Obituaries

KALONA ? Joseph M. Miller, 86, of Kalona, died Friday, April 17, 2009, at his home.    Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, at the Rudy Borntrager residence at 1213 Orange Avenue in rural Kalona with the Rev. Paul T. Miller officiating.  Burial will be in the Peter Miller Cemetery.  The Yoder-Powell Funeral Home in Kalona is in charge of the arrangements.    Mr. Miller was born June 11, 1922, in

WEST DES MOINES ? Gayle ?Shorty? Burkum, 81, of West Des Moines, formerly of Washington, died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at his home.    Private funeral services will be held Monday, April 20, at McLaren?s Chapel in West Des Moines.  Burial will be in the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter.  Memorials may be directed to the Parkinson?s Disease Foundation for research.For the full obituary, see the April 17 edition

KALONA ? Mark P. Swartzendruber, 87, of Kalona, died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.    Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, April 17, at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church in rural Kalona with the Rev. Don Patterson and the Rev. Richard Swartzendruber officiating.  Burial will be in Lower Deer Creek Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. today at

SIGOURNEY ? Jeanette Adams, 70, of Mesa, Ariz., formerly of Sigourney, died Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, at her home.    Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Holm Funeral Home in Sigourney.  Burial will be at West Bethel in rural Delta.  Visitation will begin one hour before the services Saturday at the funeral home.     A full obituary appeared in an earlier edition of The Journal.

HUMBOLDT ? Wallace Franklin Blakestad, 75, of Humboldt, died Monday, April 6, 2009, in the Humboldt Care Center South.    Funeral services were held Thursday, April 9 at Our Saviour?s Lutheran Church in Humboldt.  Burial was at Union Cemetery.  Mason-Lindhart Funeral Home in Humboldt handled the arrangements.    Mr. Blakestad was born July 5, 1933, on a farm near Otranto Station, the son of Sophus and Vera (Clark)

Helen Loretta Rotenburger, 96, of St. Michael, Minn., formerly of Washington, died Sunday, April 12, 2009, in Buffalo, Minn., following a decline in health.    Mass of the Resurrection will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, at St. James Catholic Church in Washington with the Rev. Paul Appel officiating.  Burial will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Riverside.  Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at the

MAUMEE, Ohio ? Harry Youngquist, 93, of Holland, Ohio, died Monday, April 13, 2009, at the Lutheran Village Community.    Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, in First Presbyterian Church in Maumee, Ohio.  Burial will follow in Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery in Sylvania, Ohio.  Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home in Maumee.  Memorials may be

BRIGHTON ? Lester R. Ledger, 82, of Brighton, died Monday, April 13, 2009, in the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield, following failing health.    Mass of the Resurrection will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, at Ss. Joseph and Cabrini Church in East Pleasant Plain with the Rev. Charles J. Fladung and the Rev. Robert Streigel officiating.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.  Visitation will begin at 5 p.m.

BRIGHTON   Donna Rae Streitmatter, 70, of Fairfield, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009, in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City following a brief illness.    Funeral services will be held at a later date.  The body has been cremated.  Gould Funeral Home in Brighton is in charge of the arrangements.    Mrs. Streitmatter was born July 28, 1938, in Joliet, Ill., the daughter of John L. and Lena (Shraider)

A. Eugene Grecian, 85, of Washington, died Thursday, April 9, 2009, in Washington County Hospital in Washington following a short illness.    Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Jones-Eden Funeral Home in Washington with the Rev. Colton Clay officiating.  Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery.  Visitation will begin at noon Monday at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from