Obituaries

Creston and Corning, IA Obituaries

Local Obituaries for the Creston and Corning, IA area

Isabelle Vicker

Isabelle Vicker

Jan 19, 2006

Isabelle Vicker was born to Francis (Sullivan) and John E. Nissen on June 16, 1924, on a farm in Adams County on the former Icarian Colony land. Isabelle entered eternal rest on January 19, 2006, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center at the age of eighty-one years, seven months, and five days. Isabelle graduated from Cromwell High School with the class...

Armond T. Travis

Armond T. Travis

Jan 19, 2006

Armond Thomas Travis, son of Henry G. and Juanita Ralston OConner, was born March 2, 1912 in Trenton, Missouri and passed away January 19, 2006, at the age of ninety-three years, ten months, and nineteen days. He grew up in and around Holdrege, Nebraska and attended rural schools around Reagon, Nebraska. On February 12, 1934, Armond was united in marriage...

Deloyte E. Lauer

Deloyte E. Lauer

Jan 19, 2006

Deloyte Erin Lauer was born to Lorna Orilda (Gilbert) and Harvey Francis Lauer on April 24, 1926, in Adair County, Iowa. Deloyte entered eternal rest on January 19, 2006, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines at the age of seventy-nine years, eight months, and twenty-eight days. Deloyte grew up in the Zion area. He graduated from Zion High...

Wilma L. Cruise

Wilma L. Cruise

Jan 18, 2006

Wilma L. Cruise was born to Irene B. (Rakow) and Delbert L. Hill on October 28, 1925, in Orchard, Nebraska. Wilma entered eternal rest on January 18, 2006, at Creston Nursing and Rehab in Creston, Iowa at the age of eighty years, two months, and twenty-three days. Wilma graduated from ONeill High School with the class of 1943. She attended...

Nettie Cordell

Nettie Cordell

Jan 16, 2006

Nettie Faith Evans was born on Saturday, October 3, 1914, on a farm near Gravity in Washington Township to Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Ann (Briggs) Evans. She was the tenth of their eleven children. Her school days were spent in Taylor County country schools where she was promoted from third grade to sixth grade to be in the same class...

Carol A. Mckinney

Carol A. Mckinney

Jan 15, 2006

Carol McKinney was born to Shirley Ann (Wellman) and Leonard Warren Bailey on August 19, 1943, in Denver, Colorado. Carol entered eternal rest on January 15, 2006, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of sixty-two years, four months, and thirty days. On June 3, 1961, Carol married Floyd Kenneth McKinney, Sr. in the Lutheran...

Wilford Mills

Wilford Mills

Jan 14, 2006

Wilford Mills, the son of Lillie (Houghton) Mills and Joseph H. Mills was born November 2, 1919 in Jameson, Missouri. Wilford entered eternal rest on January 14, 2006 at Lenox Care Center at the age of eighty-six years, two months, and fifteen days. On June 22, 1941, in Jameson, Missouri, Wilford Mills and Wilma Grace Whitt were united in marriage,...

Hazel Stewart

Hazel Stewart

Jan 12, 2006

Hazel Stewart was born to Elsie Agnes (Skinner) and Joe Franklin Estes on December 13, 1908, in Richardson County, Nebraska. Hazel entered eternal rest on January 12, 2006, at Crest Haven Care Centre, at the age of ninety-seven years, and thirty days. Hazel lived in the Shubert, Nebraska, area most of her life until moving to Creston. Hazel married Elmer...

Steve Spring

Steve Spring

Jan 4, 2006

Steven Albert Spring, the son of Grace Lorene (Brownlee) and Albert A. Spring was born April 20, 1952 in Topeka, Kansas. Steve entered eternal rest on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center at the age of fifty-three years, eight months and sixteen days. Steve attended Creston High School, graduating with the class of 1970. He then...

Goldie Young

Goldie Young

Dec 29, 2005

Goldie Elizabeth Young was born to Lydia E. (Walter) and Mervin R. Hargan on April 11, 1916 in Holt Township in Taylor County, Iowa. Goldie entered eternal rest on December 29, 2005 at Greater Regional Medical Center in Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty nine years, eight months, and nineteen days. Goldie graduated from Corning High School. She taught...

Cyril A. Hubbard

Cyril A. Hubbard

Dec 24, 2005

Cyril Albert Hubbard was born to Amy French (Smith) and Walter Clarke Hubbard on July 8, 1918, in rural Ringgold County, near Benton, Iowa. Cyril entered eternal rest on December 24, 2005, at Greater Regional Hospital in Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven years, five months and eighteen days. Cyril graduated from Blockton High School with the Class of...

Veda Griffin

Veda Griffin

Dec 21, 2005

Veda Griffin, 96, of Mesa, Arizona formerly of Lenox passed away December 21, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. She was born on a farm outside Lenox, Iowa on July 4, 1909. She is survived by her son Graydon Gene Griffin, his wife Bonnie G. Griffin and grandson Graydon Bradley Griffin. Funeral Services will be held at Messinger Mortuary, 7601 E. Indian...

Darrel Kuiper

Darrel Kuiper

Dec 20, 2005

Darrel LeRoy Kuiper was born to Hazel (Johnson) and Lawrence Kuiper on July 3, 1943, at Platte, South Dakota. Darrel entered eternal rest on December 20, 2005, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines at the age of sixty-two years, five months, and nineteen days. Darrel graduated from high school in Platte, South Dakota, with the class of 1963. Darrel...

Robert J. Mack

Robert J. Mack

Dec 17, 2005

Robert John Mack, the son of Isabelle (Curry) and Lewis B. Mack was born September 30, 1921 in rural Adams County, Iowa. Robert entered eternal rest on Saturday, December 17, 2005 at Israel House in Ames, Iowa at the age of eighty-four years, two months and nineteen days. He joined the United States Army in 1942 and served for three...

Jacqueline Trusty

Jacqueline Trusty

Dec 14, 2005

Jacqueline Anne (Jacque) Trusty was born to Marguerite Ruth (Griffiths) and Robert Lyon Trusty on August 16, 1955. Jacque entered eternal rest on December 14, 2005, at the Baptist Lutheran Medical Center, in Kansas City, Missour, at the age of fifty years, three months, and thirty days. Jacque was born and raised in Creston, Iowa. She graduated from Creston High...

Lyle G. Christensen

Lyle G. Christensen

Dec 12, 2005

Lyle Gene Christensen was born to Florence (Largent) and Otto Christensen on November 7, 1930, in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Lyle entered eternal rest on December 12, 2005, at Creston Nursing and Rehab Center in Creston, Iowa, at the age of seventy-five years, one month, and four days. On August 16, 1966, Lyle married Maxine Mary Caven at the Congregational Church...

Ruby Konecne

Ruby Konecne

Dec 11, 2005

Ruby Blanche Konecne, the daughter of Stella (Dunn) and Charles Phillips was born June 26, 1914 in rural Adams County, Iowa. Ruby entered Eternal Rest on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at Corning Nursing and Rehab Center at the age of ninety-one years, five months and eighteen days. On March 7, 1934 in Adams County, Iowa, Ruby Phillips and Orvalle Konence...

Marcella L. Jones

Marcella L. Jones

Dec 8, 2005

Marcella Leone Jones was born to Olena (Johnson) and Sidney Marsh on June 25, 1918, in Graceville, Minnesota. Marcella entered eternal rest on December 8, 2005, at Osceola, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven years, five months, and sixteen days. On September 27, 1944, Marcella married Walter Albert Jones in Sioux City, Iowa. They moved to Creston in 1965. Marcella...

Robert Holdren

Robert Holdren

Nov 23, 2005

Robert “Bob” Holdren was born to Marie Viola (Loomis) and Henry Holdren on October 3, 1922, in Corning, Iowa. Bob entered eternal rest on November 23, 2005, at Corning Nursing and Rehab Center at the age of eighty-three years, one month, and twenty one days. On July 5, 1951, Bob married Grace Lavone Holker at Bentonville, Arkansas. Bob lived in...

Vivian Pollard

Vivian Pollard

Nov 20, 2005

Vivian Phyllis Pollard, only child of Harry Warren Butler and Mae Ellen (Wilcox) Butler, was born August 12, 1920 on a farm in Adams County, Iowa. When Vivian was three months old, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where her father was a streetcar operator. Vivian and her family attended Covenant Presbyterian Church on E. 60th Street in Kansas...