Records

Jan Jess (11/14/19)

Jan Jess, social justice advocate, basketball fanatic and devoted grandmother, died Nov. 8, 2019, at Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence, Kansas. She was 81. A true Midwestern progressive and frontier feminist, she petitioned the Rock Rapids, Iowa, school board to start a girls’ basketball team in the early 1950s...
Alice Wagner (11/13/19)

Funeral services for Alice Lucile Wagner, 101, of Spencer, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Rev. Larry McCarty will officiate the service. Visitation with the family will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday at Warner Funeral Home. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer...
Bob Schmid (11/13/19)

Bob Schmid, 85, of Brandon, South Dakota, went home to his Lord on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, at Bethany Home in Brandon. A memorial service will be at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, at Memorial Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Family will be present before the service at 10 a.m. A memorial service will be held in the Community Room at Bethany Meadows east of Brandon on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 p.m...
Gerald Arndt (11/13/19)

Funeral services for Gerald “Roger” Arndt, 74, of Spencer, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Rev. Ken Seifried will officiate the service. Visitation will be conducted one hour prior to the services at the church. Interment will be conducted at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer...
Barbara Vetter (11/11/19)

Barbara Jane Hall Vetter, 88, passed away peacefully Nov. 8, 2019, at Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A family celebration of life will be determined at a later date. Barbara was born Dec. 1, 1930, on a farm near Nevada, Iowa, and spent most of her adult life in Spencer, Iowa, and Scottsdale, Arizona...
Rosalie “Mac” Kluch (11/8/19)

Rosalie Mae "Mac" MacDonald Kluch was born on Nov. 4, 1950, to Roy and Lottie (Rieck) MacDonald. She was born at the Hand Hospital in Hartley. Mac attended country school at Business Corner and later continued her education in Hartley, graduating from Hartley High School in 1968. She will be remembered as a talented guard on the basketball team...
Irvin Maaland (11/6/19)

Funeral services for Irvin Maaland, 75, of Everly, will be conducted t 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, at Hope Lutheran Church in Everly. Rev. Dan Taylor will officiate the service. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, with the family present from 5-7 p.m. at Warner Funeral Home in Everly...
Margaret Bohn (11/6/19)

Funeral services for Margaret Bohn, 88, of Spencer, mother of Peg Deffer of Spencer, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Rev. Timothy Hogan will officiate the service. Visitation will be conducted one hour prior to the services at the church...
Andrew Hermanson (11/3/19)

Funeral services for Andrew Christian Hermanson will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Spencer. Rev. Jennifer Henry will officiate the service. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven. Interment will be conducted at Crown Hill Cemetery in Ruthven. Military rites will be conducted by American Legion Post No. 33 of Ruthven...
Minnie Vance (11/3/19)

Funeral services for Minnie Margaret Vance, 103, of Spencer, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at First Congregational Church in Spencer. Rev. Ton Van Tassell will officiate the service. Visitation will be conducted one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at Milford Cemetery in Milford...
Paul Stave (10/31/19)

A celebration of life for Paul Stewart Stave, 72, of Spencer, will be conducted from 2-4 p.m. with the family present on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, at the Clay County Fair & Events Center Arena in Spencer. Stave passed away Oct. 29, 2019, at his home in Spencer...
Raymond Russell (10/31/19)

Memorial services for Raymond Earl Russell, 69, of Spencer, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Rev. Tim Hogan will officiate the service. Visitation was conducted Thursday at Warner Funeral Home in Spencer...
Tyson Zellaha (10/24/19)

Funeral services for Tyson Ray Zellaha, 31, of Cherokee, formerly of Spencer, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, at First Christian Church in Spencer. Visitation will be conducted beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday at the church with the family present from 4-6 p.m...
Marion Posthumus (10/24/19)

Funeral services for Marion Howard Posthumus, 87, of Normal, Illinois, formerly of Spencer, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, at Warner Chapel in Spencer. Rev. Paul Frederiksen. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Military services will be conducted by the American Legion — Glen Pedersen Post No. 1 and the VFW Clay County Post No. 3159. Private burial at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer will be conducted at a later date...
Doris Madlyn Hart (10/24/19)

Doris Madlyn “Maddie” Hart, 89, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Sept. 14, 2019, with her daughter Lisa by her side and was attended by the loving staff of the Pete and Jelaine Horton Skilled Nursing and Hospice Care Center in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin...