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Dean H. Oldenburg
Jun 21, 2015
Dean Herman Oldenburg was born on March 19, 1931 to Herman and Gertrude (Wendt) Oldenburg in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended school in Shelby, Iowa and after the family moved to a farm near Walnut, Iowa, drove to school in Shelby where he graduated with the Class of 1949. He helped his parents on the family farm until March 13,...
Marie C. Campbell
Jun 18, 2015
Marie Cecele Campbell was born on August 24, 1951 to Russell and Ruth (Eckermann) Barker in Denison, Iowa. She was baptized at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance, Iowa and later became a member of the United Methodist Church in Harlan. She attended St. Patrick’s Elementary in Missouri Valley before transferring to St. Albert’s Catholic School in Council Bluffs, Iowa....
John L. Vanderheiden
Jun 16, 2015
John Louis Vanderheiden was born on November 22, 1930 to John and Veronica (Beyerink) Vanderheiden in Carroll, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Carroll, where he remained a member until 1959 when he moved to Harlan. He attended St. Lawrence Catholic School and went on to graduate from Carroll High School. On May 31,...
Buelah Etheline Phelps
Jun 14, 2015
Buelah Etheline Phelps was born on April 19, 1919 to Gordon and Lillie (Anderson) Cowan in a sod house on the family homestead in Tryon, Nebraska, with her grandmother acting as midwife. The family moved to Manville, Wyoming where she started school. During the Great Depression, her family moved to Marshfield, Missouri in a covered wagon that was built by...
Richard Lee Kohlscheen
Jun 14, 2015
Richard Lee Kohlscheen Richard Lee Kohlscheen was born on December 12, 1945 to Norman and Katherine (Wise) Kohlscheen in Avoca, Iowa. The Kohlscheen’s had four children; Larry who died in 1943; Janice, Norma and Richard. In 1952 the family moved to Long Beach, California. Richard struggled much of his life. No one really knew him as well as his sister...
Fred E. Worrell
Jun 13, 2015
Funeral Services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2015 at United Presbyterian Church, Denison, IowaBurial: Kiron Cemetery, Kiron, IowaNo Visitation Fred Worrell was born at home in Wilson County, North Carolina on March 15, 1934, the son of Roy and Mary Strickland Worrell. His family and he moved to Petersburg, Virginia when he was 7 years old because his father gave...
Vernon Else
Jun 12, 2015
Vernon Dee Else, son of Victor and Velma Lavisa (Prather) Else, was born on December 17, 1938 in Nodaway, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at the Villisca Advent Christian Church where he was a lifetime member. Vernon attended school in Villisca where he graduated with the Class of 1956. After high school, Vern worked for Sieg Auto Parts and...
Richard Dean Smith
Jun 10, 2015
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL:11:00 A.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWAVISITATION:4:00 P.M. UNTIL 7:00 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWAPARISH VIGIL SERVICE:6:30 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWA Richard Dean Smith was born in Carroll, Iowa, April 9, 1948, the son of Patricia Tigges Smith. He was raised in...
Roland James Talcott
Jun 10, 2015
Funeral Services: 10:30 a.m., Monday, June 15, 2015 First United Methodist Church, Denison, Iowa Visitation: 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 14, 2015 Pfannebecker Funeral Home, Denison, Iowa Roland James Talcott was born at Pisgah, Iowa May 14, 1926, to Edgar Julius Talcott and Lillian Price Talcott, and died June 10, 2015, at Lakeside Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. At...
Brian "Tigger" Wells
Jun 7, 2015
Brian Charles Wells “Tigger”, was born on October 29, 1961 to Len and Jeanie (Lehan) Wells in Harlan, Iowa. He was baptized, had his first communion, and was confirmed at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance, where he remained a life-long member. He attended St. Paul’s Catholic School in Defiance through the eighth grade before attending Harlan Community High School....
Rose Mary Reinig
Jun 5, 2015
Rose Mary Reinig was born May 1, 1932 to Fred and Dorothy (Crowe) Schmiedeler, Sr. in Abilene, Kansas. She was baptized on May 8, 1932 at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Abilene where she also attended her first confession on June 11, 1939 and received her Holy First Communion on June 18, 1939. Rose Mary was confirmed at St. Andrew...
Lawrence V. Larsen
Jun 1, 2015
Lawrence Vernon Larsen was born on December 14, 1922 to Lewis and Minna (Rasmussen) Larsen near Audubon, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended country school near Fiscus, Iowa before graduating from Audubon High School. He obtained his degree from the University of Iowa and then continued on to the College of Medicine...
Richard J. Carroll
May 29, 2015
Richard John Carroll, “Dick”, was born on December 6, 1928 to Emmet and Matilda (Stolz) Carroll in rural Panama, Iowa. He attended country school and St. Mary’s Catholic School in Panama through the eighth grade when he left school to help on the family farm. Dick enlisted in the United States Army on September 30, 1946 and served during the...
Thomas Hoffman
May 28, 2015
Thomas “Tom” George Hoffman Thomas “Tom” George Hoffman, son of Albert and Sophie (Brinks) Hoffman, was born December 19, 1946 in Carroll, Iowa. Tom was one of five children who was baptized and confirmed at Mary’s Catholic Church in Willey, Iowa. He attended school in Willey through the 8th grade when he left to go work on the family farm....
Arlene Sunderland
May 28, 2015
Ida Arlene Sunderland was born on October 5, 1919 to Hugh and Beulah (Findlay) Patterson in Irwin, Iowa. She attended grade school in Atlantic, Iowa, where the family lived from 1928 to 1934. After moving to the Harlan area, Arlene graduated from Harlan High School with the Class of 1938. On October 8th of that year, she was united in...
Cyrenus Herman Knief
May 27, 2015
SERVICES: 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, 2015 at United Church of Christ, Schleswig, IowaVISITATION: From 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 2015 at Pfannebecker Funeral Home, Denison, IowaBURIAL: Morgan Township Cemetery, Schleswig, Iowa Cyrenus Herman Knief was born on the Knief family farm north of Deloit, Iowa, March 30, 1923, the son of Herman and Irma Larson Knief. ...
Ora "Bill" H. Babbitt
May 25, 2015
Ora “Bill” Hugh Babbitt Ora “Bill” Hugh Babbitt was born on March 6, 1925 to Glenn and Hazel(Franklin) Babbitt near Marne in Cass County Iowa. Bill was the eighth child of a family of eleven. Bill attended several country schools and graduated from Walnut High School with the class of 1942. He helped on the family farm until he married...
Mildred Hoffmann
May 22, 2015
Mildred Susan Hoffmann, daughter of Thomas and Lena (Leinen) Schumacher, was born on June 27, 1913 near Portsmouth, Iowa. She was baptized at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and attended school at St. Mary’s Catholic School. While she was in school, Mildred’s father died and she quit school to help at home with her mother’s wall paper business. Mildred also worked...
Betty Griffith
May 21, 2015
Betty Griffith Betty Griffith was born on November 14, 1921 in Walnut, Iowa to Oscar and Olive Pauline Hulin Cade. She was baptized and confirmed at the Walnut Presbyterian Church. She graduated from Walnut High School in 1939. Betty married Frank William Griffith on February 17, 1942 in Maryville, Missouri. To this union three children were born Frank, Mary Ellen,...
Dean H. Oldenburg
Jun 21, 2015
Dean Herman Oldenburg was born on March 19, 1931 to Herman and Gertrude (Wendt) Oldenburg in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended school in Shelby, Iowa and after the family moved to a farm near Walnut, Iowa, drove to school in Shelby where he graduated with the Class of 1949. He helped his parents on the family farm until March 13,...
Marie C. Campbell
Jun 18, 2015
Marie Cecele Campbell was born on August 24, 1951 to Russell and Ruth (Eckermann) Barker in Denison, Iowa. She was baptized at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance, Iowa and later became a member of the United Methodist Church in Harlan. She attended St. Patrick’s Elementary in Missouri Valley before transferring to St. Albert’s Catholic School in Council Bluffs, Iowa....
John L. Vanderheiden
Jun 16, 2015
John Louis Vanderheiden was born on November 22, 1930 to John and Veronica (Beyerink) Vanderheiden in Carroll, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Carroll, where he remained a member until 1959 when he moved to Harlan. He attended St. Lawrence Catholic School and went on to graduate from Carroll High School. On May 31,...
Buelah Etheline Phelps
Jun 14, 2015
Buelah Etheline Phelps was born on April 19, 1919 to Gordon and Lillie (Anderson) Cowan in a sod house on the family homestead in Tryon, Nebraska, with her grandmother acting as midwife. The family moved to Manville, Wyoming where she started school. During the Great Depression, her family moved to Marshfield, Missouri in a covered wagon that was built by...
Richard Lee Kohlscheen
Jun 14, 2015
Richard Lee Kohlscheen Richard Lee Kohlscheen was born on December 12, 1945 to Norman and Katherine (Wise) Kohlscheen in Avoca, Iowa. The Kohlscheen’s had four children; Larry who died in 1943; Janice, Norma and Richard. In 1952 the family moved to Long Beach, California. Richard struggled much of his life. No one really knew him as well as his sister...
Fred E. Worrell
Jun 13, 2015
Funeral Services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2015 at United Presbyterian Church, Denison, IowaBurial: Kiron Cemetery, Kiron, IowaNo Visitation Fred Worrell was born at home in Wilson County, North Carolina on March 15, 1934, the son of Roy and Mary Strickland Worrell. His family and he moved to Petersburg, Virginia when he was 7 years old because his father gave...
Vernon Else
Jun 12, 2015
Vernon Dee Else, son of Victor and Velma Lavisa (Prather) Else, was born on December 17, 1938 in Nodaway, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at the Villisca Advent Christian Church where he was a lifetime member. Vernon attended school in Villisca where he graduated with the Class of 1956. After high school, Vern worked for Sieg Auto Parts and...
Richard Dean Smith
Jun 10, 2015
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL:11:00 A.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWAVISITATION:4:00 P.M. UNTIL 7:00 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWAPARISH VIGIL SERVICE:6:30 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH, VAIL, IOWA Richard Dean Smith was born in Carroll, Iowa, April 9, 1948, the son of Patricia Tigges Smith. He was raised in...
Roland James Talcott
Jun 10, 2015
Funeral Services: 10:30 a.m., Monday, June 15, 2015 First United Methodist Church, Denison, Iowa Visitation: 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 14, 2015 Pfannebecker Funeral Home, Denison, Iowa Roland James Talcott was born at Pisgah, Iowa May 14, 1926, to Edgar Julius Talcott and Lillian Price Talcott, and died June 10, 2015, at Lakeside Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. At...
Brian "Tigger" Wells
Jun 7, 2015
Brian Charles Wells “Tigger”, was born on October 29, 1961 to Len and Jeanie (Lehan) Wells in Harlan, Iowa. He was baptized, had his first communion, and was confirmed at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance, where he remained a life-long member. He attended St. Paul’s Catholic School in Defiance through the eighth grade before attending Harlan Community High School....
Rose Mary Reinig
Jun 5, 2015
Rose Mary Reinig was born May 1, 1932 to Fred and Dorothy (Crowe) Schmiedeler, Sr. in Abilene, Kansas. She was baptized on May 8, 1932 at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Abilene where she also attended her first confession on June 11, 1939 and received her Holy First Communion on June 18, 1939. Rose Mary was confirmed at St. Andrew...
Lawrence V. Larsen
Jun 1, 2015
Lawrence Vernon Larsen was born on December 14, 1922 to Lewis and Minna (Rasmussen) Larsen near Audubon, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended country school near Fiscus, Iowa before graduating from Audubon High School. He obtained his degree from the University of Iowa and then continued on to the College of Medicine...
Richard J. Carroll
May 29, 2015
Richard John Carroll, “Dick”, was born on December 6, 1928 to Emmet and Matilda (Stolz) Carroll in rural Panama, Iowa. He attended country school and St. Mary’s Catholic School in Panama through the eighth grade when he left school to help on the family farm. Dick enlisted in the United States Army on September 30, 1946 and served during the...
Thomas Hoffman
May 28, 2015
Thomas “Tom” George Hoffman Thomas “Tom” George Hoffman, son of Albert and Sophie (Brinks) Hoffman, was born December 19, 1946 in Carroll, Iowa. Tom was one of five children who was baptized and confirmed at Mary’s Catholic Church in Willey, Iowa. He attended school in Willey through the 8th grade when he left to go work on the family farm....
Arlene Sunderland
May 28, 2015
Ida Arlene Sunderland was born on October 5, 1919 to Hugh and Beulah (Findlay) Patterson in Irwin, Iowa. She attended grade school in Atlantic, Iowa, where the family lived from 1928 to 1934. After moving to the Harlan area, Arlene graduated from Harlan High School with the Class of 1938. On October 8th of that year, she was united in...
Cyrenus Herman Knief
May 27, 2015
SERVICES: 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, 2015 at United Church of Christ, Schleswig, IowaVISITATION: From 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 2015 at Pfannebecker Funeral Home, Denison, IowaBURIAL: Morgan Township Cemetery, Schleswig, Iowa Cyrenus Herman Knief was born on the Knief family farm north of Deloit, Iowa, March 30, 1923, the son of Herman and Irma Larson Knief. ...
Ora "Bill" H. Babbitt
May 25, 2015
Ora “Bill” Hugh Babbitt Ora “Bill” Hugh Babbitt was born on March 6, 1925 to Glenn and Hazel(Franklin) Babbitt near Marne in Cass County Iowa. Bill was the eighth child of a family of eleven. Bill attended several country schools and graduated from Walnut High School with the class of 1942. He helped on the family farm until he married...
Mildred Hoffmann
May 22, 2015
Mildred Susan Hoffmann, daughter of Thomas and Lena (Leinen) Schumacher, was born on June 27, 1913 near Portsmouth, Iowa. She was baptized at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and attended school at St. Mary’s Catholic School. While she was in school, Mildred’s father died and she quit school to help at home with her mother’s wall paper business. Mildred also worked...
Betty Griffith
May 21, 2015
Betty Griffith Betty Griffith was born on November 14, 1921 in Walnut, Iowa to Oscar and Olive Pauline Hulin Cade. She was baptized and confirmed at the Walnut Presbyterian Church. She graduated from Walnut High School in 1939. Betty married Frank William Griffith on February 17, 1942 in Maryville, Missouri. To this union three children were born Frank, Mary Ellen,...
