Category Archives: Obituaries

Junior Christensen, 87, of rural Sully, died on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, at his home. A funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in Newton.   Memorials to the Killduff United Methodist Church or the American Parkinson’s Disease Association may be left at the...

Pearl Terpstra, 95, formerly of Sully, died Jan. 1, 2015, at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell. Funeral services were held at Sully First Reformed Church on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Interment was in Sully Cemetery. Pearl Luella Vander Beek was born Jan. 14, 1919, in Pella. Pearl was the first of four children born to Antonie P....

Funeral services for Peter J. Lanser, 89, were held at Hillcrest Christian Reformed Church in Englewood, CO, on Nov. 29, 2014.            On July 10, 1925, Peter James Lanser was born in Sully to John and Elizabeth Lanser. As one of 12 children in a farming family, Pete grew up with lessons of appreciating what...

Ruth Opal Hull, 94, of Grinnell and formerly of Searsboro, died Dec. 17, 2014, at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell. Funeral services were held Saturday, Dec. 20, at the Searsboro Community Church with the Rev. Don Job officiating. Pianist was Linda Laverman and vocalists were Darrell and Duane Brand. Pallbearers were Brent Beyer, Earl James, Fritz...

Gertrude “Gertie” Hites, 88, of Newton died Satur-day, Dec. 13, 2014, at Taylor House Hos-pice in Des Moines. A visitation service was held Dec. 16 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in Newton. Gertie, the daughter of John and Carrie (Van Wyk) Braaksma, was born Aug. 16, 1926. She lived in the Killduff and...

Jason Paul Driscoll, 34, of Johnstown, CO, passed away Dec. 1, 2014, at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO. He was born Jan. 15, 1980, to Alan and Paula (DePenning) Driscoll in Cedar Rapids. Paula was born and raised in the Lynnville-Sully area. Jason’s family moved to Colorado when he was two years old,...

Don "Smiley" Snodgrass, 84, of Sully, died Dec. 6, 2014, at the Mayflower Com-munity Health Care Center in Grinnell. Funeral services were held Dec. 10 at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell with Pastor Dave Rex, Metz Community Church in Newton, officiating. Burial was in Sully Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed...