Obituaries
Obituaries for Pauley Jones Funeral Home
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones
Lela Gwendolyn Block
Dec 23, 2016
Lela Gwendolyn Block, daughter of John and Lela (Knouse) Carter, was born on April 8, 1922 in Kirkman, Iowa. She attended school in Kirkman and graduated with the class of 1939. On November 23, 1942, Gwen was united in marriage to Nels C. Block, Jr. at the First Baptist Church in Omaha, Nebraska while Nels was still in the United...
Aldine Lippold
Dec 20, 2016
Aldine Fay Lippold was born in Harlan, Iowa, on November 3, 1934, the oldest child of Everett and Linda Hartwig Petersen. She attended school in several towns in Iowa: Jacksonville, Corley, Irwin, Coon Rapids, and then graduated from Harlan High School with the class of 1953. She began working for Mutual of Omaha until 1962. In 1971, Aldine served as...
Ruth Dinesen
Dec 19, 2016
Ruth Regene Dinesen, daughter of Leroy and Edna (Jensen) Nelson, was born on July 23, 1923 near Fiscus, Iowa. Ruth attended country school through the eighth grade but later completed her GED. Ruth worked at a local dentist as his assistant in Harlan and also as a nurses aid in the old Harlan Hospital. On October 18, 1946, Ruth was...
Brian Douglas Boje
Dec 17, 2016
Brian Douglas Boje was born on May 22, 1952 in Carroll, Iowa, the son of Harold and Marian “Mary” Dinan Boje. He graduated from Kuemper High School in Carroll, Iowa with the class of 1970 and continued on to complete some college at the Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Colorado. Brian shared two children, two grandchildren, and many memories with...
Janet Freeman
Dec 17, 2016
Janet Marie Freeman was born June 14, 1933, to Leonard and Helen (Kohler) Engel in Kewanee, Illinois. The family later moved to East Moline, Illinois. The house in East Moline was something she and her siblings constantly reminisced. After her dad passed away at an early age her mother returned the family to Kewanee, where Janet finished grade school and...
Pam Ahart
Dec 15, 2016
Pam Ahart was born in Omaha, Nebraska, May 5, 1952, the daughter of James and Lorraine Weise Strong. She was raised in the Omaha/Council Bluffs areas and graduated high school from Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Following her schooling she was employed with the Avis Car Rental Agency at Eppley Airport in Omaha for twenty-five years. In...
Edward Fisher, Iii
Dec 15, 2016
Edward Herbert Fisher III, son of Edward Herbert Fisher II and Catherine Grace Crothers, was born October 23, 1956 in San Diego, California. He attended school at Pacific Beach Middle School and graduated from Mission Bay High School in San Diego. Ed furthered his education at the University of California in San Diego, receiving his BA with honors in bioengineering...
Gordon Nelson
Dec 14, 2016
Gordon James Nelson was born on January 9, 1932 in Harlan, Iowa, the son of Clarence and Elsie Larsen Nelson. He attended school through the sixth grade at Harlan Community School. On February 18, 1950, Gordon married Arlene D. Petersen. Five children were born to this union: Janie Marie, LuAnn Sue, Dickie James, Johnie Gage and Jerry Jay. Gordon and...
Barbara Morgan
Dec 14, 2016
Barbara Morgan, daughter of Wilhelm and Ethel (Dau) Janssen, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on December 12, 1929. She lived in the Persia, Iowa area until she moved to Lincoln Township in Shelby County where she graduated from Harlan High in 1947. She was married to Victor Morgan on September 5, 1948 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan, Iowa....
Eric Paul Thompson
Dec 13, 2016
Eric Paul Thompson, son of Russell and Dixie (Larson) Thompson was born December 1, 1962 in Harlan, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Irwin, Iowa and he graduated from Irwin Kirkman High School with the class of 1981. After high school, Eric worked for Oakland Food in Oakland, Iowa. He then moved to...
Maryann Kloewer
Dec 9, 2016
Maryann E. Kloewer, daughter of William and Catherine (Overrmoehle) Tunink was born June 25, 1931 in Elgin, Nebraska. She was the youngest of eight children. Maryann attended and graduated from St. Boniface Catholic High School in 1949. In the area she worked on Dwyer’s ranch and at Parr’s café in Elgin. She then moved to Chicago to help her sister...
Harold Joseph Buckley
Dec 9, 2016
Harold Buckley, son of Pat and Bernadine (Miller) Buckley, was born August 5, 1925 on a farm in rural Panama, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic Church and he attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Panama. On November 18, 1948, Harold was united in marriage to Elaine Heller at St. Mary’s Our Lady...
J Christopher Olesen
Dec 6, 2016
J Christopher “J C.” Olesen was born on October 10, 1944, in Waco, Texas, the son of Herbert Carl and Eleanor Lucille Wild Olesen. He was a 1962 graduate of AvoHa High School in Avoca, Iowa, and attended Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska, for one year. J C. joined the US Air Force on September 7, 1965, and was stationed...
Charles Edward Wyatt
Dec 5, 2016
Charles “Charlie” Edward Wyatt was born on January 15, 1954 in Kansas, the son of Glen and Evelyn Wyatt. He moved to Lincoln, Nebraska a few years later before settling in Bellevue, Nebraska in 1960 and ultimately moving to Walnut, Iowa around 2006. Charlie joined the US Army during the Vietnam War, serving from 1973 until 1975 as a heavy...
Larry Miller
Dec 3, 2016
Larry Wayne Miller, son of Virgil and Lillie Louise (Kellogg) Miller, was born on February 8, 1945 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Tri-Center High School and was the Valedictorian of his class. After high school, Larry attended Dana College and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in 1967. He taught school for one year in West Point,...
Dorothy Louise Armentrout
Nov 28, 2016
Dorothy Louise Armentrout was born February 13, 1940 on a farm during a raging snowstorm by her Father. Dorothy was the daughter of John and Elda (Rothfolk) Barten. She grew up on a farm near Botna, Iowa. She met Richard Lee Armentrout via a mutual friend. He liked her immediately and got the courage to ask her out. They dated...
Doris Marie Ploen
Nov 26, 2016
Doris Marie Ploen was born on August 6, 1927, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She was the daughter of Oliver Schmidt and Ella Danker Schmidt. She was raised on a farm south of Minden, Iowa, and attended York Center Country School through 8th grade and was a 1945 graduate of Minden High School. She continued her education...
Darlene Rachel Lamp
Nov 25, 2016
Darlene Rachel Lamp, age 85, of Manning, died early Friday, November 25, 2016, at the Manning Plaza in Manning. Graveside memorial services will be announced in the spring of 2017. The Pfannebecker Funeral Home in Denison is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include one son, Michael Lamp of Baxter Springs, Kansas, other relatives and friends.
J. Guadalupe Tovar-Garcia
Nov 21, 2016
J. Guadalupe Tovar-Garcia, also known as Pedro, was born in Mexico March 8, 1973, the son of Guadalupe Tovar-Martinez and Margarita Garcia-Vega. He was raised in Mexico where he received his education.Pedro came to the United States and to Denison, Iowa, in 1996. On July 31, 1999, Pedro was united in marriage with Martha Nunez in Denison, Iowa. They made...
Joann Hilda Weihs
Nov 21, 2016
JoAnn Hilda Weihs, daughter of Tom and Lena (Leinen) Schumacher, was born February 11, 1931 in Defiance, Iowa. She attended school at St. Peter's in Defiance. After high school, JoAnn attended Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught in country school until she got married. On February 11, 1952, JoAnn married Wilfred C. Weihs, Harlan, Iowa. They...
Lela Gwendolyn Block
Dec 23, 2016
Lela Gwendolyn Block, daughter of John and Lela (Knouse) Carter, was born on April 8, 1922 in Kirkman, Iowa. She attended school in Kirkman and graduated with the class of 1939. On November 23, 1942, Gwen was united in marriage to Nels C. Block, Jr. at the First Baptist Church in Omaha, Nebraska while Nels was still in the United...
Aldine Lippold
Dec 20, 2016
Aldine Fay Lippold was born in Harlan, Iowa, on November 3, 1934, the oldest child of Everett and Linda Hartwig Petersen. She attended school in several towns in Iowa: Jacksonville, Corley, Irwin, Coon Rapids, and then graduated from Harlan High School with the class of 1953. She began working for Mutual of Omaha until 1962. In 1971, Aldine served as...
Ruth Dinesen
Dec 19, 2016
Ruth Regene Dinesen, daughter of Leroy and Edna (Jensen) Nelson, was born on July 23, 1923 near Fiscus, Iowa. Ruth attended country school through the eighth grade but later completed her GED. Ruth worked at a local dentist as his assistant in Harlan and also as a nurses aid in the old Harlan Hospital. On October 18, 1946, Ruth was...
Brian Douglas Boje
Dec 17, 2016
Brian Douglas Boje was born on May 22, 1952 in Carroll, Iowa, the son of Harold and Marian “Mary” Dinan Boje. He graduated from Kuemper High School in Carroll, Iowa with the class of 1970 and continued on to complete some college at the Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Colorado. Brian shared two children, two grandchildren, and many memories with...
Janet Freeman
Dec 17, 2016
Janet Marie Freeman was born June 14, 1933, to Leonard and Helen (Kohler) Engel in Kewanee, Illinois. The family later moved to East Moline, Illinois. The house in East Moline was something she and her siblings constantly reminisced. After her dad passed away at an early age her mother returned the family to Kewanee, where Janet finished grade school and...
Pam Ahart
Dec 15, 2016
Pam Ahart was born in Omaha, Nebraska, May 5, 1952, the daughter of James and Lorraine Weise Strong. She was raised in the Omaha/Council Bluffs areas and graduated high school from Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Following her schooling she was employed with the Avis Car Rental Agency at Eppley Airport in Omaha for twenty-five years. In...
Edward Fisher, Iii
Dec 15, 2016
Edward Herbert Fisher III, son of Edward Herbert Fisher II and Catherine Grace Crothers, was born October 23, 1956 in San Diego, California. He attended school at Pacific Beach Middle School and graduated from Mission Bay High School in San Diego. Ed furthered his education at the University of California in San Diego, receiving his BA with honors in bioengineering...
Gordon Nelson
Dec 14, 2016
Gordon James Nelson was born on January 9, 1932 in Harlan, Iowa, the son of Clarence and Elsie Larsen Nelson. He attended school through the sixth grade at Harlan Community School. On February 18, 1950, Gordon married Arlene D. Petersen. Five children were born to this union: Janie Marie, LuAnn Sue, Dickie James, Johnie Gage and Jerry Jay. Gordon and...
Barbara Morgan
Dec 14, 2016
Barbara Morgan, daughter of Wilhelm and Ethel (Dau) Janssen, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on December 12, 1929. She lived in the Persia, Iowa area until she moved to Lincoln Township in Shelby County where she graduated from Harlan High in 1947. She was married to Victor Morgan on September 5, 1948 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan, Iowa....
Eric Paul Thompson
Dec 13, 2016
Eric Paul Thompson, son of Russell and Dixie (Larson) Thompson was born December 1, 1962 in Harlan, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Irwin, Iowa and he graduated from Irwin Kirkman High School with the class of 1981. After high school, Eric worked for Oakland Food in Oakland, Iowa. He then moved to...
Maryann Kloewer
Dec 9, 2016
Maryann E. Kloewer, daughter of William and Catherine (Overrmoehle) Tunink was born June 25, 1931 in Elgin, Nebraska. She was the youngest of eight children. Maryann attended and graduated from St. Boniface Catholic High School in 1949. In the area she worked on Dwyer’s ranch and at Parr’s café in Elgin. She then moved to Chicago to help her sister...
Harold Joseph Buckley
Dec 9, 2016
Harold Buckley, son of Pat and Bernadine (Miller) Buckley, was born August 5, 1925 on a farm in rural Panama, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic Church and he attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Panama. On November 18, 1948, Harold was united in marriage to Elaine Heller at St. Mary’s Our Lady...
J Christopher Olesen
Dec 6, 2016
J Christopher “J C.” Olesen was born on October 10, 1944, in Waco, Texas, the son of Herbert Carl and Eleanor Lucille Wild Olesen. He was a 1962 graduate of AvoHa High School in Avoca, Iowa, and attended Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska, for one year. J C. joined the US Air Force on September 7, 1965, and was stationed...
Charles Edward Wyatt
Dec 5, 2016
Charles “Charlie” Edward Wyatt was born on January 15, 1954 in Kansas, the son of Glen and Evelyn Wyatt. He moved to Lincoln, Nebraska a few years later before settling in Bellevue, Nebraska in 1960 and ultimately moving to Walnut, Iowa around 2006. Charlie joined the US Army during the Vietnam War, serving from 1973 until 1975 as a heavy...
Larry Miller
Dec 3, 2016
Larry Wayne Miller, son of Virgil and Lillie Louise (Kellogg) Miller, was born on February 8, 1945 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Tri-Center High School and was the Valedictorian of his class. After high school, Larry attended Dana College and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in 1967. He taught school for one year in West Point,...
Dorothy Louise Armentrout
Nov 28, 2016
Dorothy Louise Armentrout was born February 13, 1940 on a farm during a raging snowstorm by her Father. Dorothy was the daughter of John and Elda (Rothfolk) Barten. She grew up on a farm near Botna, Iowa. She met Richard Lee Armentrout via a mutual friend. He liked her immediately and got the courage to ask her out. They dated...
Doris Marie Ploen
Nov 26, 2016
Doris Marie Ploen was born on August 6, 1927, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She was the daughter of Oliver Schmidt and Ella Danker Schmidt. She was raised on a farm south of Minden, Iowa, and attended York Center Country School through 8th grade and was a 1945 graduate of Minden High School. She continued her education...
Darlene Rachel Lamp
Nov 25, 2016
Darlene Rachel Lamp, age 85, of Manning, died early Friday, November 25, 2016, at the Manning Plaza in Manning. Graveside memorial services will be announced in the spring of 2017. The Pfannebecker Funeral Home in Denison is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include one son, Michael Lamp of Baxter Springs, Kansas, other relatives and friends.
J. Guadalupe Tovar-Garcia
Nov 21, 2016
J. Guadalupe Tovar-Garcia, also known as Pedro, was born in Mexico March 8, 1973, the son of Guadalupe Tovar-Martinez and Margarita Garcia-Vega. He was raised in Mexico where he received his education.Pedro came to the United States and to Denison, Iowa, in 1996. On July 31, 1999, Pedro was united in marriage with Martha Nunez in Denison, Iowa. They made...
Joann Hilda Weihs
Nov 21, 2016
JoAnn Hilda Weihs, daughter of Tom and Lena (Leinen) Schumacher, was born February 11, 1931 in Defiance, Iowa. She attended school at St. Peter's in Defiance. After high school, JoAnn attended Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught in country school until she got married. On February 11, 1952, JoAnn married Wilfred C. Weihs, Harlan, Iowa. They...
