Obituaries

Kenneth Edwin Kistenmacher, age 63 of Cherokee, IA, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, March 11, 2019, in Cherokee. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2019, at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Kim Kistenmacher will officiate. ...

Audrey A. Dushinske, age 83 of Cherokee, IA, passed away Tuesday, March 12th at her home in Cherokee. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 18th, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. Monsignor Kenneth Seifried will officiate. ...

Ruth Ann Tippy, age 81 of Cherokee, IA, passed away on February 10, 2019, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 14, 2019, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. ...

Paul Lux, age 82, of Cherokee, passed away Sunday, March 10, 2019 at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Sioux City, IA following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 16, 2019, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. ...

Kenneth Edwin Kistenmacher, age 63 of Cherokee, IA, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, March 11, 2019, in Cherokee. 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...

Kenneth Dodd, age 59, of Cherokee, Iowa died on Friday, March 1, 2019 at the Cherokee Specialty Care in Cherokee, Iowa. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Alta. Burial will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Alta at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to a charity of the donor’s choice in Kenny’s name. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral in Alta is in charge of the arrangements...

James ‘Jim’ Lee Brummond, age 65, passed away surrounded by his family following a brief illness in Des Moines, Iowa on February 22, 2019. He was born in Madelia, Minnesota on July 14, 1953 to Carl and Ella Brummond and was the youngest of six children growing up in Truman, Minnesota. He raised his children in Holstein, Iowa, and was a longtime resident of Larrabee, Iowa...

Elizabeth  M.  Moles, 78, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away peacefully Tuesday morning, January 22, 2019 in Careage Hills.   Memorial services will be held on Sunday, March 10th, at 2 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Larry Ostercamp will officiate.   Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com ...

Donald Wayne Green Don Green (Blue) passed away on February 28, 2019 at the age of 62 with his two children at his bedside. Blue was born in Mitchell, SD. 4/30/1956 to 2/28/2019, He graduated from Cleghorn, IA in 1975. He moved with his family to Montana in 1998. He was known for his great smile, stubbornness and sense of humor. Blue enjoyed the outdoors and was an exceptional carpenter that struggled with a long-standing battle of diabetes. He will be greatly missed by those who knew him...

Marcia M. Drefke, 76, of Marcus, Iowa passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 4, 2019 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus, Iowa. ...

Bessie  Ray  Hight, 90, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away peacefully, Thursday morning, February 28, 2019 in Accura Healthcare.   Memorial services will be held on Sunday, March 3rd at 3 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Rev. Cris Decious will officiate. ...

Marcia M. Drefke, 76, of Marcus, Iowa passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 4, 2019 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus, Iowa. ...

Beverly Irene Paeper, age 73 of Milford, IA and formerly of Cherokee, IA, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Milford. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 4, 2019, at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Pastor Michelle Spitler will officiate. ...

Germayne  I.  Johnson, 90, of Sutherland, Iowa, passed away Monday afternoon, February 25, 2019 in the Heartland Care Center in Marcus, Iowa.   Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa. ...

Merlin Hunt, age 61, of rural Meriden, IA, passed away Friday, February 15, 2019, at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday, February 22nd at Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Pastor Daniel Wagner will officiate. ...

Susan  A.  (Odle)  Erickson, 70, of Urbandale, Iowa, formerly of Cherokee and Cleghorn, Iowa, passed away Thursday morning, February 14, 2019 in the Unity Point Health-Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.   Memorial services will be held on Friday, February 22nd, at 10:30 a.m. ...

Carol Jean Libolt, 73, of Rockwell City and formerly of Cherokee, passed away at the Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames on February 14, 2019 from complications of surgery. A visitation will be held Saturday, February 23 from 1-5 P.M. at Lampe Funeral Home in Lake City with a prayer service at 4 P.M.  Inurnment will be at a later date...

Roger  K.  Frisbie, 88, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away Thursday evening, February 14, 2019 in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center.   Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 18th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa. ...