Obituaries

Frank E. Ross

Deceased: 05/05/2018

Melanie Kay McKee Brown

Deceased: 05/04/2018

Melanie Kay McKee-Brown, 54, passed away Friday, May 4, 2018 after a short battle with bone cancer. Melanie was born December 11, 1963 in Des Moines, IA to Gary and Sherry Shafer. She graduated…

Marjorie Allen Kitterman

Deceased: 05/04/2018

Marjorie Allen Kitterman, 83, died Friday, May 4, 2018 in Grinnell, Iowa of natural causes. Marjorie was born July 13, 1934 in Des Moines, Iowa to Curtis and Dora Allen. She was a graduate of East…

Wilma Arthur

Deceased: 05/04/2018

Wilma, age 96, died May 4, 2018. She was born in Carlisle, Iowa and moved to Des Moines as a child. Wilma was raised by Estelle and Elmer Eckburg, and Beulah and Irvan Mott. She graduated from…

Charles Grange, Jr.

Deceased: 05/03/2018

Charles Grange Jr., son of Charles and Rose left us on May 3, 2018 at the age of 93. Charles was in WWII on the USS Ross. He worked as a machinist for 42 years retiring from Dave Matson…

Susan Mendenhall

Deceased: 05/03/2018

Susan Roberta (Wright) Mendenhall was born September 16, 1947, in Des Moines, Iowa to Robert and Lily (Sheeler) Wright. She was employed as a mortgage banker and was a member of Pleasant Hill Free…

Esther Morris

Deceased: 05/03/2018

Esther Elvera (Gee) Morris was born August 30, 1926, at their family home, 2003 Delaware Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, to LaMont E. and Mabel A. (Meline) Gee. She was the middle child of 13 children.…

Betty Lou Fudge

Deceased: 05/03/2018

Kongphan Vongphakdy

Deceased: 05/03/2018

Harold Irving Gross

Deceased: 05/02/2018

Harold Irving Gross, 92, passed away peacefully on May 2, 2018. Services will be held Thursday, May 10 at Hamilton’s on Westown Parkway, 3601 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines, IA with the service…

Mary Lou Stevens

Deceased: 05/02/2018

Mary Lou Stevens, 72, passed away surrounded by her family on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at Valley View Village in Des Moines. Mary Lou was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on November 26, 1945 to Luish and…

Thelma Fortune

Deceased: 05/02/2018

Gladys E. Porter

Deceased: 05/01/2018

Gladys E. Porter, 96, passed away on May 1, 2018, at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. She was born in Ames, Iowa on January 8, 1922, the daughter of William and Hattie (Speck) Kauffman. Gladys enjoyed…

JoAnn Wand

Deceased: 05/01/2018

JoAnn Elizabeth (McWeeny) Wand, 76, died May 1, 2018. On May 5 she had a front row seat for the Kentucky Derby Run for the Roses, and on Mother's Day and every day she will watch over her sons, her…

Jimmie "Jim" Meyerdirk

Deceased: 05/01/2018

Jimmie Lee Meyerdirk, 64, passed away at his home in Altoona on May 1, 2018. He was born to Edward and Norma (O’Clair) Meyerdirk on May 6, 1953 in Spencer, Iowa. Jim graduated from Arnolds Park…