Obituaries
Obituaries for Pauley Jones Funeral Home
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones
Ina E. Peyton
Mar 26, 2008
- Age 98 Ina Ella Peyton, the daughter of Earl & Margaret Gross Zimmerman, was born on November 14, 1909 on a farm outside of Oakland, Iowa. Her father died when she was 4 and the family moved to Avoca. Ina was baptized in the Presbyterian Church in Avoca. She went to school here until she was sixteen when her...
Thomas Christiansen
Mar 24, 2008
Thomas A. Christiansen was born on a farm in rural Vail, Iowa, November 2, 1928, the son of Ludwig and Agnes Brogan Christiansen. He was raised in Crawford County receiving his early education in the rural schools before being graduated from the Deloit High School. Following high school he farmed with his parents. During the Korean War, from March of...
Ralph J. Kruse
Mar 23, 2008
Ralph John Kruse was born at Mapleton, Iowa, October 11, 1926, the son of Henry and Freda Meyer Kruse. He was received into God?s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at St. Mathew Lutheran Church in Mapleton October 31, 1926 and confirmed in his Christian Faith there May 12, 1940. He was raised on the farm at...
Lenuel Richard Lollis
Mar 23, 2008
Lenuel Richard Lollis was born on September 19, 1932 in Waleetkoa, Oklahoma. Len was the youngest of three children. He lived at home with his father until the age of twenty, at which time Len moved to Glenwood, Iowa, where he resided until 1979. On March 1, 1979, Len moved to REM Leadway in Shelby, Iowa where he resided in...
Alvin L. Wiese
Mar 22, 2008
Alvin L. Wiese, son of Albert and Lillie Pagel Wiese, was born December 13, 1926 in Scott County, Iowa. He passed away March 22, 2008 at the age of 81 years at the Odebolt Nursing and Rehab Center in Odebolt, Iowa. He received his education in the Hickory Grove Township rural schools and grew up on the family farm near...
Wanda O. Jacobsen
Mar 20, 2008
Wanda Olga Jacobsen, the daughter of Walter, Sr. and Polly Etta Stephenson Rieck, was born on February 9, 1910 in Guernsey, Iowa. She attended school in Guernsey until the third grade when the family moved to Walnut, Iowa. She graduated from Walnut High School and then attended Northwest Missouri State University. Wanda was united in marriage to Melvin Jacobsen on...
Rose Marie Coenen
Mar 17, 2008
Rose Marie Coenen was born on August 14, 1937 to Charles Beran and Mildred Darnell in Verdigre, Nebraska at the home of her grandparents. She was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville, Iowa, and baptized in the Catholic Church in 1958. She attended grade school in Audubon County and Jacksonville, Iowa, graduating from Harlan High School with the Class...
Leonard Riessen
Mar 15, 2008
Leonard Riessen was born on a farm in Morgan Township, Schleswig, Iowa, July 3, 1922, the son of George and Ella Ericksen Riessen. He was baptized and confirmed in his youth at Friedens Evangelical Church in Schleswig. He was raised on the farm at Schleswig and received his education in the local rural schools. Following his education he farmed in...
Evelyn B. Whiteing
Mar 13, 2008
Evelyn "Bern" Whiteing was born at Dunlap, Iowa, October 27, 1925, the daughter of William Noel and Elizabeth Lucille Pearl McCoid. The family resided at Dunlap until Evelyn was age 11 when they moved to Arion, Iowa. She received her early education in Arion before attending Denison High School. On June 7, 1947, Evelyn was united in marriage with Albert...
Maude M. Bauer
Mar 13, 2008
Maude Marie Bauer was born on July 30, 1907, to William and Edna (McKeighan) Gardner in Burke, South Dakota. She attended grade school in Naper, Nebraska, and high school in Tennant, Iowa, before graduating from Amity High School in College Springs, Iowa. She attended Wayne State Teachers College in Wayne, Nebraska. After graduation, she became superintendent of a two year...
Edwin M. Rife
Mar 13, 2008
Edwin Monty Rife, the son of Cecil and Ethel Petit Rife, was born on February 6, 1921 in Avoca, Iowa. He and his three sisters: Doyne, Bessie and Ruby lived with their parents on "the flat" in Avoca on an acreage where they had milk cows and other livestock. Eddie learned to care for the animals at an early age...
Joseph Schomer
Mar 9, 2008
Joseph Schomer, son of Jacob and Mary (Petsche) Schomer, was born on February 6, 1916 outside of Westphalia, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia, Iowa and graduated from St. Boniface Catholic School. On June 22, 1943, Joe was united in marriage to Bernice Buman at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in...
George F. Petersen
Mar 7, 2008
George F. Petersen, son of Everett and Linda (Hartwig) Petersen, was born on February 4, 1940 in Jacksonville, Iowa. He attended school in Coon Rapids, Iowa and Irwin, Iowa and graduated from high school in Harlan, Iowa with the class of 1958. On April 12, 1959, George was united in marriage to Karma Strandskov in Kimballton, Iowa. Three children were...
Robert A. Mortensen
Mar 7, 2008
Robert A. Mortensen, son of Carl and Nora Jane (Moore) Mortensen, was born on September 20, 1921, in Shelby, Iowa. Robert was baptized and confirmed at the First Presbyterian Church of Shelby and graduated from the Shelby Consolidated School. Bob was a pilot and advanced instrument instructor in the Naval Air Corps during World War II, stationed in Pensacola, Florida....
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...
Ina E. Peyton
Mar 26, 2008
- Age 98 Ina Ella Peyton, the daughter of Earl & Margaret Gross Zimmerman, was born on November 14, 1909 on a farm outside of Oakland, Iowa. Her father died when she was 4 and the family moved to Avoca. Ina was baptized in the Presbyterian Church in Avoca. She went to school here until she was sixteen when her...
Thomas Christiansen
Mar 24, 2008
Thomas A. Christiansen was born on a farm in rural Vail, Iowa, November 2, 1928, the son of Ludwig and Agnes Brogan Christiansen. He was raised in Crawford County receiving his early education in the rural schools before being graduated from the Deloit High School. Following high school he farmed with his parents. During the Korean War, from March of...
Ralph J. Kruse
Mar 23, 2008
Ralph John Kruse was born at Mapleton, Iowa, October 11, 1926, the son of Henry and Freda Meyer Kruse. He was received into God?s Kingdom of Grace through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at St. Mathew Lutheran Church in Mapleton October 31, 1926 and confirmed in his Christian Faith there May 12, 1940. He was raised on the farm at...
Lenuel Richard Lollis
Mar 23, 2008
Lenuel Richard Lollis was born on September 19, 1932 in Waleetkoa, Oklahoma. Len was the youngest of three children. He lived at home with his father until the age of twenty, at which time Len moved to Glenwood, Iowa, where he resided until 1979. On March 1, 1979, Len moved to REM Leadway in Shelby, Iowa where he resided in...
Alvin L. Wiese
Mar 22, 2008
Alvin L. Wiese, son of Albert and Lillie Pagel Wiese, was born December 13, 1926 in Scott County, Iowa. He passed away March 22, 2008 at the age of 81 years at the Odebolt Nursing and Rehab Center in Odebolt, Iowa. He received his education in the Hickory Grove Township rural schools and grew up on the family farm near...
Wanda O. Jacobsen
Mar 20, 2008
Wanda Olga Jacobsen, the daughter of Walter, Sr. and Polly Etta Stephenson Rieck, was born on February 9, 1910 in Guernsey, Iowa. She attended school in Guernsey until the third grade when the family moved to Walnut, Iowa. She graduated from Walnut High School and then attended Northwest Missouri State University. Wanda was united in marriage to Melvin Jacobsen on...
Rose Marie Coenen
Mar 17, 2008
Rose Marie Coenen was born on August 14, 1937 to Charles Beran and Mildred Darnell in Verdigre, Nebraska at the home of her grandparents. She was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville, Iowa, and baptized in the Catholic Church in 1958. She attended grade school in Audubon County and Jacksonville, Iowa, graduating from Harlan High School with the Class...
Leonard Riessen
Mar 15, 2008
Leonard Riessen was born on a farm in Morgan Township, Schleswig, Iowa, July 3, 1922, the son of George and Ella Ericksen Riessen. He was baptized and confirmed in his youth at Friedens Evangelical Church in Schleswig. He was raised on the farm at Schleswig and received his education in the local rural schools. Following his education he farmed in...
Evelyn B. Whiteing
Mar 13, 2008
Evelyn "Bern" Whiteing was born at Dunlap, Iowa, October 27, 1925, the daughter of William Noel and Elizabeth Lucille Pearl McCoid. The family resided at Dunlap until Evelyn was age 11 when they moved to Arion, Iowa. She received her early education in Arion before attending Denison High School. On June 7, 1947, Evelyn was united in marriage with Albert...
Maude M. Bauer
Mar 13, 2008
Maude Marie Bauer was born on July 30, 1907, to William and Edna (McKeighan) Gardner in Burke, South Dakota. She attended grade school in Naper, Nebraska, and high school in Tennant, Iowa, before graduating from Amity High School in College Springs, Iowa. She attended Wayne State Teachers College in Wayne, Nebraska. After graduation, she became superintendent of a two year...
Edwin M. Rife
Mar 13, 2008
Edwin Monty Rife, the son of Cecil and Ethel Petit Rife, was born on February 6, 1921 in Avoca, Iowa. He and his three sisters: Doyne, Bessie and Ruby lived with their parents on "the flat" in Avoca on an acreage where they had milk cows and other livestock. Eddie learned to care for the animals at an early age...
Joseph Schomer
Mar 9, 2008
Joseph Schomer, son of Jacob and Mary (Petsche) Schomer, was born on February 6, 1916 outside of Westphalia, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia, Iowa and graduated from St. Boniface Catholic School. On June 22, 1943, Joe was united in marriage to Bernice Buman at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in...
George F. Petersen
Mar 7, 2008
George F. Petersen, son of Everett and Linda (Hartwig) Petersen, was born on February 4, 1940 in Jacksonville, Iowa. He attended school in Coon Rapids, Iowa and Irwin, Iowa and graduated from high school in Harlan, Iowa with the class of 1958. On April 12, 1959, George was united in marriage to Karma Strandskov in Kimballton, Iowa. Three children were...
Robert A. Mortensen
Mar 7, 2008
Robert A. Mortensen, son of Carl and Nora Jane (Moore) Mortensen, was born on September 20, 1921, in Shelby, Iowa. Robert was baptized and confirmed at the First Presbyterian Church of Shelby and graduated from the Shelby Consolidated School. Bob was a pilot and advanced instrument instructor in the Naval Air Corps during World War II, stationed in Pensacola, Florida....
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...
