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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Ila Rhoads
Sep 8, 2012
Ila Maxine Rhoads was born to Grover Cleveland and Jenny Ora (Freeman) Ploghoft on December 3, 1919, in Cumberland, Iowa, and passed away September 8, 2012, in Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of 92. Maxine was a life long Cass County resident spending her early years in Cumberland and graduating from high school in Lewis, Iowa. On October 3,...
Sharon Shaver
Sep 4, 2012
Sharon Lea Keating was born December 27, 1938, the daughter of Charles LeRoy and Irene Ruth Keating in Des Moines, Iowa, and passed away September 4, 2012, at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Her father was in the military, so Sharon lived in many different states. She attended school in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina and Iowa, graduating...
Darrell 'Pee Wee' Leon Gilbert
Aug 31, 2012
Darrell “Pee Wee” Leon Gilbert, the son of Charles and Gertrude Trullinger Gilbert, was born July 29, 1925, at his parents’ home in Viola Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died August 31, 2012, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 1 month, and 2 days. Darrell was baptized as an adult by Pastor Larry...
Marilyn Young
Aug 30, 2012
Marilyn Ruth Bowman was born April 22, 1939, the daughter of Robert Farrel and Juanita Maxine (Martin) Bowman in Shenandoah, Iowa, and passed away August 30, 2012, at the Avoca Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She grew up in the Shenandoah and Hamburg area and attended school in Farragut, Iowa. On July 1, 1960, she married Darwin Keith Young in...
Norma Eilts
Aug 29, 2012
Norma Etta Eilts, 85, of Cumberland, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, August 29, 2012, at her home in Cumberland, Iowa. She was born September 19, 1926, southwest of Cumberland, Iowa, on the farm, to Leonard and Minnie (Dooley) Moore. She attended schools in Cumberland, graduating from Cumberland High School with the class of 1944. Norma went on to college at...
Jacquelyn Christopher
Aug 25, 2012
Jacquelyn " Jackie" Ann Christopher passed into eternal life Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jackie was born August 18, 1944, to Roy and LaVonne (Friesleben) Christopher in Hartley, Iowa. She was raised by her paternal great aunt Meta Bertram and her husband Ernest. Jackie was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ...
Winifred Rudin
Aug 25, 2012
Winifred Rudin, 89, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. As per her wishes, cremation has taken place. Private family services will be held at a later date. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
Milford (Mick) Elmer Pardee
Aug 24, 2012
Milford (Mick) Elmer Pardee, the son of Elmer Don and Opal Lavina Smart Pardee, was born May 13, 1923, at his parents’ home in Lewis, Iowa and died August 24, 2012 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 89 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Mick was baptized as an adult on May 13, 1975 at...
Bernice Baier
Aug 23, 2012
Bernice Mary Brix was born January 31, 1924, the daughter of Henry and Grace (Walter) Brix at her parent's home east of Atlantic and passed away Thursday, August 23, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic. She attended Brushy Point School (Grove #1) for 8 years and graduated from the Atlantic High School in 1941. On...
Janice Williams
Aug 21, 2012
Janice Ruth Williams, 86, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. A luncheon will be held on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 12:00 Noon in the First United Methodist Church fellowship hall. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 1:00 p.m., also on Saturday, August 25,...
John (Jack) William Jorgensen, Jr.
Aug 20, 2012
John (Jack) William Jorgensen Jr., the son of John William Sr. and Bessie (Nielsen) Jorgensen, was born August 14, 1927, at his parents’ home near Jacksonville, Iowa, and died August 20, 2012, at Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa, at the age of 85 years and six days. Jack was baptized and confirmed at Jacksonville Lutheran Church in Jacksonville....
Vashti Sessler
Aug 18, 2012
Vashti (Greenlee) Sessler was born at home on September 28, 1920, to William F. Greenlee, Sr. and Minnie (Gordon) Greenlee in Oshkosh, Nebraska. She was the sixth of eight children. Ty graduated from Garden County High School in 1939 in Oshkosh, Nebraska. She then attended Hastings College majoring in English. After 2 years of college, she moved to Lincoln,...
Douglas Wedemeyer
Aug 18, 2012
Douglas Nord Wedemeyer, 54 of Adair, Iowa, died August 18, 2012, at his home in Adair, Iowa, surrounded by his family. He was born November 28, 1957, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Melvin and Norma (Nord) Wedemeyer. He was raised on the family farm north of Adair. He attended the Adair-Casey Community Schools and graduated high school with the...
Dixie Spencer
Aug 17, 2012
Dixie Lou Weaver was born October 5, 1932, the daughter of John William and Eula Fay (Goodwin) Weaver at Broadlawns Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and passed away August 17, 2012, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Elkhart High School in 1950. In 1951, Dixie was married to Nelson C. Spencer in Fort Carson, Colorado. The...
Evelyn Anderson
Aug 16, 2012
Evelyn E. Anderson, 80, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, August 16, 2012 at the Kavanagh Hospice House of Central Iowa in Des Moines, Iowa. Per her request, her family is honoring her wishes of private services. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic, Iowa is in charge of arrangements.
Irene Margaret Jorgensen
Aug 12, 2012
Irene Margaret Jorgensen, the daughter of Matt and Margaret Weighton Mathisen, was born August 15, 1925, at the family farm southwest of Audubon, Iowa and died August 12, 2012, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 86 years, 11 months, and 27 days. Irene was baptized and confirmed at the First Presbyterian Church in Audubon, Iowa. She...
Del Warner
Aug 11, 2012
Del Ray Warner, 61, of Adair, Iowa, passed away at his home on August 11, 2012. Del was born in Atlantic on September 18, 1950 to Carl Allen & Janice Ann (Bales) Warner. He was raised on the family farm west of Adair and also farmed north of Adair all of his life. Del was a member of the...
Mabel J. Thompson
Aug 10, 2012
Mabel Johanna Thompson, the daughter of Claus and Emily Newman Hultquist, was born September 17, 1921, at her parents’ home near Griswold, Iowa and died August 10, 2012, at the Hospice with Heart in Glenwood, Iowa at the age of 90 years, 10 months, and 23 days. Mabel attended rural school by her parent’s home near Griswold then helped on...
Phyllis M. Krogh
Aug 10, 2012
Phyllis Mary Krogh, the daughter of Charles and Ethel Hicks Simonsen, was born May 18, 1920, at her parents’ home in Round Bottom, Colorado, and died August 10, 2012, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 92 years, 2 months, and 22 days. Phyllis was confirmed as an adult at the Exira Lutheran Church...
Nicholas Baier
Aug 9, 2012
Nicholas "Joe Dirt" Baier Nicholas Herman Baier, 23, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2012, from a single truck accident south of Wiota, Iowa. Nic was born December 16, 1988, in Atlantic, Iowa, to Kevin and Martha (Fiebelkorn) Baier. He attended community schools in Atlantic graduating from Atlantic High School with the class of 2007. Nic joined...
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