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Creston and Corning, IA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area
Betty Jean Keefer
Aug 23, 2017
Betty Jean Keefer, the daughter of James ‘Blaine’ and Maude ‘Edrie’ (Anderson) Keefer was born March 14, 1924 in Creston. She attended Creston Public Schools through her junior year. Betty moved, with her parents, to Council Bluffs in November 1941 and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School with the class of 1942. Betty entered the Jennie Edmundson Hospital School of...
Charles Mac Moffitt
Aug 22, 2017
Charles Mac Moffitt, the son of Theodore William and Daisy Della (Balius) Moffitt, was born August 14, 1933 in Afton, Iowa. Mac departed from us on August 22, 2017 at Creston Specialty Care, Creston, Iowa at the age of eighty-four years and eight days. Mac graduated from Diagonal High School with the Class of 1952, and always bragged about being...
Burdette Whitey Fahr
Aug 15, 2017
Burdette Ronald Fahr, the son of Edgar Henry and Alice Mary Ida (Menke) Fahr, was born April 15, 1933, in Buena Vista County, Iowa. Whitey entered eternal rest on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at Greater Regional Medical Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-four years and four months. Whitey was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith at St....
Beth Coen
Aug 15, 2017
Maria Beth Coen, the daughter of Daniel Mark and Connie Irene (Roberts) Coen, was born on May 29, 1981 in Creston, Iowa. Beth entered eternal rest on August 15, 2017 at her home in Creston, Iowa at the age of thirty-six years, two months, and seventeen days. Beth was educated in St. Malachy Catholic School and Creston High School, where...
Joan Asbury
Aug 13, 2017
Joan Asbury, 91, of Creston passed away Sunday, August 13, 2017, at Creston Specialty Care, Creston, Iowa. Graveside Services will be 1:00 P.M., Saturday, September 2, 2017 at Evergreen Memorial Park, Omaha, NE. There will be no public viewing. Memorials may be directed to HCI Hospice House of Creston. Joan Elizabeth Asbury, the daughter of Boyd Raymond and Harriett Margaretha...
Delmar J. Wilson
Aug 12, 2017
Delmar John Wilson, the son of Harold Willard and Margaret Helen (Pattison) Wilson, was born May 25, 1941, in Adams County, Iowa. Delmar entered eternal rest on Saturday, August 12, 2017, at CHI Health Mercy Hospital, Corning, Iowa, at the age of seventy-six years, two months, and eighteen days. Delmar’s family moved to Oregon, then Hopkins, Missouri, where he graduated...
Jack Cruise
Aug 10, 2017
John “Jack” Hughes Cruise, the son of Michael “Hank” Henry and Stella (Hughes) Cruise, was born October 22, 1926, in Omaha, Nebraska. Jack entered eternal rest on Thursday, August 10, 2017, at Accura Healthcare, Stanton, Iowa, at the age of ninety years, nine months, and nineteen days. Jack attended grade school at St. Margaret Mary and High School at Creighton...
James E. Roeder
Jul 20, 2017
James Edward Roeder, the son of Lawrence Joseph and Rose Ella (Oenbring) Roeder, was born March 17, 1924 in Creston. James entered eternal rest on July 20, 2017 at Greater Regional Hospice House, Creston, Iowa at the age of ninety-three years, four months, and three days. James graduated from Arispe High School with the Class of 1942. James enlisted in...
Leon Lamb
Jul 16, 2017
Claude Leon Lamb, Jr., the son of Claude Leon, Sr. and Fern Martha (Hawker) Lamb, was born December 17, 1932 in Creston, Iowa. Leon passed away at Greater Regional Hospice House in Creston on Sunday, July 16, 2017 at the age of eighty-four years, six months and twenty-nine days. Leon attended school in Creston and graduated from Creston High School...
Darlene Rae Gilbert
Jul 7, 2017
Darlene Rae Gilbert, 80, of Clearfield passed away during the early morning of Friday, July 7, 2017 at Clearview Home, Clearfield, Iowa. Darlene had been a part of the Clearview Home family since March 14, 2007. No local services are planned. Interment will be held at a later date in Mission Hill, South Dakota. Darlene Rae Gilbert, the second oldest...
Robert Bob Drake
Jul 6, 2017
Robert Leslie Drake, the son of Frederick Carlton and Elvera Rosamond (Duncan) Drake was born May 4, 1955, in Corning, Iowa. Bob entered eternal rest on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of sixty-two years, two months, and two days. Bob graduated from Corning High School, Corning, Iowa, and would...
Gerry Abell
Jul 3, 2017
Gerry Lee Abell, the son of Chester Orville and Peggy Madge Marie (Jones) Abell, was born July 7, 1953 in Creston, Iowa. Gerry entered eternal rest on July 3, 2017 at his home near Lenox, Iowa at the age of sixty-three years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. Gerry attended Creston Public Schools. Gerry served in the United States Navy from...
Marcella R. Ingram
Jul 1, 2017
Marcella Ruth Ingram, the daughter of William Thomas and Helena (Scherbarth) Williams, was born February 14, 1927, near Villisca, Iowa. Marcella entered eternal rest on Saturday, July 1, 2017, at Allen Place Assisted Living, Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of ninety years, four months, and seventeen days. As a young girl, she loved riding her pony, “Billy Boy” to Frog...
Theo Ted Russell
Jun 29, 2017
Theo Howard Russell, the son of Howard Cecil and Hazel Florence (Kempton) Russell was born May 6, 1932, in rural Adams County, near Corning, IA. Ted entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at Bergan Mercy Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age eighty-five years, one month, and twenty-three days. Ted graduated from Jamaica High School, Jamaica, IA with the...
Andrew Jay Mack
Jun 27, 2017
Andrew Jay Mack, the son of L. Francis and Phyllis Jeanne (Watts) Mack was born in Corning, Iowa, August 5, 1952, and died June 27, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. Andy graduated from Corning High School in 1970 and received a Bachelors Degree from Iowa State University. He worked for the City of Des Moines and the Army Corps of...
Larry Pete Dewitt
Jun 23, 2017
Lawrence Ellis Dewitt Jr., the son of Lawrence Ellis and Milla (Furman) DeWitt Sr., was born in Kimball, Nebraska on October 21, 1937. Pete entered eternal rest on Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Afton Care Center, Afton, Iowa, at the age of seventy-nine years, eight months, and two days. Pete graduated from Rushville High School, Rushville, Nebraska, with the...
Merrill Eugene Toby Edwards
Jun 22, 2017
Merrill “Toby” Eugene Edwards, the son of Glen Maxwell and Elinore Dorothy (Welcher) Edwards, was born in Fontanelle, Iowa, on February 12, 1931. Toby entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 22, 2017, at his home in rural Prescott, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, four months, and ten days. Toby attended Fontanelle High School, in Fontanelle, Iowa. Following school,...
Phillip Kenealy
Jun 18, 2017
Phillip J. Kenealy, 91, of Liberty, Missouri, and formerly of Creston, Iowa, passed away June 18, 2017 at his home with his loving wife of 66 years, Patricia, and family by his side. Phil was born September 28, 1925, in Neola, Iowa, to the late Jerome and Florence (Schierbrock) Kenealy. He attended Beebeetown High School, leaving in eighth grade to...
William Bill Schafer
Jun 17, 2017
William “Bill” Dean Schafer, the son of Roy “Foxy” Fredrick and Mildred Francis (Ginn) Schafer, was born in Stringtown, Adams County, Iowa, on August 29, 1928. Bill entered eternal rest on Saturday , June 17, 2017, at Corning Specialty Care, at the age of eighty-eight years, nine months, and nineteen days. Bill attended Lenox High School where he played football...
Mary Ann Johnson
Jun 6, 2017
Mary Ann Johnson, the daughter of Joseph Tolbert and Julia Anne (Waters) Maeder, was born on March 28, 1927 in Victoria Township, Cass County, Iowa. Mary Ann entered eternal rest on June 6, 2017, at Greater Regional Medical Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of ninety years, two months, and nine days. Mary Ann attended Country School in Adair County,...
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