Obituaries

Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas

Aletha Miller

Aletha Miller

Mar 8, 2010

Aletha Lucille Eilts was born on December 25, 1926, on the family farm in the rural Wiota area, the daughter of Henry William and Emilie Augusta Anna (Brauer) Eilts and passed away Monday, March 8, 2010, of pancreatic cancer at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She attended country school and Cumberland schools, graduating from Cumberland High...

Michael Ericksen

Michael Ericksen

Mar 7, 2010

Michael Allen Ericksen was born January 5, 1983, in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, the son of Roger Allen and Linda Louise (Kent) Ericksen and passed away Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, IA. He was baptized at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church in Elk Horn, Iowa. During his childhood, Mike lived in Clarinda,...

Marcella Christensen

Marcella Christensen

Mar 5, 2010

Marcella Mae Christensen, 79, of Atlantic, Iowa, and formerly of Anita, Iowa, passed away Friday, March 5, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Marcella was born December 23, 1930, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Henry and Hazel (Leopold) Little. Marcella was raised in Lincoln and attended school until the ninth grade. She later met and married Willis Merritt and moved...

Emily Eden

Emily Eden

Mar 3, 2010

Emily Elizabeth Eden of Anita, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Emily was born December 22, 1979, to Steven and Dana (Blazek) Eden in Atlantic, Iowa. She was baptized and was a member of the Anita Congregational United Church of Christ. During her school days in Anita she was in FFA showing animals...

Kenneth Viether

Kenneth Viether

Mar 1, 2010

Kenneth Henry Viether, 91, formerly of Marne, Iowa, was born November 30, 1918, in Kimball, Nebraska, the son of Henry and Della (Timm) Viether and died Monday, March 1, 2010, at the West Bridge Care and Rehabilitation in Winterset, Iowa. Kenny's family moved to Rock Island, Illinois, when he was a child, where he attended school until the eleventh...

Clair William Huff

Clair William Huff

Feb 25, 2010

Clair William Huff, the son of Wilson and Nellie Rumelhart Huff, was born February 23, 1912, at his parents home in Audubon Township, Audubon County, southeast of Exira, Iowa and died February 25, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 98 years and 2 days. Clair was baptized at the Adair United Methodist Church...

Lois Kommes

Lois Kommes

Feb 21, 2010

Lois Marie Bengard, the second of ten children of Lou C. and Annette (Juhl) Bengard was born January 26, 1920, on a farm south of Exira on the Audubon - Cass County line and passed away on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa. She received her religious training at the Exira Christian Church....

Robert Wood

Robert Wood

Feb 19, 2010

Robert A. Wood, 63, died on Friday, February 19, 2010, at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa, after a nine year battle with cancer. He was born January 16, 1947, in Adair, Iowa, to Bernard an Adabelle Wood. He was a 1965 graduate of Atlantic High School and 1969 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University. He moved to Walnut,...

Suzan Kennedy

Suzan Kennedy

Feb 19, 2010

Suzan Kay Hummon was born May 3, 1951, the daughter of Alan Dwight and Elizabeth Anne (Sherpie) Hummon in Omaha, Nebraska, and passed away Friday, February 19, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Suzan grew up in Merritt Island, Florida, and graduated from Merritt Island High School in 1969. On December 15, 1972, she...

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen

Feb 15, 2010

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen, the daughter of Homer Floyd and Metta Mary Petersen Elsberry, was born April 27, 1921, at her parents home west of Audubon, Iowa and died February 15, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 88 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Rosa was baptized and confirmed at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lincoln...

Joan Johnson

Joan Johnson

Feb 15, 2010

Joan Marie Shepherd Johnson of Corning, Iowa, peacefully passed away February 15, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She was born December 7, 1960, in Fargo, North Dakota, the daughter of Roger and Leora Pollock Shepherd. She lived in Salem, Oregon, until moving with her family to Cumberland, Iowa, in 1975. She attended C&M School...

Randy Parrott

Randy Parrott

Feb 9, 2010

Randy Parrott, 58, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa. Randy Lynn Parrott was born July 19, 1951, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Tuffy and Jean (Harper) Parrott. He attended Atlantic schools and graduated with the class of 1969. On August 25, 1973, Randy married Marie Nilson in Atlantic,...

Dorothy Marie Nelson

Dorothy Marie Nelson

Feb 4, 2010

Dorothy Marie Nelson, the daughter of Nels P. and Clara Hansen Esbeck, was born June 28, 1918, at her parents farm east of Kimballton, Iowa. Dorothy went home to be with the Lord on February 4, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 91years, 7 months, and 6 days. Dorothy was baptized and...

Paul Schaaf

Paul Schaaf

Feb 1, 2010

Paul Donald Schaaf was born June 7, 1947, the son of Donald and Marcella Jeanette (Eilts) Schaaf in Atlantic, Iowa, and passed away Monday, February 1, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. He was raised on the family farm south of Wiota, attending country school, Wiota School and graduating from the Anita High School. Paul...

Betty Pedersen

Betty Pedersen

Jan 28, 2010

Betty Jean Michaelsen Pedersen, 74, passed away at her home in Atlantic on Thursday, January 28, 2010. Betty, daughter of Helen Rasmussen Michaelsen and Nels Peter Michaelsen, was born on April 15, 1935, in Audubon County. At the age of three, her family moved from a farm near Exira to another farm near Viola Center. There she attended Viola...

Lola Nielsen-Weuve

Lola Nielsen-Weuve

Jan 28, 2010

Lola Mae Highsmith was born February 25, 1924, in State Center, Iowa, the daughter of Lewis Carl and Lilly Mae (Thornly) Highsmith, and passed away Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She attended high school in State Center, graduating in 1941. Following graduation, she attended AIB College of Business and worked at the...

Doris Bireline

Doris Bireline

Jan 26, 2010

Doris Marie Bireline of Adair, Iowa, the daughter of Carl and Minnie Wesack was born on the family farm, Northwest of Adair, Iowa, in Guthrie County, on the 4th of May, 1919. Doris passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at the age of 90, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa, where she made her home for the...

Robert Willms

Robert Willms

Jan 24, 2010

Robert Christian "Bud" Willms, 83, was born on February 28, 1926, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of John Henry and Ella Katrina (Markxen) Willms and died Sunday, January 24, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. Bud was raised in Atlantic, Iowa, and graduated from Atlantic High School. Following graduation, Bud entered the United States Army. After being...

Dean Lewis

Dean Lewis

Jan 24, 2010

Dean Elias Lewis passed away January 24, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Dean was born August 16, 1914, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Harley Leroy and Susan Ann (Hughes) Lewis. In his younger years, he drove an ambulance for the University of Iowa and worked as a Driver's License Examiner prior to serving in World...

Agnes Johnson

Agnes Johnson

Jan 21, 2010

Agnes Lindblom Johnson was born on a farm between Anita and Wiota on August 16, 1909, the daughter of Oscar and Flossie (Hill) Lindblom, and passed away Thursday, January 21, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. When Agnes was two years old, her parents moved with her and her older bother, Glen, to Anita. Agnes attended school in...