Obituaries
Grace Louella King
Nov 11, 2004
Grace Louella King was born on March 9, 1918, in Manilla, Crawford County, Iowa, to Alvin W. and Tillie G. (Wigg) Cadwell. Grace was educated and graduated from the Manilla School in 1936. She worked at different occupations until 1941, when she married Patrick Wolff. Two children were born to this union, Grace Marie (October 31, 1942 – October 19,...
Betty Jane Zimmerman
Nov 2, 2004
Betty Jane Zimmerman, the daughter of Robert Andrew and Florence Mae (Lemke) Welch, was born on November 30, 1921, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She moved to Harlan, Iowa, with her family in 1929, to assist in running the Lemke Dry Goods store. She attended Laurel Elementary School and Harlan High School, graduating with the Class of 1939. Betty studied Normal...
Mena Marie Edith Burmeister
Sep 19, 2004
Mena Marie Edith Burmeister, the daughter of Jens Christian and Inger (Johnson) Thogerson, was born on January 18, 1911, near Kirkman, Iowa. She lived there until she was six years old, when her father died. Mena’s family moved to Harlan, Iowa. After graduating from Harlan High School and attending Normal Training, Mena taught country school west of Harlan for seven...
Robert Christian Andersen
Sep 19, 2004
Robert Christian Andersen, the son of Martin and Johanna (Jensen) Andersen, was born on September 16, 1921, in Tennant, Iowa. He attended Rabbit Hollow #2 country school through the eighth grade. He served in the U.S. Army from October 19, 1942, until November 10, 1945, where he participated in the African and European Theatres. On December 25, 1946, Robert married...
Evelyn Frances Camery
Sep 16, 2004
Evelyn Frances Camery, the daughter of Charles A. and Ida (Fredericksen) Rold, was born on December 15, 1905, in rural Harlan, near Cuppy’s Grove, Iowa. She attended country school in Cuppy’s Grove, and graduated from Harlan High School in 1922. On October, 26, 1923, Evelyn married Morgan Arthur Camery in North Branch, Iowa. The couple ran a retail electronics store...
Lucile Pauline Tryon
Sep 16, 2004
Lucile Pauline Tryon, the daughter of Elmer and Jessie (Wilson) McBride, was born on September 8, 1913, in Defiance, Iowa. She grew up in Defiance and graduated from Defiance High School in 1929. After attending Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a year, she taught country school in Shelby County for nine years. On June 2, 1940,...
Gerald Richard “Jerry” Grote
Sep 5, 2004
Gerald Richard “Jerry” Grote was born to Frederick Richard and Loretta Mary (Daeges) Grote on April 1, 1948, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Portsmouth, Iowa. Jerry attended Catholic school first through sixth grades, and then went to country school for a year. He returned to Catholic school, and...
Gertrude Marie Jacobsen
Aug 21, 2004
Gertrude Marie Jacobsen, the daughter of Amiel and Hulda Helen (Fries) Troll, was born on September 26, 1919, in Monroe Township, rural Walnut, Iowa. She attended Monroe Township #5 country school through the eighth grade. Gertrude then worked as a hired girl, helping area families. She later did house cleaning, and in the 1960’s, cleaned the Immanuel Lutheran Church and...
Carl Lavern Brue
Jul 18, 2004
Carl LaVern Brue, the son of Carl T. and Mathilda (Knudson) Brue, was born on November 9, 1922, in rural Irwin, Iowa. He graduated from Irwin High School in 1940. LaVern served as a member of the United States Military Police in Germany from August, 1945, through January, 1947. After World War II, he returned to Irwin, where he farmed...
Marvin John Rasmussen
May 21, 2004
Marvin John Rasmussen, the son of John C. and Ida A. (Krueger) Rasmussen, was born on July 10, 1921, in Hancock, Iowa. He graduated from Tennant (Iowa) High School in 1939. In 1941, he purchased a farm southeast of Kirkman, Iowa. Marvin served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-46, and spent nine months in the Pacific War zone. After receiving...
Frieda Bertha Maahs
May 19, 2004
Frieda Bertha Maahs, the daughter of Fred and Laura (Reitz) Riepe, was born on July 29, 1911, in Arapahoe, Nebraska. She graduated from Arapahoe Public High School in 1929, and taught school near Arapahoe for a year. Frieda then clerked in a general store for two years. On April 29, 1933, she married Walter Julius Earnest Maahs in Arapahoe. The...
Earnest Leroy Behrend
May 10, 2004
Earnest Leroy Behrend, the son of William and Anna (Gaer) Behrend, was born on October 11, 1911, on a farm near Redline, Iowa. He grew up on a homestead near Hereford, South Dakota, and attended country school through the eighth grade. After moving to Iowa, he married Fern Fiscus in March of 1936, in Audubon, Iowa. To this union, two...
Glen Dale Rixen
Apr 17, 2004
Glen Dale Rixen, the son of Arthur and Ida (Scheel) Rixen was born on December 22, 1921, in Pender, Nebraska. His family moved to Harlan, Iowa, shortly after his birth. Glen was a 1940 graduate of Harlan High School. On July 9, 1944, he married Carol Mae Channon in Harlan. For many years, Glen owned and operated Rixen Real Estate...
Irene Rosalie Ladd
Apr 7, 2004
Irene Rosalie Ladd, the daughter of Horace and Rose (Johnson) Petersen, was born on October 10, 1925, in Harlan, Iowa. She attended Jackson #1 country school and graduated from Harlan High School with a Normal Teaching Certificate. Irene taught at Polk #2, Jackson #2 and #9 schools. On February 18, 1945, she married Warren Virgil Ladd at Bethlehem Lutheran Church...
Mildred Opal Peters Quimby
Mar 23, 2004
Mildred Opal Peters Quimby, the daughter of John Lincy and Della Mae (Edwards) Sinison, was born on December 4, 1905, on a farm near Arkoe, Missouri. When she was quite young, her parents moved to the Persia and Shelby, Iowa, area, where she attended school. After her eighth grade year, she left school to care for her ill mother and...
Eugene Cabel Cox
Mar 12, 2004
Eugene Cabel Cox, the son of Cabel and Nannie (Cox) Cox, was born on September 2, 1921, in Grassy Creek, North Carolina. He attended school in Grassy Creek. In his early twenties, he worked as a lineman for the telegraph department of the railroad in York, Nebraska. It was there that he met Alvera Marie Petersen. The couple married on...
Sandra Kay Chadwick
Mar 8, 2004
Sandra Kay Chadwick, the daughter of Keith LeRoy and Delores A. (Jensen) Anderson, was born on September 22, 1960, in Harlan, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan. She was raised in Harlan and graduated from Harlan High School in 1979. On June 28, 1980, Sandy married Curt Wayne Chadwick in Harlan. For a time,...
Barbara Jo Martinson Greve O’Connell
Feb 19, 2004
Barbara Jo Martinson Greve O’Connell, the adopted daughter of Margerette and George Osum, was born on June 14, 1945, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended St. Mary’s Catholic School for Girls in Minneapolis. After graduation, she studied nursing in Chicago, Illinois. On February 19, 1964, in West Point, Nebraska, Barbara married Arlan Rodger Greve; three children were born to this marriage....
Russell Wilbur Petersen
Feb 14, 2004
Russell Wilbur Petersen was born October 16, 1917, in Elk Horn, Iowa, to Chris and Anna (Larsen) Petersen. He was baptized in the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. Following the death of his father in 1918, the family moved to Kimballton, Iowa, where he finished the eighth grade. In 1931, the family moved to Avoca, Iowa. He was confirmed in the...
Laura Mae Larson
Feb 1, 2004
Laura Mae Larson, the daughter of Elmer C. and Jenny Ethel (Norgaard) Pedersen was born on January 23, 1914, in Harlan, Iowa. She was raised in Harlan and attended Harlan schools through the ninth grade. For a time, she worked cleaning houses for people. On September 12, 1953, Laura Mae married Clifford R. Larson in Harlan. The couple lived away...
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