CORALVILLE, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Corrections reports a man sentenced to serve a 25-year sentence and a life special sentence for sexual abuse and lascivious acts convictions in Fremont County, has died. 76-year-old Roger Craig Kissel was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center.

Kissel – a former pastor at the nondenominational Sidney Cowboy Church -began his sentence on May 5, 2016. The crimes he was convicted of occurred in 2013.

Roger Craig Kissel (file photo from 2016)