Return to Class of 1974 03/25/2014Romona Luann (Brees) Cooper was born on December 10, 1954 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the daughter of Lewis and Mildred (Roland) Brees. Luann graduated from Knoxville High School and then attended Open Bible College. She began working for Valley View Village in Des Moines as a CNA, where she was employed […]
Return to Class of 1955 03/25/2014 Richard Keith Kelderman, son of Bill and Kathryn (Glover) Kelderman, was born August 12, 1937, in Knoxville, Iowa. He attended a rural school in Marion County and then graduated from Knoxville High School in 1955. Two years later Keith and his brother Ted enlisted in the United States Coast
Return to Class of 1958 03/23/2014 Jacqueline Ruth (Avon) Harper was born November 10, 1940, in Knoxville, Iowa. Her siblings are Bruno and John Avon of Knoxville. Graduating with KHS Class of 1958. She married Roger Alvin Harper on April 24, 1965. She passed away in Tampa, Florida on March 23, 2014. They had no
Return to Class of 1947 03/22/2014Mary Ann (Sytsma) Gruber, age 83 of Knoxville passed away at her daughters home in Knoxville on Saturday March 22, 2014. Mary Ann was born August 20, 1930 in Leighton, Iowa, the daughter of Daniel and Lena (De Hamer) Sytsma. Mary Ann went to a country school near Tracy and
Return to Class of 1940 03/20/2014 Doris Marie (Adams) Barnett, 91, passed away at Lookout Mtn Assisted Living Home in Phoenix AZ, with her daughter, Siu, at her side on March 20, 2014. Doris was born the second of two daughters of C. Pearl Adams (1895 – 1954) and Jessie Davis Adams (1895 – 1988)
Return to Class of 1964 03/14/2014Garl Vance Sterling, Jr. was born on March 1, 1946, in Knoxville, Iowa. His parents were Garl Vance and Pauline Lucille (Rickett) Sterling. Garl graduated from Knoxville High School in Knoxville with the Class of 1964. He was a member of the National Honor Society and participated in many extracurricular
Return to Class of 1939 03/08/2014 Norma Jean (Hart) Beal was born February 22, 1922 in Marion County, Iowa the daughter of Harold and Fairy (Bishop) Hart. She graduated from Knoxville High School with the Class of 1939. In 1942 she was united in marriage to William Thomas Beal. The couple farmed in Marion County
Return to Class of 1926 03/08/2014 Helen Josephine (Ward) Roberts was born March 6, 1908 in Franklin Township – rural Marion County, the daughter of Thurman Ward and Cora Pauline (Shivvers) Ward. Her grammar school years were spent at a country school and she graduated from Knoxville High School in the Class of 1926. Following
Return to Class of 1935 03/04/2014 Vonis Wagner Coverdell, 97, died Tuesday of complications from breast cancer at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Terry Trogstad of Marietta. Her funeral will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday at A.S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home, Decatur. Vonis (pronounced VAH-nis) was the fifth-born of eight
Return to Class of 1944 03/03/2014James Donald McClure, 86, died of natural causes on March 3, 2014, in the presence of loving family members. Born June 2, 1927, in Knoxville, to James Wren McClure and Agnes Catherine Lee, Donald was the middle sibling to brother John Robert “Jack” (Wilma) McClure of Lovilia, and sister Patricia
