta Clair Thompson
Aug 24, 2009
Alta "Ollie" Claire Thompson was born June 28, 1918 in Grand Meadow, Iowa, the daughter of Harvey and Edna (Bammer) Harrison. She was raised and educated in Grand Meadow, graduating from Grand Meadow High School. She then obtained her teaching degree from Morningside College in Sioux City. In 1944 she married Charles Dale Thompson in San Francisco, CA. She taught...
Beulah May Senn
Aug 24, 2009
Beulah May Senn was born January 26, 1920 in Osceola County, near Harris, the daughter of Delbert and Florence (Smith) Morfitt. She attended school at Allison #7 and Harris Consolidated School. Beulah was united in marriage to Robert Senn on August 5, 1961 in Harris. He preceded her in death on August 21, 1983. Mrs. Senn was a member of...
Sharyl Curtis
Aug 13, 2009
Sharyl Ilene Curtis, 62, passed away August 13, 2009 at Longhouse Nursing Home in Spencer, Iowa. Sharyl was born December 15, 1946 to Eldon and Arlowene (Voss) Jansen. She grew up in Sioux Valley, Minnesota until the family moved to a farm near Harris, Iowa. She graduated from Harris Lake Park High School in 1965. In November 1965, she married...
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