Class of 1947 Obituaries

Lloyd Buckles

Return to Class of 1947 02/14/1987Name: Lloyd “Buddy” Reese Buckles Service Info.: TSGT US AIR FORCE Korean War Birth: 25 Mar 1929 – Jasper County, Iowa Death: 14 Feb 1987 Bernalillo, New Mexico Interment: 14 Feb 1987 Cemetery: Santa Fe National Cemetery Cemetery Address: 501 North Guadalupe Street P. O. Box 88 Santa Fe, NM […]

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Geneva Simpson

Return to Class of 1947 10/29/1986Geneva (Simpson) Osland, 57, of Rte. 1, Grinnell, died of cancer Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1986, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newton, with the Rev. Craig Peters of the Kellogg United Methodist Church officiating.

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Donald Luther

Return to Class of 1947 05/09/1986 Services for Donald William Luther, 58, of Pleasantville, who died May 9, 1986 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, were held May 13 at the Pleasantville Church of Christ. Mason Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements: Interment was in Graceland, Cemetery. Pastor Don Hill officiated at

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Francis Hulgan

Return to Class of 1947 4/14/1986Services for Francis M. (Shorty) Hulgan, 56, of Ankeny and formerly of Knoxville, who died April 14, 1986 at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines of cancer, were held April 17 at Our Lady's Immaculate Heart Church in Ankeny, Ankeny Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Interment was

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Ruth Burdick

Return to Class of 1947 03/08/1983Name: Virginia Ruth (Burdick) Louwsma Birth: Mar 24, 1928 – Sheridan County – Wyoming Death: Mar. 8, 1983 – Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa Burial: Graceland Cemetery – Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa Father: Bradford Wilson Burdick (b.1888 – d.1964) Mother: Jane Eunice Anderson (b.1894 – d.1968) Spouse: William George Louwsma

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Margaret McConville

Return to Class of 1947 02/14/1979 Margaret Ann (McConville) Underhill, was born on February 25 1929, to Edward Jay McConville (b.7/18/1905) and Catherine Murphy (b.1/29/1908), in St. Joseph, Mo., and lived in Knoxville and Des Moines before moving to Ankeny 13 years ago. She attended Marycrest College and was a member of Our Lady’s Immaculate

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Darus Smith

Return to Class of 1947 12/30/1963Darus Lee Smith, youngest son of Earl Austin Smith and Mina Mae Spaur, was born near Knoxville, Iowa, on October 12, 1928. He passed from this life on December 30, 1963 at his farm home near Garden Grove, Iowa, from accidental gun shot wounds suffered while going down an icy

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Dolores Coleman

Return to Class of 1947 10/02/1961Services for Dolores June (Coleman) Fields, 52, of Amarillo, Tx., who died Oct. 2, 1961 at Northwest Texas Hospital, were held Oct. 6 at Fielding Funeral Home, Chariton. Interment was in Chariton Cemetery. Mrs. Fields was born May 17, 1929 at Knoxville, the daughter of Theodore M. (Ted) and Opal

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