OBITUARIES
Lloyd Edwin Bergstrom
Jun 11, 2015
Lloyd Edwin Bergstrom was born October 26, 1928 to Gus and Jessie Inman Bergstrom. He died June 11, 2015 at the Griswold Care Center in Griswold, IA at the age of 86 years, 7 months, and 16 days. He lived his entire life in the Griswold area except the two years he was serving his country. He graduated from Griswold...
Sylvia Rosalia Jedruska-Witt
May 28, 2015
Sylvia Bozena Janina Rosalia (Mleczko) Jedruska-Witt Sylvia was born January 1, 1947 in Cracow, Poland, the oldest of 3 Siblings. She spent over a decade practicing medicine in Poland, most of that time she lived in Zakopane in the Tatra mountains of southern Poland. In 1980, she followed her parents to Meknes, Morocco, taking her two sons, from a previous...
Charles Luther Hicks
May 20, 2015
Charles Luther Hicks, the son of Donald and Doris (Watts) Hicks, was born July 17, 1956 in Fort Ord, CA and died May 20, 2015 at the Glenwood Hospice House, in Glenwood, IA at the age of 58 years, 10 months, and 3 days. Charles moved to Missouri at a very young age and lived there for several years before...
John Michael Camizzi
May 12, 2015
John Michael Camizzi John M. Camizzi died May 12, 2015 at Oakland Manor, Oakland, Iowa after a long battle with cancer. Family and friends will gather for remembrances of his life on May 23, 2015 at the Vernon Bar and Grill, 2035 Mt. Vernon Road SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 2 – 5 pm. Inurnment will be on May 23,...
Rick L. Beedle
Apr 28, 2015
Rick Beedle, the son of Mervin F. and Joan Fay (Martens) Beedle, was born May 14, 1958 in Sheldon, IA and died April 28, 2015 at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA at the age of 56 years, 11 months, and 14 days. Rick attended school at Oakland, graduating from Oakland High School with the class of 1976. He...
Vera Louise Sasse
Apr 25, 2015
Vera Louise Sasse died April 25, 2015 at the Griswold Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Griswold, IA at the age of 93 years, 8 months, and 3 days. She had been a resident at the center since February of 2014. Vera Louise Anderson Sasse was born the 22nd day of August, 1921, at home in Exira, IA to George...
Gerald Eugene Hackett
Apr 17, 2015
Gerald Eugene Hackett, the son of Wayne and Mattie (Anderson) Hackett was born October 22, 1928 at Oakland, IA and died April 17, 2015 at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA, at the age of 86 years, 5 months, and 26 days. Gerald attended country school and then graduated from Oakland High School with the class of 1946....
Norene J. Duggan
Apr 16, 2015
Norene Josephine Duggan, the daughter of Nicholas and Katherine (Brosius) Klosen, was born July 20, 1917 in Gandy, NE and died April 16, 2015 in Omaha, NE at the age of 97 years, 8 months, and 27 days. Norene attended country school and then graduated as valedictorian from Gandy High School with the class of 1935. She attended St. Francis...
Lilly Marie Palmer
Apr 12, 2015
Lilly Marie Palmer, the daughter of Ralph and Emma (Schmielau) Taylor, was born June 25, 1925 at Oakland, Iowa and died April 12, 2015 at the Oakland Manor Nursing Home in Oakland, Iowa at the age of 89 years, 9 months, and 18 days.
Lilly attended country school and then graduated from Oakland High School with the...
Carroll Wallace Johnson
Mar 29, 2015
Caroll Wallace Johnson, the son of Clifford Wallace and Velma Marie (Inman) Johnson was born January 2, 1929 in Walnut, IA and died March 29, 2015 at the Oakland Manor Nursing Home in Oakland, IA at the age of 86 years, 2 months, and 27 days.
Caroll attended country school near Minden. After finishing school, he helped...
Scott James Wagner
Mar 27, 2015
Scott James Wagner, the son of James Glen and Sandra Kay (Paulsen) Wagner, was born March 25, 1964 in Greenfield, IA. Scott attended grade school at Lewis and then graduated from Griswold High School with the class of 1982. He worked in Oakland for several years and then moved to Wichita, KS for a short time before returning to Griswold....
Carman Marie O'Dell
Mar 16, 2015
Carman Marie O'Dell, the daughter of Harrel Dean and Marian Dorothy (Pash) Dowling, was born March 14, 1968 in Giddings, TX and died March 16, 2015 in Elliott, IA at the age of 47 years. Carman attended school in Scottsdale, AZ. On April 10, 2007 she was united in marriage to William O'Dell in Las Vegas, NV. They lived in...
Romona Lee Reed
Mar 12, 2015
Romona Lee Reed, the daughter of Pearl and Madge (Duff) Haworth, was born January 11, 1929, in Omaha, NE and died March 12, 2015 at Chestnut Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, in Cumming, GA at the age of 86.
Romona attended school at Griswold, graduating from Griswold High School with the class of 1947. On February 1,...
Willis L. Merritt
Mar 6, 2015
Willis Merritt, the son of Ira Curtis and Anna Christina (Anderson) Merritt, was born October 3, 1928 in Haddam, KS and died March 6, 2015 at Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, NE at the age of 86 years, 5 months, and 3 days.
Willis was educated in Washington, KS then moved to Walnut, Iowa. He joined the...
Eileen Weis
Mar 5, 2015
Gertrude Eileen Weis
Eileen Weis, 74, from Griswold, Iowa, passed away peacefully after living with a chronic illness for several years.
Eileen was the second of four children born to Clyde & Emma (McCormick) Mullis, on August 29, 1940.
She enjoyed growing up in Burlington with...
Shirley Elizabeth Leed
Mar 2, 2015
Shirley Elizabeth Leed, the daughter of Adolph and Blanche (McCowen) Zobrist, was born January 1, 1922 in Hancock, Iowa. She died March 2, 2015 at Winterset Care Center South in Winterset, Iowa. She was 93 years, 2 months, and 1 day old. Shirley attended school in Hancock, Iowa and graduated with the class of 1938. After graduating she worked at...
Bill Fred Bailey
Feb 20, 2015
Bill Fred Bailey, the son of Harold and Leona (Morris) Bailey, was born November 6, 1928 near Griswold, Iowa and died February 20, 2015 at the Oakland Manor Nursing Home in Oakland, Iowa, at the age of 86 years, 3, months, and 14 days.
Bill attended school at Macedonia through the 7 th grade and then graduated...
Harlan L. Northrup
Feb 16, 2015
Harlan L. Northrup, the son of Floyd and Esther (Downer) Northrup, was born June 17, 1938 in Atlantic, IA and died February 16, 2015 at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, IA, at the age of 76 years, 7 months, and 30 days. Harlan attended school in Atlantic, graduating with the class of 1956. While in high school, Harlan...
Paul E. Steffen
Feb 8, 2015
Paul E. Steffen
Paul E. Steffen, one of 11 children, was born June 24, 1927, to Henry B. and Blanche L. Steffen. He joined the ranks of heaven on Feb. 8, 2015, at the Griswold Care Center.
Born and raised in Griswold, Iowa, Paul was a lifelong resident except during his time serving his country....
Cheryl Faye Wotton
Jan 25, 2015
Cheryl Faye Wotton, the daughter of Harold Max and Faye Loren (Chase) Smith, was born August 28, 1950 in Council Bluffs, IA and died Janaury 25, 2015 at her home in Council Bluffs, IA at the age of 64 years, 4 months, and 28 days.
Cheryl was united in marriage to Harold Freeman Wotton at Rumfrord, Maine....
