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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Mildred Persing
Jan 12, 2008
Mildred K. Persing, 91, of Stuart, Iowa, and formerly of Casey, Iowa, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2008, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Mildred Katharine Schirm was born and baptized on April 8, 1916, on a farm in Summit Township, Adair County, Iowa, the daughter of Henry Ludwig and Emilie Freida Schirm. On September 21,...
Gretchen Sanny
Jan 12, 2008
Gretchen Stevenson Sanny, 95, of Atlantic, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2008 at the Allen House in Atlantic, Iowa. Gretchen was born April 28, 1912, on the family farm in Clark Township, Shelby County, Iowa to John Garfield and Ruth (Herbert) Stevenson. Gretchen remembered moving from the Shelby County farm to the farm south of Buck Creek Church at...
Betty Schafer
Jan 10, 2008
Betty Louise Schafer, 58, of Adair, Iowa, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, January 10, 2008, at her home. Betty Louise Emmons was born April 9, 1949, on a family farm east of Adair, the daughter of Dwight Carroll and Ruth Avis (McDowell) Emmons. She was raised and lived north of Adair until 1960 when they moved south of Adair. She...
Kent Christensen
Jan 8, 2008
Kent A. Christensen, 49, of Ottumwa, Iowa, and formerly of Anita, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. Kent Alan Christensen was born August 4, 1958, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Tom and Joanne (Thompson) Christensen. He spent his childhood in Anita,...
William Ryan
Jan 7, 2008
William P. Ryan, 77, of Elk Horn, Iowa, (formerly of Adams, Massachusetts) passed away Monday, January 7, 2008, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Memorial services will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 12, 2008, in the chapel at Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic. Cremation has taken place and there will be no visitation. Bill is survived by his significant other, Patty...
Gilbert Mccurdy
Jan 5, 2008
Gilbert "Gib" McCurdy, 77, of Cumberland, Iowa, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2008, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center. Gilbert Floyd McCurdy was born April 5, 1930, in Cumberland, Iowa the son of George and Alma (Aldag) McCurdy. He farmed south of Cumberland, and about 16 years ago retired and moved into Cumberland. Gib lived a simple life...
Everett Muller
Jan 1, 2008
Everett Muller, 88, of Lyman, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, January 1, 2008, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Everett Ellis Muller was born on November 27, 1919, in Noble Township, Cass County, Iowa, the son of Ellis and Esther (Schuler) Muller. He was a lifelong Cass County resident. Everett attended area country schools and graduated from...
Margaret Miller
Dec 31, 2007
Margaret H. McMurphy Miller, 84, of Atlantic, Iowa, and formerly of Adair, Iowa, passed away Monday, December 31, 2007, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Margaret Helen McMurphy Miller was born September 10, 1923, on a farm south of Adair, Iowa, the daughter of Charlie and Minnie (Heckman) McMurphy. She grew up in Adair, attended country school, then graduated...
Rodney Wester
Dec 31, 2007
Rodney D. Wester, 48, of Anita, Iowa, and formerly of Atlantic, passed away Monday, December 31, 2007, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Rodney Dale Wester was born November 29, 1959, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Eric Emerson and Gladys J. (Christensen) Wester. He was raised in Atlantic and attended school in the Atlantic School...
Jean Whetstone
Dec 26, 2007
Jean A. Whetstone, 78, passed away on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa. Jean was born in Davenport, Iowa, to William N. and Mabel E. (Whitmer) Rorick on June 13, 1929. Her parents were from Wilton, Iowa, and she grew up in the Wilton area where she attended rural school. She graduated from Wilton Junction...
Ralph Kopaska, Jr.
Dec 21, 2007
Ralph "Bud" Kopaska, 76, of Atlantic, IA, (formerly of Casey) passed away Friday, December 21, 2007, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, battling a lengthy illness with kidney failure. Ralph "Bud" Kopaska Jr. was born October 7, 1931, in Guthrie County, Iowa, the son of Ralph Frank, Sr. and Clara Alice (Shank) Kopaska. He grew up...
Dale Lantz
Dec 20, 2007
Dale Dean Lantz, 74, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Thursday, December 20, 2007, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Dale was born August 24, 1933, in Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa, the son of Earl H. and Mildred M. (Taylor) Lantz. He attended country schools in Adair and Cass counties, graduating from Anita High School in...
Robert Fagan
Dec 19, 2007
Robert J. Fagan, 84, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Robert Joseph Fagan was born on November 3, 1923, in Adair County, Iowa, the son of Marcus and Ruth (Dolan) Fagan. He grew up in Adair and graduated from Adair High School in 1940. Following graduation he...
Rita Mehaffey
Dec 9, 2007
Rita M. (Thomson) Mehaffey, 88, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, December 9, 2007, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Rita Maxine Thomson Mehaffey was born September 27, 1919, on a farm south of Griswold, Iowa, the daughter of Herbert C. Thomson and Harriet Pearl Conklin. Rita grew up in the Griswold and Atlantic communities, graduated from Atlantic High School...
Leo Jacobsen
Dec 5, 2007
Leo M. Jacobsen, 83, of West Des Moines, Iowa, and a former Adair, Iowa resident, passed away Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at the Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Leo Milford Jacobsen was born June 12, 1924, on the family farm near Exira, Iowa, the son of Hans and Dorothy (Jessen) Jacobsen. He was raised in the Exira area and...
Rex Wesack
Dec 3, 2007
Rex Wesack, 64, of Adair, Iowa, passed away December 3, 2007, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Merle Rex Wesack was born on May 11, 1943, in Adair, Iowa, the son of Merle William and Elnora (Tibben) Wesack. He grew up in Adair and graduated from Adair High School in 1961. Rex then attended Northwest Missouri State...
Juanita Hargens
Dec 2, 2007
Juanita C. Hargens, 84, of Brayton, Iowa, passed away Sunday, December 2, 2007, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa. Juanita Catherine Kroeger was born on December 31, 1922, in Arcadia, Iowa, the daughter of Henry and Margaret (Erdman) Kroeger. She was a graduate of Westside High School in Westside, Iowa. On December 1, 1942, she was...
Melvin Wedemeyer
Nov 29, 2007
Melvin C. Wedemeyer, 90, of Adair, passed away November 29, 2007, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center. Melvin Chris Wedemeyer was born on December 18, 1916, on the family farm in Guthrie County, Iowa, the son of George and Alma (Christensen) Wedemeyer. He graduated from Adair High School in 1936. Following graduation he joined the United States...
Helen Freund
Nov 28, 2007
Helen Dorothy Freund, 87, of Lewis, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 28, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Helen Dorothy Freund was born January 26, 1920, on a farm near Earling, Iowa, the daughter of John Peter and Ida E. (Schimerowski) Zimmer. She was raised and lived near Earling until she moved to Cass County...
Eleanor Sornson
Nov 22, 2007
Eleanor Sornson, 102, a lifelong Elk Horn, Iowa, area resident passed away Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2007, at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn. Eleanor was born November 10, 1905, on the family farm in Shelby County, Iowa, the daughter of M.J. and Inger Maria Peitersen Madsen. She was a 1925 graduate of the Elk Horn High School...
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