BOONE/AREA CONNECTED DEATHS

      Stephan Dean Nims, 70, Urbandale. Married Christine Kzurich in Madrid in 1981. She and a daughter survive. Services in Urbandale.

       Donnie Lee Sonksen, 82, Stratford/Southwest Wellness Webster City. Services in Stratford. Memorials to the Boone Veterans building to be constructed.

       HERE ARE A COUPLE OCTOBER DEATHS  I MISSED.

       Thomas C. Schall, 76, Saluarita, AZ. Passed away October 20. Born in Boone. Grew up on the family farm near Ogden. OHS-67. Boone Junior College. Air Force vet. Farmed and worked for Rolfes in Boone and Northern Natural Gas in Ogden before moving to Colorado. Worked  there as a taxi driver, in construction, as a chimney sweep and as a horse drawn sleigh driver at a ski resort. Tom joined the Twenty Mile Coal company and moved to Green Valley, AZ. to work in the copper mines. After 21 years, he retired but worked security for several years. He loved fishing and hunting and was an avid horseman. Very adventuresome, he had a great sense of humor and he loved nature. A son and two daughters survive, as do a brother, Dan (Shelly) Schall of Ogden, a sister and step-children. Services were held in Arizona with burial in Ogden.

       Deborah "Deb" Christine Thomas, 75, Albia, passed away October 23. Deb and her husband, Bill, lived in Madrid for several years in the 70's and 80's before returning to Albia in 2010. She worked for the Madrid school district as a teacher's aide and in food service until her retirement in 2010. Her husband and two children survive. Services were held in Albia.