Category Archives: Obituaries

Glen Darrell Foerster, 71, of Searsboro, passed away surrounded by family on Sept. 8, 2023. Services are pending at Smith Funeral Home, Grinnell. Services are pending at this time. Memorials may be designated to David Foerster, mailed c/o Smith Funeral Home, PO Box 368, Grinnell, IA 50112. Glen was born May 13, 1952, to Marshall and Janet (Elhorn)...

Carla Zylstra, 90, of Pella and formerly of Sully, passed away Thurs-day, Sept. 14, 2023, at The Cottages in Pella. Funeral services were Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 10:30 a.m. at Sully Christian Reformed Church. Interment was in Sully Cemetery. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be designated for Hope Ministries. Carla Rae Kooistra was born Oct. 24,...

Funeral services for Shirley Cogley, 86, will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, at Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Pella. She died Sept. 15, 2023. For those desiring, memorials have been designated for Hospice of Pella and First Baptist Church of Pella. Shirley Grace Cogley was born Nov. 14, 1936, to Harold and Ruby...

Dawn Watson, 53, of Gold Canyon, AZ, (formerly of Ankeny and Montezuma) went to be with her Heavenly Father on Sept. 6, 2023. She passed away under the care of her family and hospice at Hospice of the Valley - Dobson Home in Chandler, AZ, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.  Dawn’s sister-in-law Karol...

Doris Ann Strovers, 91, of Charleston, AR, and formerly of Sully, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, at Greenhurst Nursing Center in Charleston. She was born May 16, 1932, in Newton, to the late Earl and Elsa Swanson Clement. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Lester Roy Strovers, Jr.; and two sisters. Doris married...

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose,”  Romans 8:28. These words from Scripture summarize the walk with God that Bob experienced as he opened the door of his heart to his Lord in his life here on earth...

Robert Terlouw, 89, of Grinnell, died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell. A graveside ser-vice and burial was at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 16, at Sully Cemetery with Pastor Jamie Bogaard, pastor of Lynnville Friends Church, officiating. Memorial contributions may be designated to St. Francis Manor Foundation and mailed in care of the...