Obituaries
HARLAN -- Irma White, 97, Harlan, died Sunday, April 10 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan. Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan. She is survived by daughter Sharon (John) Davenport of Victoria, MN and son John (Lynne) White of Jacksonville. For more information...
NEVADA -- Services are pending for Dorothy Volkens, 85, Nevada, formerly of Shelby, at the Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Shelby. Volkens died Sunday, April 10 in Nevada. She is survived by daughter Jean (Glee) Goodner of Cambridge and son David (Sharon) Volkens of Williamsburg.
OAKLAND -- Christopher Burton Summers, 52, Oakland, died April 8 at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs. Services will be held Wednesday, April 13 at 10:30 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan. Visitation is Tuesday, April 12 from 5-7 p.m. at the funeral home. Summers is...
PANAMA -- Cole Robert Findlay, 63, Panama, died April 8 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan. Services will be held Friday, April 15 at 3 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan. Visitation will be Friday from 1-3 p.m. at the funeral home. Findlay is survived by mother Marcia (...
AVOCA -- Norman D. Nelsen, 80, Avoca, formerly of Harlan, died Saturday, April 9 in Avoca. Services will be held Wednesday, April 13 at 11:30 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday, April 13 from 3-8 p.m. with family greeting...
AVOCA -- Charles “Charlie” Carl Christiansen, 70, Avoca, died April 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan. Services were held Sunday, April 10 at 1:30 p.m. at Congregational United Church of Christ in Harlan. Christiansen is survived by stepdaughter Suzanne Engman of Avoca; stepson Byron...
PEORIA, IL -- Patrick “Pat” Vern Finken, 58, Peoria, IL, formerly of Harlan, died Wednesday, Dec. 2 in Peoria. Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with interment in the Harlan Cemetery immediately following mass. Finken’s...
DES MOINES -- Msgr. Gerald J. Stessman, 83, Des Moines, died Monday, April 4 at Mercy Hospice in Johnston. Services will be held Monday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Des Moines with burial in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Earling at approximately 4:30 p.m. following...
HARLAN -- Richard L. Andersen, 82, Harlan, died Monday, April 4 in Harlan. Services were held Thursday, April 7 at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery. Andersen is survived by his wife, Rosalie Andersen, of Harlan; daughters Lori (Joe) Clancy of...
KIMBALLTON -- Jacqueline Grace Denton, 78, Kimballton, died Saturday, April 2 at her home. No services are planned at this time. She is survived by son Denver (Shari) Hansen of Kimballton; daughter Robyn Runkle of Warren, IL; 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, three brothers and...