Geraldine (Geri) Oelmann went to be with her Lord on September 3, 2020. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at the First Presbyterian Church in Ackley with a 3:00 p.m. burial in the Lauren Hill Cemetery in Irvington, Iowa. Visitation will be an hour before the service at church. Memorial contributions may be directed to the family and will be given to the Parkinson's Foundation.

Ray Held, 83, of Hampton, passed away on Friday, September 4, 2020 at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center in Mason City. Funeral services are pending with the Sietsema-Atkinson Funeral Home in Hampton.

A graveside service will be held for Doug and Sheryl Kusian at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at Union Cemetery in Iowa Falls. The Surls Funeral Home in Iowa Falls is in care of arrangements.

Denny Edwards, 74, of Hampton, passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2020 at the Rehabilitation Center of Hampton. Funeral arrangements are pending with the Sietsema-Atkinson Funeral Home in Hampton.
 

Evelyn Marie Sharp, 89, of Hampton, Iowa, passed away Monday, August 24, 2020, at the Franklin General Hospital.
A public visitation was held from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., Thursday, August 27, 2020, at the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton. A private family graveside service was held at St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery in rural Hampton.
The Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton assisted Evelyn’s family.
 

Larry Keith Johnson, 81, of Latimer, Iowa, passed away Saturday, August 22, 2020, at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center. He was born on July 7, 1939, in Hampton, Iowa, to Lawrence and Arloine (Hansen) Johnson.

Phyllis Adeline Armstrong, 79, of Hampton, passed away August 13, 2020, at the MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center in Mason City. She was born May 14, 1941, in Mason City, Iowa, to Harold and Adeline (Sutcliffe) Payne.

Cora Lee Thielen, 90, of Hampton, passed away Thursday, August 13, 2020, at Franklin General Hospital.  She was born November 12, 1929, in Latimer, to Manly and Hazel (Azeltine) McCormick.

Jeryl W. Schmitt, 67, of Hampton, passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2020, at Franklin General Hospital in Hampton, after a battle with Melanoma cancer that lasted less than a year.  He was born October 11, 1952, in Hampton, to Wendell and Dorothy (Rodemeyer) Schmitt.

Frances Elaine (Whitmore) Douglas, 94, of Mason City, passed Wednesday, August 12, 2020, at the I.O.O.F. Home in Mason City. She was born on February 9, 1926, in Geneva, Iowa, to Lloyd A. and Henrietta (Bodecker) Whitmore.


Frances was united in marriage to Robert Louis Douglas on October 20, 1945, in Fort Hood, Texas. She worked as a waitress and glass inspector at Libby-Owen Ford in Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, August 10, 2020, at the Hampton United Methodist Church.  Visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., Sunday, August 9, 2020, at the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton.  Burial will take place in the Hampton Cemetery.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 11, 2020, at the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton.  Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., Monday, August 10, 2020, at the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton.  Burial will take place in the Hillside Cemetery in Sheffield. 

Private family services will be held.

Everett Kie Petersen, age 77, died Wednesday, August 5, 2020, at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center in Mason City from COVID-19.  Everett was born on August 30, 1942 in Harlan, Iowa.  He was the youngest of Allen and Clara (Juhl) Petersen’s four sons and was raised on a farm near Irwin.  Everett graduated from Irwin High School in 1961 and graduated from Dana College in Blair, NE, in 1966 with a degree in sociology.  After graduation, he was d

Helen Ruth (Happel) Jorgensen, 87, of Hampton, Iowa, went to be with her Lord and Savior on August 4, 2020. Helen was born on May 3, 1933, near Atkins, Iowa to Theodore and Clara Happel. She was baptized at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Atkins on June 4, 1933 and grew up on a farm outside of Latimer, Iowa with her brothers Richard, Alfred, Paul, and Lester.