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Lavern Obermeier
Jul 30, 2013
LaVern Joseph Obermeier was born August 15, 1934, to Frank Xavier and Catherine Marie (Bahlman) Obermeier and passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the Villisca Good Samaritan Center in Villisca, Iowa. LaVern was raised in and spent his lifetime in the Audubon and Cass County areas. He was united in marriage to Rosalie June Cavanaugh. LaVern's first love...
Donna Jean Paske
Jul 29, 2013
Donna Jean Paske, the daughter of Jesse and Laura Johnson Griffin was born March 20, 1930, at the Rockford Memorial Hospital in Rockford, Illinois and died July 29, 2013 at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa at the age of 83 years, 4 months, and 9 days. Donna was baptized in the Methodist Church in Rockford, Illinois. She attended...
Faye Nadine Erickson
Jul 23, 2013
Faye Nadine Erickson, the daughter of Henry and Delphine Hamlin Carter, was born December 22, 1922, on her parents’ farm north of Exira, Iowa and died July 23, 2013, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 90 years, 7 months, and 1 day. She attended rural school near Exira and graduated from the Exira High...
Doris Brainard
Jul 23, 2013
Obituary of Doris Frances Brainard Doris Frances Brainard, the sixth and last child of Charles William and Henrietta (known as Rena) Martin Brainard was born on the 1869 family farm, Grant Township, Guthrie County, Iowa, on the 11th of September, 1915. She often said that she was grateful to have in her home a feeling of family loyalty, a...
Maxine Butler
Jul 15, 2013
Maxine Iona Marxen was born July 26, 1920, in Lewis, Iowa, the daughter of Theodore Ludwig and Hazel Wilhelmina (Jahnke) and passed away Monday, July 15, 2013, at Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn, Iowa. She graduated from the Lewis High School as Salutatorian of the class of 1937. On November 27, 1937, Maxine was married to Robert Butler...
Laura Kathryn Pardee
Jul 14, 2013
Laura Kathryn Pardee, the daughter of Thomas and Nannie (Glascock) Campbell, was born February 24, 1911, at her parents’ farm in Melville Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died July 14, 2013, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 102 years, 4 months, and 20 days. She attended rural school in Melville Township, Audubon County,...
Charlotte Louise Searls
Jul 13, 2013
Charlotte Louise Searls, the daughter of Fred Sylvester and Thelma Louise Wickham Searls was born June 12, 1947 at St. Anthony’s Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa and died July 13, 2013 at the Hospice Green House in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 66 years, 1 month, and 1 day. Charlotte was baptized and confirmed at the United Methodist Church...
Elsie Paulsen
Jul 11, 2013
Elsie Marie Dinkla was born south of Wiota, Iowa, on July 15, 1924, to Poppe Remmer and Bertha (Duden) Dinkla and passed away July 11, 2013, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at the First Lutheran Church south of Wiota. She attended Pleasant Dell Country School in Union Township, through the...
Eugene Kinen
Jul 4, 2013
Eugene Frederick Kinen, 80, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, July 4, 2013, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Gene was born August 20, 1932, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of William and Gladys (Miller) Kinen. He grew up on a farm north of Wiota and graduated from Wiota High School in 1950. He enlisted in the United States...
Kenney Mitchell
Jul 3, 2013
Kenney Bryant Mitchell, 61, of Wiota, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at his home in Wiota, Iowa. Kenny was born November 21, 1951, in Oakland, California, the son of Cleo and Bonnie (Bryant) Mitchell. He was married to Barbara Ward on June 1, 1985. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War from...
Kathy L. Paulsen
Jul 2, 2013
Survivors include her husband Kent Paulsen of Exira, Iowa; her daughter Jessica Heine, and her grandson Spencer Heine both of Neola, Iowa; her step-children Gina and husband Tom Benton, Tom and wife Sara Paulsen, and Bill and wife Lisa Paulsen all of Exira, Iowa, and John Paulsen and finance Christi Hokel both of Adel, Iowa; her step-grandchildren Dakota Muzney of...
Amos Hoffert
Jun 30, 2013
Amos A. Hoffert was born April 7, 1914, to Henry and Katie (Horner) Hoffert at Moorefield, Nebraska and passed away June 30, 2013, at Caring Acres Nursing Home in Anita, Iowa. Amos grew up in southeast Nebraska. He accepted Christ as his personal Savior in September 1924 while attending evangelistic services being held at Bethel Church of the Brethren,...
Maxine Shewman
Jun 30, 2013
Dora Maxine Shewman, 95, passed away Sunday, June 30, 2013 at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa where she had been a resident for the past 10 years. Maxine was born June 18, 1918 in Grant, Iowa. She was the daughter of Marshall and Stella Mae (Kuhn) Anderson and grew up in the Nodaway and Villisca...
Mary Katherine Brannan
Jun 25, 2013
Mary K. Brannan, the daughter of John and Frances Berger Flies was born February 2, 1915, at her parents’ home near Dedham, Iowa and died June 25, 2013, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 98 years, 4 months, and 23 days. Mary was baptized and confirmed at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dedham, Iowa. She...
Gladys Cunningham
Jun 24, 2013
Gladys Cunningham, 97, of Atlantic passed away Monday, June 24, 2013 at the Heritage House, Atlantic, Iowa, where she had resided since March of this year. Gladys G. Schuler was born March 4, 1916, to Fred W. and Mary (Pelzer) Schuler in Noble Township, Cass County, Iowa. She attended rural school and later attended Atlantic High School where she...
Sharon Campbell
Jun 22, 2013
Sharon Kay Campbell, 60, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She was born September 26, 1952, in Atlantic, Iowa, the daughter of Russell and M. Jean (McDermott) Rhoads. She grew up in Lewis, Iowa, with her family and attended the Griswold Community Schools graduating from Griswold High...
Dorothy Becker
Jun 20, 2013
Dorothy Ann Becker, 71, of Ames and formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Thursday, June 20, 2013, in Ames, Iowa, after a two year battle with cancer. Dorothy Ann Kragelund was born in Atlantic, Iowa, on August 15, 1941, to Oliver Earnest Kragelund and Verna (Porter) Kragelund. She grew up on a farm north of Atlantic. Dorothy attended country...
Jessie Leeper
Jun 19, 2013
Jessie Scott Leeper was born June 3, 1993, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Roy and Kelly (Daugard) Leeper and passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He graduated from the Adair-Casey High School with the class of 2011 and was attending college at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Jessie...
Eva Pelzer
Jun 14, 2013
Eva Lucille (Williamson) Pelzer, 96, passed peacefully from this earth surrounded by her family and her "Granddog Duncan" into the hands of God on June 14, 2013. She was born at home near Anita, Iowa, on June 16, 1916, the second daughter of Aura and Eva (Murray) Williamson. In 1918 the family moved to Leon, Iowa, where she graduated...
Dennis Charles Krogh
Jun 10, 2013
Dennis Charles Krogh, the son of Charles Edwin and Charlotte Ruth Jensen Krogh, was born December 23, 1953, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa and died June 10, 2013, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota at the age of 59 years, 5 months, and 17 days. Denny was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church...
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