Obituaries

Creston and Corning, IA Obituaries

Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area

Jill Reichenauer

Jill Reichenauer

Jul 12, 2011

Jill Evans Reichenauer, daughter of David and Janet (Sorensen) Brower, was born on September 18, 1964 in Lamar, MO. Jill entered eternal rest after a courageous battle with cancer on July 12, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of forty-six years. Jill grew up in Omaha, NE and graduated from Central High School in 1983....

Helen Marie Law

Helen Marie Law

Jul 11, 2011

Helen Marie Law was born on January 11, 1938 to Floyd Frederick and Helen Mildred (Case) Westlake in Corning, Iowa. Marie entered eternal rest on Monday, July 11, 2011 at Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of seventy-three years. Marie attended Corning High School and graduated with the Class of 1956. Following high school Marie...

Orville Dale Cerven

Orville Dale Cerven

Jul 10, 2011

Orville Dale Cerven was born January 17, 1926 near Gravity, Iowa to Marjorie (Akers) Cerven and Oscar F. Cerven. Dale entered eternal rest on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at the Stanton Care Center in Stanton, Iowa at the age of eighty-five years. Dale attended rural school in Holt Township. After 8th grade he attended and graduated from Gravity High School...

Catherine Fessler

Catherine Fessler

Jul 9, 2011

Catherine Fessler, 87, of Phoenix passed away on July 9, 2011, after a lengthy illness. A visitation and mass was held at St. Louis the King Parish in Glendale, Arizona on July 13. Graveside Services will be 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, July 19, at Calvary Cemetery in Creston. Father Joseph Pins will officiate. Memorials may be directed to St. Louis the...

Wallace Ed Reed

Wallace Ed Reed

Jul 1, 2011

Wallace Edward Reed, resident of Corning and Oskaloosa, son of Wallace Wiley and Ethel Madeline (Gale) Reed, was born on March 6, 1937 in Carbon, Iowa. Ed entered eternal rest on Friday, July 1, 2011 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of seventy-four years, three months and twenty-five days. Ed attended rural school in Quincy...

Hubert M. Kissler

Hubert M. Kissler

Jun 30, 2011

Hubert Marion Kissler, son of Henry and Winifred (Thompson) Kissler, was born on July 26, 1922 on the farm which was settled by his great-grandparents in rural Bridgewater, Iowa. Hubert entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital in Corning, Iowa at the age of eighty-eight years. Hubert graduated from Corning High School in 1940....

Mary Cusack

Mary Cusack

Jun 20, 2011

Mary Elizabeth Cusack, the daughter of John Francis and Agnes (ONeill) Moran, was born on September 2, 1902, in Union County near Creston, Iowa. Mary entered eternal rest on June 20, 2011, at Creston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Creston, Iowa at the age of one hundred eight years, nine months and eighteen days. Mary lived all her life in...

Ellen Selim

Ellen Selim

Jun 7, 2011

Ellen Annabel Selim, the daughter of William Dryden and Viola Agnes (Kritenbrink) Smart, was born on May 3, 1929, near Creston in Union County, Iowa. Ellen entered eternal rest on June 7, 2011, at Greater Regional Medical Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-two years, one month and four days. Ellen was a life-long resident of the areas near...

Maxine (Carr) Mercer

Maxine (Carr) Mercer

Jun 6, 2011

Maxine Mae Mercer, daughter of H. Franklin and Velda (Simpson) Carr, was born on December 30, 1926 near Carl, Iowa. Maxine entered eternal rest on Monday, June 6, 2011 at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of eighty-four years. Maxine attended rural schools and graduated from Corning High School in 1946. Maxine was united...

Rosalie Pesik

Rosalie Pesik

Jun 5, 2011

Rosalie A. Pesik, the daughter of Anthony Joseph and Anna (Tomann) Pesik, was born on June 10, 1924, in Spaulding Township in Union County, Iowa. Rosalie entered eternal rest on June 5, 2011, at Crest Haven Care Centre, in Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. Rosalie lived in the Creston/Union County area her...

Sandra Shirk

Sandra Shirk

Jun 5, 2011

Sandra Mae Shirk, 57, a resident of Gonzales, LA, died on Sunday, June 5, 2011. Celebration of Life Services will be 2:00 P.M., Monday, June 13, at Pearson-Coen-Beaty Family Funeral Service, 809 W. Montgomery St., Creston, Iowa. Rev. Dave Tebbenkamp, First Baptist Church, will officiate. Interment will be at Graceland Cemetery, Creston. Family will receive friends from 6:00 - 8:00...

Kathryn Clark Bennett Cody

Kathryn Clark Bennett Cody

Jun 1, 2011

Kathryn Clark Bennett Cody passed away on June 1st in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 93. Kathryn was born March 31, 1918, in Creston, Iowa. She graduated from Creston High School in 1937. Kathryn married H.R. (Bob) Bennett and they had two sons, Gary Bennett and Phil Bennett who presently live in Spring City and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kathryn has...

Lorraine Zimmerman

Lorraine Zimmerman

May 27, 2011

Kathryn Lorraine Wells Zimmerman died on Friday, May 27, 2011, at the age of 99, at the Corning Nursing and Rehab Center. Lorraine was born March 23, 1912 in the family home in Tabor, Iowa. She graduated from Tabor High School and Simpson College, majoring in English, where she was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority, She...

Richard R. Dick Loonan

Richard R. Dick Loonan

May 14, 2011

Richard Raymond (Dick) Loonan was born November 7, 1927 in Waterloo, Iowa, the son of George V. and Betty Loonan. Dick entered eternal rest on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital in Corning, Iowa at the age of eighty-three years. Dick graduated from high school at Hudson Consolidated School in 1945. He received a BS degree in...

Della Cooper

Della Cooper

May 2, 2011

Della Irene Hackett Cooper passed away May 2, 2011 at the age of 98 years, 7 months and 2 days at the Corning Nursing Rehab Center in Corning, Iowa. Della was born in Corning, Iowa, the daughter of John A. and Sophia Hackett. She was united in marriage to Orma Thomas Cooper on September 29th, 1941. Della was a member...

Imogene Miller

Imogene Miller

May 2, 2011

Nora “ Imogene “ Miller, daughter of Perry James and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, was born on July 16, 1916 in Carbon, Iowa. Imogene entered eternal rest on Monday, May 2, 2011 at the Lenox Care Center in Lenox, Iowa at the age of ninety-four years, nine months and sixteen days. As the eighth child of eleven, Imogene grew up...

Clark Peterson

Clark Peterson

May 2, 2011

Clark Merle Peterson, second son of Herman and Velma (Hoops) Peterson was born on the Peterson homestead at Strand, Iowa, on January 24, 1923. Clark entered into eternal rest on Monday, May 2, 2011, at his home in Corning at the age of eighty-eight years, three months and nine days. Clark attended country school and helped his parents on the...

Ethel Calkins

Ethel Calkins

Apr 26, 2011

Ethel Chambers Calkins was born February 27, 1912 in Massena, Iowa to Rollie Henry and Sadie Amelia Denham Chambers. Ethel entered eternal rest on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at Alegent Health Mercy Hospital in Corning, Iowa at the age of ninety-nine years. As a child Ethel attended rural schools in Massena Township Pine Grove neighborhood. She graduated from Massena High...

Cleofa Dalton

Cleofa Dalton

Apr 26, 2011

Cleofa Dalton, 100, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, died Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cleofa Pauline Dalton was born on May 24, 1910, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She grew up in Dodge Township in Union County. On December 24, 1927, she married Harold Dalton in Des Moines, Iowa. Cleofa was a wife and homemaker....

Pauline Parrott

Pauline Parrott

Apr 22, 2011

Ethel Pauline Parrott, the daughter of John E. and Ethel Maude (Alley) Young, was born on December 26, 1911, in Adair County near Greenfield, Iowa. Pauline entered eternal rest on April 22, at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, at the age of ninety-nine years. Pauline was raised on a farm five miles north of Afton. She graduated from Afton High...