Robert "Bob" Lee Strange, the son of Oscar William and Mabel Beatrice (Smith) Strange, was born January 29, 1940 in Martinez, California. Bob passed away Monday, November 24, 2014 at his home in Shenandoah. He was 74 years old. Bob moved to Shenandoah at the age of two. When he was seven they moved to Kansas City until at the...
Mary Louise (Long) McNeilly, the daughter of Orville Daniel "Bob" and Josie (Annis) Ford, was born November 17, 1917 in Shenandoah, Iowa. She passed away on Sunday, November 16, 2014 in Gretna, Nebraska at the age of 96. Mary lived her whole life in Shenandoah until the last five year when she lived with her daughter Roberta "Bobbi" in Gretna,...
Anna Elizabeth (Sulser) Brownlee was born on her parents' farm northeast of Coin, Iowa, on April 27, 1915, to John and Edna Ella (Annan) Sulser. She passed away peacefully on November 16, 2014, at the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital, at age 99. Anna graduated from Coin High School in 1933. She married Dale M. Brownlee, her high school sweetheart, at her...
Charles William Adams, son of Orval Leslie and Alice Jo (Emanuel)Adams, was born on December 28, 1928 at Gravity, Iowa. He passed away on November 11, 2014 at his home in Shenandoah surrounded by his family. Charles was the oldest of three children. He grew up in Iowa most of his life with the exception of living in Illinois for...
Erville Maurine "Ennie" Martin, daughter of Hayden and Hester (Jordan) Pierson, was born April 4, 1928 in Sidney, Iowa. Ennie passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah at the age of 86. Ennie lived in Sidney, Iowa, until her family moved to Shenandoah at the age of 12. She lived in Shenandoah the rest...
Barbara Jane (Edwards, Matthews) Geise was the youngest of three children born to Leo Louden and Lola May Edwards on October 16, 1945 in Hamburg, Iowa. She attended school through the 8th grade between the schools of Hamburg, Shenandoah and Farragut. Barbara then married Danny Paul Matthews on June 10, 1962. To this union two daughters, Sherry Ann and Cindy...
Reverend Jo Anne (Emerson) Johnson, daughter of Ralph Waldo and Rhoda Maxine (Deweese) Emerson, was born on February 1, 1931 in Lawrence, Kansas. She peacefully entered into eternal rest on Thursday morning, November 6, 2014 at her home in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 83. Growing up, Jo Anne and her family never spent a long time in any...
Lillie Beth Ann Anderson, daughter of Alvin Clarence and Lillie Elmena "Gustafson" Anderson was born November 21, 1938 in Clarinda, Iowa. Beth Ann passed away on November 1, 2014 at Elm Heights Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 75 years, 11 months and 20 days. Beth Ann was the seventh and youngest of five brothers and one...
Aletha Marie Gilbert was born February 20, 1919 and passed away October 30, 2014. Aletha was born in Minden, Iowa and lived around Avoca, Iowa. She attended school at Persia, Iowa. In 1936 she came to Shenandoah and worked in the Spurgeons Store. On May 19, 1938 she married Kimber A. Gilbert in Fremont, Nebraska. Aletha worked side by side...
Ann Marie (Burkhiser) Maher, the eldest of seven children, the daughter of Gilbert and Thelma (Ryan) Burkhiser was born on December 18, 1943 and passed away on Friday October 24, 2014 at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. Ann attended Farragut Community Schools and graduated in 1962. After high school she attended St. Catherine's School of Nursing in Omaha, NE...
Shirley Jeanette Hart of Shenandoah, Iowa, was called to Heaven on October 22, 2014 at the age of 79. Shirley was born to Harold Vincent Godfrey Malmberg and Hazel Jessie Knight Malmberg on March 14, 1935, at their home west of Randolph, Iowa. She attended her first year of school in Tabor, Iowa, and then the family moved to a...
Robert "Bob" Maher, 67, of Sunrise Beach, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at the Laurie Care Center, Laurie, Missouri with family members by his side. Robert "Bob" Eugene Maher was born June 28, 1947 in Council Bluffs, IA, son of Francis L. and Wilma Rose (Coy) Maher. He was raised on a farm north of Imogene and attended...
Rose Gay (Burroughs) Harms was born September 11, 1932 to Jesse Wallace and Ethel Frances (Elkins) Burroughs in Shambaugh, Iowa. Rose went to be with the Lord on October 14, 2014. Rose was 82 years old. Rose attended elementary country schools in Page and Taylor counties in Iowa, and at Stanberry Missouri. She attended high school at Clarinda, Iowa, graduating...
William Francis Chapman was born on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1919 to William and Lillian Henn Chapman in Evanston, Illinois. He entered into rest on October 12, 2014 at his rural Northboro home. Since childhood, he resided on the family farm that has been in the Chapman family since 1913. He attended the Northboro High School, played on the basketball...
Mildred L. Harris, daughter of George S. and Agatha C. (Steinhauser) Zirfas, was born August 27, 1931 in Bedford, Iowa. She passed away October 12, 2014 at her home in Shenandoah, Iowa. She was 83 years old. Mildred grew up in Clyde, Missouri area before moving to Tarkio, Missouri. She graduated from Tarkio High School. She was united in marriage...
Patsy Prue Sorensen, daughter of Edward Robert and Nell Lois (Prue) Ohnmacht, was born June 24, 1932 in Nebraska City, Nebraska. She passed away October 4, 2014 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She was 82 years old Patsy was born and raised in Nebraska City, Nebraska until the age of eight. Then her family moved...
Donald L. Gillham age 86 of Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away at his home in Shenandoah, on Wednesday October 1, 2014. Don was born in Chariton, Iowa on March 17, 1928, the son of Stanford and Edna Marie Owen Gillham. Donald was raised in Chariton, attended and graduated from High School there. In his teen years he worked with his dad...
Lynn Hough Baldwin, son of Rev. Sterling John and Gladys Marie (Holdridge) Baldwin, was born on May 22, 1939 in Waterloo, Iowa. Lynn passed away on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at the Shenandoah Medical Center in Shenandoah, Iowa. He was 75 years old. Lynn's early years were spent in several towns in Iowa including Rudd, West Union, Sanborn, and Monticello....
Louis "Dean" Carper passed from this earth into the arms of his heavenly father on Saturday, September 27. Dean was born on April 10th, 1931 in Page county Iowa to Walter and Muzette (Montgomery) Carper. He attended school in Shenandoah where he graduated in 1951. In May of 1951 he enlisted in the US Army. On November 23rd he married...
Harold Neal Rowan, son of Murvel Elwyn and Thelma Mae (Snyder) Rowan, was born December 7, 1929 in Coin, Iowa. He passed away September 25, 2014 at Bellevue Medical Center in Bellevue, Nebraska. He was 84 years old. Harold grew up on a farm in Coin, Iowa. He graduated from Coin High School with the class of 1947. He was...