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.

7 Jan	1 Jul
Jason Murray (6) (son of Richard & Rebecca) - Tripoli - obit	Eldon (Rosemary) Frisch (50) - Sumner - obit
Mary (Grey) Smitley (68) (nee Echard) - Sumner - obit
Mrs. O.E. Johnson (nee Hochberger) - Omaha - (N)	8 Jul
Felix (Etta) Morf (87) - Sumner - obit	Ronald (Kate) Bolton (52) - Sumner - obit
Leo (Bernice) McCall (68) - Sumner - obit	Margaret (Nevin) Johnson (67) (nee Debel) - Grundy Center - obit
14 Jan	15 Jul
Arthur (Elnora) Petersen (63) - Western Douglas - obit	Larry (Faith) Lageschulte (34) - Plainfield - obit
Pearl (Herbert) Seehase (76) (nee Hochberger) - Sumner - obit	Vincent (Vicki) Boehmer - Denver, Colo - obit
Carlyle (Gertrude) Bowling (77) - Sumner - obit	Jacqueline Smith (19) - Sumner - obit
Elsie (John) Klein (86) (nee Fridley) - Sumner - obit
	22 Jul
21 Jan	August (Alma) Meier (89) - Tripoli - obit
Rosie (Darwin) Hoffman (42) (nee Bockhaus) - Frederika/Waverly - obit	Blanche (Robjert) Green (nee Henniger) - Tripoli/Waterloo - obit
Lowell (Marvel) Busch (45) - Tripoli obit
Bertha (Ed) Nacke, (84) (nee Hagen) - Sumner - obit	29 Jul
Clarence (Marie) Block (70) - Sumner - obit	Otto (Malinda) Rieck - Tripoli - obit
Dr. F.J. (Josephine) Bries - Holy Cross, Iowa - obit	Robert (Zada) Rueber (78) - Westgate - obit
	Anna (Henry) Roggensack (99) (nee Reimler) - Sumner - obit
28 Jan	Robert (Barbara) Haag (60) - Sumner/Shabbona, Ill. - obit
Ida (Arthur) Tegtmeier (76) (nee Boeckmann) - Crane Creek - obit
Paul (Leota) Rettig - Tripoli - obit	5 Aug
Victor Kuepker (48) - Sumner - obit	Dale (Mary Ellen) Schmudlach (62) - Sumner/Palmdale, Calif. - obit
	Charles (Emma) Hough (78) - Sumner - obit
4 Feb
Charles (Sharon) Hesse (56) - Tripoli - obit	12 Aug
	Carl (Ruth) Schwemm (65) - Siegel - obit
11 Feb	Adam (Nellie) Potratz (87) - Sumner - obit
Agnes Drewis (65) (nee Hagenow) - Denver - obit	Minnie (Otto) Kretzschmar (94) (nee Potratz) - Sumner - obit
Ernest Jaschen (82) - Denver - obit	Charles (Doris) Pett - Fredericksburg - obit
Joseph (Hazel) Gaffney (85) - Sumner - obit
Milton (Jean) Leech (53) - Sumner - obit	19 Aug
Marvin (Hazel) Hoth (65) - Sumner/Omaha, Neb. - obit	Johanna (Louis) Bruening (68) (nee Gade) - Sumner - obit
Otto (Emma) Pipho (90) Sumner/Ft. Morgan, Colo. - obit	Jerry (Marcia) Thede (33) - Sumner/Toledo - obit
Theodore Steege (84) - Sumner - (N)	Mabel Hofer (80) - Toledo - obit
Edwin Biermann (69) - Tripoli/Omaha - obit	Nathan Reasland (inf. son of Ray & Nancy) - Mason City - obit
	Julia (Ed) Krueger (82) - Sumner/West Union - obit
18 Feb	Belle Robinson (96) - Sumner/Hawkeye - (N)
Theodore "Ted" (Minnie) Steege (84) - Sumner - obit
Albert (Bertha) Oltrogge (77) - Sumner - obit	26 Aug
Hulda (Herman) Zell (79) (nee Knoploh) - Sumner - obit	Willis (Dorothy) Huebner (58) - New Hampton - obit
	Darlene (John) Simon (56) (nee Blume) - Sumner/Parkersburg - obit
25 Feb	Melvin Kohagen (59) - Denver/Des Moines - obit
no deaths
	2 Sep
4 Mar	Leona (Carl) Abbas (71) (nee Meyer) - Frederika - obit
Kevin Jay McDonald (son of Michael & Marlys) - Sumner - obit	Rachelle Wegner (11) (dau of Doyle & Linda) - Sumner - obit
Bruce (Adelaide) Glenn (47) - Plymouth, Minn. - obit	Hazel (Edward) Olds (86) (nee Destival) - Sumner - obit
Hazel (Clem) McNally (91) (nee Cass) - Sumner/Greene - obit	Edward (Susie) Strempke (78) - Sumner - obit
Lionel Havernstrite (48) - Sumner - obit	Eric (Helen) Jacob (82) - Sumner - obit
Martha (Clarence) Keeran (73) - Tripoli - obit
Carlton (Barbara) Wogstad (50) - Tripoli/Readlyn - obit	9 Sep
	Ruth (Claude) Waskow (nee Duhrkopf) - Sumner - obit
11 Mar	Lucas (inf. son of Lavern) Ferguson - Moline, Ill. - obit
Lucinda Wolff (76) - Sumner - obit
Stanley Roberts (65) - Sumner - obit	16 Sep
John (Lydia) Knoploh (76) - Sumner - obit	S. Rex (Phyllis) Robinson - Sumner - obit
	Travis Chapman (inf son of John) - Oelwein - obit
18 Mar
Edelia (Henry) Dettmering (77) (nee Buhr) - Tripoli - obit	23 Sep
Robert (Betty) Ormston - Waverly - obit	Selma (Wm.) Reinking (82) (nee Benderrke) - Sumner/Westgate - obit
Louise (Leslie) Stufflebeam (54) - Sumner/Waterloo - obit	Arthur (Sarah) Diekmann (88) - Sumner - obit
Amanda (Samuel Weber, William Heinemann & Otto Cole) (96) (nee Brechtol) - Sumner/Jesup - obit	Harold (Jean) Niemann (71) - Sumner/Hutchinson, Kansas - obit
Rollis Coleman (64) - Westgate/Hollywood, Calif - obit	Anna Gielau (86) - Denver - (N)
Leota (Vern) Bierbaum (84) (nee Ladwig) - Sumner/New Hampton - obit
David Thompson (21) - Elk Grove Village, Ill. - obit	30 Sep
	Paul (Margaret) Block (70) - Tripoli - obit
25 Mar	Pearl (Paul) Hill (87) (nee Potratz) - Sumner/Chicago - obit
Ernest (Lillie Keding & Meta Mummelthie) Haase - Sumner - obit	Agatha (Albert) Draper (83) (nee Scuffham) - England/Sumner - obit
Martha (Carl) Kroll (81) (nee Hagen) - Tripoli/Waterloo - obit
	7 Oct
1 Apr	William (Elaine) Olmstead (43) - Alaska - obit
Richard (Erna) Thiemann (84) - Artesian - obit	Ernest Krueger (78) - Tripoli - obit
Janet Emmel (23) - Sumner/Dayton, Ohio - obit	Cecil (Linda) Dallenbach (82) - Sumner - obit
	Ruth (Albert) Borcherding (nee McConkey) - Sumner/Fredericksburg - obit
8 Apr
Mary (Karl) Elsamiller (100) (nee Schuldt) - Tripoli - obit	14 Oct
Elsie McMullen (90) - McClelland, Iowa - obit	no deaths
Goldie Mae (Henry) Johnson - Sumner/New Hampton - obit
	21 Oct
15 Aug	Lela Selck (64) - Tripoli - obit
Leonard (Elsie) Pipho - Sumner - obit	Clarence Coan (17) - Frederika - obit
Arthur (Elsie) Siegfried (86) - Sumner - obit	Karl Otto (Lydia) Schiek (77) - Tripoli/Clarion - obit
22 Aug	28 Oct
Sherwood (Margaret) Pleggenkuhle - Frederika - obit	Lester (Ruth) Peters (58) - Tripoli - obit
Dorretta (Raymond) Steege (62) (nee Pries) - Tripoli - obit
John (Olive) Dawson (80) - Sumner - obit	4 Nov
Mrs. Ralph Carroll - Sumner/Boone - obit	Pauline (John) Koch (101) - Tripoli - obit
Otto Rasther (95) - Westgate - obit	Brandon Lease (inf son of David) - sumner - obit
	Steven (Sharon) Bentley (24) - Cottonwood, Ariz. - obit
29 Apr	Ferd (Esther) Hackett (86) - Sumner/Arlington - obit
Nellie (Elmer) Haag (91) (nee Dawson) - Sumner - obit	Lester Peters (58) - Tripoli - 2nd obit
Esther (Jim) Ott (71) (nee Schult) - Fredericksburg - obit
	11 Nov
6 May	no deaths
Bernard (Joanne) Pickar (56) - Sumner - obit
	18 Nov
13 May	Malinda ( John) Fink (86) (nee Meier) - Tripoli - obit
Kenneth (Hazel) Chapin (87) - Tripoli - obit
Hedwig (Rev. Arthur) Holm - San Antonio, Texas - obit	25 Nov
Will A. Meyer (82) - Westgate - obit	Minnie (Ray) Schlichting (60) (nee Knoploh) - Sumner - obit
Rudolph (Marie) Nitardy (93) - St. Ansgar - obit	Donald Kuker (55) - Sumner/Stillwater, Okla - obit
	Bruce Carr (32) - Sumner/Waterloo - obit
20 May
Dean Ager - news article	2 Dec
Dean (Ruth) Ager (26) - Frederika/Tripoli - obit	William Meier (88) - Frederika - obit
LaFonda (Harold) Wehling (48) - Readlyn - obit	Hulda (Julius) Waskow (91) (nee Ehlert) - Sumner - obit
	Rev. Paul Ellis - Sumner/Des Moines - (N)
27 May	Fred (Peggy) Knoll (82) - Sumner/New Hampton - obit
Amanda (Harvey) Pries (83) (nee Schmidt) - Tripoli - obit	Minnie (Ray) Schlichting (69) - Sumner - obit
3 Jun	9 Dec
Linda M. (August) Hesse (82) (nee Meyerhoff) - Readlyn - obit	Walter Root (79) - Oelwein - (N)
J.P. (Caroline) Snelling (94) - Tripoi - obit	Harold (Minnie) Zwanziger (66) - Frederika - obit
Raymond "Jim" Wittenburg (61) - Readlyn - obit
Elizabeth Donat (dau. of James & Denise) - Sumner - obit	16 Dec
	Laura (Otto) Brase (82) (nee Bockhaus) - Frederika - obit
10 Jun	Walter (Helen) Buhr (79) - Sumner - obit
LaVern (Adella) Schmidt (78) - Tripoli - obit	Alfred (Olinda) Nuss (71) - Buck Creek/Sumner - obit
Rena ( Ernest) Miller (84) (nee Knief) - Sumner - obit	Caroline Seehaase (87) - Sumner - obit
Gladys (Erwin) Platte (nee Michaelson) - Sumner - obit
Adolph (Malinda) Homan (86) - Western Douglas/Waverly - obit	23 Dec
	Lucille (Donald) Leyh (46) - Sumner - obit
17 Jun	Harry (Fern) Zimmerman - Sumner/Waterloo - obit
Herbert (Gloria) Carr (56) - Sumner/Waukesha, Wis. - obit	John Snyder (65) - Hawkeye - (N)
August (Elenora) Frahm (84) - Sumner - obit
Elenora (August) Frahm - Sumner - obit	30 Dec
	Malinda (Otto) Rieck (78) (nee Geffert) - Tripoli - obit
24 Jun
Mrs. Albert Ries (77) (nee Moehme) - Sumner - obit
Verlynn (Mildred) Rader (49) - Sumner - obit
Ramona (George) Winters (52) (nee Kruse) - Waterloo - obit
Verla Ganske (42) (nee Birman) - New Hampton - obit

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