OBITUARIES
Mary Phillips
Sep 3, 2007
Mary Phillips (Mrs. Arthur Phillips) age 79, of rural Calmar, Iowa, died Monday, September 3, 2007, at the Aase Haugen Home in Decorah, Iowa, after a long illness. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Wednesday, September 5, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville, Iowa, by Rev. Donald Hawes, with burial in the church...
Gregory H. Thorland
Aug 31, 2007
Gregory "Gregg" H. Thorland, age 36, the son of Darla and the late Edward Thorland of Decorah, Iowa, died Friday, August 31, 2007 in Harrietta, Michigan. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Saturday, September 8, 2007 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah with burial in Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call from 11:00 A.M. until the service on Saturday...
Gail June Alm
Aug 28, 2007
Gail J. Alm, age 87, of Decorah, Iowa, died Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at the Barthell Eastern Star Nursing Home in Decorah following a long illness. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, September 1, 2007 at St. Benedict Catholic Church by Rev. Phil Gibbs with inurnment in St. Benedict Catholic Cemetery. Friends may call after 9:00...
Maurice H. Knox
Aug 27, 2007
Maurice Knox, age 70, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Monday, August 27, 2007, at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa, following a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, August 30, 2007, at the Burr Oak Lutheran Church with Rev. Matt Larson officiating. Burial will be in the Burr Oak Cemetery, Burr Oak, Iowa. Friends...
Bernard O. Williams
Aug 24, 2007
Bernard O. Williams, age 87, of Decorah, Iowa, died Friday, August 24, 2007 at Wellington Place in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 11:30 A.M. Monday, August 27, 2007 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah by Rev. Bryan Robertson. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah with full military honors. Friends may call after 10:30 A.M. Monday at...
Floyd S. Sollien
Aug 11, 2007
Floyd S. Sollien, age 78, of Decorah, Iowa, died Saturday, August 11, 2007 at Wellington Place in Decorah of complications from cancer. Funeral Services will be held at 10 A.M. Saturday, August 18, 2007 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah by Rev. Dan Thurmer and Rev. Steven M. Jacobsen with burial at a later date in Phelps Cemetery. Friends may...
Dorothy Elizabeth Winger
Aug 8, 2007
Dorothy E. Winger, age 89, of Decorah, Iowa, died Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at the Barthell Eastern Star Home in Decorah. A Celebration of her Life Service will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, August 12, 2007 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah by Rev. Steven M. Jacobsen with burial in Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah. Friends may call after 1:00...
Glenn Haga
Aug 7, 2007
Glenn Haga, age 74, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Monday, August 06, 2007, at the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, WI, following a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, August 10, 2007, at the Madison Lutheran Church with Revs. Phillip and Ginny Olson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from...
Nancy Angela Dolan
Aug 6, 2007
Nancy A. Dolan, age 59, died suddenly of natural causes Monday, August 6, 2007 at her home in Decorah. Mass of the Christian Burial will be held at 10 A.M. Saturday, August 11, 2007 at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Decorah with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 4:00-7:00 P.M. Friday at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah....
Parnell Ellingson
Aug 5, 2007
Parnell Ellingson , age 62 of Ridgeway died Sunday August 5, 2007 at his home of a apparent heart attack. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Tuesday August 7, at 11:00 a.m. at the St. Benedict’s Catholic Church in Decorah by Rev. Donald Hawes Visitation will be on Monday from 4:00 – 8:00 at the Schluter Balik Funeral Home...
Robert "Bob" Melvin Brimacomb
Aug 4, 2007
Robert M. “Bob” Brimacomb, age 67, of Burr Oak, Iowa, and formerly of Waterloo, Iowa, died suddenly Saturday, August 4, 2007 at Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah of an apparent heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at Burr Oak Lutheran Church by Rev. Matt Larson with burial in Burr Oak Cemetery. Friends...
George Knoke
Aug 3, 2007
George Knoke, age 85, of Cresco, formerly of Decorah, IA, died on Friday, August 3, 2007, at his home, from leukemia. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at the Schluter – Balik Funeral Home in Decorah, Iowa, with Tyrome Albertson presiding. Burial will be in the Locust Cemetery, Locust, Iowa. Friends may call after...
Ray Rasmussen
Jul 30, 2007
Ray Rasmussen, age 95, of Decorah died Monday July 30, 2007 at the Waukon Good Samaritan Center in Waukon after a long illness. Funeral services will be on Friday August 3, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at the Decorah Lutheran Church in Decorah by Rev. James Glesne, Rev. Bryan Robertson and Rev. Allen Vik burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery...
Louis R. Wedo
Jul 29, 2007
Louis Wedo, age 70, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Sunday, July 29, 2007, at the Winneshiek Medical Center, Decorah, Iowa, following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, August 2, 2007, at the Glenwood Lutheran Church with Rev. Douglas Mathison officiating. Burial will be in the Glenwood East Cemetery, rural Decorah, Iowa with military rites...
John "J.J." James Hancock
Jul 27, 2007
John James Hancock, age 66 of Decorah, Iowa and formerly of Witchita, Kansas, died Friday July 27, 2007 at his home in Decorah following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Memorial services are being planned for a later date. Cremation rites have been accorded. Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah is in charge of the arrangements. John James “J.J.” Hancock was...
David Darling
Jul 25, 2007
David Darling, age 56, of Burr Oak, Iowa, died on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa, of complications from diabetes for fifty years. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, July 30, 2007, at the Schluter – Balik Funeral Home, in Decorah, Iowa, with Rev. David Andreae officiating from the Big Canoe...
Charles "Jack" Porter
Jul 22, 2007
Charles H. "Jack" Porter, age 94 of Decorah, Iowa and formerly of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, died Sunday, July 22, 2007 at the Barthell Eastern Star Nursing Home in Decorah following a long illness. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Friday, July 27, 2007 at Union Congregational United Church of Christ in St. Louis Park, Minnesota with burial...
Vneda Maxine Haugen
Jul 15, 2007
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, Vneda Maxine Johnson Haugen, 93, passed away of congestive heart failure on Sunday July 15, 2007 in Comfort House Hospice, Pella, Iowa. Vneda was born January 25, 1914 to Albert and Tildora (Thorsen) Johnson on the home farm of her maternal grandparents, Torge and Sallie Thorsen, in Hesper Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa. Vneda...
Irene Grace Pierce
Jul 4, 2007
Irene G. Pierce, age 84 of Decorah, Iowa, died early Wednesday morning, July 4, 2007 at home in Decorah following a long illness with Parkinson's Disease. Memorial Services will be held at 1:30 P.M. on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at First Lutheran Church in Decorah by Rev. Steven M. Jacobsen. Private Family Inurnment will be in the Burr Oak Cemetery...
Christine Beatta Bruvold
Jul 1, 2007
Christine B. Bruvold, age 91, of Decorah, Iowa, died Sunday, July 1, 2007 at the Barthell Eastern Star Nursing Home in Decorah. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, July 5, 2007 at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church, rural Decorah, by Rev. Kim W. Smith, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 12:00 P.M. Thursday at...
