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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Arthur Davidson
Jan 10, 2013
Arthur Verne Davidson, 78, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2013, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Verne was born March 15, 1934, east of Bedford, Iowa, to Court Boyd and Bethel Mary (Bradley) Davidson, on the family farm. He attended country school and graduated from Bedford High School with the class of 1953. In...
Hazel Fox
Jan 10, 2013
Hazel Irene Fox, 96, of Guthrie Center, Iowa, and formerly of Adair and Casey, Iowa, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2012, at New Homestead in Guthrie Center, Iowa. She was born January 8, 1917, in Adair, Iowa, to Frank and Myrtle (Lovell) Duff. Hazel grew up on the family farm south of Adair. She attended country school and graduated...
Betty Prall
Jan 7, 2013
Betty Montgomery George was born May 16, 1917, the daughter of Wylie D. and Harriet (Davenport) George in Dixon, Illinois, and passed away Monday, January 7, 2013, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. Betty graduated from Dixon High School then worked in the retail business. She married Clyde Royal "Tub" Prall in Dixon on January 17, 1946. During...
Doris Burcham
Jan 5, 2013
Doris Julia (Powell) Burcham, 98, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Doris was born to Marilda Ann Holley Powell and Oliver Preston Powell on July 2, 1914, on a farm near Orson in Harrison County, Iowa. She grew up in Mondamin, Iowa, and graduated from Mondamin High School in l931....
Lavonne Klinkefus
Dec 31, 2012
Lavonne Klinkefus, the daughter of Herbert and Mabel (Miller) Bylund, was born December 12, 1919, at her parents’ home near Viola Township, Audubon County, Iowa. At the time of her birth there was a raging blizzard and Herbert had to meet the Doctor on a sled. She died December 31, 2012 at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at...
Evelyn Joann Huffman
Dec 28, 2012
Evelyn Joann Huffman, the daughter of Theodore and Nellie Petersen Madsen, was born April 22, 1927, at her Aunt’s home near Exira, Iowa and died December 28, 2012, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 8 months, and 6 days. Evelyn was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church in Exira, Iowa. She...
Helen Gray
Dec 23, 2012
Helen L. Gray, 72, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2012, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Helen was born November 12, 1940, in Dayton, Iowa, to Ernest and Amanda Bass. She grew up in and around Fort Dodge and later lived in Des Moines before settling in Atlantic. Helen attended grade school through the second...
James (Jim) Delbert Jensen
Dec 20, 2012
James (Jim) Delbert Jensen of Kimberling City, Missouri formerly of Audubon, Iowa, the son of Jens B. and Hilda (Petersen) Jensen, was born January 18, 1940, in Audubon, Iowa and died December 20, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri surrounded by his family at the age of 72 years, 11 months, and 2 days. Jim was baptized and confirmed...
Tamira Amos
Dec 20, 2012
Tamira Kay (Darnold) Amos passed away December 20, 2012 at Cass County Memorial Hospital at the age of 54. Tami was born on October 18, 1958 in Corning, Iowa to Duane B. and Carolyn J. (McKinley) Darnold. She grew up in Atlantic and attended Atlantic High School and was part of the Class of 1977. Tami was married to...
Judith Altfillisch-Kehm
Dec 19, 2012
Judith Altfillisch Kehm of Scottsdale, Arizona, and formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012, in Scottsdale. Judith Gayle Fann was born July 11, 1941, in Clarinda, Iowa, to Lyle and Edris (Mason) Fann. She went to school in Clarinda, Iowa, graduating from Clarinda High School in 1959. She then attended Northwest Missouri State University, being a...
Linda Fudge
Dec 16, 2012
Linda Lou Sanders was born July 15, 1951, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Gerald and Joan Sanders and passed away Sunday, December 16, 2012, at Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center. Linda had lived in both Omaha and Atlantic. Her hobbies included knitting, crocheting, and Indian collectibles. She loved to shop for her granddaughters. Preceding Linda in death were...
Lillian 'Granny' Mae Mahrt
Dec 14, 2012
Lillian “Granny” Mae Mahrt, the daughter of Frank and Mary (Harmachek) Chocholousek, was born November 15, 1923, at her parents’ home near Dixon, South Dakota and died December 14, 2012, at the Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 89 years and 29 days. Lillian was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in Dixon,...
Mary Ellen Andersen
Dec 14, 2012
Mary Ellen Andersen, the daughter of Ilo Lee and Edna Margarete (Sorensen) Jayne, was born January 6, 1942, at her grandparents’ home in Exira, Iowa and died December 14, 2012, at her home in Exira, Iowa at the age of 70 years, 11 months, and 8 days. Mary was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church in Exira, Iowa....
Cora Blunk
Dec 9, 2012
C. Maxine Blunk, 87, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, December 9, 2012, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Maxine was born to Charles Dean and Nola Marie (Daughenbaugh) Armstrong on November 18, 1925 and lived her early years on a farm located between Wiota and Anita. She attended school in Wiota, and as a high school student, gained...
Austin Lane Vais
Nov 29, 2012
Austin Lane Vais, the son of Joseph Michael and Julie Lynn (Finnell) Vais, was born March 30, 2000, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa and died November 29, 2012 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 29 days. Austin was dedicated at the Exira Christian Church...
Harley Niels Riesgaard
Nov 28, 2012
Harley Niels Riesgaard, the son of Chris Niels and Margaret (Kness) Riesgaard, was born January 17, 1926, at his parent’s home in Audubon County, east of Exira, Iowa and died November 28, 2012, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 10 months, and 11 days. Harley was baptized at the Exira Christian...
Ella Carolyn Lauritsen
Nov 26, 2012
Ella Carolyn Lauritsen, the daughter of Edward and Helen Moeckl Puck, was born December 30, 1941 at her parents’ home in Audubon County, Iowa and died November 26, 2012, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 70 years, 10 months, and 26 days. Ella was baptized and confirmed at the Gray Methodist Church. She attended...
Michael Bethel
Nov 21, 2012
Michael Dean Bethel, 65, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away on Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at the Veteran's Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Mike is survived by his common law wife, Janice Peterson of Atlantic. Memorial services and burial of cremated remains in the Iowa Veteran's Cemetery in Van Meter, Iowa, will be held at a later date.
Doris Lemke
Nov 19, 2012
Doris Neva Griffith Lemke was the daughter of Ernest and Faye (Nelson) Griffith. She was born April 21, 1920, in Guthrie Center, Iowa, and passed away November 19, 2012, at Panora Nursing and Rehab in Panora, Iowa. Her mother, Faye, passed away three weeks after Doris was born. Carrie (Griffith) and Frank Armstrong raised Doris as their foster daughter....
Anna Paulsen
Nov 18, 2012
Anna Margaret Janssen was born August 29, 1925, Onaka, South Dakota, the daughter of Albert R. and Freda (Dufloth) Janssen and passed away Sunday, November 18, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Anna attended school in Owasa, Hardin County, Iowa, graduating in 1943. She lived in Atlantic for several years and then moved to Council Bluffs, eventually...
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