Obituaries

Creston and Corning, IA Obituaries

Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area

Betty Cheers

Betty Cheers

Jun 5, 2010

Betty Lou Cheers, the daughter of LeRoy Eugene and Anna Viola (Cornelison) Barton, was born on July 16, 1939, in rural Afton, Union County, Iowa. Betty entered eternal rest on June 5, 2010, at the Creston Nursing and Rehab Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of seventy years, ten months, and twenty days. Betty attended school in Afton, Arispe and...

Richard Dick Bradley

Richard Dick Bradley

Jun 1, 2010

Richard Dick Earl Bradley, the son of Tim and Vye (Fulton) Bradley, was born April 20, 1936, at Orient, Iowa. Dick entered eternal rest on June 1, 2010, from complications of treatment for a rare type of non-hodgkins lymphoma at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of seventy-four years, one month and eleven days. Dick graduated...

Marian Hatfield

Marian Hatfield

Jun 1, 2010

The family of Marian Hatfield is handling arrangements. A family gathering will be held Sunday, June 13, 2010, from 1:00 - 3:00 at the Hatfield Farm, 2695 330th St., north of Creston.

Maxine Swanger

Maxine Swanger

May 30, 2010

E. Maxine Swanger, the daughter of Ernest Andrew and Dulcie Velma (Moore) Busch, was born Aug. 9, 1919, in Blunt, S.D. Maxine entered eternal rest on May 30, 2010 at the Greater Regional Hospice Home, Creston, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. Maxine married Leland William Swanger on July 23, 1938, in Chillicothe, Mo. Maxine was a homemaker. She...

Nick Henry

Nick Henry

May 28, 2010

Nicholas Charles Henry, son of Chuck and Roberta Henry, was born on March 25, 1992, at Creston, Iowa. Nick entered eternal rest on Friday, May 28, 2010 at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. On Sunday, May 23, 2010, Nick received his High School Diploma from Creston High School. Through his school years, Nick participated in Little League baseball and...

Eunice Terry

Eunice Terry

May 17, 2010

Eunice Opal Terry, the daughter of Walter William and Myrtle Christina (Bummer) Howes, was born on March 27, 1917, at Oketo, Kansas. Eunice entered eternal rest on May 17, 2010, at her home in Crestridge Estates, Creston, Iowa, at the age of ninety-three years, one month, and nineteen days. Eunice graduated from Marysville, Kansas High School with the Class of...

Virginia Anne Sash

Virginia Anne Sash

May 16, 2010

Virginia Anne Sash, the daughter of John Ellis and Anna Francis (Carter) Norman, was born on February 25, 1934, in Creston, Iowa. Anne entered eternal rest on May 16, 2010, at the Lenox Care Center, Lenox, Iowa, at the age of seventy-six years, two months, and twenty-one days. Anne graduated from Creston High School with the Class of 1951. Following...

Drexel Schrodt

Drexel Schrodt

May 12, 2010

Clarence Drexel Schrodt, the son of Clarence B. Jim and Elsie M. (Bross) Schrodt, was born on February 7, 1922, in Adams County, near Prescott, Iowa. Drexel entered eternal rest on May 12, 2010, at the Afton Care Center, Afton, Iowa, at the age of eighty-eight years, three months, and four days. Drexel grew up in the Cromwell area and...

Wilma Mary Walter

Wilma Mary Walter

May 11, 2010

Wilma Mary (Williams) Walter, daughter of John and Myrtle Williams, was born on October 1, 1919 in Taylor County near Guss, Iowa. Wilma entered eternal rest on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of ninety years. Wilma attended country school and Villisca Community School. After high school, Wilma earned...

Radene May Rasmussen

Radene May Rasmussen

May 10, 2010

Radene May (Brown) Rasmussen was born December 28, 1926 on the farm north of Prescott to Vera (Crouse) and Francis Brown and passed away on May 10, 210 at the Corning Nursing and Rehab Center at the age of eighty-three. She attended the Miller School – Carl #8 and graduated from Prescott High School in 1944. Following high school she...

Judy Allen

Judy Allen

May 9, 2010

Judy Kay Allen, the daughter of Lester Harold and Nina Muriel (Young) McDowell, was born on September 10, 1949, in Creston, Iowa. Judy entered eternal rest on May 9, 2010, at the Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa, at the age of sixty years. Judy graduated from Creston High School and lived most of her life in Creston. In June, 1965,...

Betty Brown

Betty Brown

May 6, 2010

Betty Jane Brown, the daughter of Wayne and Adrian (Wyckoff) Carr, was born May 6, 1922, in Cincinnati, Iowa. Betty entered eternal rest on May 6, 2010, at Greater Regional Hospice Home, in Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-eight years. Betty graduated from Cincinnati High School with the Class of 1938. She received a degree in Institutional Food Management...

Wayne Harvey Crill

Wayne Harvey Crill

May 3, 2010

Wayne Harvey Crill, son of James Harvey and Erma Mae (Dillon) Crill, was born on March 13, 1931 in Adams County, Iowa. Wayne entered eternal rest on Monday, May 3, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine years, one month and twenty days. Wayne attended Corning High School and graduated with the Class of 1948. Wayne began farming when he was...

Merle Holland

Merle Holland

May 3, 2010

Merle Holland, the daughter of William Perry and Dora Blanche (Caldwell) Miller, was born April 7, 1914, in Decatur, Iowa. Merle entered eternal rest on May 3, 2010, at Greater Regional Medical Center, Creston, Iowa, at the age of ninety-six years, and twenty-six days. On December 23, 1933, Merle married Elvis Herbert Miller. Elvis died April 20, 1953. On August...

Gerald Ray Griffith

Gerald Ray Griffith

May 3, 2010

Gerald Raymond Ray Griffith, the son of David Wesley and Mary Nedra (Navin) Griffith, was born on October 3, 1939, in Melrose, Iowa. Ray entered eternal rest on May 3, 2010, at the Greater Regional Hospice Home, in Creston, Iowa, at the age of seventy years, six months, and thirty-one days. Ray graduated from Dowling High School with the Class...

Alice Marie Cannell

Alice Marie Cannell

May 1, 2010

Alice Marie Cannell, daughter of Lawrence and Alice (Morrison) Cullen, was born on May 8, 1917 near Cumberland, Iowa in Cass County. Marie entered eternal rest on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Legacy Nursing Home in Bullhead City, Arizona at the age of ninety-two years, eleven months and twenty-nine days. Marie graduated from Cumberland High School. After graduation, Marie...

Opal Bernice Harvey

Opal Bernice Harvey

Apr 30, 2010

Opal Bernice Harvey, longtime resident of Corning, Iowa, was born to John Sherman and Emily Jane (Pont) Blakely on Monday, November 19, 1913 in Griswold, Iowa. Opal died on Friday, April 30, 2010 at the Villisca Good Samaritan Center in Villisca, Iowa at the age of ninety-six years. As a child, Opal enjoyed performing in many school plays. She also...

Nellie Weisshaar

Nellie Weisshaar

Apr 22, 2010

Nellie Antoinette Weisshaar, the daughter of Joseph and Antanetta (Rekus) Miszgaites, was born June 1, 1922, at East Moline, Illinois. Nellie entered eternal rest on April 22, 2010 at Greater Regional Hospice Home, Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven years, ten months, and twenty-one days. Nellies parents were immigrants from Lithuania and she was a first generation American. Nellie...

Frances Balius

Frances Balius

Apr 19, 2010

Frances Mae Balius, the daughter of Franklin and Eva Marie (Blair) Ritter, was born on July 15, 1922, on a farm north of Afton, in Union County, Iowa. Frances entered eternal rest on April 19, 2010, at Southern Hills Specialty Care Center, in Osceola, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven years, nine months, and five days. Frances was raised in...

Donald Wayne Schaffer

Donald Wayne Schaffer

Apr 18, 2010

Donald Wayne Schaffer was born November 14, 1925 in Carbon, Iowa, the son of Carl Edward Schaffer and Esther Mariah O’Riley Schaffer. Donald passed away on Sunday, April 18, 2010 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. He had reached the age of eighty four years, five months and four days. Donald attended school in Carbon and Pierce...