Gerald A. Wilson, Sr.
Oct 23, 2022
Gerald A. Wilson Sr., 86 years, of Fort Madison, Iowa died 10:41 a.m. Sunday morning, October 23, 2022 at the River Hills Village, Keokuk, Iowa. He was born September 5, 1936 at Brooklyn, Illinois, a son of Arthur W. and Alta Ruth (Snyder) Wilson. On May 19, 1957, he married Karen Lee Ballard at the First Baptist Church, Fort...
Stephen Long
Sep 18, 2022
Stephen Wallace Long, 65, of Fort Madison, Iowa died at 2:10 am Sunday, September 18, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center, Fort Madison, Iowa. He was born October 24, 1956, a son of Robert and Sherrill (Rings) Long in Fort Madison. He married Jeanine Breuer, they later divorced. On November 3, 1989, he married Julie Ilmberger. She...
Arlene Severn
Aug 31, 2022
Arlene Severn (Victory) passed away on August 31, 2022, joining her husband Dolan. She spent her final days comfortable with her daughter, granddaughters, grandsons, sister and niece by her side. She had been fighting cancer and other health conditions. Arlene was born June 22, 1954 to Joyce and Paul Victory. She was one of eight children.
Throughout...
Andrea Lorton
Aug 31, 2022
Andrea Lee Lorton of Brookfield, Missouri, departed this life with her family by her side on August 31, 2022, at Centerpoint Hospital in Independence, Missouri, after a brief lung-related illness. Devoted sister, mother, and champion of all creatures, great and small, she will be greatly missed by all those whose lives she touched.
She was born on...
James Brockman
Aug 27, 2022
James Edward Brockman, 86, Fort Madison, Iowa died Saturday, August 27, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House, West Burlington, Iowa. He was born February 14, 1936 at Fort Madison, Iowa, a son of Edward and Rose (Freitag) Brockman.
Jim was a lifelong resident of the Fort Madison area. He was a veteran of the United...
Jo Ann Shannon
Aug 27, 2022
Jo Ann Shannon passed away peacefully on August 27, 2022 at the age of 84 surrounded by her family. She was a loving wife, mother, grandma, great-grandma, loyal friend, and thoughtful listener.
Jo was born on March 2, 1938 to Evelyn and Harry Kosnar and raised in Clutier, Iowa before going to Iowa State University to study...
Ronald Beelman
Aug 21, 2022
Ronald L. Beelman, (affectionately called Ronnie Lynn "Firecracker" Beelman by his family) age 64, Fort Madison, Iowa passed away Sunday, August 21, 2022 surrounded by his family at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House, West Burlington, Iowa after a brief battle with cancer. He was born July 4, 1958, son of Carl B. and Lois M. (Wilson) Beelman.
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Shane Mathew Carrell
Aug 19, 2022
Friends are invited to witness the burial of Shane's cremated remains at 1:30 pm Monday, May 8, 2023 at Oakland Cemetery, Fort Madison.
Shane Mathew Carrell, 24 years, of Fort Madison, Iowa died unexpectedly Friday August 19, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center, Fort Madison. He was born April 6, 1998 at Iowa City, Iowa,...
Ronald Gansy
Aug 18, 2022
Ronald Steve Gansy, 85, Donnellson, Iowa died August 18, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House, West Burlington, Iowa. He was born April 6, 1937 at Fort Madison, Iowa, a son of Steve and Maxine Hazel (Finley) Gansy. On June 22, 1958, he married Marilyn Kay Sulzberger, they had four children: Deb, Karen, Brian, and Brent. She preceded...
Gina Blindt
Aug 8, 2022
Gina Louise Blindt, 61, Fort Madison, Iowa died at 5:30 pm Monday, August 8, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House, West Burlington, Iowa. She was born March 25, 1961, a daughter of Arthur and Ellen (Carroll) Pilon. On June 30, 1984, she married Anthony Joseph Blindt.
For years, Gina worked as an LPN at the...
Michael Roach
Aug 6, 2022
Michael Rae Roach, 70, Fort Madison, Iowa died Saturday, August 6, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center, West Burlington, Iowa. He was born August 20, 1951 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, a son of Donald David and Grace Marie (Boeddecker) Roach. He married Sharon Kay Bartlett, together they had two children, Kristi and Dan. They divorced. On March...
William "Bill" Boeding
Jul 26, 2022
William "Bill" Bernard Boeding, age 66, of Burlington, Iowa died at 6:00 pm Tuesday July 26, 2022 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born January 13, 1956 in Fort Madison, Iowa, a son of Harold and Ruth (Schroeder) Boeding. On October 20, 1979, he married Janet Holtkamp in Fort Madison, Iowa.
After 37 years,...
Suzanne Dowell
Jul 18, 2022
Suzanne Judith Goodwin Dunn Dowell was born February 4, 1946, in Manchester, Connecticut to James Goodwin and Jeanette Prell Goodwin. When Sue was an infant, she and her mother moved to Chicago to be closer to her grandmother. Sue lived there through her high school graduation from Dwight David Eisenhower High School in 1964 being raised by her mother...
Sarah Butz
Jun 30, 2022
Sarah Alice Butz, 62, of Fort Madison, Iowa died at 10:45 am Thursday, June 30, 2022 at her home. She was born August 13, 1959 in Biloxi, Mississippi, a daughter of Glen Edwin and Christina (Brewer) Derickson. On June 30,1984, she married Ralph Alan Butz at the Old First Orange Baptist Church, Orange, Texas.
Sarah graduated from...
Randy Huett
Jun 15, 2022
Randy Lynn Huett, 66, Fort Madison, Iowa died at 10:53 am Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center, Fort Madison, Iowa. He was born December 20, 1955, a son of Robert L Sr. and Betty Jean (Baldwin) Huett. On September 2, 1993, he married Teresa Druppel at Las Vegas, Nevada.
Randy was a...
Sallie Williams
Jun 8, 2022
Sallie Jo Williams, 62, of Fort Madison, Iowa and formerly of Mobile, Alabama died Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa. She was born May 16, 1960, a daughter of James Henry and Mary Jo (Lassiter) Wooten. She married Eddie Williams. He preceded her in death.
Sallie was always...
Marvin Gingrich
Jun 5, 2022
Marvin John Gingrich, 82, of Denmark, Iowa died at 8:05 am Sunday, June 5, 2022 at his home. He was born February 24, 1940, in Lee County, Iowa, a son of Frank J. and Lucille (Staff) Gingrich. On June 26, 1960, he married Kay Raid at Denmark, Iowa.
He attended Sawyer Grade School through the 8th grade...
Joan Nichting
Jun 4, 2022
Joan M. Nichting, 90, of Pilot Grove, IA died June 4, 2022. She was born April 29, 1932 near Houghton, IA to Bernard J. and Cecilia Pieper Holtkamp. She was united in marriage to Sylvan J. Nichting on October 14, 1952 at St. John's Catholic Church in Houghton, IA. They lived in their home in Pilot Grove, IA for...
Gary Sanders
May 16, 2022
Gary J. Sanders, 77, West Point, Iowa died Monday, May 16, 2022. He was born November 14, 1944, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Fort Madison, Iowa, the son of Paul John and Rosina Elizabeth (Bentler) Sanders. On November 22, 1969, he married Victoria Elizabeth Fedler at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in West Point.
Gary...
Charlotte Barr
May 12, 2022
Charlotte Ann Barr, 85 years, died Thursday, May 12, 2022 in West Des Moines, Iowa. Charlotte was born November 18, 1936 at Rock Island, Illinois, the daughter of Alexander A. Zuber and Victoria L. (Hrdyna) Zuber. Her family moved to Muscatine and later to Fort Madison. She met the love of her life, James W. Barr, their senior year...
