Opal M. Harms (05/08/08)
Opal M. Harms, 71, of Punta Gorda, Fla., formerly of Le Mars, died Saturday, May 3, 2008 at her home. Opal Mae Powers was born Nov. 19, 1936, at Gilmore City, the daughter of Clyde M. and Ethel A. (Stauffer) Powers. She was educated in Pocahontas and graduated with the Class of 1954. During her high school years, Opal worked at the Ideal Café and following graduation worked at the Commercial State Bank in Pocahontas...

Lloyd Feuerhelm (05/08/08)
Lloyd Feuerhelm, 86, of Le Mars, died today (Thursday), May 8, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Society-Le Mars in Le Mars. Services are pending with the Carlsen Funeral Home in Le Mars. Expressions of sympathy may be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com...

Edna Marie 'Babe' Anderson (05/07/08)
Edna Marie "Babe" Anderson, 82, of Le Mars, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Society-Le Mars in Le Mars. Edna Marie Trobaugh was born April 4, 1926, at Westfield, the daughter of John and Odessa (Leming) Trobaugh. As a young girl, Edna was given the lifelong nickname of "Babe" by her family as the youngest child. Babe received her education at a country school in rural Plymouth County. The family moved to the Riverside area of Sioux City and later to Le Mars in 1931...

Edna M. Anderson (05/06/08)
Edna Marie Anderson, 82, of Le Mars, died today (Tuesday), May 6, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Society-Le Mars. Funeral arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars. Expressions of sympathy may be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com...

Edward James 'Jim' Durband (05/06/08)
Edward James "Jim" Durband, 80, of Hull, and a Struble native, died Saturday, May 3, 2008, at Heritage House Nursing Home in Orange City. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Reformed Church in Hull with the Rev. Verlyn Boone officiating. Burial will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday at St. Mary's Cemetery in Remen. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until service time on Saturday at First Reformed Church in Hull...

Opal M. Harms (05/06/08)
Opal M. Harms, 71, of Punta Gorda, Fla., and formerly of Le Mars, died Saturday, May 3, 2008, at her home. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 10, at Carlsen Funeral Home in Le Mars with the Rev. Gary Landsness of St. John's Lutheran Church in Le Mars, officiating. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. Friday at the Carlsen Funeral Home in Le Mars. Visitation will continue from 9:30 a.m. until service time on Saturday. Interment will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens...

Opal M. Harms (05/05/08)
Opal M. Harms, 71, of Punta Gorda, Fla., formerly of Le Mars, died Saturday, May 3, 2008. at her home. Arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars. Expressions of sympathy may be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com...

Shirley M. Howk (05/05/08)
Shirley M. Howk, 75, of Le Mars, died suddenly Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars. Shirley M. Haines was born March 16, 1933, in Montezuma, Iowa, the daughter of Theodore and Iva (Carter) Haines. Shirley graduated from Brooklyn High School. ...

Marcel H. Klein (05/05/08)
Marcel H. Klein, 85, of Granville, died Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Prairie View Home in Sanborn. Marcel H. Klein was born Jan. 5, 1923, at rural Granville, the son of Theodore and Frances (Kokenge) Klein. Marcel was raised in the Granville area and received his education in both the rural school system and St. Joseph Catholic School in Granville. He then assisted his father in farming...

Shirley M. Howk (05/02/08)
Shirley M. Howk, 75, of Le Mars, died suddenly Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, at Cornerstone World Outreach in Sioux City, with Pastor Larry Gordon officiating. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until service time at the church. Additional services will be in Ottumwa on Thursday, May 8...

Belmer F. Banks (05/02/08)
Belmer Francis Banks, 98, passed peacefully away on Wednesday evening, April 30, 2008, at his lifetime home in rural Westfield, following a brief illness. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday (today) at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel with Pastor Steven Jewett officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery...

Bradley Kruse Scheff (05/02/08)
Bradley Kruse Scheff, infant son of Mike and Danielle (Kruse) Scheff of Brookings, S.D., died Friday, April 25, 2008, at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. Private family services were held Thursday, May 1, 2008 at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Preston Township, rural Akron, with the Rev. Dan Gerrietts officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery...

Dr. Jose Garrido (05/01/08)
Dr. Jose Garrido, 93, of Miami, Fla., and a former Le Mars resident, died April 14, 2008. Dr. Jose Garrido was born Oct. 10, 1914, in Havana, Cuba. He was a lawyer by profession in Cuba and served as the mayor of Havanna, Cuba in 1950. He came to the United States in 1964, fleeing the Castro regime, along with his wife Lydia and granddaughter Jennifer. They settled in Le Mars in 1965 and remained there until 1987 when they moved to Miami, Fla...

Rita Ann Morehead (05/01/08)
Rita Ann Morehead, 72, of Gilbert, Ariz., and a former Remsen area resident, died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007, in a hospice facility in Mesa, Ariz. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Remsen. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery at Remsen...

Shirley M. Howk (05/01/08)
Shirley M. Howk, 75, of Le Mars, died suddenly Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars. Funeral arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars. Expression of sympathy may be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com...

Janiece E. Black (05/01/08)
Janiece Black, 74, of Akron, died Monday, April 28, 2008 surrounded by her family at Hillcrest Health Care in Hawarden. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, E.L.C.A. in Akron. The Rev. Dawn Quame will officiate. Burial will follow in the Riverside Cemetery in Akron. ...

Wayne Rezac (04/29/08)
Wayne Rezac, 78, of rural Le Mars, died Monday, April 28, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Private family services will take place at a later date. The Mauer - Johnson Funeral Home of Le Mars is assisting Wayne's family with funeral arrangements...

Charlene Williams (04/29/08)
Charlene Williams, 58, of Seney, died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, after a courageous battle with cancer. Charlene L. Yates was born Sept. 20, 1949, at Akron, the daughter of Clarence and Leona (Kisting) Yates. Charlene lived on a farm near Brunsville until she was 6 years old and the family moved to Le Mars. She attended elementary school in Le Mars and graduated from Le Mars Community High School in 1967...

Dorothy Bartels (04/28/08)
Dorothy Laux Bartels, 85, of Lancaster, Pa., died Monday, April 21, 2008, in Lancaster after an illness with cancer. Dorothy was born and raised in Le Mars, the daughter of Wilbur and Amy (Tupper) Laux. She was a 1939 graduate of Le Mars High School. She had worked in the B & B store and for Dr. Ladenburger. She married Le Mars native Keith Bartels and the couple moved to Pennsylvania...