Obituaries Mary M. Sweningsen Sigworth Harrison W. Sigworth 1922-2014 Harry and Mary, both 92, would have celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary this week. Inseparable and devoted to one another, it was fitting that after Mary died Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, Harry would spend only nine more days with us before he left to join her….

Ernest J. Edwards, 91, of Coralville, Iowa, passed away Friday, June 4, 2016, of heart failure. He was buried at Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee, next to his wife, Shirley. Ernie was born May 6, 1925, in Evanston, Wyoming, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Ernie enlisted in the U.S. Navy at 18 years…

Michael Joseph Spehar, 53, of Thousand Oaks, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 at Los Robles Hospital, surrounded by his family after a six-year battle with cancer. Mr. Spehar was born April 2, 1949 in Hancock, Mich., to Joseph and Jean Spehar. He grew up in Van Nuys, attending St. Bridget of Sweden School, Crespi High…

Once upon a time, in a midwife’s home located in Nokay Lake Township, outside of Brainerd, Minn., Doris L. (Mahle) Elless was born Aug.18, 1933. Such a delight she was to her parents, Elizabeth and Norval Mahle, and her sister, Alice (Mahle) Jaloszynski. Her brother, Jerry Mahle, who has since passed away, would come into…

“The mother is a gardener, planting the seeds of faith, truth and love that develop into the fairest flowers of her character: virtue and happiness in the lives of her children.” J. H. Quinn. Pauline “Polly” E. Holcomb, 95, went into the sleep of death on Wednesday evening, May 10, 2000. She was born in…