Anne B. Gee
Jul 25, 2017
Anne Rebecca Benner was born June 29, 1922 in Warrenton, VA to John R. and Sudie Hite (Skinker) Benner. Anne's family lineage stretches back to Colonial Virginia, including the Hite Family's "Belle Grove Plantation," and the family of President James Madison. The family farm on the outskirts of town where Anne grew up, was witness to the Civil War. Her...
Fairis F. Whitehill Maas
Jul 24, 2017
Fairis Florene Whitehill-Maas, daughter of Jesse and Gladys Florene (Henn) Sliger, was born July 7, 1922 in Union, Nebraska. She passed away on July 24, 2017 at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 95. When she was young the family moved to Rock Port, Missouri and then to the Northboro, Iowa area. She graduated from Northboro High...
Arlene Gibson
Jul 17, 2017
Edna Arlene (Sulser) Gibson was born on June 26, 1920, on a farm near Coin, Iowa. She died at Windsor Manor in Shenandoah, Iowa on July 17, 2017. She was the youngest of three daughters born to John and Edna Ella (Annan) Sulser. Her life growing up on the farm, where she enjoyed working outside with her father and playing...
Marie E. Tiemann
Jul 8, 2017
Marie Elizabeth Griffey Spears Tiemann died peacefully with her family by her side on Saturday, July 8, 2017 at the age of 83 and now rests peacefully in the arms of Jesus. Marie was born on February 26, 1934 at Shenandoah Memorial Hospital. She passed away from complications resulting from a severe stroke at UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska. Marie became a...
Paulyne J. Miller
Jul 4, 2017
Paulyne Jean (Hendrickson) Miller, the daughter of Elmer John and Ebba Christine (Bengtson) Hendrickson, was born February 4, 1925 on the family farm near Essex, Iowa. She passed away on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at the Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa, following a lengthy illness. Paulyne attended school in Essex and graduated from Essex High School. On April...
M. Catherine Holmes
Jun 29, 2017
Mary Catherine Holmes, the daughter of Edwin and Lettie (Hookham) Baugh was born at Coin, Iowa on December 31, 1923 and entered into rest on June 29, 2017 at George Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, Iowa attaining the age of 93 years, 5 months and 29 days. Catherine grew up in Coin, Iowa and attended school there graduating from Coin...
Dorothy M. Christofferson
Jun 24, 2017
Dorothy M. Christofferson passed away June 24, 2017, at her home in Yuma, AZ. Dorothy was born in Shenandoah, IA, Feb. 21, 1932, to Marion and Besse Sickler. She attended school and graduated high school in 1949. After high school she went to Omaha, NE, to attend business college. That is where she met Chris Christofferson in a typing class....
Alena P. Fichter
Jun 24, 2017
Alena Pearl (Ross) Fichter was born September 29, 1925 to Paul and Ruth (Cooksey) Ross in Clearfield, Iowa and entered into rest on Saturday, June 24, 2017 at Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 91. The family moved from Clearfield, Iowa to Clearmont, Missouri where Alena started school and graduated from Clearmont High School with...
Carroll Skalberg
Jun 19, 2017
Carroll DeLayne Skalberg, son of Paul and Edith (Freeman) Skalberg, was born on December 4, 1919 in Essex, Iowa. He passed away on Monday, June 19, 2017 at his home with family and friends at his bedside. Carroll served his country from 1942 to 1945 in the U.S. Army Air Force. He was a combat veteran of World War II....
Patricia "Pat" V. Anderzhon
Jun 16, 2017
Patricia "Pat" Viola Anderzhon, daughter of Russell and Viola (Anderson) Julius, was born on July 6, 1944 in Cherokee, Iowa. Pat passed away on June 16, 2017 at the Ambassador Health in Sidney, Iowa. Pat attended grade school in Cherokee prior to her family moving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1955. There she finished elementary school as well as...
Melburn "Mick" D. Johnson
Jun 11, 2017
Melburn Duard ("Mick") Johnson was born in Skidmore, MO, on June 15, 1927, the 12th of 13 children of Floyd Ausby and Barbara Jane (Cunningham) Johnson. He peacefully passed away June 11, 2017, at Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah with his son and daughter-in-law by his side. Mick was drafted in 1945 but received a deferment so he could...
William "Bill" Henderson
Jun 8, 2017
William Dean (Bill) Henderson was born March 27,1964, to Vida (Smith) and James Dale Henderson in Vancouver, Washington. He passed away on Thursday, June 8, 2017, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 53 as a result of health issues that began in 2010. Bill grew up in Northboro and Coin, Iowa, and attended school in the...
Gordon Lundgren
Jun 6, 2017
Gordon Leonard Lundgren, son of Leonard and Hazel (Johnson) Lundgren, was born on August 10, 1951, in Shenandoah, IA, and passed away on June 6, 2017, with his loving wife by his side. Gordon graduated from Clarinda High School in 1970. Gordon married Shirley Ann Edgar on March 5, 1977, at the Fremont Covenant Church near Essex, IA. They made...
Carolyn D. Anderson
May 28, 2017
Carolyn Diane Anderson, daughter of Donald and Lois Anderson, was born November 23, 1949. She lived most of her life with her parents on the family farm east of Essex, Iowa and was a graduate of Essex High School in 1968. Carolyn was a lifelong member of St John's Lutheran Church in Essex, and participated in many groups including the...
Charles Holman
May 25, 2017
Charles Earl Holman,71, ofEssex Iowa, passed away onMay 25th, 2017 at Prairie Meadows Memory Unit in Omaha. Charles was born inHamburg, IAonOctober 18th, 1945.Heattended Farragut Community School and graduated in 1964. He went to California and worked on a horse ranch for a year, before returning home to farm. He served in the Iowa National Guard and was discharged in...
Lola B. Nebitt
May 19, 2017
Lola Belle Nebitt, daughter of Jake Elmo and Florence Marie (McWilliams) Eskew, was born February 21, 1933 in Shenandoah, Iowa. Lola passed away on Friday, May 19, 2017 at the Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah at the age of 84. Lola grew up in Farragut, Iowa area. She graduated from Farragut High School in 1950. She was united in...
Jim L. Androy
May 17, 2017
Jimmie "Jim" Lee Androy , was born on August 28, 1935 at Shenandoah, Iowa the son of Joseph and Goldie Meyers Androy, and entered into rest on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. Jim lived all his life in Shenandoah, Iowa he attended Shenandoah High School and graduated in 1953. He was united in marriage to...
Denise Marie Conners
May 17, 2017
Denise Marie Conners was born to Vincent "Pete" dePaul Conners and Norma Jean (Darst) Conners on January 21, 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska and was the only daughter of their three children. Marie passed away at her home in Dallas, Texas on May 17, 2017 surrounded by her son, husband, and step-son. She was 70 years old. Marie married Andy Lavigne...
Gerald "Jerry" J. Laughlin
May 15, 2017
Gerald "Jerry" J. Laughlin passed away in Omaha on May 15, 2017 at the age of 88. One of 11 children of Bernard and Irene Laughlin, Jerry was born on March 18, 1929 and raised in Imogene, Iowa. He lived most of his life in Omaha where he worked for several companies building hundreds of commercial properties in Omaha and...
Gary L. Holmes
May 14, 2017
Gary Lee Holmes, son of Marion Lowell and Arneitha Rowene (Skalberg) Holmes, was born February 6, 1949 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He passed away on May 14, 2017 at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. Gary grew up on a farm Northwest of Essex. He attended Essex country school and Essex High School where he graduated with the class of 1967. He...