Obituaries

Oct 17, 2019

Iva Lucille Vandemark was born on August 18, 1932, to Albert and Viola (Vanderpool) Radloff near Woodbine. She attended country school and then Woodbine’s public school. She worked for families in the area. Iva married Freeman Vandemark on February 25, 1950, at the Methodist Church parsonage in Woodbine. They raised their family and farmed outside of Woodbine. Iva also...

Oct 14, 2019

Margaret Mary Williamson passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on October 14, 2019, at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She was 87 years old.

Margaret was born on July 19, 1932, near Panama, Iowa; the youngest of four children born to John and Mary Mahlberg. Margaret attended school in Panama through the eighth grade....

Oct 13, 2019

Wayne Lee Metheny was born on September 17, 1956, to Jerry Metheny and Marilyn Bannon in Loveland, Colorado. He was raised in Loveland and graduated from Loveland High School in 1974. Wayne married Debi Blumanhourst on September 2, 1977, in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were longtime residents of Colorado, until they decided to move to Dunlap, Iowa, to be...

Oct 11, 2019

Sondra Gale (Pitt) Dickinson was born June 5, 1934, on a farm near Logan, Iowa to Bernard and Nellie (Cook) Pitt. She attended Cass Center Country School; graduating from Logan High School in 1952. Sondra attended Stewart Beauty School in Council Bluffs. She started doing hair with Lucille Knauss in Logan and Persia. Sondra married Robert Dickinson on January...

Oct 10, 2019

Henry Dell Gruver was born on July 24, 1942, to Henry and Lena (McClelland) Gruver in Livingston, Montana; the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, soon after his birth. One of seven children, he spent his childhood and youth exploring the Sonoran Desert around the family’s small home. In 1960, he and his future wife, Judith, were the first graduating...

Oct 6, 2019

John Jay Killpack was born on February 9, 1932, to Ernest A. and Ellen J. (Carlile) Killpack in Missouri Valley, Iowa. He was baptized in the RDLS church. He attended grade school and graduated from high school in Beebeetown. After high school, he was drafted into the United States Army. He served 16 months on “Chejido” Island in the...

Oct 2, 2019

Doris Neva (Outhouse) Mann was born April 4, 1933, to Leslie David and Gladys Musetta (Nuzum) Outhouse in Soldier, Iowa. She joined three older sisters on their family farm in Soldier. Later a younger brother joined their family. Doris attended grade school in Magnolia and Moorhead and graduated from Pisgah High School in 1951. After graduation, she worked in...

Sep 19, 2019

Ruth Marjean (Hall) Sherwood was born in Dunlap, Iowa, on February 15, 1931. She was welcomed into this world by parents, Robert Newton and Nettie Faye (Howe) Hall and older brother Merwin. Ruth attended and graduated from Dunlap Community High School in 1948. Upon graduation, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa, and found work in an office. While working...

Sep 16, 2019

Judith Carolyn (Samuelson) Christensen was born on October 5, 1941, to Arnold and Edna (Sumner) Samuelson, on the family farm near Nelson Park in Crawford County, Iowa. During her youth, Judy lived in Wyoming and Nebraska; where she met and married Kenneth Christensen.  The couple then moved to Iowa.

Judy was employed at Dubuque Packing in Denison...

Sep 10, 2019

Carroll Everett Johnson was born on December 19, 1928, to Andrew (AJ) and Lena (Sorenson) Johnson in Moorhead, Iowa. He was raised near Moorhead and attended the Bethesda Lutheran country church in rural Moorhead. Carroll attended a country school outside of Moorhead and graduated from Moorhead High School in 1946. After graduation, Carroll started farming with his brothers Hap...

Sep 8, 2019

Anita Louise (Jensen) Whitmore was born on July 7, 1948, to Preben and Louise (Golden) Jensen in Woodbine, Iowa. She attended school in Woodbine and graduated from Woodbine High School with the class of 1966. Anita married Bill Whitmore on October 16, 1966, at the United Methodist Church in Woodbine. On December 10, 1974, the couple opened the Whitmore...

Sep 4, 2019

In Loving Memory of Marcus Rudolph Weigelt

Marcus Weigelt was born to Ewald and Ellie (Schulze) Weigelt on 29 April, 1926 at the farm home in Round Top, Texas. He entered a family with siblings Edith, Edmund, Ethel, and Herman. After Marcus, two other sisters, Eurline and Virginia joined the family. One of his strongest attributes was...

Aug 30, 2019

Dona Mae (Michael) Plummer was born September 3, 1920, to Daniel Sidney Phillip and Edith (Arnold) Michael. Dona Mae graduated from Logan High School and then worked briefly as a store clerk in Council Bluffs before marrying Earl Vay Plummer on March 19, 1939. Dona Mae and Earl farmed in the Harrison and Shelby County area for the next...

Aug 28, 2019

Neil Leo White was born on February 19, 1935, to Leo C. and Veronica L. (Wehr) White in Portsmouth, Iowa. He attended school in Portsmouth and graduated from Portsmouth High School in May of 1952. Neil was better known to his family as “Nuck”. On June 3, 1954, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He trained at...

Aug 26, 2019

Judy Ann Miner was born on December 19, 1948, to Archie Dean and Mary Margaret (Edmonds) Miner in Glenwood, Iowa. Judy attended a country school as well as Glendale Acreage School near Council Bluffs.

Judy really enjoyed raising cats, ducks, and chickens. She also enjoyed tending to her garden and growing flowers. Judy helped clean houses, shovel...

Aug 26, 2019

Joan Elaine Neese was born August 19, 1935, to Benjamin and Violet Richards Hall in River Sioux, Iowa. She grew up in River Sioux attending grade and high school in Little Sioux and graduating in 1953. Post graduation, Joan (who preferred to be Joni) attended business college in Omaha and became a bookkeeper, putting those skills to use for...

Aug 25, 2019

Vern William Foutch was born February 11, 1938, at his home near Dunlap, Iowa to Donald Raymond and Lillian Beulah (Mether) Foutch. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to the farm east of Woodbine where he lived until moving into Woodbine in 2001. Vern attended Douglas Hill Country School and was a 1956 graduate of Woodbine High School....

Aug 24, 2019

Ray Virgil Ritterbush was born September 6, 1942, to Virgil and Isabelle (Smith) Ritterbush in Garrison, Nebraska. He was raised near Garrison and attended country school and Belgrade Middle School. Ray married Jan Hodges on June 30, 1963, in Logan, Iowa. Ray worked for Thomas Amusement, Moore Brothers Grocery Store, IBP in Denison in the maintenance department, Jan and...

Aug 24, 2019

James Leland Cotton was born October 21, 1931, in Peru, Nebraska, the oldest of three children, to Roy Edwin ("Jim") Cotton and Sylvia Jean (Railsback) Cotton.  He attended Indian Hill elementary school, the T. J. Majors training school, and Peru Prep High School, graduating in 1950.  Jim then entered Peru State College as a double major in biology and chemistry. ...

Aug 21, 2019

Milton LeRoy Fields was born on April 3, 1937, to Ivan and Opal (Atwood) Field on a family farm north of Spalding, Nebraska. In 1957, they moved to Red Bluff, California. Upon completing high school, he returned to Spalding to eventually marry his sweetheart, Shirley Crosby, on April 19, 1958. In 1970, the couple moved to Logan, Iowa, where...