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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
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...
Kerry Dunn
Nov 21, 2007
Kerry Sue Dunn, 57, of Oak Ridge, Missouri, passed away peacefully at her home on November 21, 2007, after a long and courageous battle with Huntington's Disease. Kerry "Sue" was born January 7, 1950, in Atlantic, Iowa, the daughter of Glen and Darlene (Tibben) Gustafson. She grew up in Adair, Iowa, graduating from high school in 1968. Kerry married...
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...
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