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Mitchell Spickermann
Dec 3, 2007
Mitchell Warren Spickermann, son of Warren Roger and Barbara Lucille Steen Spickermann, was born September 6, 1957 in Davenport, Iowa in Mercy Hospital. Mitch was a 1976 graduate of the Bennett High School. Mitch loved the outdoors. He loved to trap, hunt and fish and usually competed in the annual fish-o-rama with his friends. He was a member of...

Gale Maurer
Dec 2, 2007
Gale Pfarr Maurer, son of Herbert Forest and Bertha Pfarr Maurer, was born on April 8, 1914, in Tipton, Iowa. He was a graduate of Tipton High School and Tipton Junior College. Gale farmed until retiring in 1969. On September 30, 1938, Gale was united in marriage to Sarah Helen McAfee in Kohoka, Missouri. He was a member of...

Theron Williamson
Nov 28, 2007
Theron Lowell Williamson was born April 28, 1913, in Inez, Kentucky. He attended school in Inez while growing up. Theron worked as a coal miner in Kentucky. On July 4, 1938, he was united in marriage to Jean N. Newsome. Theron was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Kentucky. Theron is survived by...

Retha Eichhorn
Nov 27, 2007
Retha Ilene Miller Eichhorn, daughter of Urban Casper and Verda Blanche Russell Miller, was born May 28, 1939, in Jones County, Iowa. She was a graduate of Mechanicsville High School. On September 7, 1958, Retha was united in marriage to Gary Eugene Eichhorn in Mechanicsville. She was employed as the Activity Director at Cedar Manor Nursing Home for many...

Bonnie Bair
Nov 25, 2007
Bonnie Irene Bair, daughter of Carl Eugene and Norma Alice Bailey Bair, was born January 19, 1945, in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Bonnie Bair was a great example to all of us. We need to look at her life and learn form it. Bonnie was a gentle and loving person. She didn't care about the stuff of life that consumes...

Donald Stiff
Nov 20, 2007
Dateline: Rochester Donald Dean Stiff, 75, ended his long walk with terminal illness by going to a better place 11/20/2007 at his home in Rochester with his family by his side. Along his journey, he continued to find solid footholds with help from his strong faith and good friends. A veteran of the Korean War, Don continued to be...

Elizabeth White
Nov 15, 2007
Elizabeth Ann White, the daughter of Kirby Richard & Kim Ellen Berner White, was born October 5, 1988 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was a 2007 graduate of North Scott High School. Elizabeth was a student at DMACC and worked at Menards as well. She believed love and laughter was the best medicines and that the sunshine always brought...

Donald Nelson
Nov 15, 2007
Donald Nelson, 77, eldest son of Donald Otis and Evelyn Buss Nelson was born March 15, 1930 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was educated in the Tipton school district and graduated from Tipton High School in 1948. He married Donna Jean Brogan in Iowa City on March 27, 1950. Don was a jack of all trades. He was an...

Rodney Creque
Nov 9, 2007
Rodney Eugene Creque, son of Robert Edward and Delores Marjorie Pace Creque, was born on May 9, 1954 in Killeen, Texas. Rodney attended Tipton High School and was a member of the Class of 1972. He enlisted in the United States Navy and served his country for four years. Rodney was a man who could do anything with his...

Shirley Palmer
Nov 5, 2007
Shirley Rae Howard Palmer was born July 1, 1935, in Cedar County, Iowa in Cass Township to Russell Clarke and Nola Marie Achenbach Howard. Shirley attended Plato School, West Branch School, Tipton High School and graduated from Mercy School of Nursing in 1970. On December 20, 1952, Shirley was united in marriage to Richard Burdell Palmer in Tipton, Iowa....

Eugene Byerly
Nov 4, 2007
Eugene Charles Byerly, son of Charles William and Selma Martha Pincklemen Byerly, was born in Sumner, Iowa on July 10, 1934. He graduated from Waterloo High School. On June 20, 1980, Eugene was united in marriage to Mary Jessica McAfee in Tipton, Iowa. Eugene was employed at the John Deere Foundry in Waterloo for 30 years, retiring in 1981....

Alberta Dugger
Oct 27, 2007
Alberta Mae Gritton, daughter of Norman Levi and Etta Stella Ford Gritton, was born on April 7, 1920 in Cedar County, Iowa. She was a twin sister to her brother, Albert Ray Gritton. Alberta attended country school at the Hebron School in her elementary years and later attended Tipton School. Alberta met the love of her life, William Harlen...

Esther Wenck
Oct 23, 2007
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Emily Howe
Oct 14, 2007
Emily Howe was born on June 28, 1909, the daughter of Frank and Emma Shima. Born in rural Johnson County, she lived with her family on a farm by Solon. Emily is the youngest of 8 children. Her siblings were: Mayme, Libby, twins Fred and Frank, Margaret, Stanley and Joe. She was the only surviving sibling. Emily remembers riding...

Margaret Bender
Oct 7, 2007
Margaret Peg" Bender was born to Charles and Nell Broderick Plank on May 11 1908 in Tipton Iowa. She attend school in Tipton. Peg was united in marriage to John Smith Bender on June 1 1933 in Tipton Iowa. She worked at Smith's Ready to Wear for 35 years until retirement in 1979. Peg was a member of St....

Kay Cawiezell
Oct 6, 2007
Kay Cawiezell, daughter of Leland Henry and Elva Maxine Rife Aggson, was born in Iowa City, Iowa on November 23, 1939. She was a 1958 graduate of Tipton High School and a graduate of Cedar Rapids Beauty School as well. Kay was united in marriage on August 16, 1958, to Walter Wally" Theodore Cawiezell in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Together...

Nicholas Woerdehoff
Oct 3, 2007
Nicholas Roger Woerdehoff came into this world prematurely and passed directly onto Heaven on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 in Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas. He is the son of Steve and Julie Beuthein Woerdehoff. Funeral services will be held at the Peace Church of Christ United in Bennett, Iowa, on Saturday at 10:00 AM with the Rev. Barbra Keiper...

Howard Hines
Oct 1, 2007
Howard Dale Hines, son of Howard Dell and Ina Mae Ehresman Hines, was born on June 24, 1921 in Buchanan, Iowa. Dale, as he was known by, was educated in the Cass Twp #1 Country School. Dale was united in marriage to Arlene Joyce Behrend on June 30, 1944 in Rock Island, Illinois. Dale was a farmer, a butter...

Dolores Tevis
Sep 25, 2007
Dolores Mae Coleman, daughter of Fred and Audrey Statts Coleman, was born on February 2, 1930 in Stanwood, Iowa. Dolores attended several Cedar County Schools. Dolores was united in marriage to Roy Chester Tevis on March 1, 1947 in the United Methodist Church in Tipton, Iowa. Dolores and Roy were blessed with three daughters; Cathy, Justine and Penne. Dolores...

Doris Hargrave
Sep 18, 2007
Doris Hargrave, daughter of Henry and Hattie Mann Ahrens, was born December 29, 1915 in Lyndon, Illinois. She graduated from Lyndon High School and Rock Island Business College. She attended Monmouth College where she became a member of Pi Gamma Pi Honorary Society. She worked as a bookkeeper for McCabe's Style Shop in Rock Island, and secretary at Eclipse...