OBITUARIES
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...
Colletta Vick
Mar 13, 2013
Colletta Vick, age 87, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, WI. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m., Monday, March 18, 2013, at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 307 West Main Street, Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. Phillip Gibbs presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call...
Pastor Paul F. Andersen
Mar 11, 2013
Pastor Paul F. Andersen, age 85, of Decorah, IA, died Monday morning, March 11, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah, IA. Memorial Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 16, 2013 at Decorah Lutheran Church with Pastor Dave Sorenson and Pastor Bryan Robertson officiating. Pastor Paul Frederick Andersen was born on February 6, 1928 to Arnold H....
Ruth Lucille Tollefsrud
Mar 11, 2013
Ruth Lucille Tollefsrud, age 89, of Mabel, MN, formerly of Decorah, Iowa, died on Monday, March 11, 2013, at the Green Lea Manor in Mabel, MN. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 15, 2013, at the Washington Prairie Lutheran Church, 1725 Washington Prairie Road, Decorah, IA, with Rev. Mark Kvale presiding. Burial will be in the...
Antoinette H. O. Webb
Mar 10, 2013
Antoinette H. O. Webb, age 95, of Decorah, IA, died Sunday morning, March 10, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah, IA, surrounding by her family. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church in rural Decorah, with Rev. Mark Kvale officiating. Burial will be in Washington Prairie Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation...
Agnes M. Christianson
Mar 9, 2013
Agnes Marian Christianson, 84, of Rochester, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at Seasons Hospice. Agnes was born March 21, 1928, near Thompson, Iowa, to Helmer and Ruth Peterson. The family later moved to Forest City, Iowa. She attended country school and graduated from Forest City High School in 1945 and Waldorf College in 1947. Agnes taught elementary...
Donald D. Hart
Mar 8, 2013
Donald D. Hart, age 85, of Decorah, IA, died peacefully at his daughter’s home in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Friday, March 8, 2013. Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:00 P.M. Saturday, March 16, 2013 at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Decorah with Rev. Phillip Gibbs officiating. Inurnment will be in St. Benedict Catholic Cemetery in Decorah...
Marie Neuzil
Mar 5, 2013
Marie Neuzil, age 88, of Fort Atkinson, IA, died on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at the Ossian Senior Hospice in Ossian, IA. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 9, 2013, at St. John’s Catholic Church, in Fort Atkinson, IA, with Rev. Nick March presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call...
Colleen Askelson
Feb 27, 2013
Colleen Askelson, age 81, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 2, 2013, at the Decorah Lutheran Church, 309 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. Dave Sorenson and Rev. Bryan Robertson presiding. Burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery, Decorah,...
Marshall W. Pierce
Feb 24, 2013
Marshall W. Pierce, age 92, of Decorah, Iowa, died Sunday, February 24, 2013 at Barthell O.E.S. Home in Decorah. Memorial Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 9, 2013 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah, with Rev. Dr. Richard Simon Hanson and Rev. Chad Huebner officiating. Private Family Inurnment will be in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Burr...
Thelma M. Otterholt
Feb 24, 2013
Thelma M. Otterholt, age 96, of Decorah, IA, died Sunday, February 24, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, March 2, 2013 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah, with Rev. Stacey Nalean – Carlson officiating. Burial will be at 3:30 P.M. Saturday March 2 in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Spring...
John Bernatz
Feb 18, 2013
John Bernatz, age 70, of Davenport, IA formerly of Spillville, IA died Monday, February 18, 2013 at the Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota surrounded by family after a very short battle with cancer. Memorial services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church at 207 Church St. Spillville, IA with...
Sally Sampson
Feb 16, 2013
Sally Sampson, age 94, of Decorah, IA died Saturday, February 16, 2013 at the Aase Haugen Home in Decorah, IA. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m., Saturday, February 23, 2013 at The St. Benedict’s Catholic Church at 307 West Main St. in Decorah, IA Father Phillip Gibbs presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be...
Loretta Collins
Feb 15, 2013
Loretta Collins, age 81, of Decorah, IA died Friday, February 15, 2013 at Wellington Place in Decorah, IA. Memorial service will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 304 South Maryville Street, in Calmar, IA, with Rev. Donald Hawes presiding. Burial will be in the St. Aloysius Cemetery. There will be visitation at the church...
Dorothy M. Wedeking
Feb 13, 2013
Dorothy M. Wedeking, age 85 of Decorah, and formerly of Waukon, IA, died Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah. Memorial Services will be at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, February 16, 2013 at Zion United Church of Christ in Waukon with Pastor Samantha Houser officiating. Dorothy is survived by her two children and six grandchildren: Karen (Jim) Norton...
