OBITUARIES
All Obituaries
Virginia Jones
Feb 3, 2009
Virginia Lee Saum was born November 12, 1923 in Jamaica, Iowa, the daughter of Leland A. and Myrtle L. (Haynes) Saum. She was a 1941 graduate of Winterset High School and on September 9, 1941 she married Hubert Jones in Maryville, MO. To this union three children were born, Garnalee, Rodney and Mindy. Survivors include two daughters, Garnalee Chandler...
Wilfred Lansman, Jr.
Feb 2, 2009
Wilfred Gene Lansman Jr., son of Wilfred Eugene Lansman Sr. and Lucille Arbutice Blanchard Lansman, was born September 7, 1949 in Carroll, Iowa, and died February 2, 2009 in Rippey, Iowa at the age of 59 years, 4 months and 25 days. Willie, as he was lovingly known, started school when he was four in Guthrie Center, Iowa. His...
Diana J. Springer
Feb 2, 2009
Diana Jeanne Springer was born June 9, 1938 at the Dallas County Hospital in Perry, Iowa, to LaVerne Spearing and Alma Marie Crispin Spearing and died February 2, 2009 at the Regency Park Nursing and Rehab Center in Jefferson, Iowa at the age of 70 years, 5 months, and 23 days. She was married in Princeton, MO, to Roy...
Lester Donald Gardiner, Sr.
Jan 31, 2009
Lester Donald Gardiner Perry, Iowa Hastings Funeral Home in Perry is in charge of arrangements for Lester Donald Gardiner, 97, of Perry. Mr. Gardiner died Saturday at the Rowley Memorial Masonic Home in Perry. Funeral Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, February 4 at the Woodward Methodist Church with burial in the Woodward Cemetery. Visitation will be at the...
Charles Dean
Jan 30, 2009
Chuck Dean, 47, of Macksburg, died Friday, January 30, 2009 at his home. Chuck will be deeply missed by his wife, Rhonda of Macksburg, his five daughters, Tonya Payton and husband, Lenny of Ackworth, GA; Misty Miller; Amy Smith and husband, Dan; Jenifer Dean all of Des Moines; Jess Vandwater of Macksburg; his father, Richard Dean and his wife,...
Johnny Wetzel
Jan 28, 2009
Johnny Bill Wetzel, 54, of Winterset, passed away Wednesday, January 28, 2009 after a valiant 3 ½ year battle with prostate cancer at Kavanagh House in Des Moines. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents. John was born November 27, 1954 in Winterset, Iowa, the son of Chancy and Mayola (DeBok) Wetzel. John grew up in...
Genevieve G. Cook
Jan 21, 2009
Hastings Funeral Home in Perry is in charge of arrangements for Genevieve Cook, 89, of Perry. Mrs. Cook died Wednesday at the Perry Lutheran Home. Services are 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Perry Lutheran Home with burial in Violet Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-5 p.m. Sunday at Hastings Funeral Home in Perry. She is survived by her...
Lila G. Johnston
Jan 20, 2009
Lila Genevieve Johnston, daughter of Ray Temple and Helen Hobbs Temple, was born January 31, 1925 in Lehigh, Iowa and died January 20, 2009 at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa at the age of 83 years, 11 months and 19 days. Lila's started school in Lehigh and in 1933 her family moved to Rippey. She graduated from...
Willis White
Jan 19, 2009
Willis Whitey White was born August 23, 1926 in Madison County, Iowa, the son of Orville and Dorothy (Gentry) White. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean Conflict. His marriage to Blanche McNichols took place on December 16, 1946 in Des Moines. She preceded him in death on April 16, 2006. Whitey...
Rigoberto Machado
Jan 19, 2009
Rigoberto Machado, hijo de Antonio y Angela Navette Machado nacieron el 15 de julio de 1964 en Honduras. Rigoberto asisti a la Escuela Secundaria y vivi en El Salvador, California e Iowa al crecer. l se cas Amanda Ramirez, agosto, 2008. Hicieron su casa en Perry. Rigoberto ha trabajado en Tyson por 13 aos. l disfruta de la pesca,...
Thelma E. Mulder
Jan 14, 2009
Thelma Elizabeth Mulder, 83, passed away on January 14, 2009, at the Perry Lutheran Home in Perry, Iowa. She was born on March 29, 1925 to Nova and Hershel Houston in Summerville, MO and moved to Iowa at the age of 12. She graduated from East Greene High School in Grand Junction, Iowa in 1943, and attended Iowa State...
Joan I. Allen
Jan 13, 2009
Joan Ilene Allen, daughter of Wilbur and Irene "Tillie" Littell Collins, was born July 1, 1934 at the Greene County Hospital in Jefferson, Iowa, and died January 13, 2009 at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone, Iowa at the age of 74 years, 6 months and 12 days. Through the years, some would call Joan, Jo Ann. Her...
Darlene Thornburg
Jan 8, 2009
Darlene (Dot) Thornburg was born on November 30, 1923 in Jamaica, Iowa to Lloyd Nicholson and Madge Bayne Nicholson and died January 8, 2009 at the Greene County Medical Center Long Term Care in Jefferson, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 1 month and 7 days. Funeral service were held 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 10, 2009 Hastings Funeral...
Benjamin Beyerink
Jan 3, 2009
Benjamin Beyerink, infant son of Jerry Beyerink and Lisa Dobney Beyerink died January 3, 2009 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. He was preceded by his baby brother, Joseph on February 27, 2000, and great-grandparents, Harry and AdaBelle Kersey, and Leo Koenig. Benjamin is survived by his parents; siblings, Zachary, Nathaniel, Katerina, and Hunter Beyerink; grandparents, George...
Edward D. Coleman
Dec 29, 2008
Edward Coleman, son of Lester Coleman and Ruby Wessel Coleman was born July 31, 1936 in Adair County, Iowa and died December 29, 2008 at his home at the age of 72 years, 7 months, and 28 days. Ed spent his childhood in the Coon Rapids, Audubon, McClelland, and Greenfield areas. On April 25, 1959, Ed was united in...
Lois V. Haines
Dec 27, 2008
Lois V. Stewart Haines, daughter of Ernest Stewart and Elna Cleeland, was born September 25, 1925 in Fontanelle, Iowa and died December 27, 2008 at the Regency Care Center in Jefferson, Iowa at the age of 83 years, 3 months, and 2 days. Lois started elementary school in Fontanelle before moving to Orient. She graduated when she was 16...
Jerry Sherlock
Dec 21, 2008
Gerald "Jerry" Joseph Sherlock, son of Julius Henry Sherlock and Anna Nilles, was born on February 16, 1935 in LeMars, Iowa and died December 21, 2008 in Jefferson, Iowa at the Greene County Medical Center at the age of 73 years, 10 months, and 5 days. Jerry graduated from Remsen High School in1952. He was the seventh of fourteen...
Bruce Bryant
Dec 20, 2008
Bruce was born on June 8, 1930 and passed away on Saturday, December 20, 2008. Bruce was a resident of Perry, Iowa.
Larry Lee Houseman
Dec 18, 2008
Larry Lee Houseman, son of Lorenzo Dee Houseman and Minnie Mae Ashcraft, was born September 4, 1935 in Bouton, Iowa and died in Des Moines, Iowa of pulmonary fibrosis on December 18, 2008 at the age of 73 years, 3 months, and 15 days. Larry lived and went to school through eighth grade in Gardiner, Iowa. He graduated from...
Dorothy J. Mckeever
Dec 18, 2008
Dorothy was born February 5, 1961 in Fulton, NY, the daughter of Charles and Shirley (Thompson) Belden. Dorothy graduated from Phoenix High School in Fulton, NY and following graduation she enlisted in the United States Army, serving her country for the next several years. Following her discharge from her military service she raised her two children and worked several...