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siouxcityjournal.com Friday, June 19, 2020 C3 00 1 OBITUARIES Beimers, evelyn, 87 Sioux Center, iowa Bolles, Carol, 84 anthon, iowa Bolluyt, dean, 84 Hawarden, iowa Carpenter, randy, 64 Holstein, iowa Cutsor, richard, 73 Ponca, neb. Grell, Charlene, 73 Moville, iowa Hedrick, Jack, 83 emerson, neb. Johnson, Kimberley, 60 Le Mars, iowa OBIT INDEX Randy B. Carpenter Holstein, Iowa 64, died Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Service: June 20, 11 a.m., Nicklas D.

Jensen Funeral Home, Holstein. Burial: Holstein Cemetery, with military rites. Visita- tion: June 20, 9-11 a.m., at the funeral home. Richard Alan Cutsor Ponca, Neb. 73, died Tuesday, June 16, 2020.

Memorial service: June 20, 1 p.m., Mohr Funeral Home, Ponca. Burial: Ponca Cemetery. Visitation: June 20, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at the funeral home. Charlene K. Grell Moville, Iowa 73, died Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Service: June 27, 10:30 a.m., Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Moville. Burial: Arlington Cemetery. Visitation: June 26, 4-8 p.m., Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home, Moville. Kimberley A.

Johnson Le Mars, Iowa 60, died Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Service: June 20, 10:30 a.m., Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home, Le Mars. Visitation: June 19, 2 p.m., at the funeral home. Evelyn Beimers Sioux Center, Iowa Evelyn Beimers, 87, of Sioux Center, died peace- fully Monday, June 15, 2020, at her home surrounded by her family. Private family services will be 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center, with the Rev. Carl Klompien offi- ciating. Interment will be in Memory Gardens. Live stream will be available on our website and a link can be found on obit- uary page. Evelyn Shirley (Vaandrager) Beimers was born on April 5, 1933, in Sheldon, Iowa, the daughter of Cor- nelius and Pearl (Rienstra) Vaandrager.

She grew up on a farm near Sheldon, where she also attended school. On Dec. 26, 1956, she was united in marriage to Thur- low Beimers in Tucson, Ariz. Beim and Evie made their home in Sioux Center, where she was a homemaker and later worked at the Sioux Center Hospital. Evelyn was a member of First Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center.

She spent Saturday morn- ings at Bakery making pig-in-the-blankets to support their Christian education fund. She enjoyed antique shopping, crossword puzzles, reading the newspaper, tending her plants, and hosting Christmas Eve dinner. She was very proud of her children, grand- children and great-grandchildren, and cherished time spent with her siblings at family reunions. Beim and Evie enjoyed their yearly vacation to Cass Lake, Minn. to fish and spend time with family.

In their retirement years, they loved spending time at their condo in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Left to cherish her memory are her four children, Terry (Mary) Beimers of Sioux Center, Pam (Howard) Vander Schaaf of Alton, Iowa, Lisa (Mike) Hilbelink of Temecula, and Jill Shepard of Grass Valley, Ca- seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, Wendy (Mike) Poppema, their children, Jaci, Peyton, and Kinzie, Evan (Jennifer) Beimers, their children, Claire and Eli, Kimberly (Kyle) Waterman, their chil- dren, Camden and Collins, Joshua Vander Schaaf, his son, Kyler, Justin (Angela) Vander Schaaf, Jordan Vander Schaaf (Marianna Jensen), and Riley Shephard, her son, Ruston; three sisters, Cynthia (Don) Hanen- burg, Leona Broers and Glenda Vaandrager; two sisters- in-law, Kathryn Vaandrager and Carolyn Vaandrager; and nieces, nephews and other extended family. In addition to her husband, Thurlow, she was pre- ceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Charles, and Vernon Vaandrager; and one brother-in-law, Tom Broers. In lieu of flowers, family prefers memorial be directed to the Sioux Center Health Hospice. Erwin Bolluyt Hawarden, Iowa Erwin Bolluyt, 84, of Hawarden, passed away on June 8, 2020.

No services are being planned in accordance with his wishes. Arrangements are under the direction of Kober Funeral Home in Vermillion, S.D. Condo- lences may be posted online to www.koberfuneralhome. com. Dean was born on a farm between Ireton and Mau- rice, Iowa, on July 24, 1935, before moving to Hawar- den.

He attended school in rural Hawarden and later at Hawarden Community School. Dean served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957. Af- ter he was discharged from the military, he attended University of South Dakota and obtained his BA and degrees. While attending school, he married Carol Kemner in 1960.

Dean taught English, government, and history at West Sioux for 10 years. Dean also taught history at nights at Sioux Empire College for several years. He then returned to USD to obtain his administrative degree and became West Sioux High School principal. He served as a principal for 22 years. He retired from education in 1994 and remained in Hawarden with Carol.

He is survived by his wife, Carol; two sons, Mike of Manassas, and Steve of Eagan, a daughter, Julie Dowling (Matt) of Sioux Falls, S.D.; six grandchil- dren, Aleecia Watson (Josh), Reegan, Gracie, Quinn, Kyle and Kori; and two great-grandchildren, Liberty and Brylee. He was preceded in death by his parents; four sib- lings; his father and mother-in-law; and his grand- daughter, Staci. John Hedrick Emerson, Neb. 83, died Sunday, June 14, 2020. Celebration of life: June 11, 2021, at the river.

Munderloh-Smith Funeral Home, Emerson. EARL HORLYK SIOUX CITY Legend- ary Siouxland broadcast executive William F. (Bill) Turner, best known for ushering in the golden age of television news as the general manager for both KCAU and KTIV for much of 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday in Naples, Florida, at the age of 90. Getting his start in broadcasting as a part- time sports announcer when he was still a New Britain, Connecticut, high school student in the early days of television, Turner graduated from Morse College, in Hartford, then joined WHAY in New Brit- ain, where he quickly rose to become station manager. In 1954, Turner and his wife, Dolly, moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, where he joined the Duhamel Broadcasting Group as part of a team whose mission was to build a new TV sta- tion that would be affiliated with all three networks.

In 1966, Turner and his family moved to Sioux City, where he joined Forward Communications Corpo- ration, which owned KCAU at the time. Turner is credited with building KCAU-TV into a regional powerhouse since the station went on to win a series of national awards in recognition of its inno- vative news and creative services department. Veteran documentary filmmaker and photog- rapher George Lindblade was hired to be in charge on creative services in the late 1960s. succeeded because he was Lindblade said. wanted KCAU to be successful and it went on to be the No.

1 most profitable station in the ABC In large part, it was due to a news department that got around. sent crews to cover the Rapid City flood (in 1972) Wounded Knee Occupation (when approx- imately 200 Oglala Lakota members seized a town of the Pine Ridge Indian Res- ervation in Lind- blade recalled. mind, a TV station needed to make its presence felt. He wanted his people to be in the middle of the But Turner wanted people to stick around too long. need Lindblade said.

wanted young people to gain experience and then move on to bigger and bet- ter This is how KCAU ended up with such illustrious alumni as animation i Ron Clem- ents Little and episodic TV di- rector John Behring However, Turner also appreciated continuity. He got that when he hired Dave Nixon Sr. to replace KCAU weatherman Ken Lawson in 1969. Eventually, Nixon became the new anchor when newscaster Charlie Harness left the station. had worked in radio in Minneapolis but Bill gave me my start in Nixon said.

had a philosophy that the local station that had the best newscast would win the rating war. would always come in with that accent of his and say, better lead the news with something exactly what we did. Night after night, we led with something After serving as general manager for 20 years, Turner moved across town to KTIV-TV, where he helped turn that station into a ratings leader. Plus he was reunited with a familiar face at KTIV Nixon. left KCAU in 1978 to become an anchor at WHO-TV (in Des Nixon remembered.

few year later, the then-station manager at KTIV persuaded me to anchor their news- cast. I was back on Sioux City TV but at a different station. Bill became general manger (in the mid-to-late 1980s), it felt like old he said. Indeed, Nixon always admired vision as well as his commitment to public service in the com- munity. wanted his people to be involved with Riv- er-Cade and with service organization because he Nixon said.

was always Mr. Public In addition, Turner served on the board of di- rectors for National Asso- ciation of Broadcasters for many years. was a trailblazer and he was a terrific Lind- blade said. believed in hiring good talent and he wanted to bring out their best. Funeral services for Turner are pending.

Broadcast titan dies at 90 DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly pop- ular who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as Meet and White Cliffs of family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of best-loved entertainers at the age of her family said in a statement. Vera Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, passed away earlier today, 18 June 2020, surrounded by her close Lynn possessed a down- to-earth appeal, reminding servicemen of the ones they left behind. was somebody that they could associate she once told The Associ- ated Press. was an ordi- nary Tributes poured in from political leaders, enter- tainers, veterans and thou- sands of fans.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said her and magical voice en- tranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours. Her voice will live on to lift the hearts of generations to Lynn hosted a wildly popular BBC radio show during the war called cerely in which she sent messages to British troops abroad and per- formed the songs they requested. The half-hour program came on during the highly coveted slot following the Sunday night news. Churchill was my opening she once said. Lynn had thought the war would doom her chance of success.

war first started, when it was declared, I thought, there goes my You know, I shall finish up in a factory or the army or she recalled. imag- ined all the theaters closing down, which happen except when the sirens sounded. And everybody, if they wanted to, they could stay in the theater and the show would go In September 2009, long after her retirement, Lynn topped the British album chart with a best hits col- lection titled Meet Again The Very Best of Vera It reached No. 1, despite competition from the release of remas- tered albums. Amid this coro- navirus outbreak, Lynn and opera singer Katherine Jenkins released a charity version of Meet A a i The pub- lic found comfort in her words of hope, which res- onated in the locked-down country.

In a reflection of her en- during appeal, Queen Eliz- abeth II also invoked the words of signature song as she addressed the nation in lockdown. The monarch played on the theme, promising that loved ones would be reunited in the end after being separated by the vi- rus. should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will the queen said. will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet Lynn earned her nick- name, Sweet- after coming top in a 1939 Daily Express poll that asked servicemen to name their favorite musical artists. Years later, she re- flected on time spent with soldiers abroad.

they needed was a contact from she said. entertained audi- ences from 2,000 to 6,000. And the boys would just come out of the jungle and sit there for hours waiting until we arrived and then slip back in once A daughter, Vera Margaret Welch was born on March 20, 1917, in blue-collar East Ham neighborhood. She took her stage name from her maiden name. She started singing in social clubs at age 7 and dropped out of school by 11 when she started touring Britain with a traveling variety show.

By 17 she was a band singer, and at 21 when the war started she was a known performer. She married band musi- cian Harry Lewis in 1941, and he went on to manage her career. They had one daughter, Virginia. Lynn appeared in a handful of films: Meet (1942), play- ing a young dancer who discovers her singing voice; Sere- (1943), in which she plays a woman who joins the Royal Navy and organizes a nursery in a munitions factory; and Exciting (1944), a comedy about a singer who is mistakenly caught up in a kidnapping. While Lynn is best re- membered for her work during the war, she had great success during the post-war years.

Her Wiedersehen in 1952 became the first re- cord by an English artist to top the American Billboard charts, staying there for nine weeks. career flourished in the 1950s, peaking with Son, My a No. 1 hit in 1954. WWII forces singer dies at 103 Turner Lynn Carol Bolles Anthon, Iowa 84, died Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Memorial service: June 22, 10:30 a.m., Armstrong-Van Houten Funeral Home, Anthon.

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