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Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area

Betty Jessup Vincent

Betty Jessup Vincent

Jan 10, 2012

Betty Jessup Vincent, 91, of Denver, Colorado, died Tuesday, January 10, 2012, in Denver. Memorial Services will be held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, February 25, at Pearson Family Funeral Service, 809 W. Montgomery St., Creston. Rev. Jim Morris will officiate. Interment will be at the Hill of Zion Cemetery near Orient. No Visitation is planned. Memorials may be made in Betty’s...

Milo Showers

Milo Showers

Jan 2, 2012

Milo Clinton Showers, 88, of Creston died Monday, January 2, 2012, at the Crest Haven Care Centre, Creston. Inurnment Committal will be at 10:00 A.M., Saturday, January 7 at the Graceland Cemetery. A Memorial Service will follow at 10:30 A.M., Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Creston. Mary O’Riley will officiate. There will be no public viewing and no...

Mark Olive

Mark Olive

Jan 1, 2012

Mark Charles Olive, 59, of Corning, passed away January 1, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. Mark was born July 20, 1952, in Corning, Iowa, the son of Orlo Francis and Mary (Miller) Olive. He attended Corning Community Schools graduating in 1970 and then attended Peru State College in Peru, NE. Mark married Merri LeDuc in 1978 and they had three...

Esther Lauer

Esther Lauer

Dec 30, 2011

Esther Lucille Lauer, the daughter of Joshua J. and Bertha Maggie (Platt) Edwards, was born on February 16, 1931, in Carnduff, Saskatchewan, Canada. Esther entered eternal rest on December 30, 2011, at the Winterset Care Center North, Winterset, Iowa, at the age of eighty years, ten months, and fourteen days. Esther lived in the Macksburg and Zion community almost sixty...

Bob Bauman

Bob Bauman

Dec 26, 2011

Robert David “Bob” Bauman, the son of Richard Wayne and Helen Marie (Bahr) Bauman, was born on September 25, 1962, in Harlan, Iowa. Bob entered eternal rest on December 26, 2011, at the Greater Regional Hospice Home, Creston, Iowa, at the age of forty-nine years. Bob moved to Creston from Irwin, Iowa in 1966. Bob graduated from Creston High School...

Alberta Jean Vetterick Bennett

Alberta Jean Vetterick Bennett

Dec 20, 2011

Alberta Jean Vetterick Bennett, the daughter of Sherman H. and Emma C. (Leach) Purdy, was born on August 26, 1925, in Fontanelle, Iowa. Alberta passed away peacefully on December 20, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Center, Fontanelle, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, three months, and twenty-four days. Alberta graduated from Fontanelle High School with the Class of 1942....

Mamie Kline

Mamie Kline

Dec 11, 2011

Mamie (Hower) Kline was born on August 9th, 1910 in Adair County, Iowa to Peter T. and Daisy Hower, the fourth of five children. Her siblings were Nada Bennett, Eldon (Mike) Hower, Freddie Hower and Alice Dean Hoakison. Mamie entered eternal rest on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at the age of one hundred and one years and four months. She...

Jack Osborne

Jack Osborne

Dec 8, 2011

Jack Gerald Osborne Jr. was born March 21, 1963 to Jack and Delores Osborne Sr. in Pueblo, Colorado. Jack died December 8, 2011 at his home in Nevinville at the age of forty-eight years and eight months. Jack lived in Colorado before moving to Iowa at the age of six. He lived in Shannon City and the Afton area until...

Helen Virginia Sutphen

Helen Virginia Sutphen

Nov 30, 2011

Helen Virginia (Johnson) Sutphen, daughter of OLee and Viola Johnson, was born February 21, 1921 at Centerville, Iowa and died Thursday, November 30, 2011 at Red Oak, Iowa at the age of 90 years. She grew up in Moline, Illinois. After graduation from high school in 1938, she entered nurses training at Moline Public Hospital and graduated as an RN....

Phyllis Cooper

Phyllis Cooper

Nov 26, 2011

Phyllis Bonnie Cooper, the daughter of Ralph Harry and Bonnie Irene (Antisdel) Blazek, was born on October 4, 1938, near Williamson in Adams County, Iowa. Phyllis entered eternal rest on Saturday, November 26, 2011, at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital, Corning, Iowa, at the age of seventy-three years, one month and twenty-two days. Phyllis graduated from Prescott High School with the...

Willard Douglas Doug Ray

Willard Douglas Doug Ray

Nov 25, 2011

Willard Douglas “Doug” Ray, the son of William Albert and Grace Roselita (Hoskinson) Ray was born August 7, 1933, on a farm near Creston, in Adams County, Iowa. Willard Douglas Ray, Commander United States Navy Retired died November 25, 2011 in Creston, Iowa at the age of seventy-eight years. Willard Douglas Ray graduated from Creston High School with the Class...

Thelma Whitson

Thelma Whitson

Nov 17, 2011

Thelma Faye Whitson, the daughter of Joseph A. and Gertrude (Hathaway) Marler, was born on March 24, 1918, in Tingley, Iowa. Thelma entered eternal rest on November 17, 2011, at the Afton Care Center, Afton, Iowa at the age of ninety-three years. Thelma lived in Ringgold and Union counties most of her life. She graduated from Tingley High School in...

Kenneth Tank Shires

Kenneth Tank Shires

Nov 13, 2011

Kenneth Harold “Tank” Shires, son of Donald Edgar and Hazel Hallene (ORiley) Shires, was born on March 25, 1950 in Clarinda, Iowa. Tank passed away on Sunday, November 13, 2011 at his home in Prescott, Iowa at the age of sixty-one years. Tank attended Prescott Community School and graduated with the Class of 1968. Tank farmed in his younger years....

Patricia Ann (Means) Kennedy

Patricia Ann (Means) Kennedy

Nov 5, 2011

Patricia Ann Kennedy was born August 10, 1934 in Corning, Iowa to Oscar Means and Merle (Caruth) Means. Patricia entered eternal rest on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital in Corning, Iowa at the age of seventy-seven years old. After graduating from high school in Corning in 1953 she worked as a long distance operator for Northwestern...

Joanne Ruth Deyoung

Joanne Ruth Deyoung

Nov 4, 2011

Joanne Ruth DeYoung was born on October 16, 1937, in Storm Lake, Iowa, the daughter of Alvin and Ruth (Zimmer) Potthast. Joanne entered eternal rest on Friday, November 4, 2011 at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital in Corning, Iowa at the age of sevety-four years. The family, which also included her younger sister, Janyce, later moved from Storm Lake to Minburn,...

Max Pool

Max Pool

Oct 28, 2011

DR. MAX G POOL Max G Pool was born on December 7, 1915 on a farm near Corning, Iowa to Garfield and Jessie Naven Pool and departed this life on October 28, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. He was the youngest of three children. At an early age his family relocated to Hiawatha, Kansas where his elementary school years began. After...

Timothy A. Simpson

Timothy A. Simpson

Oct 26, 2011

Timothy A. Simpson of Corning, Iowa, passed away at his home on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at the age of forty-seven years old. Tim was born on April 29, 1964 to D.C. and Janice (Stringham) Simpson in Independence, Missouri and welcomed home by his older brother Randy. Tims early years were spent in Independence and later in Kellerton, Iowa, attending...

Laverne Rose Nelson

Laverne Rose Nelson

Oct 6, 2011

LaVerne Rose Nelson, daughter of William and Rose (Brockman) Wortman, was born on April 22, 1916 in Silver City, Iowa. LaVerne entered eternal rest on Thursday, October 6, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of ninety-five years. LaVerne was united in marriage to Virgil Ernie Nelson on December 14, 1937 at Our Savior Lutheran Church...

Robert Bob Pangburn

Robert Bob Pangburn

Oct 4, 2011

Robert (Bob) Pangburn, Corning, Iowa, died October 4, 2011, at the Corning Nursing and Rehab Center following a short illness. Bob was born April 23, 1926, in Rapid City, SD to Dr. Merrill W. and Constance (Hoyem) Pangburn. The family moved to Scotland, SD and then in 1930 to Miller, SD, where he attended school, graduating in 1944. Upon graduation,...

Margaret Woods

Margaret Woods

Sep 25, 2011

Margaret Luella Woods, the daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Brownrigg) Repplinger, was born on May 18, 1925, near Creston in Adams County, Iowa. Margaret entered eternal rest on September 25, 2011, at the Afton Care Center, Afton, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years. Margarets family sends a very special thank you for the warm and caring staff at the...

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