Thomas "Tommy" Leo Smith, the son of Danny E. and Willa "Fran" (King) Houston, was born on December 18, 1974 in Clarinda, Iowa. Tommy passed away on October 21, 2016 in a automobile accident in Atchison County, Missouri. He was 41 years old. Tommy has spent most of his life in Southwest Iowa and Northwest Missouri. In 1993, he received...
Connie (Bertram) Jones, 71, of New Baden, IL, died Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Belleville, IL. She was born October 20, 1944 in Shenandoah, IA, the daughter of Harold Lewis and Arlene (Thomas) Bertram and they preceded her in death. She graduated from Shenandoah High School with the class of 1962. She married Bobb L. Jones...
Margaret Louise Woods age 96 of Shenandoah Iowa, passed away on October 11, 2016 at the Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah Iowa. Margaret was born May 1, 1920 in Shenandoah Iowa to Ollie Ralph Hayes and Myrtle Mae (Kammerer) Hayes. Margaret was one of three children of Ollie and Myrtle Hayes, Catherine (Hayes) Burris being the eldest and Betty...
James "Jim" L. Vrbsky son of LeRoy L. and Janice M. (Maher) Vrbsky, was born on April 14, 1961 in Shenandoah, Iowa. Jim grew up in Shenandoah and graduated from Shenandoah High School with the class of 1980. Jim enjoyed fishing, deer hunting, shooting turtles, riding motorcycles and just being outdoors. Jim was a loving brother and uncle. He was...
Janithe passed away on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Clarinda Regional Health Center in Clarinda, Iowa. Private memorial graveside service will be held at a later date in the Clarinda Cemetery.
Beatrice "Bea" Ellen (Sheley) Nelson, the daughter of Faye Leonard and Ruth Jeannette (Loomis) Sheley, was born February 18, 1915 in the family farm on the Missouri and Iowa border between Hopkins, MO and Bedford, IA. Bea lived with her family on the Sheley family farm for the first ten years of her life. She attended elementary school in Hopkins,...
Lorene "Laurie" Louise Jenkins, was born on November 10, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio and entered into rest on Thursday, September 15, 2015 at her home in Shenandoah, Iowa. Laurie was the daughter of William Carroll and Florence Mae (Grant) O'Reilly. She was raised in the Cleveland, Ohio and later lived in Chicago, Illinois, and Kansas City, Kansas before moving to...
Constance "Connie" May (Joslyn) Rohrer, daughter of Marion Guy and Gloria Louise (Snow) Joslyn, was born on July 9, 1947 in Clarinda, Iowa. She passed away on Thursday, September 15, 2016 at the George C. Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, Iowa. She was 69 years, two months and six days old. Connie early years were spent in Shenandoah, she attended...
John Frederick McLaren, son of George Kells and Lucille Gail (Crist) McLaren, was born on April 25, 1926 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He passed away on September 14, 2016 at his home in rural Farragut, Iowa. J.F. was born and raised in Shenandoah, Iowa. He graduated from Shenandoah High School with the class of 1944. On October 5, 1947 he was...
Shirley passed away on September 2, 2016 at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Celebration of life memorial service will be 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at the First Baptist Church in Shenandoah.
Alice "Granny" Gwendolyn Blackwell entered into peaceful rest on August 21st, 2016 at the Shenandoah Medical Center at the age of 83, just two weeks shy of her 84th birthday. Her life was full of love and laughter. Granny was born to Fred and Hulda Kalkas (McIntosh) on September 4th, 1932 at the Shenandoah Medical Center. She was raised in...
Shirley Jean (Zuck) Dreyer was born December 25, 1933, to Arnold Alexander and Fern Alice (Brown) Zuck on the family farm east of Hamburg, Iowa. She had an older brother Duane and they attended High Creek Country School. Younger brother Dale was ten years her junior. The family moved south of Farragut when she was in the third grade and...
Helen Louise Sickman, was born on September 1, 1930 at the family farm in Fremont, County, Iowa and entered into eternal rest at Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa on Saturday, August 6, 2016 , at the age of 85 years, 11 months , 5 days. Helen was the daughter of Henry and Katherine (Laumann) Sickman, she was the...
Phyllis Lucille Funk, daughter of Gordon H. and Agnes Y. (Shaffer) Bradley, was born June 1, 1926 in Pleasant Township, Cass County, Iowa. She passed away on July 27, 2016 at the Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah. She was 90 years old. Phyllis spent her early years growing up on the family farm in Cass County, Iowa. She attended...
Anita Mae Vogel was born December 18, 1936 in Northboro, Iowa to Ernest John Bowenkamp, Sr. and Francis Florence Ramsey. She passed away on July 16, 2016 at the Clarinda Regional Health Center in Clarinda, Iowa. The family lived east of Northboro. She was baptized in the Northboro Methodist Church. At the age of four, the family purchased the farm...
Wendell William Johnson was born November 5, 1926 to Henry and Beda (Swanson) Johnson. Wendell had three older brothers, Russell, Vernon & Wayne Johnson. Wendell passed away peacefully July 15, 2016 at his home in Arlington Place of Red Oak, Iowa. He attended elementary school at Rose Hill Country School. He was a member of the 1944 graduating class from...
Dorothy Clarice Cleaveland, daughter of the late Fred and Hazel (Ostmeyer) Fulton, was born on June 21, 1924 in Sioux City, Iowa. She passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at the Goldenrod Care Center in Clarinda, Iowa. She was 92 years old. Dorothy grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. She had two brothers, Harry and Frank, and one sister,...
Ernie was born on December 11, 1950 to Norma and Jack Caral Heindl. He passed away on Monday, July 11, 2016 at Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. He worked for the carnival for many years. He had an unconditional love for his wife Shirley and two dogs Tiny and Sammi. His interests included family and friends, cars and motorcycles,...
Charles Carlton Edwards the son of Argust and Janie Carlton Edwards was born in Page County, Iowa , on October 19, 1927 and entered into rest at the Gardenview Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at the age of 88 years, 8 months, 16 days. Charles spent his early life on a farm in Page County,...
Alice Margaret Mitchell was born January 20, 1908 in Odessa, Washington. She was the eldest of five children born to James and Margie (Dickson) Wright. She passed away Tuesday morning, July 5, 2016 at Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 108 years and 166 days. Returning with her parents at the age of 3 to...