OBITUARIES
Palmer Ruffridge
Apr 7, 2013
Palmer Ruffridge, age 87, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Sunday, April 7, 2013, at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, April 15, 2013, at the Decorah Lutheran Church, 309 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. David Sorenson presiding. Burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery. Military rites will be performed...
Ron Holthaus
Apr 3, 2013
Ron Holthaus, age 68, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at his home. A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m., Monday, April 8, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main Street, Decorah, IA, with Rev. Gary Krapfl and Rev. Phillip Gibbs presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from...
Ethel Luzum
Apr 3, 2013
Ethel Luzum, age 91, of Calmar, Iowa, died on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, April 6, 2013, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 304 South Maryville, Calmar, IA, with Rev. Donald Hawes presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call...
Lavonne E. Stortz
Mar 31, 2013
LaVonne E. Stortz, age 95, of Decorah, Iowa, died Sunday, March 31, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. LaVonne was born August 24, 1917 in Decorah, Iowa, to Anton and Emma (Anderson) Espeseth. She graduated from Decorah High School and taught in rural Winneshiek County schools until her...
Don Floy
Mar 30, 2013
Donald Fredrick Floy passed away peacefully March 30, 2013 from complications of pneumonia surrounded by his wife and family at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, April 5, 2013, at the Decorah Lutheran Church, 309 Winnebago Street, Decorah, IA, with Rev. David Sorenson and Rev. Bryan Robertson presiding. Friends may call...
Betty M. Davis
Mar 30, 2013
Betty M. Davis, age 88, of Decorah, died on Saturday, March 30, 2013 at Wellington Place in Decorah. Funeral services will at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the First United Methodist Church in Decorah, Iowa with Rev. John Caldwell officiating. Burial will be in Phelps Cemetery in Decorah. Visitation will be from 4-7 PM Wednesday at Fjelstul Funeral...
Beatrice A. Tilleros
Mar 29, 2013
Beatrice A. Tilleros, age 94, of Decorah, IA, died Friday, March 29, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at Big Canoe Lutheran Church in rural Decorah with Rev. David H. Andreae officiating. Burial will be in Big Canoe Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday,...
Howard R. Bakken
Mar 29, 2013
Howard R. Bakken, age 71, of Decorah, IA, died Friday, March 29, 2013 at Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, April 1, 2013 at Fjelstul Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bryan Robertson officiating. Burial will be in Canoe Ridge Cemetery in Decorah. Visitation will be from 1:00-2:00 P.M. Monday on the day...
Cecilia Jarosh
Mar 28, 2013
Celia Jarosh, age 98, of Spillville died Thursday, March 28, 2013 at the Evans Memorial Nursing Home in Cresco IA. Memorial service will be 11:00 am Saturday April 6th 2013 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville Iowa, with the Rev. Donald Hawes presiding. Burial of ashes in the church cemetery. There will be visitation 1 hour before services...
Dick Helgeson
Mar 28, 2013
Dick Helgeson, age 71, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the Wellington Place Nursing Home in Decorah, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, April 1, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main Street, Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. Phillip Gibbs presiding. Burial will be held in St. Benedict Catholic...
Phyllis Helene Leseth
Mar 27, 2013
Phyllis Helene Leseth, 95, of Decorah, Iowa, died peacefully on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at Barthell O.E.S. Eastern Star Nursing Home after a brief illness, having lived in her home all but the last week of her life. Memorial services will be 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 at Decorah Lutheran Church in Decorah, with Rev. David Sorensen and Rev....
Elaine Brynsaas
Mar 25, 2013
Elaine Brynsaas, age 77, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Monday, March 25, 2013, at the Aase Haugen Nursing Home in Decorah, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 28, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main Street, Decorah, IA, with Rev. Phil Gibbs presiding. Burial will be in the Phelps Cemetery, Decorah,...
Harry Kreutzer
Mar 24, 2013
Harry Kreutzer, age 67, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at his home. Arrangements are pending with the Schluter – Balik Funeral Home in Decorah.
Delores "Dee" Everson
Mar 24, 2013
Delores “Dee” Everson, age 83, of Decorah, IA, died on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at the Northgate Care Center in Waukon, Iowa, following a short illness. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main Street, Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. Phillip Gibbs presiding. It was Delores’ wish to donate...
Dr. Wilbur Bigler
Mar 23, 2013
Dr. Wilbur Bigler, age 67, of West Union, Iowa, died on Saturday, March 23, 2013, from injuries in an automobile accident near Solon, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 29, 2013, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Locust, 1638 Big Canoe Road, Decorah, IA, with Rev. Nancy Solomonson presiding. Friends may call from 3:00-7:00 p.m., on...
Dolly Kirchner
Mar 23, 2013
Dolly Kirchner, age 77, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the Barthell Eastern Star Home, in Decorah, Iowa, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main St., Decorah, IA, with Rev. Phil Gibbs presiding. Burial...
Angie Loesch
Mar 21, 2013
Angie Loesch, age 97 of Spillville, IA died Thursday, March 21, 2013 at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, IA. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 25, 2013 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville, IA with Rev. Donald Hawes presiding. Burial will be in the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3:00 –...
Roger Craft
Mar 19, 2013
Roger Craft, age 78, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, surrounded by his family, at the Barthell Eastern Star Home in Decorah, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the First United Methodist Church, 302 West Broadway, Decorah, IA, with Rev. John Caldwell presiding. Burial will be in the Kossuth...
John Peterson
Mar 16, 2013
John Peterson, age 82, of Decorah, IA died Saturday, March 16, 2013 at the Barthell Eastern Star Nursing Home in Decorah, IA. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 25, 2013, at the Burr Oak Lutheran Church, at 2358-260th St., in Burr Oak, IA, with Rev. Matt Larson presiding. Burial will be at the Hauge Lutheran Cemetery, rural Decorah,...
Evelyn L. Hahn
Mar 16, 2013
Evelyn L. Hahn, age 93, of Decorah, IA, died Saturday, March 16, 2013 at Barthell O.E.S. Home in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah with Rev. Chad Huebner officiating. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah. Visitation will be on Tuesday one hour before the service...
