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Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

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

Jeanette Schrum

Jeanette Schrum

Dec 3, 2013

Jeanette Mary Obermeier was born December 4, 1928, to Frank Xavier and Catherine Marie (Bahlman) Obermeier and passed away Tuesday, December 3, 2013, at the Exira Care Center in Exira Iowa. She attended kindergarten at a country school in Carroll County and then attended Catholic School in Templeton. The family moved to a farm 5 miles east of Audubon...

Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown

Nov 29, 2013

Dennis Dean Brown was born May 6, 1940, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of George and Burnidette Irene (Doty) Brown and passed away on Friday, November 29, 2013, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa. He grew up on the family farm outside Cumberland. After his mother passed away he was raised by his grandmother and...

Deborah Beach

Deborah Beach

Nov 25, 2013

Deborah Lynn Johnson was born March 4, 1961, in Bottineau, North Dakota, the daughter of Robert Oliver and Gloria May (Fallen) Johnson. She passed away Monday, November 25, 2013, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Deb grew up in Sutton, North Dakota, where she graduated from the Glenfield - Sutton High School in 1979. On May...

Jerry Wolfe

Jerry Wolfe

Nov 24, 2013

Cemetery: Inurnment will be held in the Exira Cemetery in Exira. Visitation: The family will meet with friends on Saturday morning from 10:30 A.M. until the time of the service at the Kessler Funeral Home in Exira, Iowa. Service: Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held Saturday, December 21, 2013, at 11:30 A.M. at the Kessler Funeral Home in...

Ruby Andersen

Ruby Andersen

Nov 23, 2013

Ruby Nadine Andersen, 80, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Saturday, November 23, 2013, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She was born northeast of Griswold on July 3, 1933, the daughter of Edgar and Nellie (Morton) High. At 8 years old her family moved to Cumberland, Iowa, for two years. Her father then died so her family...

Leslie Marousek Jr.

Leslie Marousek Jr.

Nov 19, 2013

Leslie Joseph Marousek was born to the late Leslie Joseph Marousek, Sr. and Cecelia Katherine (Oibelka) Marousek in Plant City, Florida, on May 5th, 1926. He passed away at the age of 87 on November 19, 2013, at his home in Atlantic, Iowa. Les and his wife, Mary Beth, met while in high school in Omaha, Nebraska. They were...

Earnest Laverne Madsen

Earnest Laverne Madsen

Nov 17, 2013

Earnest LaVerne Madsen, the son of Hans and Sofie Kathrine Pedersen Madsen, was born August 5, 1926, at his parents’ home east of Hamlin, Iowa and died November 17, 2013, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 3 months, and 12 days. Earnest was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church...

David Hawkins

David Hawkins

Nov 17, 2013

David Gregory Hawkins, 53, of Atlantic, Iowa, died Sunday, November 17, 2013, at his home in Atlantic. He was born July 6, 1960, in Waverly, Missouri, the son of David Hawkins and Nina Turner. Greg grew up in Missouri and attended school in Paris, Missouri. He graduated from Maryville High School with the class of 1978. On May 31,...

Marlis Bornholdt

Marlis Bornholdt

Nov 14, 2013

Marlis Lavonne Pelzer was born in Atlantic, Iowa, February 21, 1938, the daughter of Maurice Russell and Violet Margaret (Erickson) Pelzer and passed away Thursday, November 14, 2013, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. She lived in Shelby and Cass Counties, attending country schools and later graduating from the Elk Horn High School. On February 20, 1958, she...

Susan Jane Young

Susan Jane Young

Nov 6, 2013

Susan Jane Young, the daughter of William and Alice (Black) Ferguson, was born June 6, 1945, in San Diego, California and died November 6, 2013, at the Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 68 years, and 5 months. Susan was confirmed at the Methodist Church in Glidden, Iowa. She attended Glidden Community Schools graduating...

Raymond Underwood

Raymond Underwood

Nov 6, 2013

Raymond Roger Underwood was born May 4, 1930 in his parents' home in Ringsted, Iowa. He died November 6, 2013 at the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames, Iowa, at the age of 83. Ray was the son of Phil Herbert and Dimple Dot (Dorothy) (Gaylord) Underwood. He was the youngest of five brothers and one sister. Ray graduated...

Joyce Maxine Jorgensen

Joyce Maxine Jorgensen

Nov 5, 2013

Joyce Maxine Jorgensen, the daughter of Samuel Clifford and Marie (Heiken) Reser, was born October 27, 1930, at her parents’ home in rural Kossuth County near Algona, Iowa and died November 5, 2013, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 83 years and 8 days. Joyce was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. She attended...

Doris Mae Jorgensen

Doris Mae Jorgensen

Nov 4, 2013

Doris Mae Jorgensen, the daughter of Chris and Nina (Lund) Jensen, was born May 16, 1928, at her parents’ home in Audubon County near Audubon, Iowa and died November 4, 2013, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 5 months, and 18 days. Doris was baptized on June 24, 1928, and confirmed at...

Willis Eugene Umland

Willis Eugene Umland

Oct 31, 2013

Willis Eugene Umland, the son of Albert and Emma (Rostermundt) Umland, was born July 30, 1933, at his parents’ home in Crawford County near Manilla, Iowa and died October 31, 2013, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 80 years, 3 months, and 1 day. Willis was baptized and confirmed at the First United Methodist Church...

Scott Sullivan

Scott Sullivan

Oct 30, 2013

Scott Edward Sullivan, 43, of Marne, Iowa passed away Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at his home. He was born February 20, 1970 in Waverly, Iowa, the son of Timothy and Carol (Carpenter) Sullivan. He was raised in Waterloo, Iowa until the age of 11. His family then moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and later to Indianola, Iowa, before settling...

Margaret Miriam Andersen

Margaret Miriam Andersen

Oct 28, 2013

Margaret Miriam Andersen, the daughter of Chris and Marie Hansen Larsen was born November 3, 1924, at her parents’ home in Hamlin, Iowa and went to her Heavenly Home on October 28, 2013, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 88 years, 11 months, and 25 days. Margaret was baptized and confirmed at the Hamlin...

Eileen Carleton

Eileen Carleton

Oct 28, 2013

Eileen Louise Menze Carleton, 91, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away October 28, 2013, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa. She was born October 6, 1922, near Gresham, Nebraska, the eldest child of Bertha (Mailand) and Frederick Menze. She attended rural schools near Gresham and graduated from Seward High School in Seward, Nebraska, in 1940. After high school she moved...

Mary White

Mary White

Oct 27, 2013

Mary Patricia White, 56, of Exira, Iowa passed away Sunday, October 27, 2013 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She was born May 30, 1957 in Omaha, NE, the daughter of Salvatore and Patricia (Dean) Belfiore. Mary was raised in Omaha and graduated from Benson High School. She also attended and graduated from Capital Beauty...

Willa Marie Jensen

Willa Marie Jensen

Oct 26, 2013

Willa Marie Jensen, the daughter of Lionel and Rheta Baker Lyon, was born August 14, 1926, in Garden City, Kansas and died October 26, 2013, at The Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 2 months, and 12 days. Willa was baptized at Wellsford Methodist Church in Wellsford, Kansas. She attended school in various towns and...

Dolores Elaine Clemmensen

Dolores Elaine Clemmensen

Oct 26, 2013

Dolores Elaine Clemmensen, the daughter of Jens and Carrie Jensen Bruun was born November 1, 1929, in Audubon County, Iowa and died peacefully in her home in Audubon, Iowa on October 26, 2013, at the age of 83 years, 11 months, and 25 days. Dolores grew up with her brothers and sisters Bernice, Norma, Jens “Jim”, and Glenn. She was...

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