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Trudy Cook

Trudy J. (Shipman) Habben Cook, age 78 of Tucson, AZ, joined her Savior on October 23, 2025. She was born to Jack (Wilbur) and Aldean (Nerem) Shipman on Sept. 2, 1947, in Clarion. She was baptized at Lake Lutheran Church, rural Goldfield and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Corwith. She attended the Corwith Wesley Schools and graduated in the class of 1965. After graduation, she gained her nursing degree by attending Clarinda Nursing School and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ft. Dodge. She then worked in the Ft. Dodge hospitals. She married Larry Habben and had two sons, Troy ...

Sue Duvall

Sue Duvall, 93, of Johnston, formerly of Fort Dodge, Iowa, died October 29, 2025 at her home. Sue Ann Duvall, daughter of Milo and Helen (Lichty) Clark, was born on a farm near Irwin, Iowa. She was the consummate tough farm girl who walked uphill both ways to school in the snow. Following ...

Katherine (Kathy) Doan

Katherine Marie Doan, 72, of Fort Dodge, IA passed away Saturday, November 1, 2025 at the Good Samaritan Society in Manson, IA with her family by her side following a brief illness. Visitation will be held from 9:00 - 11:00 AM with a memorial service at 11:00 AM on Saturday, November 8, 2025 ...

Majorie Alliger

Marjorie L. Alliger, 90, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at Greene County Medical Center in Jefferson. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Farnhamville with pastor Aaron Zimmerman officiating. Burial will follow in Reading Township Cemetery in Farnhamville. There will be a visitation from 4:00 to 7:00 PM on Friday, November 7, 2025, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Farnhamville. Laufersweiler Palmer & Sons Funeral Home in Gowrie is serving the family. Memorials may be left to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church ...

Lori Lomholt

Funeral will be 10:30 AM on Thursday, Nov. 6, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Britt. Visitation will be 5:30 to 7:00 on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at Ewing Funeral Home, Britt.

Alice Rolling

Alice M. Rolling, 95, of Moorland, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2025, at the Marian Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, November 7, 2025, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Moorland. Burial will follow at Our Lady of Good Counsel Cemetery. A visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Thursday at Laufersweiler Funeral Home, with a Rosary at 7:00 p.m.