Obits, Thursday, May 27th, 2021
May 27 funeral announcements
Services for a Shell Rock woman, 64 year old Doris Dilger, are Saturday at 1pm at Faith Lutheran church in Shell Rock. Visitation is 4-7pm Friday at Kaiser Corson funeral home in Shell Rock, and an hour before services at the church.
Services for a Cresco woman, 92 year old Delores Vsetecka, are Saturday at 11am at Notre Dame Catholic church in Cresco. Burial in Calvary cemetery. Visitation is 4:30-7pm at the church, with a 4pm rosary.
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Services for a Lansing woman, 59 year old Susan Russell, are Friday at 2pm at Immaculate Conception Catholic church in Lansing. Inurnment in Gethsemane cemetery. Visitation is an hour before services at the church. Thornburg Grau funeral home in Lansing is helping the family.
INDEPENDENCE – Jerome “Jim” M. Wester was born on May 29, 1927 to Hubert P. Wester and Christine (Becker) Wester on a farm near La Porte City. He went to school through 8th grade, after which, he worked on the family farm. He learned many valuable skills as a farm hand and found time for the occasional practical joke. Jim married Bettye Blocker on February 10, 1948, and they had three children, Kathleen Olsen, Michael Wester, and Kristi Hiller. A downturn in the farm economy of the 1960s led Jim to work off the farm. Over the years, he held several jobs, including at Black Hawk Seed Farms in La Porte City, Rath Packing in Waterloo, Universal Hoist in Cedar Falls, and John Deere in Waterloo.