Creston and Corning, IA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area
James E. Roeder
Jul 20, 2017
James Edward Roeder, the son of Lawrence Joseph and Rose Ella (Oenbring) Roeder, was born March 17, 1924 in Creston. James entered eternal rest on July 20, 2017 at Greater Regional Hospice House, Creston, Iowa at the age of ninety-three years, four months, and three days. James graduated from Arispe High School with the Class of 1942. James enlisted in...
Leon Lamb
Jul 16, 2017
Claude Leon Lamb, Jr., the son of Claude Leon, Sr. and Fern Martha (Hawker) Lamb, was born December 17, 1932 in Creston, Iowa. Leon passed away at Greater Regional Hospice House in Creston on Sunday, July 16, 2017 at the age of eighty-four years, six months and twenty-nine days. Leon attended school in Creston and graduated from Creston High School...
Darlene Rae Gilbert
Jul 7, 2017
Darlene Rae Gilbert, 80, of Clearfield passed away during the early morning of Friday, July 7, 2017 at Clearview Home, Clearfield, Iowa. Darlene had been a part of the Clearview Home family since March 14, 2007. No local services are planned. Interment will be held at a later date in Mission Hill, South Dakota. Darlene Rae Gilbert, the second oldest...
Robert Bob Drake
Jul 6, 2017
Robert Leslie Drake, the son of Frederick Carlton and Elvera Rosamond (Duncan) Drake was born May 4, 1955, in Corning, Iowa. Bob entered eternal rest on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of sixty-two years, two months, and two days. Bob graduated from Corning High School, Corning, Iowa, and would...
Gerry Abell
Jul 3, 2017
Gerry Lee Abell, the son of Chester Orville and Peggy Madge Marie (Jones) Abell, was born July 7, 1953 in Creston, Iowa. Gerry entered eternal rest on July 3, 2017 at his home near Lenox, Iowa at the age of sixty-three years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. Gerry attended Creston Public Schools. Gerry served in the United States Navy from...
Marcella R. Ingram
Jul 1, 2017
Marcella Ruth Ingram, the daughter of William Thomas and Helena (Scherbarth) Williams, was born February 14, 1927, near Villisca, Iowa. Marcella entered eternal rest on Saturday, July 1, 2017, at Allen Place Assisted Living, Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of ninety years, four months, and seventeen days. As a young girl, she loved riding her pony, “Billy Boy” to Frog...
Theo Ted Russell
Jun 29, 2017
Theo Howard Russell, the son of Howard Cecil and Hazel Florence (Kempton) Russell was born May 6, 1932, in rural Adams County, near Corning, IA. Ted entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at Bergan Mercy Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age eighty-five years, one month, and twenty-three days. Ted graduated from Jamaica High School, Jamaica, IA with the...
Andrew Jay Mack
Jun 27, 2017
Andrew Jay Mack, the son of L. Francis and Phyllis Jeanne (Watts) Mack was born in Corning, Iowa, August 5, 1952, and died June 27, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. Andy graduated from Corning High School in 1970 and received a Bachelors Degree from Iowa State University. He worked for the City of Des Moines and the Army Corps of...
Larry Pete Dewitt
Jun 23, 2017
Lawrence Ellis Dewitt Jr., the son of Lawrence Ellis and Milla (Furman) DeWitt Sr., was born in Kimball, Nebraska on October 21, 1937. Pete entered eternal rest on Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Afton Care Center, Afton, Iowa, at the age of seventy-nine years, eight months, and two days. Pete graduated from Rushville High School, Rushville, Nebraska, with the...
Merrill Eugene Toby Edwards
Jun 22, 2017
Merrill “Toby” Eugene Edwards, the son of Glen Maxwell and Elinore Dorothy (Welcher) Edwards, was born in Fontanelle, Iowa, on February 12, 1931. Toby entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 22, 2017, at his home in rural Prescott, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, four months, and ten days. Toby attended Fontanelle High School, in Fontanelle, Iowa. Following school,...
Phillip Kenealy
Jun 18, 2017
Phillip J. Kenealy, 91, of Liberty, Missouri, and formerly of Creston, Iowa, passed away June 18, 2017 at his home with his loving wife of 66 years, Patricia, and family by his side. Phil was born September 28, 1925, in Neola, Iowa, to the late Jerome and Florence (Schierbrock) Kenealy. He attended Beebeetown High School, leaving in eighth grade to...
William Bill Schafer
Jun 17, 2017
William “Bill” Dean Schafer, the son of Roy “Foxy” Fredrick and Mildred Francis (Ginn) Schafer, was born in Stringtown, Adams County, Iowa, on August 29, 1928. Bill entered eternal rest on Saturday , June 17, 2017, at Corning Specialty Care, at the age of eighty-eight years, nine months, and nineteen days. Bill attended Lenox High School where he played football...
Mary Ann Johnson
Jun 6, 2017
Mary Ann Johnson, the daughter of Joseph Tolbert and Julia Anne (Waters) Maeder, was born on March 28, 1927 in Victoria Township, Cass County, Iowa. Mary Ann entered eternal rest on June 6, 2017, at Greater Regional Medical Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of ninety years, two months, and nine days. Mary Ann attended Country School in Adair County,...
Clara Irene Tull
May 25, 2017
Clara Irene Tull, died peacefully on May 25, 2017 at 100 years and 364 days old. Born on May 26, 1916 on a rural farm near Diagonal, Iowa, to Willard Wilford and Nora Beatrice Burnworth Baker, Irene was lovingly married to Alvin Lee Tull, who died in 2001. A talented quilter, avid Bingo player and wicked card opponent, Irene was...
Cannon Jacob Simmons
May 20, 2017
Cannon will always be loved by his family which includes: parents: Joshua Simmons and Faith Hahesy, Villisca, Iowa; grandparents: Dennis and Peggy Hill, Corning, Iowa; Bill and Chanda Hahesy, Corning, Iowa; Ron Simmons and Gailyn Garey, Creston, Iowa; Mark Howard and Sandra Garey, Corning, Iowa; brothers: Sawyer Hensley and Chase Simmons, Villisca, Iowa; step-brother; Jacob Dale, Clarinda, Iowa; step-sister: Joslyn...
Jerry Barton
Apr 29, 2017
Jerry Gene Barton, the son of Marion Charles and Nellie Marie (Walton) Barton, was born in Knoxville, Iowa, on July 2, 1943. Jerry entered eternal rest on Saturday, April 29, 2017, at the University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, at the age of seventy-three years, nine months, and twenty-seven days. Jerry’s father was killed in an accident moving heavy...
Timothy Armstrong
Apr 25, 2017
Timothy Kent Armstrong, the son of James Phillip Sr. and Dorothy Mae (Walton) Armstrong, was born July 22, 1960, in Des Moines, Iowa. Timothy entered eternal rest Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at Clearview Home, Mt. Ayr, Iowa, at the age of fifty-six years, nine months, and three days. Timothy’s family moved to Casey, Iowa, when Timothy was in the second...
Shirley Johannes
Apr 21, 2017
Shirley Louise Johannes, the daughter of Howard Walter Mickey and Edith Mae (Walton) Mickey, was born May 2, 1938 in Des Moines, Iowa. She lived in Taylor and Union County most of her life. Shirley attended Kent Elementary School and graduated from Cromwell High School with the class of 1956. Shirley married Boyd Junior Johannes on October 3, 1957 in...
Bob Nolte
Apr 19, 2017
Donald Robert Nolte, the son of George Robert and Mary Lucille (Batten) Nolte, was born in Milo, Iowa on January 25, 1929. Bob entered eternal rest on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at Corning Specialty Care, Corning, Iowa, at the age of eighty-eight years, two months, and twenty-five days. Bob lived with his family on a farm in Warren County until...
William Tom Rechsteiner
Apr 18, 2017
William Thomas (Tom) Rechsteiner passed away peacefully at his home in Carlsbad, CA surrounded by his family, Tuesday April 18, after battling an extended illness. Tom lived a full life which originated with humble beginnings in his small hometown of Lenox, Iowa. His mother, Pearl, birthed him at their family home in Lenox and Tom would spend the next 57...
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