Florence Barbara Biggers, daughter of Ernest and Florence Elizabeth (Noakes) Stirk, was born on November 15, 1928 in Shenandoah, Iowa. She entered into rest on September 20, 2014 at the Bryan Health Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 85. Barbara's early life was spent growing up in Clarinda, Iowa, where she attended school until her sophomore year,...
June Gretchen Maher, daughter of Louis Detlef Roenfeld and Elsie (Heine) Roenfeld, was born on October 1, 1928 in Pacific Junction, Iowa. June passed away on September 9, 2014 at her home in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 85. June grew up in Mineola, Iowa and graduated from Silver City High School in Silver City, Iowa. Upon completion of...
Geraldine Mary Laughlin, daughter of Edward Francis and Mary Elizabeth (Maher) Laughlin, was born June 22, 1926 in Imogene, Iowa. She passed away Monday, September 8, 2014 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of 88. Geraldine grew up on a farm northeast of Imogene until moving to Shenandoah in 1975. She attended Union...
Irma Leva Sallee, daughter of Jesse and Leva Trulock was born September 2nd, 1919 at the family home in Northboro, Iowa. Irma died September 3rd, 2014, the day following her 95th birthday at District I Hospital, Faribault, Minnesota. Irma attended Northboro public school graduating in 1937. On November 19th, 1938, Irma married Francis Sallee. They began their married life in...
Helen Phyllis Bloom, daughter of Claude LeRoy "Roy" and Eva Lucinda (McIntyre) Finley was born on February 16, 1922 in Fremont County, Iowa. She passed away September 2, 2014 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 92. Phyllis grew up on her family's farm and completed her education at Shenandoah High School. She...
Darlene M. Rupp, daughter of Edward and Clara (Anderson) Thompson was born on August 19, 1923 in Adams County, Iowa. She passed away on August 24, 2014 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of 91. Her childhood was spent in Carbon and Nodaway, Iowa for a number of years. She graduated from country...
Marjy Joy Johnson, the daughter of Gilbert and Pauline (Leckenby) McCall, was born May 11, 1931, in their Northwest Missouri home. Marjy passed away Monday, August 18, 2014 in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 83 years, 3 months and 7 days. Her early years was spent in Missouri and moved every couple of years, until they moved to Hamburg,...
Kathryn K. Dalbey Rettig passed away peacefully on August 16, 2014 at age 75. Kathy received a PhD in Family Ecology and Educational Psychology Counseling from Michigan State University. She received both her M.S. in Family Resource Management and B.S.in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University. Her own career path was important, but it was the development of her...
Delilah, 45, of Shenandoah passed away Tuesday morning, August 13, 2014 at the Shenandoah Medical Center. Memorial services are pending at this time.
Annabelle Longstreet, a creative, beautiful, and funny woman. Loving wife, Mother, Sister, Aunt, Great Aunt, and friend, passed away on August 10th, 2014. She was 71. Born in 1943, in the town of Bryan Ohio, to the parents of John Musser and Mary "Mae" (Omasta) Bunting. Annie grew up along with four siblings and attended Bryan High School. She moved...
Lois Arlene Maher, daughter of Lloyd Avery and Sylvia Pearl (Hankins) Taylor, was born on November 21, 1932 in Hawleyville, Iowa. She passed away on Monday, July 28, 2014 at the Shenandoah Medical Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 81. Lois' early years were spent living in small towns in Iowa. She was born in Hawleyville. She also...
Lester LeRoy Racine, the son of Earl Wayne and Anna Viola Hickman Racine was born on a farm in Page County, Iowa, on March 1, 1930, and entered into rest on July 18, 2014 at the Ambassador Care Center in Sidney, Iowa. Lester spent his entire life in the Fremont and Page County Iowa area except for the time when...
Dorothy passed away July 16, 2014 at Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa. Memorials in lieu of flowers are being directed to St. John's Lutheran Church, Essex Fire & Rescue or to the Essex Lied Library in Dorothy's name.
Esther Regina Wallin, daughter of Victor and Esther (Swanson) Nelson was born on June 25, 1923 in Page County, Iowa. She passed away on July 11, 2014 at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell, IA at the age of 91. Regina attended school in Page County country schools and graduated from Essex High School in 1941. Upon graduation, she attended Red...
Helen Mae Sturm, daughter of Walter Earl and Edith Kate (Strait) Oakes, was born on March 28, 1932 in Atchison County, Missouri. Helen entered into rest on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at The Ambassador Care Center in Sidney, Iowa at the age of 82 years, 3 months, 3 days. Born on the family farm, in northwest Missouri, Helen attended grade...
Earl Edward Hendrickson, son of Elmer and Ebba (Bengston) Hendrickson was born on January 5, 1927 in Grant Township, Montgomery County, Iowa. He passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Society in Villisca, Iowa at the age of 87. Earl spent his early and adult life in and around the Essex area. He attended the Essex...
George Gerard Hughes, Jr., son of George and Cecilia (Doyle) Hughes, was born on July 16, 1950, in Shenandoah, Iowa. He entered into eternal rest on Tuesday morning, June 24, 2014, at his home in rural Randolph, Iowa at the age of 63. George or Junior, as most people knew him, lived most all his life in the Imogene and...
R. Dale Morrison, 1809 400thAvenue, Shenandoah, IA, was born January 8, 1928 in Pawnee City, Nebraska to William Hubert and Neta (Gallas) Morrison. At the age of three, he moved with his parents and two older brothers to a farm near Burchard, NE. He was a member of the Mission Creek Presbyterian Church near their home and went to "Corn...
Phyllis Nadine Almquist was born January 12, 1922 to Reuben G. and Anna R. "Rozie" (Johnson) Anderson in Stanton, Iowa. She entered into rest on June 21, 2014 at Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 92. Phyllis grew up in Stanton, Iowa until the family moved to Essex, Iowa in 1938. In 1939 she graduated...
John Richard Miller, son of John Ross and Ruth E. (Hoskins) Miller, was born on January 31, 1932 in Clarinda, Iowa. He went home to be with his Lord on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 peacefully passing away at his home in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 82. Growing up, John was an only child, living with his parents and...