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Free sports physicals will be offered at the Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH)Clinic-Waukon in July for all junior high and high school students who need the physical for participating in school sporting events.  These will be held at the Veterans Memorial Hospital Waukon Clinic on the following dates and times:

• Wednesday, July 8 5:30-8:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 22 5:30-8:30 p.m.
 
These clinics will include all necessary documentation, including a concussion screening, for participation in all school activities.  Physicals are scheduled in 1-hour segments. The clinic staff will not be administering vaccines during this time.  If those are needed for students, feel free to call the clinic at 563-568-5530 to schedule an appointment.

The next LifeServe Blood Center blood drive will be held Monday, July 6, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in south Waukon.  Fewer than 4% of eligible blood donors actually take the time to donate blood. The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital with blood and blood products.  

Numerous memorials were recently received by the Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation in memory of Stan Straate by Matt Armentrout, Dr. Wilfred H.

Kyle and Maranda Jones of Waukon announce the birth of their son, Noah John Jones, born June 10, 2026 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. He weighed 6 lbs. 9 ozs. and measured 19-1/4 inches in length at the time of his birth.

Grandparents are John and Shelly Elliott and Nick and Lois Jones, all of Waukon. Great-grandparents are Dick Elliott of Harpers Ferry, Frank and Mary Regan of Waukon, and Florence Jones of Harpers Ferry.

Tim O’Malley of Lansing, who was born June 27, 1951 and passed away May 6, 2026, will be honored with a Celebration of Life this Saturday, June 27. That Celebration of Life will take place from 1-5 p.m. at TJ Hunters Banquet Hall in Lansing. Food will be provided, and a cash bar will be available.
 

Norma J. Troendle, 79, of Lansing died Sunday, June 14, 2026, at Thornton Manor in Lansing. Funeral services were held Monday, June 22 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lansing with Fr. Philip Agyei officiating. Burial was in Gethsemane Catholic Cemetery, Lansing.

Norma Jean Troendle was born September 27, 1946, in Waukon, the daughter of Reuben and Frances (Neiderkorn) Schorg. Norma lived in Allamakee County throughout her entire life. She eventually met the love of her life, Gerald Troendle, and the two were married September 21, 1963, at St. Mary’s Lycurgus Catholic Church in rural Waukon.

Norma was a hardworking woman, and during her life she helped farm alongside her husband. She loved gardening, cooking, baking, playing cards, and enjoyed being a 4-H leader. More than anything, she loved spending time with her family.

Louise E. Ellingson, 79, of Waukon passed away peacefully at 8:45 a.m. Monday, April 13, 2026, at Thornton Manor in Lansing, surrounded by her loving family. Visitation and funeral services will be held Friday, July 3, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon, with Pastor Mark Oehlert officiating.

Visitation will be from 12-2 p.m., with funeral services following at 2 p.m. After the service, burial of her ashes will be held at Oakland Cemetery in Waukon, with a lunch to follow in the fellowship hall at St. John’s. Urn bearers will be her two grandsons, EJ Runice and Zachary Smith. Cremation services were provided by Iowa Cremation of Cedar Rapids.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Veterans Memorial Hospital Foundation of Waukon, Growing Hope Globally (Corner of Hope) Growing Project, or Oakland Cemetery of Waukon.

Richard “Dick” J. Christianson, 80, of Waterville died Friday, June 12, 2026, at his home in Waterville. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Martin-Grau Funeral Home in Waukon is handling the arrangements.

Richard “Dick” Joseph Christianson was born September 15, 1945, in Waterville, the son of Edwin and Loretta (Weipert) Christianson. He attended Waterville School and graduated from Waukon High School.

Dick joined the U.S. Navy and attended various engineering schools. He spent the first year and a half aboard the same ship with his brother Carl, operating in the Far East. Dick served a total of seven years in the Navy including combat duty on Swift Boats in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. He married Jean Thornton and they had two daughters, Tina and Tracy. They later divorced.

The Kee baseball team had a comparatively light schedule this past week lightened even further by Mother Nature, as a Thursday, June 11 opportunity to play at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville against Underwood was canceled by rainy weather and is not likely to be made up this season. The three games the Hawks were able to play this past week resulted in a single win, 7-4 in a rain-shortened contest at Waukon Wednesday, June 10, before Kee took part in the Bettendorf Tournament and fell to a pair of much larger schools, 14-4 to Class 3A Davenport Assumption and 21-4 against the tournament host from Class 4A.

The Kee softball team played a total of six games this past week, putting all but one of those in the win column and having that lone loss come by just a single run to currently hold a 10-6 season record that includes a mark of 6-4 in Upper Iowa Conference play. The Lady Hawks’ lone loss of the week came right away in their first game played as they split a Wednesday, June 10 Upper Iowa Conference doubleheader at New Hampton with a 5-4 loss in eight innings followed by a 10-5 victory. A Monday, June 8 home doubleheader with Turkey Valley had been postponed to Friday, June 12 but still resulted in a Kee sweep of the Trojans by mercy-rule scores of 10-2 in six innings and 9-1 in five innings. Kee then wrapped up its week sweeping two games at the Riceville Tournament, including a 5-1 triumph over Class 3A 12th-rated Osage and an 8-4 victory over Riceville Saturday, June 13.