Obituaries
Obituaries for Pauley Jones Funeral Home
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones
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...
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...
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)....
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...
Joshua Malcolm
Jan 17, 2008
Joshua Dean Malcolm, the son of Stan and Vanessa (Bridegroom) Malcolm, was born on May 7, 1977, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 1986, the family made their home in Shelby. Joshua attended grade school in Shelby and graduated from A-H-S-T in Avoca with the Class of 1996. He was baptized at the Denison Aquatic Center through the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom...
Gary Russmann
Jan 13, 2008
Gary Lee Russmann, the seventh child born to Albert A. and Lisle Harris Russmann, was born on August 10, 1942 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Gary attended country school Pleasant Ridge #6. Five weeks into his third grade year, Gary contracted polio in the 1950 polio outbreak and spent seven months at Mercy Hospital. When he returned home the family moved...
Doris Sorensen
Jan 13, 2008
Doris E. Schelldorf Sorensen was born on a farm in Hayes Township, Ida County, Iowa, July 3, 1916, the daughter of Axel and Selma Carlson Bloom. She was raised on the farm attending the rural schools before being graduated from the Kiron High School with the class of 1934. On December 23, 1936, Doris was united in marriage with LeRoy...
Louis Popp
Jan 12, 2008
Louis Popp was born at Carroll, Iowa, August 7, 1928, the son of Louis Adam and Blanche Robinson Popp. He was raised at Vail where he received his education being graduated from the Vail High School with the class of 1947. On December 28, 1947, Louis was united in marriage with Audrey Kathleen Ewoldt at Vail, Iowa. They made their...
Gerda Christensen
Jan 10, 2008
Gerda Christensen was born on March 17, 1916, to Soren and Petrea (Christensen) Nielsen in Harlan, Iowa. She attended school in Harlan and after graduating from Harlan High School, she went on to receive her normal training as a teacher. She taught for a short while in Shelby County country schools. She became a caretaker of children for various families...
Lee W. Mclaughlin
Jan 9, 2008
Lee William McLaughlin, son of Willard and Emma Caroline (Robinson) McLaughlin, was born on December 4, 1941 in Council Bluffs, Iowa and baptized at the Tennant Methodist Church. Lee was a member of the last class to graduate from Tennant High School in 1960. On August 24, 1962, Lee was united in marriage to Marie Nielsen at the Evangelical United...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
Joshua Malcolm
Jan 17, 2008
Joshua Dean Malcolm, the son of Stan and Vanessa (Bridegroom) Malcolm, was born on May 7, 1977, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 1986, the family made their home in Shelby. Joshua attended grade school in Shelby and graduated from A-H-S-T in Avoca with the Class of 1996. He was baptized at the Denison Aquatic Center through the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom...
Gary Russmann
Jan 13, 2008
Gary Lee Russmann, the seventh child born to Albert A. and Lisle Harris Russmann, was born on August 10, 1942 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Gary attended country school Pleasant Ridge #6. Five weeks into his third grade year, Gary contracted polio in the 1950 polio outbreak and spent seven months at Mercy Hospital. When he returned home the family moved...
Doris Sorensen
Jan 13, 2008
Doris E. Schelldorf Sorensen was born on a farm in Hayes Township, Ida County, Iowa, July 3, 1916, the daughter of Axel and Selma Carlson Bloom. She was raised on the farm attending the rural schools before being graduated from the Kiron High School with the class of 1934. On December 23, 1936, Doris was united in marriage with LeRoy...
Louis Popp
Jan 12, 2008
Louis Popp was born at Carroll, Iowa, August 7, 1928, the son of Louis Adam and Blanche Robinson Popp. He was raised at Vail where he received his education being graduated from the Vail High School with the class of 1947. On December 28, 1947, Louis was united in marriage with Audrey Kathleen Ewoldt at Vail, Iowa. They made their...
Gerda Christensen
Jan 10, 2008
Gerda Christensen was born on March 17, 1916, to Soren and Petrea (Christensen) Nielsen in Harlan, Iowa. She attended school in Harlan and after graduating from Harlan High School, she went on to receive her normal training as a teacher. She taught for a short while in Shelby County country schools. She became a caretaker of children for various families...
Lee W. Mclaughlin
Jan 9, 2008
Lee William McLaughlin, son of Willard and Emma Caroline (Robinson) McLaughlin, was born on December 4, 1941 in Council Bluffs, Iowa and baptized at the Tennant Methodist Church. Lee was a member of the last class to graduate from Tennant High School in 1960. On August 24, 1962, Lee was united in marriage to Marie Nielsen at the Evangelical United...
