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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Barbara Ballinger
Mar 16, 2007
Memorial services, following cremation, will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007, in the chapel at Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic. Visitation is scheduled for Monday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.at Hockenberrys.
Albert Thomas Jr.
Mar 14, 2007
Albert "Bud" Thomas, Jr., longtime Cass County farmer, passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Albert "Bud" Thomas, Jr., was born August 4, 1918 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Albert George and Retta R. (Kraft) Thomas. He attended schools in the Council Bluffs area. The family farmed near Council Bluffs and when...
Melvin Cooley
Mar 12, 2007
Melvin H. Cooley, 74, of Anita, passed away Monday, March 12, 2007, north of Anita, Iowa. Melvin Henry Cooley was born March 6, 1933, to Herbert (Ted) and Anna C. (Jepsen) Cooley. He attended country schools through the 8th grade. On December 2, 1955, he married Marilyn Schrader at the Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Anita. He farmed for...
Laura Fisher
Mar 9, 2007
Laura L. Fisher, 93, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Friday, March 9, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Laura Louise (Matousek) Fisher was born January 19, 1914, on the prairie near Redig, South Dakota, the daughter of Otto E. Matousek and Judith (Hlava) Matousek. She grew up on the family ranch until 1926 when the...
Meryl Whetstone
Mar 4, 2007
Meryl L. Whetstone, 80, of Stuart, Iowa, passed away Sunday, March 4, 2007 at the Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Meryl LeRoy Whetstone was born March 5, 1926, in Thompson Township near Casey, Iowa, the son of Walter R. and Maggie (Sloss) Whetstone. He attended rural grade school in Thompson Township, spent one year in the Guthrie Center High...
Jero Guzinski
Mar 2, 2007
Jero D. Guzinski, 62, of Casey, Iowa, passed away, Friday, March 2, 2007, at his home in rural Casey. Jero Darrel Guzinski was born on January 12, 1945, in Jefferson, Iowa, the son of Pete and Helen (Waryden) Guzinski. Jero attended school in Panora, Iowa, and graduated from Panora High School in 1963. On February 27, 1965, he was...
Robert Watson
Mar 1, 2007
Robert D. Watson, 54, of Wiota, Iowa, passed away Thursday, March 1, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Robert Dale Watson was born October 28, 1952 in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Walter and Wilma (Rowe) Watson. On May 28, 1975, Robert married Linda Franklin in Folkston, Georgia. He had lived in Shenandoah, Red Oak...
Georgia Andersen
Feb 27, 2007
Georgia C. Andersen, 85, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2007, at the Colonial Manor in Anita. Georgia Claretta Andersen was born on May 1, 1921, in Hemmingford, Nebraska, the daughter of George and Bertha Marie (Jensen) Jessen. Shortly after her birth they moved to a farm north of Walnut, Iowa. She attended school in Walnut and...
Pearl Scarf
Feb 26, 2007
Pearl L. Scarf, 97, of Atlantic, passed away Monday, February 26, 2007, at the Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. Pearl Louise Scarf was born on July 4, 1909, in Guthrie County, Iowa, the daughter of Adam and Emilie (Pross) Krause. Pearl grew up on a farm southeast of Anita. She attended country school through the 8th grade in Anita....
Marian Carstens
Feb 24, 2007
Marian E. Carstens, 97, of Casey, Iowa, passed away Saturday, February 24, 2007, at The New Homestead in Guthrie Center, Iowa Marian E. Carstens was born on January 11, 1910, in Casey, Iowa, the daughter of Warren E. and Grace (Thompsen) Cline. She attended school and graduated from Casey High School. On October 19, 1928, she was married to...
Pauline Harris
Feb 22, 2007
Pauline M. Harris, 77, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Thursday, February 22, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Pauline Marie Harris was born March 23, 1929 in Section 1 of Lincoln Township, Cass County, Iowa, the daughter of Howard S. and Phyllis J. (Steele) Gissibl. She graduated from the Anita High School in 1946 and taught...
Eloise Lytle
Feb 19, 2007
Eloise J. Lytle, 81, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, February 19, 2007, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Eloise Jones Lytle was born on September 17, 1925, the daughter of Seabron O. and Beulah M. (McCarty) Jones in Ideal, Macon County, Georgia. Eloise grew up and lived on a farm near Ideal, Georgia, and graduated from...
Arlow Boysen
Feb 17, 2007
Arlow Boysen, 94, of Wiota, Iowa, passed away Saturday, February 17, 2007, at the Colonial Manor in Anita. Arlow Boysen was born on June 8, 1912, on a farm in Audubon County, the son of Boy Nels and Marie (Gregersen) Boysen. He grew up on a farm in Audubon County and attended country school through the 8th grade. Arlow...
Rosmarie Hansen
Feb 15, 2007
Rosmarie E. Hansen, 43, of Griswold, Iowa, and formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, February 15, 2007, at Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa. Rosmarie Ellen Hansen was born June 12, 1963, to Glenn F. and Patricia A. (Jeppesen) Magill in Denver, Colorado. The family lived in Colorado for a while and moved back to Iowa...
Norman Gundy
Feb 12, 2007
Norman G. Gundy, 88, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Monday, February 12, 2007, at the Colonial Manor in Anita. Norman George Gundy was born on February 14, 1918, the son of George and Martha Marie (Felkner) Gundy. Norman grew up near Walnut, Iowa and attended country schools in that area. On February 12, 1947, Norman married Betty Ann Erickson...
Lorranie South
Feb 11, 2007
Lorraine I. South, 75, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away at her residence Sunday, February 11, 2007, following a long courageous battle with cancer. Lorraine was born November 30, 1931, in Pearson, Wisconsin, the daughter of Al and Alice (Monnot) Nonnemacher. She attended the Eagle River School System in Eagle River, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school. A memorial...
Leta Meyer
Feb 9, 2007
Leta Eileen Reynolds Meyer was born March 4, 1925, in Eagle Grove, Iowa, the fifth of nine children for Bernice (Kinsella) and Lyle Reynolds. She was raised in Algona, Iowa, where she graduated from St. Cecilia's Academy in 1944. Following graduation, she was hired as a telephone operator at the prisoner of war camp west of Algona. After World...
C. Wedemeyer
Feb 8, 2007
C. Donal Wedemeyer, 82, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Thursday, February 8, 2007, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Clair Donal Wedemeyer was born on February 21, 1924, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of George Henry and Alma Lara (Christenson) Wedemeyer. He grew up on the family farm in Guthrie County, north of Adair, along with...
Georgene Mardesen
Feb 8, 2007
Georgene L. Mardesen, 86, of Papillion, Nebraska, formerly of Adair, Iowa, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 8, 2007, after a courageous battle with cancer. Georgene was born in Adair, Iowa, to George R. and Clara (Wahe) Parrott. She graduated from Adair High School in 1939 and went on to attend college at Cedar Falls, IA, Drake University, Washburn...
Duane Kluever
Feb 5, 2007
Duane F. Kluever, 73, of Anita, Iowa, passed away February 5, 2007, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. Franklin Duane Kluever was born on the family farm on May 24, 1933, the son of Raymond Emil and Ida (Sorensen) Kluever. He lived most of his life south of Anita and graduated from Anita High School. On February 8, 1953,...
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