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

Clara Mitchell
Nov 6, 2007
Clara E. Mitchell, 87, of Omaha, Nebraska, originally from Anita, Iowa, and formerly of Tacoma, Washington, passed away Tuesday, November 6, 2007, at Select Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Clara Elizabeth Wiese was born on December 13, 1919, in Anita, Iowa, the daughter of Hugo and Hattie (Swartz) Wiese. She graduated from Anita High School. Following graduation she moved to...
Irene Maxwell
Nov 6, 2007
Irene L. Maxwell, 93, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, November 6, 2007, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center. Irene Laura Maxwell was born January 20, 1914, in Audubon Township, Audubon County, Iowa, to John H. and Frieda (Damman) Petri. She was baptized on March 15, 1914, and confirmed April 1, 1928, at St. John's Lutheran Church northwest...
Patricia Krause
Nov 4, 2007
Patricia E. Krause, 91, of Greenfield, Iowa, (formerly of Adair) passed away Sunday, November 4, 2007, at Greenfield Manor. Patricia Ebba Lovell was born on March 2, 1916, in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Harry and Ebba (Olson) Lovell. She graduated from Adair High School in 1933. On September 3, 1934, she was united in marriage to Walter...
Bertha Waters
Nov 3, 2007
Bertha C. Waters, 88, lifelong resident of the Atlantic and Massena areas, passed away Saturday, November 3, 2007, at Risen Son Christian Village in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bertha Catherine Waters was born April 14, 1919, on the family farm in Victoria Township, south of Massena, Iowa. She was the daughter of Frank Patrick and Rachel Agnes (Cruise) Clinton. Bertha...
Marliss Hawkinson
Oct 27, 2007
Marly Hawkinson, 77, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Saturday, October 27, 2007, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa. Marliss John Hawkinson was born on July 2, 1930, in Nora Township, Minnesota, the son of Carl H. and Agnes (Kopitzke) Hawkinson. He was baptized into the Lutheran Church in September of 1930, at Morris, Minnesota. Marly graduated from...
Lavone Cappel
Oct 22, 2007
Lavone Cappel, 89, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, October 22, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Lavone Cappel was born July 17, 1918, in Edgewood, Iowa, the daughter of Don Glazier and Beulah Randolph. She attended school in Independence, Iowa, was homecoming queen in the fall of 1935 and graduated in the spring of 1936....
Mary Ruggles
Oct 22, 2007
Mary M. Denney Ruggles, 83, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Monday, October 22, 2007, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Mary Marie Denney Ruggles was born on March 24, 1924, in Exira, Iowa, the daughter of Wesley and Laura Nielsen Chase. She attended school in Exira and graduated from Exira High School in 1942. On July 23, 1942, Mary married...
Keith Ticknor
Oct 21, 2007
Keith Ticknor, 66, of Camdenton, Missouri, and formerly of Anita, Iowa, passed away Sunday, October 21, 2007, at the Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, from complications of Multiple Myeloma. Keith Allen Ticknor was born on December 15, 1940, in Casey, Iowa, the son of Allen and Lucile (Whetstone) Ticknor. He lived on a farm north of Anita, Iowa, in...
Doris Allen
Oct 19, 2007
Doris A. Allen, 71, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Friday, October 19, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Doris Ann Allen was born April 18, 1936, in Cumberland, Iowa, where she was raised by maternal grandparents Frederic and Malinda Schrader. She was baptized in the Methodist Church in Cumberland and graduated from Cumberland High School in...
Duane Suplee
Oct 14, 2007
Duane T. Suplee, 61, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Sunday, October 14, 2007 at his home in Anita. Duane Terry Suplee was born on August 17, 1946, at the Adair Hospital in Adair, Iowa, the son of Lester H. and Beatrice L. (Mortensen) Suplee. He graduated from Anita High School in 1965. Duane worked several jobs, including delivering the...
Gladys Carlson
Oct 13, 2007
Gladys L. Carlson, 79, a lifelong Anita, Iowa, resident, passed way Saturday, October 13, 2007, at the Colonial Manor in Anita. Gladys Louisa Carlson, was born August 19, 1928, in Anita, Iowa, the daughter of Lawrence H. and Leona M. (Witte) Carlson. She attended school in Anita and graduated from Anita High School in 1947. After graduation Gladys worked...
Raymond Flathers
Oct 8, 2007
Raymond "Dude" Flathers, 61, of Lewis, Iowa, (formerly of Atlantic) passed away Monday, October 8, 2007, at his home in Lewis. Raymond Leonard Flathers was born on May 8, 1946, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Harley and Rosemary (Stormer) Flathers. Ray was born and raised in Atlantic and moved to Massena, Iowa, when he was 16. He graduated...
Marvin Howell
Oct 7, 2007
Marvin J. Howell, 69, of Walnut, Iowa, passed away Saturday, October 6, 2007, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Marvin John Howell was born on August 10, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Marvin Hewitt and Dorothy Elizabeth (Wade) Howell. He was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Colfax, Iowa. After his departure...
Leona Herren
Oct 4, 2007
Leona Heeren, 94, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Thursday, October 4, 2007, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Leona Elizabeth Tibken Heeren was born May 29, 1913, the daughter of Fritz & Elise "Lizzie" (Euken) Tibken. She was baptized in the home of her parents on June 22, 1923, by Pastor F.W. Heinke of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church. She...

Louise Krogman
Oct 1, 2007
Louise A. Krogman, 97, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, October 1, 2007, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. Louise Matilda Anna Krogman was born January 17, 1910, south of Wiota in Cass County, Iowa, the daughter of Theodor and Eleonore (Schmieding) Krogman. She attended Cumberland schools and graduated from Cumberland High School in 1927. She extended her education...

Gertrude Anderson
Sep 25, 2007
Gertrude "Wini" Anderson, 88, of Atlantic, Iowa, (formerly of the Lyman and Griswold areas) passed away September 25, 2007, at Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center. Gertrude Winifred Anderson was born on June 12, 1919, in Rockford Township, Pottawattamie County, near Loveland, Iowa, the daughter of Roy Noble and Anna Barbara (Henry) Hildebrand. She grew up on a farm northwest...
Wally Roscoe
Sep 23, 2007
Wally Roscoe, 79, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday evening, Sept. 23, 2007, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic. Wallace Ray Roscoe was born January 23, 1928, in Lafayette, Indiana, to Bernice (Antcliff) and Franklin W. Roscoe. A sister, Ellen Jean was born when the family lived in Danville, Illinois. In December of 1944, the family...
Benjamin Sanders
Sep 22, 2007
Benjamin J. Sanders, Jr., 59, of Des Moines, Iowa, and formerly of Atlantic, passed away Saturday, September 22, 2007, at the Mercy Medical Center in Des, Moines, Iowa. He was born December 31, 1947, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Ben and Evelyn (Hunt) Sanders. Ben attended High School in Anita, Iowa, and was a 1967 graduate. He then...
Jeannie Brodersen
Sep 4, 2007
Jeannie Delores Brodersen, former Cass County Recorder, passed away Tuesday, September 4, 2007, at the age of 76 at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where she had been a patient for two days. She was born on December 10, 1930, in Anita, Iowa, the daughter of Bernard F. and Madeline A. (Holleran) Brodersen. Jeannie was a...
Norma Jayne
Sep 3, 2007
Norma Jean Jayne, 76, a longtime Exira resident, passed away Monday, September 3, at the Exira Care Center, Exira, Iowa. Norma Jean Jayne was born on May 31, 1931, in Atlantic, Iowa, the daughter of Verl and Ethel (Templeman) Freeman. She lived the majority of her life in Exira and graduated from Exira High School. Jeanie married Gus Struble...
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