Obituaries

Funeral services for Freddie W. Degner, age 85, of Albert City, who died on Sunday, April 24, 2016, at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Albert City, will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church at rural Albert City.  Burial will be in Varina Cemetery.  Visitation will take place Wednesday, April 27, 2016, from 5-7 p.m. at Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City.

Rieng Lo, age 64, of Storm Lake died Saturday, April 23, 2016.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home. Burial will take place Sunday, May 1, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Storm Lake Cemetery.  

Tina R. Roberts, 59, of Barnum passed away Friday, April 15, 2016, at Trinity Regional Medical Center.

Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 21, 2016, at Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home in Fort Dodge with Msgr. Kevin McCoy officiating.

Richard Killeen, age 72, passed away Sunday, April 17, 2016, at Good Samaritan Center of Newell under hospice care.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sac City with Father John McGuirk officiating. Burial was at Oakland Cemetery in Sac City. Farber & Otteman Funeral Home of Sac City was in charge of arrangements.

Richard Charles Killeen was born April 4, 1944, in Carroll, the son of Eldore T. (Slim) and Dorothy M. (Snyder) Killeen.

Floyd E. Binder, age 81, of Alta passed away Friday, April 15, 2016, at his favorite place, his family farm, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

A funeral service was held on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10 a.m. at United Methodist Church of Alta with the Rev. Terry W. Pollard officiating. Burial was at Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery of Storm Lake. The Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home of Ata was in charge of arrangements.

Born in Oak Hill, Kan., on Nov. 27, 1934, to Lawrence and Anna (Malcolm) Binder, Floyd was the youngest of three siblings. 

Ruth Campbell, age 96, of Storm Lake died Monday, April 18, 2016, at Methodist Manor Retirement Community.

Funeral services will be held Friday, April 22, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Storm Lake Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to Storm Lake United Methodist Women. Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 

Norman W. Swanson of Belleair Bluffs, Fla., passed away Jan. 26, 2016, in Dunedin, Fla., at the age of 88.

A memorial coffee will be held Thursday, April 28, 2016, from 2-4 p.m. in Mae Latta Hall at Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls. A memorial service will be held Friday, April 29, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Albert City, with burial in the family plot at Fairfield Township Cemetery.

God opened the gates of Heaven for Lynn Marie (Petersen) Hogrefe, age 64, on Thursday, April 14, 2016.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at 11 a.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Storm Lake. Burial will be in Zion Lutheran Cemetery in rural Storm Lake. Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 

Ruth Campbell, age 96, of Storm Lake died Monday, April 18, 2016, at Methodist Manor Retirement Community.


Funeral services will held Friday, April 22, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Storm Lake Cemetery. Visitation will take place Thursday, April 21, 2016, from 5-7 p.m. at Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home. Memorials may be directed to Storm Lake United Methodist Women.

Walter Wilkens, age 92, of Albert City died Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at Pleasant View Nursing Home.

Funeral services were held Monday, April 18, 2016 at 10 a.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Albert City. Burial followed in St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery in rural Newell. Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City was in charge of arrangements.

Walter H. Wilkens the son of William and Lina (Bockhop) Wilkens was born near Newell in Coon Township on Feb. 7, 1924.