January 2025

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JOHNNA L. LOWDER FRIESTH

Johnna Lee Lowder Friesth passed away at the age of 94 on New Year’s Day, 2025 after a short stay in the Simpson Health Center at Friendship Haven, Fort Dodge.
Services were held Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at the Tompkins Celebration Center at Friendship Haven with Chaplin Denise Halverson officiating. Burial was in the North Lawn Cemetery. The Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services are in charge of arrangements.
Johnna was preceded in death by her husband, Elliott; her parents, LeRoy and Grace (Schroeder) Lowder; and her siblings Mary Lowder Odell and William Lowder; great-grandson, Hayden Hellman (Rachel and Spencer Hellman). She is survived by her children Robert Friesth of Des Moines; Martha Butzier of San Jose, CA; Anne Starr (Bart) Clive; and Grant Friesth (Diane) West Des Moines. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She loved her family and enjoyed spending time with them.

Thu
02
Jan

SANDRA R. OSBORN

Sandra Rae (Sayre) Osborn, 75, of Renwick, Iowa, passed away on Dec. 24, 2024, at the Iowa Specialty Hospital in Clarion. She had been a resident at Clarion Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in Clarion, since March of 2024.
Sandy was born to James and Phyllis Sayre on Feb. 23, 1949, in Tacoma, WA and was the third of what would become a family of 13 children. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay area, then El Paso Texas, and to Las Cruces, NM before settling at the farm in rural Boone, (just a few miles West of Ames). Being one of the older children in the family, Sandy helped to raise her younger siblings and had strong bonds with all of them throughout her life.

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