Meaning of notations:

(N) - not a complete obit - similar to a death notice, usually establishing some type of tie to the local area
Obit - usually includes birth, relatives, circumstances of death
Article - usually a newsworthy item about the circumstances of death
Town/town & state - often the local area of origin and the area they died. Ex. - Frederika/Sioux Falls, SD

My thanks to Elvira Hebell for transcribing and contributing this index. For copies ($2.00 each) please email her.

January 2	July 3
Mrs Mary Scheve (73) Tripoli	Mrs Ernestine Westendorf (88) Denver
Mrs John Judas (80) Readlyn
William Mummelthei (62) Waverly	July 10
Mrs W C (Anna) Schultz (79) Tripoli	Mrs E M (Agnes) Guiney (63) Waverly
	Miss Nell Barnard - Sumner
January 9
Michael Rochford - Pinhook	July 17
Mrs Fred C (Soffe) Schwem (77) Tripoli	Martin Pipho - Waverly
Charles W Richmond (56) Frederika	Lee Eisenhart (59) Tripoli/Bell
Matthew Pierce - Janesville/Webster
	July 24
January 16	Mrs Lillian French (86) Frederika
Mrs Albert Pape (56) Sumner/Dubuque	Herman Henry Stahlhut (57) Waterloo
	Mrs Ray (Marie) Biek - Waverly/Nile
January 23
Miss Nellie McGrath (74) Frederika	July 31
John W Niedert (57) Readlyn/Waverly	Mrs Joe (Etta) Farris (79) Denver
Mrs H W (Minnie) Geffert - Tripoli/Northfield	Mrs Mary Jane Sewell (89) Waverly
John Schauer (84) Waverly
	August 7
January 30	Mrs J C (Bertha) Stehn (82) Waverly
Mrs H J (Lena) Bunger (69) Tripoli	Miss Stella Messerer - Sumner
Norbert A Brandt - Denver
	August 14
February 6	Mrs Henry S Boevers (71) Waverly
Herman Struckmeyer (55) Waverly	Wm D Stevens (74) Sumner
Carl Dins (85) Denver
Mrs Herman (Christine) Broderson (64) Waverly	August 21
Silas Eggleston (73) Waverly	Herman C Griese (67) Denver
Mrs Lois Bowlby - Frederika
Mrs Minnie Sass - Denver	August 28
	Paul Bremer - Waterloo
February 13	Joseph Newton Finney (82) Waverly
Fred M Zell (84) Sumner	Wm Hoth - Sumner
Mrs Sophia Brandenburg - Waverly
Christophel John Schunemann - Denver	September 4
Lois Lillian Bowlby (69) Frederika	Nick Cook (78) Waverly/Readlyn
	William Schwartz (71) Sumner
February 20	John Herman (Jack) Ambrose (63) Tripoli
Lowell Lorenz Meyer (3) Sumner	Avery W Alcock (50) Frederika
Mrs A Simes - Frederika	Mrs Rozella Staack (74) Waverly
Mrs Mae Liffring (70) Waverly
Louis Diestler (70) Waverly	September 11
	Irvin S Sorge - Sumner
February 27	Harry M Losee (72) Waverly
Mrs Mary Heidemann - Denver	Mrs Minnie Lee Broadie (83) Waverly/Long Beach
L E Miller - Sumner
	September 18
March 6	Ernest Block - Sumner
Mrs Henry (Dorothea) Eick (69) Tripoli
Milton Shaffer - Bremer	October 2
Edward Mensching (65) Waverly	Mrs Lena Sommer (70) Tripoli
Robert E Lease (76) Sumner
Fred Wittenberg - Sumner	October 9
	August Propp (79)Tripoli
March 13	Will Testorff (64) Waverly
Mrs Louisa Dettmer (80) Tripoli	Bernard Linow (78) Waverly
William H Oestman (67) Waverly	Henry Keding - Sumner
Mrs Catherine McKliget (87) Waverly	Mrs Frank Nissen (81) Waverly
Adolph Meyer - Sumner	Phares C Stannard (70) Waverly
March 20	October 16
LaVerne Peters (27) Tripoli	Herman Bast (66) Denver
Mrs Albert (Emma) Franklin (70) Denver/Readlyn	Mrs Edwin Duffy (33) Sumner
John Pothast (75) Waverly	Miss Maxine Richmond (18) Frederika
John Chezik - Waverly	Miss Ramona Klass (15) Waverly
	Sophia Moeller (63) Readlyn
March 27	Oscar August Hankner (38) Tripoli/Villa Grove
Mrs Sophia Westendorf (77) Denver
Mrs Emma Dana (74) Waverly	October 23
Fred C Arns (66) Waverly	Miss Maxine Richmond (18) Frederika
	Walter F Berg
April 3	William Pothast (80) Waverly
Milton Schaefer (21) Bremer	Mrs Minnie Lageschulte (89) Waverly
John Sell - Sumner/Little Falls	Mrs E J (Sarah) Wylam (76) Waverly
	Mrs W S Chapman (50) Waverly
April 10	Albert Foelske (52) Denver
Mrs Emma Hill (84) Waverly
Milton Schaefer (21) Bremer	October 30
	Edwin Strotman (45) Waverly
April 17	Mrs Laura Townsend (87) Plainfield
James F Keough (88) Tripoli
Larry Brase (5) Horton	November 6
Mrs W W (Katherine) Saylor (82) Waverly	F J Fay (77) Sumner
Dr Herman F Borchert (66) Tripoli	Mrs Anna Zupke - Sumner
Mrs Emma Sophia Kohagen - Waverly	Mrs Bertha Everding (55) Readlyn
Samuel Hack (63) Waverly	L C Connor (60) Waverly/St Charles
April 24	November 13
Mrs Mary Buchholz (85) Tripoli	Henry A Pothast (84) Waverly
Mrs John (Emma) Dreier (63) Denver	Henry Ganske (82) Sumner
May 1	November 20
Thomas Snelling (91) Tripoli	Mrs Clara Ross (87) Frederika
Mrs William (Amelia) Lenius (73) Denver	Mrs Walton Hammar (30) Waverly/Belmond
May 8	November 27
(child) Deterding - Tripoli	William H Ager (82) Frederika
Mrs Magdalena Fehring (87) Waverly
Nels Bertelsen Gram - Waverly	December 4
Ed House - Sumner	Herman Mensching (69) Waverly
	Mrs F Schedtler - Sumner
May 15	Mrs Sophia Tegtmeier (85) Tripoli
Carl Henry Strotman (56) Waverly	Louis Moehlis (66) Tripoli/Waterloo
Ernest A Westendorf - Sumner	Mrs Charles Nolte (61) Waverly
	Mrs Bernice A Hunt (40) Fredericksburg
May 22	Miss Constance T Richardson (42) Fredericksburg
Patrick Butler (78) Tripoli/Dubuque	William H Ager (82) Frederika
Mrs John J Lagomarcino (56) Waverly
	December 11
May 29	Mrs Sophia Tegtmeier (85) Tripoli
Edward Buenzow - Sumner	Homer Bailey Hasbrouck (79) Tripoli/Mason City
Mrs Caroline Pagel (83) Sumner	Lawrence M Aubrey (54) Sumner
Wm Gersonde (73) Sumner	Mrs Emma Aschbrenner - Sumner
Mrs Anna Tribon ( 72) Sumner	Mrs Henry Propp (76) Waverly
	Mrs Charles (Frederika) Ducker (80) Waverly
June 5
Mrs Elizabeth Sievers (75) Tripoli	December 18
Paul Weigle (11) Waverly	William Ottomeyer - Oran/DeSoto
	Mrs Caroline Redies (73) Denver
June 12	Harry Reeve - Sumner
Mrs Minnie Knoll - Sumner
Edward Franklin (70) Waverly	December 25
Fred Arns (79) Waverly	Frank Napiecek (58) Waverly
	Mrs John Franke - Waverly
June 19	Mrs Henry L (Sarah) Diekmann - Denver
Mrs Ernestine Westendorf (88) Denver	John Winchell (70) Waverly
Fred Klemp - Sumner
June 26
George A Spalding (71) Waverly
Grant Dawson - Sumner/Waukegan

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