Return to Class of 1952 09/16/2010 James W. Wolfe, 76, passed away Thursday, September 16, 2010 at Taylor House Hospice in Des Moines. James was born November 20, 1933, to C. Reese and Magdaline Wolfe in Pershing, IA. He graduated from Knoxville High School in 1952, attended Graceland College for one year and worked at […]
Return to Class of 1952 06/04/2010 Marian Marlene (Vander Heiden) Gordon was born on March 16, 1934, north of Harvey, Iowa. She was the youngest of three children that were born to John and Daney Anna Keiran Vander Heiden. Her mother had seven other children by a previous marriage to Oliver Burkhart and the ten
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Return to Class of 1952 03/21/2010 Ronald Hugh Whisler was born, Sept 5, 1934, to Flavel J. and Caroline Whisler. He was graduated in Knoxville, Iowa with the class of 1952 and united in marriage to Velda M. Raish of Knoxville. They were blessed with two children; a son Terry Whisler and a daughter Ronda
Return to Class of 1952 11/9/2009 Alberta (Woolsey) DeGoey, 75, of rural New Sharon, died Monday, November 9, 2009, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. She was born May 12, 1934, in Marion County, the daughter of Burdette and Alice Vinson Woolsey. She graduated from Knoxville High School in the class of 1952.
Return to Class of 1952 08/16/2009 Jerry Dee Koons, the son of James Dee and Winifred Manilla Crook Koons, was born June 19, 1934 in Pincy, Iowa Jerry Graduated from Knoxville Senior High and went on to attend A.I.B. receiving his accounting degree from Drake University. He became a licensed C.P.A. in 1968. On May
Return to Class of 1952 05/20/2009 Paul Thomas Williams was born January 19, 1935, in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, the son of William John Williams and Mabel Esther Vickroy. Paul, age 74 of Sevierville, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the Ben Atchley State Veterans Home in Knoxville, where he had been a resident for
Return to Class of 1952 02/02/2009 Dwight Edward Nichols, born October 21, 1934, was a Korean War veteran who became the All-American captain of Iowa State’s celebrated 1959 “Dirty Thirty” team, died Monday, February 2, 2009, in Dallas, Texas. He was 74. “Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to the Nichols family,” said Iowa
Return to Class of 1952 08/22/2008 Marjorie Louise (Baker) Thomas, the daughter of Paul Edward and Leona Pearl (Shaffer) Baker, was born on December 23, 1933 in Newton, Iowa. On April 18, 1953, Marjorie was united in marriage to James Charles Thomas in Knoxville, Iowa. In 1956 they moved to California where they made their
Return to Class of 1952 12/29/2007 Charles G. “Chuck” Cook, 73, of rural Burlington died at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007, at his home. Born Jan. 14, 1934, in Eldora, he was the son of Charles E. and Pauline Harsin Cook. On Feb. 4, 1978, he married Betty L. Newsom Wirt at the Little
Return to Class of 1952 07/24/2006 Keo J. (Smith) Simonian, 72, formerly of Knoxville, died July 25, 2006, at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver, Colo. Graveside services were held at Ft. Logan National Cemetery on Aug. 8, 2006, in Denver. Keo was born on Dec. 16, 1934, in Knoxville, to Charles H. and Addie Price-Smith.
