Deaths

Mary Lou Piearson

Mary Lou Piearson, 85, Adel, IA, formerly of Maryville, died Friday, October 2, 2020. She was born June 22, 1935, in Hopkins, to Lyle and Margaret Allison Ulmer. She was a 1953 graduate of Hopkins High School. She married Virgil Sharr in 1952 and later married Noble Piearson, who preceded her in death in June

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Melba Dawson 

Melba Doris New Dawson, 97, Bedford, IA, died Sunday, September 6, 2020, at Bedford Nursing and Rehab, Bedford. She was born November 22, 1922, in Hopkins, to Frank New Jr. and Letha Ann Blake New. She graduated from Hopkins High School in 1940. On June 4, 1948, she married Joseph Brice Dawson, in Red Oak,

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Troy Landess

Troy Lee Landess, 52, Clarinda, IA, died Saturday, September 26, 2020. He was born March 15, 1968, in Maryville, to John A. Landess and Bonnie D. Diggs Landess. He graduated from South Nodaway High School in 1986. He received his semi-truck driving training in 1992, majored in criminal justice at Iowa Western through 1994, and

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George Gille

George Leonard Gille, PhD, 78, Maryville, died Wednesday, September 30, 2020, at Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville. He was born June 20, 1942, in Indianapolis, IN, to George M. and Ruth Crawford Gille. He received his BS degree in chemistry, his master’s in agricultural chemistry, and later his PhD in agronomy, all from the University

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Charlie Bowen

Charles Eugene “Charlie” Bowen, 72, Maryville, died Sunday, September 27, 2020, in North Kansas City. He was born February 12, 1948, in Clarinda, IA, to Charles G. and Erma Jean Walker Bowen. He graduated from Northeast Nodaway High School, class of 1966. In 1989, he married Teresa Lynn Key in Las Vegas, NV. Mr. Bowen’s

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Carolyn Sadler

Carolyn F. Sadler, 79, Maryville, died Sunday, September 27, 2020, at the Village Care Center, Maryville. She was born April 29, 1941, in Maryville, to Carl and Charlene Monticue Winell. She was raised on a farm north of Maryville, and was a lifelong resident of this area. Graveside services and burial were held Wednesday, September

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Randy Tompkins

Stephen R. “Randy” Tompkins, 61, Maryville, died Friday, September 25, 2020, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. He was born December 23, 1958, in Maryville, to Steve and Bonnie Scott Tompkins. He graduated from Maryville High School in 1977, and was a lifelong resident of the area. On January 24, 1993, he married Rebecca

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Karen Shepard

Karen Ann Shepard, 74, Graham, died Wednesday, September 16, 2020, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. She was born May 10, 1946, in Elmo, to Dayton “Buck” and Jennie Ethel Wilfong Lawson. She graduated from Nodaway-Holt High School, then lived for several years in St. Joseph, before moving back to Graham. She had attended

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Gary Lemon

Gary Blaine Lemon, 78, Country Club Village, formerly of Skidmore, died Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. He was born September 24, 1942, in St. Joseph, to Frank “Sandy” Stuart and Doris Verlene Bender Lemon. He was a graduate of Skidmore High School class of 1960. He attended Northwest Missouri

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Channie Geller

Chandler L. “Channie” Geller, 27, Maryville, died Monday, September 21, 2020, at Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville. She was born September 23, 1992, in Kansas City, KS, to Joe and Lynne Hunt Geller. Services were Saturday, September 26 at Price Funeral Home, Maryville. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Ravenwood. Memorials can be made in

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