Obituaries
Austin Blomgren
Dec 5, 2012
Austin A. Blomgren, 76, of Grundy Center, passed away on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, December 8, 2012, 10:00 A.M. at the American Lutheran Church in Grundy Center. Visitation will be held on Friday, December 7, 2012...
Lemma Herndon
Dec 3, 2012
Lemma Lorine Herndon, age 99, of Eldora, Iowa, passed away on Monday, December 3, 2012 at the Ellsworth Municipal Hospital in Iowa Falls, Iowa. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, December 7, 2012 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Eldora. Burial will follow at the Eldora City Cemetery. A visitation will be...
Donn Lorenzen
Dec 2, 2012
Donn E. Lorenzen, 78, of Hudson, Iowa, died Sunday, December 2, 2012, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa after a courageous battle with acute leukemia. Funeral services will be at 10:30 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Reinbeck, Iowa with Pastor Bruce A. Boyce officiating. Burial will follow...
Phyllis Jansen
Nov 30, 2012
Phyllis Josephine Jansen, 90, of Grundy Center, went to be with the Lord on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center while under the Cedar Valley Hospice of natural causes. A funeral service will be held on Monday, December 3rd, 1:30 P.M. at the Colfax Center Presbyterian Church in rural Holland. Visitation will be held...
Lillian DesMarias
Nov 24, 2012
Lillian DesMarias, 99, of Chillicothe, Missouri, currently residing in the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center, Iowa, died Saturday, November 24, 2012. She was born in Grundy Center on August 7, 1913 to John Cowie DesMarias and Maud Lillian (Bayless) DesMarias. She graduated from Grundy Center High School with the class of 1931 and from the University of Iowa and...
Irene Bessman
Nov 21, 2012
Irene C. Bessman, 82, of Wellsburg, passed away on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice. A funeral service will be held on Monday, November 26th, 10:30 A.M. at the St. John's United Church of Christ in Ackley. Visitation will be held on Sunday, November 25th from...
Lloyd Calton
Nov 21, 2012
Lloyd Wesley Calton, 86, of Grundy Center, Iowa passed away November 21, 2012 at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Hospice care. A memorial visitation will be at the Englekes / Abels Funeral Home in Grundy Center on November 26, 2012 from 4PM to 7PM. A private burial will take place. Lloyd was born November 17, 1926 in West Plains,...
Carol Kelley
Nov 20, 2012
Carol Jo Kelley, age 66, of Dike, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls, Iowa. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, November 26, 2012 at the Dike United Methodist Church in Dike, Iowa. Burial will follow at the Elmwood Cemetery in Dike. A visitation will be held...
John Muller
Nov 18, 2012
John Frederick Muller, 93, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, formerly of Parkersburg, Iowa passed away of natural causes, on Sunday, November 18, 2012, while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice at the Newaldaya Lifescapes in Cedar Falls, Iowa. A funeral service will be held on Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:30 am at the Pleasant Valley Reformed Church, just west...
Robert Koch
Nov 16, 2012
Robert Lee Koch, 68, of Reinbeck, Iowa, died Friday, November 16, 2012, at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa, while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice. Memorial Services will be held at 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at French Hand Funeral Home, Reinbeck, Iowa.. Burial will follow at Reinbeck Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday, November 19, 2012, from...
Donald Harless
Nov 15, 2012
Donald E. Harless, 86, of Eldora, Iowa died on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Eldora Nursing and Rehab Center in Eldora with his loving family at his side and under the care of Iowa Hospice. Funeral services will be at 10:30 am on Monday, November 19, 2012 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora with Pastor David Splett officiating....
Elaine Cerne
Nov 14, 2012
Elaine Elizabeth Cerne, 92, of Grundy Center, Iowa passed away Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at Grundy County Memorial Hospital Long Term Care whileunder the care of Care Initiatives Hospice. A memorial service will be held at 3p.m. on Friday, November 16, 2012, at the American Lutheran Church in Grundy Center. Burial will be held privately by the family. Elaine was...
Marcella Partridge
Nov 11, 2012
Marcella R. Jordening Partridge, of Ames, Iowa, formerly of Eldora, Iowa passed away Sunday, November 11, 2012 at the Northcrest Community in Ames, Iowa. Funeral Service will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora. Burial will follow at Eldora City Cemetery in Eldora. A visitation will be held from 5:00...
Dale Meeker
Nov 9, 2012
Dale Lawrence Meeker, 88, of Eldora, passed away on Friday, November 09, 2012 at the Valley View Nursing & Rehab Center in Eldora. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, November 13th at 10:30 A.M. at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Eldora with Pastor Corey Larson officiating. A memorial visitation will be held on Monday, November...
John Miller
Nov 7, 2012
John A. Miller, 80 of Waterloo, passed away at his home on Monday, November 5, 2012 while under the care of Care Initiatives Hospice. A visitation will be held on Friday, November 9, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Engelkes-Abels Funeral Home, Dike Chapel. Burial will follow the visitation at the Elmwood Cemetery in Dike with Military...
Harold Freese
Nov 6, 2012
Harold M. Freese, 79, of Eldora, Iowa passed away Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at the Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora. Burial will follow at Eastlawn Cemetery in Eldora. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the funeral...
Carl King
Nov 4, 2012
Carl J. King, 88, of the Hubbard Care Center, formerly of Eldora, Iowa, died on Sunday, November 4, 2012 at the Hubbard Care Center in Hubbard, Iowa. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora with Pastor David Splett officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to...
Jerry Bleeker
Nov 2, 2012
Jerry Bleeker, 54, of New Hartford, passed away at his home on Friday, November 2nd, 2012. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. at the New Hartford Methodist Church. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, November 7th from 4 to 7 P.M. at the New Hartford Methodist Church and one hour prior to...
Melvin Thede
Oct 29, 2012
Melvin Dean Thede, 63, of Reinbeck, Iowa, died Monday, October 29, 2012, at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa, from complications of surgery. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Thursday, November 1, 2012, at United Church of Christ in Reinbeck, Iowa, with Pastor Joel Love officiating. Burial will follow at the Reinbeck Cemetery in Reinbeck. Visitation will be...
Marlys Dieken
Oct 26, 2012
Marlys Claassen Dieken, age 92, of Dike, Iowa, was born the daughter of Claas and Alice (Neessen) Claassen on December 9, 1919, in Colfax township where she received her education. On January 1, 1938, Marlys was united in marriage with Elmer Dieken at her parents' home in Grundy Center. They lived on the Dieken family farm in Grundy County and...