OBITUARIES
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...
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...
