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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Caroline Marie Christensen
Sep 5, 2008
Caroline Marie Christensen, the daughter of Jens P. and Marie Bork Kjergaard, was born April 11, 1915, at her parents home in Sharon Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died September 5, 2008, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 93 years, 4 months, and 24 days. Carolines family moved to the United States when she was...
Christine Johanne Eddy
Sep 4, 2008
Christine Johanne Eddy, daughter of Peter Christian and Anne C. Jensen Andersen, was born on December 29, 1912, at her parents farmhouse in Shelby County, near Elk Horn, Iowa and died September 4, 2008, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 95 years, 8 months, and 5 days. She was baptized September 29, 1916,...
Robert Wendt
Sep 4, 2008
Robert Wendt, 72, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, September 4, 2008, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Robert Lee Wendt was born April 15, 1936, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, the son of Clarence Ferdinand and Leta Elizabeth (Schuning) Wendt. He grew up in the Avoca area and attended the Avoca Community Schools. On October 27, 1956,...
Juanita Sturgeon
Sep 2, 2008
Juanita Sturgeon, the daughter of Carl and Laura Hinkle Rogers, was born January 9, 1916 , at her parents home in Oakfield, Iowa and died September 2, 2008, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 92 years, 7 months, and 23 days. Juanita was baptized at the Exira Christian Church in Exira, Iowa. She...
Patricia Ann Nielsen
Aug 28, 2008
Patricia Ann Teter Nielsen, daughter of Berthal and Opal Inez (Trucks) Teter, was born July 22, 1930, at her parents rural home in Guthrie County, Iowa and died August 28, 2008 at the Carroll Health Center in Carroll, Iowa at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 6 days. Patricia was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church...
John Samuel Garber
Aug 26, 2008
    John Samuel Garber, the son of James F. and Emily (Emma) Smith Garber, was born June 21, 1918, on a ranch north of Audubon, Iowa and died August 26, 2008, at his daughter Carol’s home in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 90 years, 2 months and 5 days.
    John was baptized and confirmed at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in...
Alpha (Billie) Delilah Bald
Aug 25, 2008
Alpha Delilah (Billie) Bald, the daughter of Jim and Elizabeth Kusel Jensen, was born October 18, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died August 25, 2008, at her home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 88 years, 10 months, and 7 days. Billie attended school in Des Moines, Iowa and Ross, Iowa. On November 24, 1934, she was united in...
Allen Joseph Klocke
Aug 24, 2008
Allen Joseph Klocke, the son of Leonard and Leona Bierl Klocke, was born June 21, 1962, in Carroll, Iowa and died August 24, 2008, at his home near Audubon, Iowa at the age of 46 years, 2 months, and 3 days. Al was baptized and confirmed at St. Marys Catholic Church in Willey, Iowa. He attended parochial grade school at...
Roy Ellerhoff
Aug 24, 2008
Roy Ervin Ellerhoff, 81, of Tipton, Iowa, passed away on Sunday, August 24, 2008. Roy was born February 7, 1927, to Ervin and Charlene (Pfeifer) Ellerhoff in Burlington, Iowa. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1944, where he had been president of the Radio Club and a member of the National Honor Society. He married Eldora Sophia Jipp...
Herbert Hoover
Aug 23, 2008
Herbert Hoover, 79, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Saturday, August 23, 2008, at Avoca Nursing and Rehab Center in Avoca, Iowa. Herbert Raymond Hoover was born June 28, 1929, in Walnut, Iowa, the son of Raymond Eldon and Pauline Gertrude (Pross) Hoover. His early childhood was spent in Marne, Iowa, where he attended school; then the family moved to...
Richard Jerome Jorgensen
Aug 20, 2008
Richard Jerome Jorgensen, the son of Harvey and Lydia Ulven Jorgensen, was born August 26, 1942 in Carroll, Iowa and died August 20, 2008 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 65 years, 11 months and 24 days. Richard was baptized October 11, 1942 and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended rural...
Gary Hulsebus
Aug 19, 2008
Gary Hulsebus, 63, of Lewis, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, August 19, 2008, at his home. Gary Lee Hulsebus was born December 28, 1944, at home on the farm southeast of Lewis, Iowa, the son of Merlin Fay and Theone Maxine (McCullough) Hulsebus. He grew up on the farm and went to school in Griswold where he played basketball and...
Marvin Jensen Johnson
Aug 14, 2008
Marvin Jensen Johnson, the son of Harry and Daisy Jensen Johnson, was born December 4, 1921 at his parents home in Cass County near Anita, Iowa and died at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 8 months, and 10 days. Â Â Â Â Â Marvin was baptized June 24, 1926 at the Exira Lutheran Church. He attended rural...
Alfred Minter Potter
Aug 14, 2008
Alfred Minter Potter, the son of Alfred Henry and Nellie Eliza Stogdill Potter, was born August 16, 1933, in Council Bluffs, Iowa and passed on August 14, 2008, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 74 years, 11 months, and 28 days. After Alfreds mother passed away, Alfred, his brother and sister moved to the USA Christian...
Clara Mcclure
Aug 13, 2008
Clara Louise Rolston McClure, 77, of Anita, Iowa, died quietly at home on Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Clara Louise Rolston McClure was born April 19, 1931, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only daughter of Ida Frances (Robinson) Rolston and Harold Leland Rolston and step-daughter of Edwin W. Griste. She was baptized in the Christian Church in Unionville, Missouri. Louise...
Kenneth Lebeck
Aug 11, 2008
Kenneth E. Lebeck, 62, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, August 11, 2008, at the Exira Care Center, Exira, Iowa. Kenneth Eugene Lebeck was born July 18, 1946, in Audubon County, Iowa, the son of Edward and Mary Jane (Potter) Lebeck. He spent his entire childhood in Audubon, attended school there and graduated from Audubon High in 1964. Kenny...
Vyrle Devoss
Aug 2, 2008
Vyrle L. DeVoss, 92, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away on August 2, 2008, at the Allen House in Atlantic. Vyrle was born the son of Ralph and Ruth (Westerlund) DeVoss on December 5, 1915, on their farm near Morton Mills, Iowa. He grew up with this two brothers George and Dean and a sister, Vernita, on the family farm....
Robert Artlip
Aug 1, 2008
Robert "Bob" Artlip, 72, of Elliott, Iowa, passed away Friday, August 1, 2008, at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, after a brief illness. Robert Glen Artlip was born on July 20, 1936, in Elliott, Iowa, the son of Delbert and Doris Artlip. On December 17, 1956, he married the love of his life, Sharen Cable, at the...
Fred Nmi Cole
Jul 31, 2008
Fred Cole, the son of Fred Harris and Cecille Lucille Beal Cole, was born June 2, 1926, in Kansas City, Missouri and died July 31, 2008, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 82 years, 1 month, and 29 days. Fred was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. He attended school in Lewis, Iowa and then...
Donald Karns
Jul 31, 2008
Donald Cloyd Karns, 75, a longtime Anita resident, businessman, community and civic leader, died Thursday, July 31, 2008. Don was born October 30, 1932, in Adair, Iowa. Don was the younger of two children of Cloyd and Irene (Gipple) Karns. The family moved to Missouri in 1935; Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1937; and returned to Adair County in August 1943,...
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