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Obituaries
Obituaries for Pauley Jones Funeral Home
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones
Louree A. Petersen
Mar 6, 2008
Louree Ann Petersen was born on January 28, 1943, to Gerald and Mena (Andersen) Greiner in Harlan, Iowa. She graduated from Harlan Community High School in 1961 and, at the age of 40, attended Iowa Western Community College where she earned her LPN degree. Louree was united in marriage to Glen Petersen on April 26, 1962, in Omaha, Nebraska. Two...
Alma M. Mathiasen
Mar 5, 2008
Alma Marie Mathiasen was born on August 26, 1919, to Hans and Elsie (Petersen) Christensen in Audubon County, Iowa. She attended country school in the Poplar, Iowa, area. On March 2, 1937, she was united in marriage to George Mathiasen in Atlantic, Iowa. Two children were born to this union: Janis and Darrel. Alma was a good farm wife; able...
Edna M. Thomsen
Mar 3, 2008
Edna Maria (Holst) Thomsen was born December 8, 1910 in Shelby County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Henry and Doris (Plagman) Holst and grew up on the family farm two miles east of Shelby, Iowa. She was the oldest of five children. Edna attended country school until the third grade, then went to the Shelby Public school, graduating with...
Peter Mcalpin
Mar 1, 2008
Peter F. McAlpin, 71, of Park Rapids, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, March 1, 2008, at St. Mary?s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. He was born May 11, 1936, in Coronado, California to Gladys (Templer) and Vincent McAlpin. He was raised in Southern California, attending school there and graduating from college in Santa Monica, California. As a building contractor he began working...
Genevieve Oppold
Mar 1, 2008
Genevieve Oppold was the youngest of the twelve children of Theodore and Bertha (Huetteman) Stessman. She was born on a farm about one mile north of Panama, Iowa on July 30, 1914. Genevieve was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary�s Catholic Church in Panama. She attended St. Mary�s Catholic schools, graduating from high school in 1932. Genevieve attended Mt. St....
Helen B. Nielsen
Feb 22, 2008
Helen Bernice Nielsen was born on March 31, 1912 to Raymond and Myrtle (Hunt) Tryon in Defiance, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at Defiance Christian Church and remained a member there until 1925, when she became a member of Defiance Evangelical Church. Helen attended all twelve years of schooling at Defiance Consolidated School. She graduated from high school with...
Robert E. Langer
Feb 19, 2008
Robert Eugene Langer was born southeast of Walnut, Iowa on August 26, 1931. He was the son of Milton and Esther (Jacobsen) Langer. He attended schools through the eighth grade in Minden, Pleasant, Layton and Valley townships. He then graduated from Avoca High School in 1950. While in high school, Robert played football for four years and was captain of...
Donald Eugene Doc Deatherage
Feb 17, 2008
Donald Eugene "Doc" Deatherage was born on March 27, 1930, in Hancock, Iowa, to William and Martha (Krueger) Deatherage. Doc died on Sunday, February 17, 2008, having attained the age of seventy-seven years, ten months, and twenty-one days. Doc is survived by his sister, Mary Lou Emken, of Avoca, Iowa. Please call the Avoca Chapel 1-800-447-2588 for more information ________________________________________...
Lawrence Coyle
Feb 16, 2008
Pete Coyle was born at Piggott, Arkansas, February 27, 1945, the son of Clarence and Nina Marie Harden Coyle. He was baptized in Martin?s Creek at Hardy, Arkansas by the New Hope Baptist minister in his youth. He was raised in Arkansas where he received his education. Following his education Pete moved to Iowa and farmed for a time at...
Horace Westcott
Feb 14, 2008
Survivors: Wife-Mare Westcott-Stockton, California Daugher-Coleen Allen-Goodwin and husband, Howard of California Daughter-Donna Baugh and husband, Dale of Virginia Four grandchildren, Three great grandchildren.
Irene Sharp
Feb 11, 2008
Irene M. Sharp was born on a farm at Dow City, Iowa, June 21, 1921, the daughter of Hans and Jessie Wendt Flagmann. She was raised on the farm and received her education in the Paradise Township rural school. On May 6, 1938, Irene was united in marriage with Vernon Sharp in Denison, Iowa. They made their home on the...
James R. Schroeder
Feb 10, 2008
James R. Schroeder was born at Arcadia, Iowa, June 21, 1932, the son of John and Stella Muenchow Schroeder. He was raised on the farm there and was graduated from St. John?s Catholic High School with the class of 1950. Following high school James was employed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Office in Washington, D.C. In 1951, James was...
Fred J. Mckee
Feb 10, 2008
Fredrick Jacob McKee was born on July 14th, 1917, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the son of Howard and Ann (Ott) McKee. He attended grade school in Oakville, Iowa, where his father had a movie theater and feed store (and sold Purina Chow). In 1929, they moved to Mediapolis, Iowa, to run a feed and farm supply store (again selling Purina Chows)....
Erma B. Rosenbeck
Feb 10, 2008
Erma Bnetta Rosenbeck was born on May 19, 1909, to Warner and Marie (Paulsen) Doyle on the family farm east of Persia, Iowa. In 1930, the family moved from the farm into town. After her schooling, Erma worked for a number of years as a switchboard operator at the Mutual Telephone office in Persia. On March 10, 1938, she was...
Sue Kelly
Feb 8, 2008
Sue Kelly was born in Bellflower, California, July 14, 1949, the daughter of Marlin and Betty Bales Herbert. She was raised in Chino, California where she received her education. In 1966, Sue was united in marriage with John Kelly at Chino, California and their union was blessed with two children, Brenda and Jason. The family resided in California until moving...
Leonard P. Greiner
Feb 7, 2008
Leonard Peter Greiner was born on March 26, 1918, one of six children to John and Mary (Stiver) Greiner on the family farm near Panama, Iowa. He attended St. Mary’s Catholic Schools for elementary and high school in Panama, graduating with the Class of 1936, the same year he was a member of the state championship basketball team. After graduation,...
Dalmer Lorenzen
Feb 2, 2008
Dalmer H. Lorenzen, the son of George and Hulda Baasch Lorenzen, was born on October 11, 1912 in Shelby County, Iowa and was one of three children in the family. Dalmer farmed with his father until 1936. On his twenty-fourth birthday, he married Mabel E. Johnson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and to this union one daughter, Shari, was born....
Roger F. Hanson
Jan 28, 2008
Roger Frederick Hanson was born on October 28, 1945, to Arthur and Mildred (Morlok) Hanson. He was confirmed at St. Paul�s Lutheran Church in Irwin and remained a member there. Roger attended country school in Botna and graduated from Irwin High School. He spent one year at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. On November 16, 1965, Roger enlisted in the...
Rachel C. Lilleholm
Jan 23, 2008
Rachel Caroline Anderson Lilleholm was born on a farm in Goodrich Township, near Deloit, Iowa, October 16, 1915, the daughter of Samuel and Tabitha Winey Anderson. She was raised on the farm and graduated from the Deloit High School with the class of 1933. On October 27, 1945, Rachel was united in marriage with Richard Blaine Lilleholm at the Methodist...
Alvin Beck
Jan 20, 2008
Alvin R. Beck was born October 27, 1926, to Chris and Gertrude Hutchison Beck, in Swea City, Iowa. Alvin had a great love for flying and at age 16 he received his pilot?s license. He graduated from Swea City High School two years later. Alvin served his country during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. Upon...
Louree A. Petersen
Mar 6, 2008
Louree Ann Petersen was born on January 28, 1943, to Gerald and Mena (Andersen) Greiner in Harlan, Iowa. She graduated from Harlan Community High School in 1961 and, at the age of 40, attended Iowa Western Community College where she earned her LPN degree. Louree was united in marriage to Glen Petersen on April 26, 1962, in Omaha, Nebraska. Two...
Alma M. Mathiasen
Mar 5, 2008
Alma Marie Mathiasen was born on August 26, 1919, to Hans and Elsie (Petersen) Christensen in Audubon County, Iowa. She attended country school in the Poplar, Iowa, area. On March 2, 1937, she was united in marriage to George Mathiasen in Atlantic, Iowa. Two children were born to this union: Janis and Darrel. Alma was a good farm wife; able...
Edna M. Thomsen
Mar 3, 2008
Edna Maria (Holst) Thomsen was born December 8, 1910 in Shelby County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Henry and Doris (Plagman) Holst and grew up on the family farm two miles east of Shelby, Iowa. She was the oldest of five children. Edna attended country school until the third grade, then went to the Shelby Public school, graduating with...
Peter Mcalpin
Mar 1, 2008
Peter F. McAlpin, 71, of Park Rapids, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, March 1, 2008, at St. Mary?s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. He was born May 11, 1936, in Coronado, California to Gladys (Templer) and Vincent McAlpin. He was raised in Southern California, attending school there and graduating from college in Santa Monica, California. As a building contractor he began working...
Genevieve Oppold
Mar 1, 2008
Genevieve Oppold was the youngest of the twelve children of Theodore and Bertha (Huetteman) Stessman. She was born on a farm about one mile north of Panama, Iowa on July 30, 1914. Genevieve was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary�s Catholic Church in Panama. She attended St. Mary�s Catholic schools, graduating from high school in 1932. Genevieve attended Mt. St....
Helen B. Nielsen
Feb 22, 2008
Helen Bernice Nielsen was born on March 31, 1912 to Raymond and Myrtle (Hunt) Tryon in Defiance, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at Defiance Christian Church and remained a member there until 1925, when she became a member of Defiance Evangelical Church. Helen attended all twelve years of schooling at Defiance Consolidated School. She graduated from high school with...
Robert E. Langer
Feb 19, 2008
Robert Eugene Langer was born southeast of Walnut, Iowa on August 26, 1931. He was the son of Milton and Esther (Jacobsen) Langer. He attended schools through the eighth grade in Minden, Pleasant, Layton and Valley townships. He then graduated from Avoca High School in 1950. While in high school, Robert played football for four years and was captain of...
Donald Eugene Doc Deatherage
Feb 17, 2008
Donald Eugene "Doc" Deatherage was born on March 27, 1930, in Hancock, Iowa, to William and Martha (Krueger) Deatherage. Doc died on Sunday, February 17, 2008, having attained the age of seventy-seven years, ten months, and twenty-one days. Doc is survived by his sister, Mary Lou Emken, of Avoca, Iowa. Please call the Avoca Chapel 1-800-447-2588 for more information ________________________________________...
Lawrence Coyle
Feb 16, 2008
Pete Coyle was born at Piggott, Arkansas, February 27, 1945, the son of Clarence and Nina Marie Harden Coyle. He was baptized in Martin?s Creek at Hardy, Arkansas by the New Hope Baptist minister in his youth. He was raised in Arkansas where he received his education. Following his education Pete moved to Iowa and farmed for a time at...
Horace Westcott
Feb 14, 2008
Survivors: Wife-Mare Westcott-Stockton, California Daugher-Coleen Allen-Goodwin and husband, Howard of California Daughter-Donna Baugh and husband, Dale of Virginia Four grandchildren, Three great grandchildren.
Irene Sharp
Feb 11, 2008
Irene M. Sharp was born on a farm at Dow City, Iowa, June 21, 1921, the daughter of Hans and Jessie Wendt Flagmann. She was raised on the farm and received her education in the Paradise Township rural school. On May 6, 1938, Irene was united in marriage with Vernon Sharp in Denison, Iowa. They made their home on the...
James R. Schroeder
Feb 10, 2008
James R. Schroeder was born at Arcadia, Iowa, June 21, 1932, the son of John and Stella Muenchow Schroeder. He was raised on the farm there and was graduated from St. John?s Catholic High School with the class of 1950. Following high school James was employed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Office in Washington, D.C. In 1951, James was...
Fred J. Mckee
Feb 10, 2008
Fredrick Jacob McKee was born on July 14th, 1917, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the son of Howard and Ann (Ott) McKee. He attended grade school in Oakville, Iowa, where his father had a movie theater and feed store (and sold Purina Chow). In 1929, they moved to Mediapolis, Iowa, to run a feed and farm supply store (again selling Purina Chows)....
Erma B. Rosenbeck
Feb 10, 2008
Erma Bnetta Rosenbeck was born on May 19, 1909, to Warner and Marie (Paulsen) Doyle on the family farm east of Persia, Iowa. In 1930, the family moved from the farm into town. After her schooling, Erma worked for a number of years as a switchboard operator at the Mutual Telephone office in Persia. On March 10, 1938, she was...
Sue Kelly
Feb 8, 2008
Sue Kelly was born in Bellflower, California, July 14, 1949, the daughter of Marlin and Betty Bales Herbert. She was raised in Chino, California where she received her education. In 1966, Sue was united in marriage with John Kelly at Chino, California and their union was blessed with two children, Brenda and Jason. The family resided in California until moving...
Leonard P. Greiner
Feb 7, 2008
Leonard Peter Greiner was born on March 26, 1918, one of six children to John and Mary (Stiver) Greiner on the family farm near Panama, Iowa. He attended St. Mary’s Catholic Schools for elementary and high school in Panama, graduating with the Class of 1936, the same year he was a member of the state championship basketball team. After graduation,...
Dalmer Lorenzen
Feb 2, 2008
Dalmer H. Lorenzen, the son of George and Hulda Baasch Lorenzen, was born on October 11, 1912 in Shelby County, Iowa and was one of three children in the family. Dalmer farmed with his father until 1936. On his twenty-fourth birthday, he married Mabel E. Johnson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and to this union one daughter, Shari, was born....
Roger F. Hanson
Jan 28, 2008
Roger Frederick Hanson was born on October 28, 1945, to Arthur and Mildred (Morlok) Hanson. He was confirmed at St. Paul�s Lutheran Church in Irwin and remained a member there. Roger attended country school in Botna and graduated from Irwin High School. He spent one year at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. On November 16, 1965, Roger enlisted in the...
Rachel C. Lilleholm
Jan 23, 2008
Rachel Caroline Anderson Lilleholm was born on a farm in Goodrich Township, near Deloit, Iowa, October 16, 1915, the daughter of Samuel and Tabitha Winey Anderson. She was raised on the farm and graduated from the Deloit High School with the class of 1933. On October 27, 1945, Rachel was united in marriage with Richard Blaine Lilleholm at the Methodist...
Alvin Beck
Jan 20, 2008
Alvin R. Beck was born October 27, 1926, to Chris and Gertrude Hutchison Beck, in Swea City, Iowa. Alvin had a great love for flying and at age 16 he received his pilot?s license. He graduated from Swea City High School two years later. Alvin served his country during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. Upon...
