Obituaries

Graveside memorial services for Julie Ann French, 65, of rural Meriden, Iowa, who passed away on March 11, 2017, will be held on Saturday morning June 24th, at 10 a.m. at the Meriden Cemetery. Pastor Bob Blair will officiate. Family and friends are welcome to attend these services. The Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa is assisting the family with these arrangements...

Mary Jane Waters of Cherokee, age 82 passed away Monday, June 19, 2017 at Accura Health in Cherokee. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 23, 2017, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Daniel Guenther officiating. ...

Orville “Sax” Saxby of Cherokee,age 86, passed away Tuesday, June 20, 2017, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 24, 2017, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, with Pastor Jonathan Riggert officiating, and burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee. ...

Mary Jane Waters of Cherokee, age 82, passed away Monday, June 19, 2017 at Accura Health in Cherokee. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 23, 2017, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. Father Daniel Guenther will officiate. ...

Orville Melvin Saxby of Cherokee, age 86, passed away Monday, June 20, 2017, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are currently pending at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.greenwoodfuneral.com...

John William Sjoberg passed away on March 22, 2017 at home, under the compassionate care of Iowa City Hospice. John was 72 and had made Iowa City his home since 1962. Memorial Services were at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 1 at Zion Lutheran Church, in Iowa City. Burial was at Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City (near the cemetery section Poets’ Corner)...

Mary Ann Hartman of Le Mars, Iowa, 72, passed away on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at Good Samaritan Society in Le Mars. Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m., Friday, June 16, 2017 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, E.L.C.A. Visitation at the Rexwinkel Funeral Home in Le Mars, with the family present, will begin at 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 15, 2017, with a Prayer Service at 7 p.m., all Burial will be at Waterman Cemetery in Sutherland, Iowa. ...

Steven J. Madsen of Des Moines, formerly of Cherokee, passed away at the age of 60 on Sunday, June 11, 2017 at University Park Nursing Home in Des Moines. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, June 16, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Dan Guenther officiating, and burial will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Cherokee...

Beverly Peterson of Truesdale, 75, gave up her earthly life on Thursday, February 16, 2017, at Unity Point St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, after a brief illness. Inurnment will be at a later date in the Elk Township Cemetery, rural Alta. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

Thomas Burtness Grundman, loving husband, father, grandfather, conservationist, accomplished builder, Iowa State Cyclones fan and airplane pilot, died in his sleep on June 8th, 2017 at the perfect age of 93. Tom was born on May 30, 1924 in Pella, Iowa to a German father, Ralph Spencer Grundman, and Norwegian mother , Katherine Elvina (Burtness) Grundman.  As a boy, Tom enjoyed playing in the woods on his family’s dairy farm, swimming in the local gravel pit, riding his Welsh pony Brownie to school, listening to “Little Orphan Annie” and J”ack Armstrong” on the radio, and playing hoop - and - stick, which concluded with his knocking out his four front teeth. ...

Patrick John Kirby, 71, of Cherokee, passed away Thursday, June 8, 2017 at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 15, 2017 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Waterville, Minn. Father Michael Ince will officiate. ...

Melburn Schmidt, age 100, passed away on February 18, 2017 at Careage Hills Nursing Home in Cherokee. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, with Pastor Jon Riggert officiating, and burial will be at Afton Township Cemetery in rural Cherokee. ...

Richard D. “Rick” Johnson of Cherokee, 63, passed away peacefully Thursday evening, June 8, 2017 at his home south of Cherokee, with his family by his side. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, June 13th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Mr. ...

Thomas B. Grundman, 93, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away Thursday, morning, June 8, 2017 at Careage Hills in Cherokee. Funeral arrangements are currently pending at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Karn Jean Monson, age 64 of Aurelia, formerly of Cherokee, passed away Thursday, June 01, 2017, at Sunset Knoll Nursing Home in Aurelia. Memorial services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at the Meriden Evangelical Free Church in Meriden. Her son, Tim Monson, officiated, and burial was at B.V. ...

Funeral services for Larry D. Kolpin, 86 of Aurelia, were held Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 10:30 a.m. at St. John’s Church, rural Peterson, with Lay Pastor David Orthman officiating. Visitation was Monday from 5 until 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

Donald J. Stieneke, age 89, formerly of Alta, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Monday, May 29, 2017 at Lancaster Manor in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Funeral services were held Friday, June 2, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Alta and burial was in St. John Lutheran Cemetery in Hanover. Visitation was Thursday, June 1, 2017 from 5-7: p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Alta. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Alta is in charge of the arrangements. ...

Mass of the Christian Burial services for Dr. Edmund R. McGuire, D.V.M. of Cherokee, 72, was observed at 10:30 a.m.Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Dan Guenther officiating. Interment was in the Afton Township Cemetery, rural Cherokee. ...

Agnes Day of Cherokee, age 81, passed away Friday, May 26, 2017, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 31st at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Dan Guenther officiating. ...

Brenton Lysaght Barnett of Fairfax, Iowa, 74, died Friday, May 26, 2017 at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Funeral Service was at 11:30 am on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at Stonebridge Church, 1829 Stoney Point Road SW, Cedar Rapids, with visitation beginning at 9:30 am. Private Family Inurnment was at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery...

Gina Ann Kinney, 40, of Meriden, Iowa, departed this world on Thursday, May 25, 2017, after nearly a year long battle with AML cancer with her fiancé, Travis Sandahl, at her side where he had been throughout the whole battle. Memorial Service will be at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at Rexwinkel Funeral Home in Le Mars, Iowa with Pastor Steve Martens officiating. ...

V. Elaine Mahoney of Cherokee, 94, passed away Thursday evening, May 25, 2017, at Cherokee Specialty Care. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, June 1st, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Rev. Cris Decious will officiate. ...

William Kimberley Cadwallader 68, of Carlsbad, California, passed away Friday night, April 21, 2017, at his home, following a short battle with metastasized lung cancer. Bill was born March 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to William Edward Cadwallader and Marjorie Phyllis (Teets) Patrick. ...

Bill McLaughlin of Clearwater, Florida, formerly of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away May 11, 2017 under hospice care at Tierra Pines Center in Largo, Florida. Bill was born to Lawrence and Evelyn (Mosier) McLaughlin in Cherokee, Iowa on June 15, 1924. Bill was an electrical contractor with his father before and after World War II. He served in the US Navy and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands during WWII...

Funeral services for Orville E. Winterhof, 95, of Cherokee, formerly of Aurelia, will be Saturday, May 27, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Larry Lemke officiating, and burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Aurelia. Visitation at the church will be Friday from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m., with the family present. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

Marjorie A. Stewart of Kingsley, 90, passed away on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at Char-Mac Assisted Living in Lawton, Iowa. Funeral services will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at the Kingsley United Methodist Church. Rev. Michael Stevens will officiate. ...