Obituaries

Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

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

Lois Janet Schmidt

Lois Janet Schmidt

Jan 20, 2010

Lois Janet Schmidt, the youngest child of Percy and Hazel F. Dewey Blair, was born April 29, 1934 in Bosworth, Missouri and died January 20, 2010 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 75 years, 8 months, and 21 days. Lois was one of four children having two sisters and one brother. Her family...

James Weitzel

James Weitzel

Jan 20, 2010

James Eldon Weitzel was born November 10, 1931, the son of Harry Edward and Evelyn Bernice (Nelson) Weitzel in Atlantic, Iowa, and passed away Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Jim was a life long Atlantic resident, graduating from Atlantic High School in 1949. On July 23, 1952, Jim was united in marriage with Ruth...

Curtis R. Petersen

Curtis R. Petersen

Jan 19, 2010

Curtis Ray Petersen, the son of Raymond Leonard and IdaMae Hansen Petersen, was born June 20, 1943, in Audubon, Iowa and died January 19, 2010, at St. Anthonys Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa at the age of 66 years, 6 months, and 29 days. Curtis was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church in Exira, Iowa. He attended rural...

Thelma Minkner

Thelma Minkner

Jan 18, 2010

Thelma Estella (Krumm) Minkner was born December 15, 1918, the daughter of George Martin and Bertha Sophia (Huss) Krumm in Chamberlin, South Dakota. She passed away Monday, January 18, 2010, at the Millard Good Samaritan Home in Millard, Nebraska. The family moved to Adair when Thelma was young. She went to school in Adair graduating from Adair High School...

Charles Arthur Goeken

Charles Arthur Goeken

Jan 17, 2010

Charles Arthur Goeken, the son of Arthur G. and Jessie Polkingharn Goeken, was born June 11, 1922, at his parents home in Cass County near Marne, Iowa and died January 17, 2010 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 7 months, and 6 days. Charlie was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in...

Luther Gillett

Luther Gillett

Jan 16, 2010

Luther Henry Gillett was born March 10, 1921, in a farm house north of Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Lester Henry and Martha Belle (Bragg) Gillett and passed away Saturday, January 16, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Luther's family moved into Atlantic, at 905 Linn Street, where he lived with his parents and two sisters,...

Louis William Dreher

Louis William Dreher

Jan 12, 2010

Louis William Dreher, the son of Emil and Eda Rathkamp Dreher, was born April 10, 1921, at his parents home north of Audubon, Iowa and died January 12, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 88 years, 9 months, and 2 days. Louis was baptized and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. He attended rural school,...

Roger Christensen

Roger Christensen

Jan 11, 2010

Roger L. Christensen, 61, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away at his home on Monday, January 11, 2010. Roger Lean Christensen was born June 22, 1948, in Atlantic, Iowa, to Alfred Lean and Rosie Olive (Harmsen) Christensen. He attended school in Atlantic graduating from the Atlantic High School. After his first son was born he...

Cheever Tuffin

Cheever Tuffin

Jan 10, 2010

Cheever Tuffin, 88, of Casey, Iowa, passed away January 10, 2010, at the Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, Hope Harbor, in Storm Lake, Iowa. Cheever Lowell Tuffin was born May 9, 1921, in Guthrie County, Iowa, the son of Wendell Cheever and Mary Myrtle (Johnson) Tuffin. He was a life time resident of Guthrie County, Iowa, attending rural schools...

Margaret Jahn-Nielsen

Margaret Jahn-Nielsen

Jan 10, 2010

Margaret Jahn-Nielsen was born Margaret Ann Pratt in Moorhead, Iowa, the second of seven children of Earl and Edith (Shoff) Pratt. Friends and family fondly recall her many stories of growing up and attending school in that small, western Iowa town. In 1943, she married Edwin C. Jahn of nearby Ute, Iowa, and the young couple headed to California,...

Robert Clausen

Robert Clausen

Jan 8, 2010

Robert LeRoy Clausen was born March 12, 1923, southeast of Brayton, Iowa, the son of Albert and Florence (Nelson) Clausen and passed away Friday, January, 8, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. He attended country schools in Cass and Audubon Counties, and graduated from Exira High School. On April 12, 1946, Robert married Leona Mable Kahl at the...

Leona Christina Rubel

Leona Christina Rubel

Jan 5, 2010

Leona Christine Rubel, the daughter of John and Anna Marie Juel Lykke, was born September 19, 1911, east of Kimballton, Iowa and died January 5, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 98 years, 3 months and 17 days. Leona was baptized at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton, Iowa and confirmed at the Hamlin...

Leroy Edwin Madsen

Leroy Edwin Madsen

Jan 5, 2010

LeRoy Edwin Madsen, the son of Edwin and Ardith Keasey Madsen, was born February 9, 1951 at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa and died January 5, 2010 at his home in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 58 years, 10 months, and 26 days. LeRoy was baptized at the Hamlin Lutheran Church in Hamlin, Iowa and confirmed...

David Andrew Walker

David Andrew Walker

Jan 5, 2010

David Andrew Walker, the son of William Lawrence and Barbara Jean Ashley Walker, was born December 31, 1966, in Des Moines, Iowa and died from complications of cancer on January 5, 2010, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 43 years and four days. Dave was baptized and confirmed at the Central Lutheran Church in Des Moines,...

Edward Benjamin Lauritsen

Edward Benjamin Lauritsen

Jan 5, 2010

Edward Benjamin Lauritsen, the son of Benjamin and Lena Jorgensen Lauritsen, was born November 27, 1927, at his parents home in rural Audubon County, Iowa and died January 5, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 82 years, 1 month, and 8 days. Ed was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Audubon....

Larry Kline

Larry Kline

Jan 5, 2010

Larry Roger Kline, 63, passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at the Donnellson Health Center in Donnellson, Iowa. Larry was born on November 23, 1946, in Anita, Iowa, the son of Chester and Edith Christina (Knudsen) Kline. Survivors include his brothers, Ronald (Jane) Kline of Anita, Iowa, Alan (Patricia) Kline of Toledo, Iowa; his sister, Doris Heistand of...

Fredrick Wilhelm Reinhold Nissen

Fredrick Wilhelm Reinhold Nissen

Dec 31, 2009

Fredrick Wilhelm Reinhold Nissen, the son of Fred C.R. and Ella Olsen Nissen, was born June 23, 1915 in his parents home on the family farm near Hamlin, Iowa and died December 31, 2009 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 94 years, 6 months, and 8 days. Fred was baptized November 7, 1915 at the...

Earl Peter Lauritsen

Earl Peter Lauritsen

Dec 29, 2009

Earl Peter Lauritsen, the son of Benjamin Immanuel and Lena Christena Jorgensen Lauritsen, was born June 9, 1936, at his parents home near Audubon, Iowa and died December 29, 2009, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon at the age of 73 years, 6 months, and 20 days. Earl was baptized March 23, 1950, and confirmed April 2, 1950,...

Larry Louis Hill

Larry Louis Hill

Dec 27, 2009

Larry Louis Hill, the son of Louis N. and Margaret E. Wulf Hill, was born September 16, 1940, at his parents home southeast of Exira, Iowa and died December 27, 2009, at the Exira Care Center in Exira at the age of 69 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Larry was baptized at the Exira Christian Church. He attended rural...

Shirley Ann Railsback

Shirley Ann Railsback

Dec 26, 2009

Shirley Ann Railsback, the daughter of Marion and Arlene McDonald Miller, was born May 5, 1924, at her parents home in Lewis, Iowa and died December 26, 2009, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 7 months, and 21 days. Shirley moved with the family to Audubon when she was a young girl. Shirley...