Leroy W. Pruess
Jul 21, 2006
Leroy W. Pruess, age 85, of Clarence, Iowa, died Friday, July 21, 2006, at St.Lukes Hospital Cedar Rapids. Leroy was born July 4, 1921, in Clarence to Paul and Helen (Bergmann) Pruess. Leroy Married Mardell Rathjen March 2, 1947 in Davenport, she died Sept. 12, 2001. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, July 30, 2006, at...
Rosalie A. Mcatee
Jul 19, 2006
Rosalie A. McAtee, age 67, of Clarence, Iowa, died July 19, 2006, at home after a long illness. Rosalie was born July 22, 1938, in Walker, Iowa to Henry and Caroline (Putnam) Reece. Rosalie married Chuck McAtee on July 15 of 1964 in Center Point. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am on Monday, July 24, 2006, at Chapman...
Eldon E. Ruchtozke
Jul 17, 2006
Eldon E. Ruchtozke, age 69, of Tipton, Iowa, died Monday, July 17, 2006, in University Hospital, Iowa City. Eldon was born April 9,1937, in Clarence, Iowa to Edward and Ida (Luettjohann) Ruchotzke. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at Chapman Funeral Home in Clarence, Iowa, with Rev. David Mears officiating. Burial will be...
Florence Bethurum
Jul 8, 2006
Florence Bethurum, 101, of Dixon, Iowa died Saturday, July 8, 2006, at the Wheatland Manor Nursing Home in Wheatland, Iowa. Florence was born on March 4, 1905, in Big Rock, Iowa, to Grover and Bertha (Homrighausen) Horstmann. Florence married Edward Bethurum on March 2, 1940; Edward died in 1970. Florence served as organist for 75 years at Emmanuel United Church...
Wilbert H. Hass
Jul 1, 2006
Wilbert H. Hass, age 91, sond of Johannes and Emma (Rathman) Hass, died Saturday, July 1, 2006, in Wheatland Manor Nursing Home after a short illness. Services will be held St.Paul's United Church of Christ in Wheatland at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, July 5, led by Rev. Laird Keever. Visitation will be held 3:00-7:00 P.M. Monday at Chapman Funeral Home...
Richard "Tony" Petersen
Jun 6, 2006
Richard "Tony" Petersen, age 66, son of Richard and Eunice (Hunter) Petersen, died at his home Tuesday, June 6,2006, after an extended illness. Services will be held at Chapman Funeral Home-Clarence at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, June 9, led by Pastor Phil Leipold. Following services his body will be cremated with inurnment in Sharon Hill cemetery at Kalona at a...
Helen B. Lund
May 22, 2006
Helen B. Lund, 100, died Sunday, May 22, 2006, at Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehab. Helen was born on May 21, 1906, in Brainard, Nebraska, to Frank and Anna (Cejka) Smolik. Helen was married at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa to Harvey Lund on March 2, 1927. Funeral services for Helen B. Lund will be held Wednesday, May 24,...
Gladys M. Pruess
May 18, 2006
Gladys M. Pruess, 77, died Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids from a sudden illness. Gladys was born on September 21, 1928, in Clarence, Iowa, to Henry and Emma (Griem) Pruess. Gladys Pruess never married. Funeral services for Gladys M. Pruess will be held Saturday, May 20, 2006, at 10:30 AM at St. John's United Church...
Darriel W. Mayerhofer
Apr 14, 2006
Darriel W. Mayerhofer, 80, died Friday, April 14, 2006, at his home in Dixon, Iowa. Darriel was born on April 24, 1925, in Scott County, Iowa, to David and Augusta (Ganzer) Mayerhofer. Darriel Mayerhofer and Betty Jane Meyer were married in Calamus. Funeral services for Darriel W. Mayerhofer will be held Monday, April 17, 2006, at 10:00 AM at the...
Jeffery Jensen
Mar 31, 2006
Jeffery R. Jensen age 49 died Thursday, March 30, 2006 at Genesis West Medical Center in Davenport Iowa, following a sudden illness. Jeffery was born November 10, 1956 in Davenport, Iowa to Jerold and Donna (Siemsen) Jensen. On October 17, 1999 he married Mary Lauerman in Lowden, Iowa. Jeff was a 1974 graduate of Clarence-Lowden High School, he served in...
Margaret Mess
Mar 21, 2006
Margaret E. Mess age 76 died Monday, March 20, 2006 at Crestridge, Inc. in Maquoketa Iowa. Margaret was born May 18, 1929 at Wayland, Iowa to Peter Rich and Margaret Wolby. She married LeRoy Mess June 7, 1952 at Davenport. He died in 1990. A 1948 graduate of Wheatland High School, Margaret had worked as a waitress and had worked...
Carl Ketelsen
Feb 21, 2006
Carl J. Ketelsen, 76, of Lowden, Iowa died Monday, February 20,2006 at Mechanicsville Nursing & Rehab. Carl Ketelsen was born on July 9, 1929 in Cedar County, Iowa to Arnold Ketelsen and Clara Allmandinger. Carl married Karmen Koppenhaver June 2,1962 at Bennett Iowa. Carl served in the Navy during Korean War. He had worked as a farmer and trucker and...
Merlyn Bixler
Feb 20, 2006
Merlyn K. Bixler, 70, of Clarence, Iowa died Friday, February 17th, 2006 at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center Casa Grande Arizona after a sudden Illness. Merlyn Bixler was born on January 6, 1936 in Clarence, Iowa to Mearl Bixler and Dorothy Kintzel. Merlyn Bixler married Carlene Kelding August 27th, 1960 at Bennett Iowa. Merlyn was a 1954 graduate of Clarence...
Edward Kramer
Feb 20, 2006
Edward Kramer, 73, of Lowden, Iowa died Monday, February 20th, 2006 in his home after a couragous battle with cancer. Edward Kramer was born on December 23, 1932 in Barrington, Illinois to Edward Kramer and Francis Kudrna. Edward Kramer married Barbara Schroeder January 23, 1960 in Carry, Illinois. He served in the Army during the Korean War. Ed did a...
James Hepler
Feb 14, 2006
James R."Rudy" Hepler, 33, of Lowden, Iowa died Monday, February 13, 2006 at Genesis East Medical Center Davenport from a blood infection. Rudy Hepler was born on August, 1972 in Bethesda, Maryland to Fred L. Hepler and Brenda Moore. Rudy Hepler married Diana McDonnell (Schocker) April 5, 2003 at Wheatland. Jim attended high school in Hampton, Iowa and 3 years...
Jeanette Ruprecht
Feb 7, 2006
Jeanette Ruprecht age 86 died Monday February 6, 2006 Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids. She was preceded in death by her father Henry Holdorf and mother Martha Sievers Holdorf. Born February 9, 1919 on a farm in rural Toronto, Iowa she married Carl Ruprecht on June 10, 1941 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lowden. She attended the University of Iowa and...
Mary Hamilton
Feb 4, 2006
Mary R. Hamilton, 84, of Wheatland, Iowa died February 4, 2006 of a lengthy illness at Wheatland Manor Nursing Home. Mary Hamilton was born on May 30, 1921 in Maquoketa, Iowa to Ivan Edward Michael and Laura Morgan Edson. Mary Hamilton was married on February 21, 1941 in a private ceremony at St. John Methodist in Davenport. Her husband died...
Karen Stuhr
Feb 4, 2006
Karen S. Stuhr, 64, of Lowden, Iowa died Sunday, February 5,2006 at home of a sudden illness. Karen S. Stuhr was born on July 26, 1941 in Scott County, Iowa to Wallace Dircks and Evetta Hormann. Karen Stuhr married Robert Stuhr August 16, 1959 at Lowden, Iowa. He died in 1997. Karen and her husband had managed the 3/30 Country...
Ruth Hartwig
Feb 2, 2006
Ruth Hartwig, 95, of Clarence, Iowa died peacefully Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at Clarence Nursing Home,peacfully with her family at her bedside from Kidney failure. Ruth Hartwig was born on March 4, 1910 on a farm near Toronto, Iowa to William Barnhart and Mae Welty. Ruth Hartwig married Norman Hartwig June 1, 1932. Norman and Ruth farmed together near Clarence...
Erhard Kroemer
Jan 31, 2006
Erhard Kroemer, 93, of Clarence, Iowa died Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at Wheatland Manor Nursing Home following a brief illness. \nErhard Kroemer was born on September 16, 1912 northwest of lowden to Henry Kroemer and Anna Bunge. Erhard Kroemer married Alberta Schroeder August 23, 1936 at Trinity Lutheran Church. She died January 26, 2005. Erhard was babtized in Trinity Lutheran...
