Obituaries

KALONA ? Doris Ladene (Marner) Swartzendruber, 92, of Kalona, died Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 26, at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church in rural Kalona with the Rev. Don Patterson officiating. Burial will follow at the Lower Deer Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 25, at the Peterseim ...

Barbara ?Bobby? Joan Sell, 73, died Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Behner Funeral Home, with the Rev. Danny Cary officiating. Burial will be in Wright Cemetery.Visitation will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.Memorials may be made to the Barbara ?Bobby? Sell family. Cards and memorials may be ...

Verna Louise Sloan, 91, of rural Eldon, died at 3:50 a.m. Thursday, March 24, 2011, in the Davis County Hospital hospice room in Bloomfield. A funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Eldon Christian Church, with the Rev. Joshua Gordon officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Cemetery, rural Floris. Open visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Friday at the church, with the family present 6-7:30 p.m.Memorials ...

WELLMAN ? Brandon Lee Adam, 30, died Saturday, March 19, 2016, at On With Life in Ankeny.A funeral Mass will be held at 10: 30 a.m., Wednesday, March 23, at St. Joseph?s Catholic Church in Wellman with the Rev. David Brownfield, Ph.D., officiating. Burial will be in the Wellman Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m., Tuesday at the Powell Funeral Home in Wellman, where a prayer service will be held at 4 ...

KALONA ? Menno L. Miller, 82, of Kalona, died Friday, March 18, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona from a sudden illness.Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Friday, March 25, at the Fairview Mennonite Church in rural Kalona. Burial will be in the Sharon Bethel Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., Thursday at the church, where the family will greet friends from noon to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. The Yoder-Powell ...

A memorial service for Willard R. Yoder, 96, of Kalona, will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the Kalona Mennonite Church with Pastor Scott Swartzendruber officiating. Burial will be held prior to the service at 9:30 a.m. at the Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Cemetery in rural Kalona. Visitation will be held Tuesday, March 22 from 2 ? 4 and 6 ? 7 p.m. at the Kalona Mennonite Church. A memorial fund ...

William (Bill) Hunter, 66, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, formally of Batavia, died March 20, 2011 at Broward General Hospital from complications of a heart attack suffered March 4, 2011. He was born July 18, 1944, in Batavia, Iowa to Edward and Vesta Pumphrey Hunter. He was a 1962 graduate of Cardinal High School and a 1970 graduate of Northeast Missouri College. On September 14, 1962 he married Sherry Schmitter....

Janice Marie Martin, 73, of Shueyville, died Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at her home after a five-year battle with lung cancer.A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 19, at the Powell Funeral Home in Wellman. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m., Saturday at the funeral home. Donations may be made to the American Lung Cancer Society or Wellman First Baptist Church.Mrs. Martin was born Nov. ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. ? The Rev. Dr. Vernon G. Elgin died Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Seattle, Washington.A memorial service was held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Little Church on the Prairie, at 6310 Motor Avenue S.W. in Lakewood, Washington (ZIP code 98499). Donations may be made to The Little Church on the Prairie?s Memorial and Endowment Fund (for mission and outreach).Dr. Elgin was born in 1927 in Elderton, ...

KALONA ? Hazel Burrows, 90, of Kalona, died Monday, March 21, 2016, in Parkview Manor in Wellman. Arrangements are pending at the Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona.