Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries for Webster City, IA and surrounding areas

Maurine Baird

Maurine Baird

Jul 17, 2008

Maurine Baird Webster City, died Thursday, July 17, 2008 at the Hamilton Hospital. Funeral services were be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday at Asbury United Methodist Church, with Rev. Linda Hansen Bibb officiating. Burial was in the Graceland Cemetery. Visitation was at the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center. Maurine Lundby Benz, daughter of Martin and Marguerette Lundby Benz, was born...

Emmett Clay

Emmett Clay

Jul 16, 2008

Emmett W. Clay, 79, of Duncombe, died Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at the Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge. Graveside Memorial services will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at the Graceland Cemetery in Webster City with Dennis Thompson officiating. There will be no visitation. Arrangements were made with the Foster Funeral & Cremation Center in Webster...

Charles Andrew

Charles Andrew

Jul 15, 2008

Charles "Curly" Andrew, 80, of Webster City, died Tuesday July 15, 2008 at the Southfield Wellness Community. Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19, 2008 at the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center with Rev. Mike Willer officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery with Graveside Military Rites conducted by the American Legion Post #191 of Webster...

Helen Harris

Helen Harris

Jul 11, 2008

Helen Gordon Harris daughter of Steven and Eva Butrum Gordon was born October 18, 1921 in Little Falls, Minnesota. She received her education from the Webster City Community Schools. On June 9, 1938 she married Robert H. Harris in Webster City. Helen worked for over thirty years at Hahne printing in Webster City until their closure. She also worked at...

Bernhard Huisinga

Bernhard Huisinga

Jul 6, 2008

Bernhard Huisinga, son of Jacob and Tillie Huisinga Huisinga was born September 15, 1917 on the family farm near Kamrar. He received his education in rural schools near Kamrar. On March 27, 1954, he married Marjorie L. Jondal in Fort Dodge. The couple resided at Webster City. Ben worked primarily as a farmer and carpenter in the Webster City -...

Lorraine Smith

Lorraine Smith

Jul 2, 2008

Lorraine Delores Butrum daughter of Oscar and Hermina Zones Butrum was born November 16, 1939 in Brainard, Minnesota. She received her education and graduated from Webster City Lincoln High School in 1959. On February 20, 1967, she married Jack Smith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The couple resided in Mountainview, California. Lorraine’s main vocation was in the restaurant business where she had...

William Lavender

William Lavender

Jun 30, 2008

William L. Lavender, son of Genevieve Lavender, was born march 15, 1945 at Webster City. He attended Webster City schools. In 1963, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the National Securities Division and was stationed in the Philippines. On March 27, 1970, he married Sandra Helton at South Dakota. The couple resided at Webster City, where he...

Mary Smith

Mary Smith

Jun 29, 2008

Mary Helen Rea, daughter of Edward and Agatha McCoy Rea, was born October 4, 1933 at Boone, Iowa. She attended Sacred Heart School in Boone, graduating in 1951. On May 16, 1953, she married Billy D. Smith in Boone. Throughout her lifetime she taught dance in Boone, Clarion, Fort Dodge and Nevada and for over 25 years, she owned and...

Dean Olson

Dean Olson

Jun 26, 2008

Dean Sylvester Olson, son of Albert and Jessie Davis Olson, was born June 10, 1928 at Hayfield, Iowa. He graduated from Algona high school in 1946 then attended Gustavus Adolphus College. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Following his discharge, he attended Drake University College of Pharmacy graduating in 1952. On August 15, 1948, he married Lucy Etta Light...

Virgil Jorgensen

Virgil Jorgensen

Jun 22, 2008

Virgil Millard Jorgensen, son of Andrew and Helga Bakke Jorgensen, was born March 27, 1926 at Vienna, South Dakota. He received his education at Vienna and was baptized and confirmed in the Pleasant Lutheran Church at Vienna. During W.W. II, he served with the U.S. Navy. On February 14, 1951, he married Gladys M. Hansen at Sioux Falls, SD. The...

John Nieman

John Nieman

Jun 21, 2008

John E. Nieman, 72, of Kamrar, died Saturday, June 21, 2008 at his home. A Memorial Gathering will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at the Lions Community Building in Kamrar. Burial will be held at a later date. Elmer John Nieman son of Casper and Tillie Freerksen Nieman was born on July 5,...

Carl Rhoer

Carl Rhoer

Jun 20, 2008

Carl Rhoer son of John and Martha Waggoner Rhoer was born on September 12, 1914 in Webster City. He received his education from the Webster City Community Schools. During W.W. II, he proudly served in the United States Navy Construction Battalion on the island of Tinian. From 1946 thru 1951 Carl was employed as a plumber for L.V. Mills Plumbing...

Dean Louk

Dean Louk

Jun 18, 2008

Dean Eugene Louk, son of Keith and Jeanne DeWitt Louk was born on June 1, 1953 in Jefferson, Iowa. He received his education and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1973. On February 6, 1976, he married Jean Marie Fuller in Fort Dodge. The couple resided in Perry, IA, until 1985 when the family moved to Arizona, where Dean owned...

Mary Berry

Mary Berry

Jun 15, 2008

Mary Pauline Berry, daughter of Phillip and Ethel Eckles Crow, was born February 20, 1926 at Lehigh. She received her education in the Lehigh Public School, graduating in 1943. From 1943 to 1949, she had been employed at the Iowa/Illinois Gas and Electric at Fort Dodge. On April 18, 1949, she married Thomas Gannon Berry at Lehigh. In 1949, the...

Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith

Jun 11, 2008

Kenneth Wilson Smith, son of Jasper and Myrtle Jones Smith, was born January 9, 1923 at Claremont, Minnesota. He graduated from Lincoln High at Webster City in 1941. On June 5, 1943, he married Bettye Fairchild. The couple resided at Webster City. Ken was a tool and diemaker. On August 17, 1952, Mary Smith and their son, Jack Smith, both...

Howard Mccarty

Howard Mccarty

Jun 11, 2008

Howard McCarty, 85, of Stanhope, died Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at the Hamilton Hospital. Military graveside rites will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2008 at Camp Butler Veterans Cemetery at Springfield, Illinois. Arrangements were made with the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center. Howard Edward McCarty, son of Edward and Eula Mae Lindsey McCarty, was born February 10,...

Harold Dilley

Harold Dilley

Jun 11, 2008

Harold Dean Dilley, son of Laurence and Calva Flowers Dilley, was born May 10, 1936 at Webster City. He received his education in the Webster City school system. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955, one year was in Germany. On October 25, 1964, he married Carolyn Alice Pigsley at Clarion. He had been employed by various...

Cynthia Riley

Cynthia Riley

Jun 8, 2008

Cynthia LaMar Brooks, daughter of Riley and Aurora Hutson Brooks, was born December 23, 1947 at Webster City. She received her education in the Webster City school system, graduating in 1966. She also received an A.A. degree from Parsons, Kansas Community College. On June 17, 1967, she married Larry Riley at the First Baptist Church at Webster City. They were...

Richard King

Richard King

Jun 7, 2008

Richard Howard King, son of Moroni and Mabel Norcross King, was born March 9, 1926 at Woolstock. He received his education in the Woolstock Public School, graduating in 1943. He joined the U.S. Navy and served from 1943 to 1946 as an engine man LSM 299. From 1969 to 1977, he served with the Naval Reserves, then in October of...

Ronald Kohl

Ronald Kohl

Jun 3, 2008

Ronald Gail Kohl son of Kenneth and Verna Ogland Kohl was born on October 4, 1946 in Webster City. He received his education and graduated from Northeast Hamilton High School in Blairsburg in 1964. Ron attended two years at Iowa Central Community College in Webster City. From 1967 until 1973 he proudly served his country in the United States Army...