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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Lyle Scholl
Mar 16, 2010
Lyle Joseph Scholl, 93, died Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. Lyle was born to Fred and Alta (Gissibl) Scholl on a farm south of Anita. Lyle, his brother Leo, and their father were classic German yeoman farmers their entire working careers. Lyle loved his popping John Deere tractors, loved watching hungry cattle lined...
Eleonora Petersen
Mar 15, 2010
Eleonora Katharine Marie Fett was born March 1, 1916 on a farm northwest of Adair, Iowa. She was the first-born child of Fred W. Fett and Mary J. (Vokt) Fett. Eleonora was baptized on March 26, 1916 at the home of her parents by Pastor A. H. Duletzki of St. John's Lutheran Church northwest of Adair. Her baptismal sponsors...
D. Kuester
Mar 10, 2010
D. Evangeline (Carlton) Kuester was born on May 13, 1919, to Edward F. and Madeline (Sheley) Carlton. D. Evangeline Kuester passed away peacefully at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Evange grew up in Anita graduating from the Anita High School in 1936. She had various jobs and enjoyed helping her dad farm. On March...
Ronald Butler
Mar 10, 2010
Ronald Lee Butler, 69, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Ronald was born August 11, 1940, in Lewis, Iowa, to Robert and Maxine (Marxen) Butler. He was raised in Lewis until his family moved to Atlantic when he was in the 6th grade. He...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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