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Obituaries
Obituaries for Webster City, IA and surrounding areas
Linda Minard
Jan 20, 2009
Linda Susan Glawe, daughter of LaVern and Elnor Boswell Glawe was born July 11, 1951 in Webster City. She received her education and graduated from Webster City Senior High School in 1969. Linda worked for over 15 years at Electrolux Home Products as a quality control technician. She retired due to her failing health. Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law,...
Craig Boyington
Jan 17, 2009
Craig Allyn Boyington, son of Allen and Maribeth Norris Boyington was born August 11, 1951 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He received his education and graduated from Dows High School in 1970. On July 22, 1983, he married Lynn T. Smith in Clarion. The couple resided in Dows. They moved to Williams in 1985. Mrs. Boyington died July 2, 2001. On...
John Manship
Jan 14, 2009
John Robert Manship, son of Robert and Anna Perry Manship was born on November 6, 1938 in Farrar, Iowa. He received his education from the Colo, Collins, and Marshalltown Schools. John enlisted in the U.S. Navy, as a "kiddie Cruiser" in 1956, where he was an aviation electrician on aircraft carriers until his honorable discharge in 1959. In 1958, he...
Marcille Segar
Jan 12, 2009
Marcille D. Engels, daughter of Joseph and Elsie Danner Engels, was born on February 10, 1927 at the family home in Lehigh. She graduated from Eagle Grove High School in 1945. Marcy was united in marriage to Wilbur Segar on May 11, 1945 in Fort Dodge. The couple resided in Webster City. Survivors include her husband, Wilbur Segar of Webster...
Betty Olthoff
Jan 11, 2009
Betty Olthoff, 83, of Webster City, died Sunday, January 11, 2009 with her family present. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Foster Chapel, with Rev. Linda Bibb officiating. Burial was in the Graceland Cemetery. Betty Lou Olthoff, daughter of Joe and Lena Mamminga Olthoff, was born December 14, 1925 at Kamrar. She was baptized at the...
Ernie Cupp
Jan 10, 2009
Ernest Earl Cupp, son of Reuben and Grace Hubbell Cupp, was born April 1, 1926 at Dows. He graduated from Blairsburg Public School. In 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the L.S.T. 576 as a motor machinist mate. Following his discharge, he returned to Iowa and farmed with his father, north of Clarion. He moved to Webster...
Rodney Balsley
Jan 7, 2009
Rodney Dean Balsley son of Arnold Jr. and Julie Nelson Balsley was born on September 13, 1957 in Webster City. He received his education from the Webster City Community Schools. In December of 1975, he married Vicki Kraft at the Trinity Lutheran Church. The couple resided in Eagle Grove. They later divorced. Rod's main vocation was in the construction and...
Ernest Lanken
Jan 2, 2009
Ernest J. Lanken son of Christian and Anne Arps Lanken was born June 26, 1920 in Holstein, Germany. In September of 1929, he moved with his family to United States eventually residing in Webster City. He received his education from the Webster City Community Schools. Ernest had been a resident at Greenleaf Health Care Center since May of 1986. Ernest...
Loretta Thomas
Jan 2, 2009
Loretta Ruth Kelly, the daughter of Ervin and Gertie Tuttle Kelly was born December 22, 1939 on a farm in Hamilton County Iowa. She was raised and educated in Blairsburg, graduating from Blairsburg High School in 1957. Soon there after she moved to Des Moines, where she worked for Look Magazine and Employers Mutual Life Insurance Company. She then moved...
Dolores Kloberdanz
Jan 1, 2009
Dolores Margaret Davis daughter of Frazier and Clara Smith Davis was born on March 14, 1924 in the Humboldt Township in Humboldt County, Iowa. She received her education from the Clarion High School, graduating in 1941. Following her graduation, she worked for Leatha and Jacks Café. In 1943, she attended the Civil Aeronautic Administration Communications Training Center in Kansas City,...
Gertrude Parker
Dec 31, 2008
Gertrude Matilda Parker, daughter of Arthur and Agnes Kaping Gumtau, was born October 19, 1904 at Dixon, IL. She moved, with her parents to Iowa in 1910. They resided at Webster City. She received her education in Webster City schools, graduating from Lincoln High in 1921, at the age of 16. On June 3, 1923, she married William Dean Parker...
Torges Halsne
Dec 29, 2008
Torges Jonathon Halsne, son of Rasmus and Bertha Halsne Halsne, was born June 28, 1911 on the family homestead southwest of Williams. He received his education in Williams rural schools. He started farming with his father. On December 3, 1936 he married Helen M. Bell on the Bell family farm north of Blairsburg. The couple operated the family farm southwest...
Robert Young
Dec 25, 2008
Robert Eugene Young, son of Edward and Hazel Riley Young, was born March 30, 1924 on a farm near Stanhope. He received his education in the Stanhope Public School, graduating in 1942. On January 9, 1944, he married Ula Mae Wilson at Boone. Six weeks later, he was called to serve in the U.S. Navy. He served 2 years in...
Margaret Sheesley
Dec 22, 2008
Margaret Rebecca Wade, daughter of Thomas and Minnie Pusch Wade, was born April 3, 1915 at Heitman, Iowa. She received her education in the Pella and Stanhope Public Schools. On October 29, 1935, she married Paul Eugene Sheesley in Missouri. The couple moved to Stanhope in 1936, where they owned and operated the Wade Hatchery for many years. In the...
Wm Clausen
Dec 21, 2008
William Roger Clausen, son of Carl and Rita Powers Clausen, was born December 14, 1935 at Stanhope. He received his education at the Stanhope Public School, graduating in 1953. On September 7, 1958, he married Ethel M. Kelley at Stanhope. The couple farmed south of Stanhope, where he raised feeder cattle. In the mid 80's, he worked for Traffic Marking...
W. Greenfield
Dec 19, 2008
W. Harold Greenfield, son of William and Lena Hassebrock Greenfield, was born October 13, 1925 at Kamrar. He received his education at the Kamrar Public School, graduating in 1943. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany, for two years. On November 27, 1956, he married Georgina L. Wolfe at Iowa Falls. The couple farmed...
Gordon Barr
Dec 15, 2008
Gordon Barr of Webster City died December 15, 2008 at Hamilton Hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 20 at Foster Funeral and Cremation Center at 1 p.m. There will be a visitation prior to the service, beginning at 11 a.m. Gordon Barr, was born March 18, 1926 on a farm southwest of Webster...
William Fisher
Dec 6, 2008
William Reginald Fisher, son of Fred and Elsie Fitzlaff Fisher, was born June 9, 1924 at Jackson, Minnesota. The family moved to Webster City in the Fall of 1924. Bill received his education in the Webster City school system, earning his GED in 1969. He worked with his father in the family business as a truck driver at the age...
Mark Berger
Dec 5, 2008
Mark Joseph Berger, son of Joe and Jean Scharfenkamp Berger, was born July 12, 1962 at Saint Anthony's Hospital in Carroll, Iowa. As a young boy he moved with his parents to Webster City and graduated from Webster City High School in 1981. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1986 with his BA. In 1992 Mark moved...
Sylvia Hoover
Nov 24, 2008
Sylvia Hoover, 87, of Webster City, died Monday, November 24, 2008 at Crestview Senior Living. The body was cremated and there will be no services at the present time. Sylvia May Wilcox, daughter of Herb and Flossy Davenport Wilcox, was born December 5, 1920 at Boone, Iowa. She received her education in Boone and Webster City schools, attending Lincoln High....
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