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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Jennifer Ruhl
Feb 1, 2012
Jennifer Marie Jerkovich Ruhl was born February 15, 1958 to Charles and Pat Jerkovich in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and passed away Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at her home in Anita, Iowa, at the age of 53. She grew up in Council Bluffs and graduated high school in 1976. She chose a career in the health care profession, and became...
Frances Olive Carter
Jan 31, 2012
Frances Olive Carter, the daughter of John Michael and Alice Olive Gardner Renftle was born February 28, 1924, at her parents’ home in Audubon, Iowa and died January 31, 2012 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 11 months, and 7 days. Frances was baptized at the First United Methodist Church in Audubon. Frances...
Roger Rubel
Jan 31, 2012
Roger Lee Rubel was born December 12, 1939, in Carroll, Iowa, the son of Russell William and Wilma Elaine (Behler) Rubel and passed away January 31, 2012, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa, after a long, hard fought battle with Diabetes. He grew up in Greely Township, Audubon County, Iowa, where he attended grade school at Greeley...
L. Marcelyn Frederiksen
Jan 28, 2012
Lois Marcelyn Frederiksen, the daughter of Edgar and Lois Hardy Miller, was born August 4, 1933, at her parents’ home near Audubon, Iowa and died January 28, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 78 years, 5 months, and 24 days. Marcelyn attended rural school near Audubon and then graduated from the...
Russell Eugene Petersen
Jan 27, 2012
Russell Eugene Petersen, the son of Alvin and Sarah (Peterson) Petersen, was born December 24, 1925, at his parents’ home in Douglas Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died January 27, 2012, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 1 month, and 3 days. Russell attended rural school in Audubon County and then...
Micheal Holly Jewell
Jan 27, 2012
Micheal Holly Jewell, the son of Holly Bonwell and Mildred Hansen Jewell was born August 16, 1945, at the Jewell Clinic in Perry, Iowa and died January 27, 2012 at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 66 years, 5 months, and 11 days. Mike was baptized at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Audubon and later baptized and...
Vicki Parker
Jan 27, 2012
Vicki Jo Parker, 57, of Avoca, Iowa, passed away January 27, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after a brief illness. Vicki was born June 4, 1954, to Wayne and Mary Jo (Grinstead) Pedersen in Atlantic, Iowa. She grew up on her grandparent's farm and attended school in Exira, Iowa. Vicki was baptized and confirmed in the...
Leroy Rochholz
Jan 27, 2012
LeRoy was born August 29, l930, in Guthrie County, Iowa, the son of Roy E. Rochholz and Bessie Fisher Rochholz. Bessie passed away when LeRoy was 10 months old. At this time his grandmother, Daisy Rochholz, helped with the family. He always said he was lucky to have had his older sister Norene, whom in many ways was like...
Mildred Jacobson
Jan 26, 2012
Mildred Jacobson, 93, of Atlantic, IA, passed away Thursday, January 26, 2012 at the Cass County Hospice Center. In accordance with Mildred's wishes, cremation has taken place and no other services are planned. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic, Iowa is in charge of arrangements.
Jerold Gaines
Jan 25, 2012
Jerold Wayne Gaines Sr. (Jerry) was born July 14, 1935, the son of Wayne LaVerne and Bernice Elizabeth (Irish) Gaines and passed away Wednesday, January 26, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa. He was a long time resident of Atlantic. Jerry worked for Payless Cashways for 19 years and UBC for 10 years. He...
Mary Ann Peterson
Jan 24, 2012
Mary Ann Peterson, the oldest of eleven children of Harry and Gladys Jensen Bald, was born December 9, 1930, at the home of her grandparents, George and Ida Bald, in Lincoln Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died January 24, 2012, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 81 years, 1 month, and 15 days. Mary Ann...
August Francis Conrad, Jr.
Jan 23, 2012
August Francis Conrad, Jr., the son of August, Sr. and Marie Jensen Conrad, was born July 1, 1918 at his parent’s home in Hamlin Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died January 23, 2012 at the Scenic Manor Nursing Home in Iowa Falls, Iowa at the age of 93 years, 6 months, and 22 days. August was baptized and confirmed at...
Merlin 'Butch' James Vonesh
Jan 21, 2012
Merlin “Butch” James Vonesh, the son of Frank and Clara Beitz Vonesh, was born November 21, 1933, at his parent’s home near Massena, Iowa, and died January 21, 2012, at the Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa, at the age of 78 years and 2 months. Butch was baptized and confirmed at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Massena, Iowa. He attended...
Gary Maverick Davis
Jan 19, 2012
Gary Maverick Davis, the son of John Anthony and Tamara Ann Larsen Davis, was born January 7, 1991, in Harlan, Iowa and died January 19, 2012, in an automobile accident in Irwin, Iowa at the age of 21 years and 12 days. Gary was baptized at the Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic, Iowa. He attended the Exira Community Schools graduating...
Lavina Marie Johnston
Jan 17, 2012
Lavina Marie Johnston, the daughter of Gustav and Mary Catherine Deidricksen Ratashack, was born December 28, 1924, at her parent’s home in Brighton Township near Marne, Iowa and died January 17, 2012, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital at the age of 87 years and 19 days. Lavina was baptized later as an adult at the First Christian Church in...
Frances Mae Hansen
Jan 15, 2012
Frances Mae Hansen, the daughter of Nels and Clara Whitted Johnson, was born May 6, 1917 at her parents’ home in Exira, Iowa and died January 15, 2012 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 94 years, 8 months, and 9 days. Frances was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Christian Church in Exira,...
Merle Snyder
Jan 13, 2012
Merle Alfred Snyder, 88, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Friday, January 13, 2012, at the Cass County Hospice Center in Atlantic, Iowa. He was born October 8, 1923, to Arthur R. and Adrian Imo (Ryan) Snyder in Palmayra, Missouri. Merle graduated from high school in Liberty, Illinois, in 1941. He married Anabeth King in 1941 and to this union...
Dorothy Rueb
Jan 12, 2012
Dorothy Jean (Gordon) Rueb, long-time resident of Algona, Iowa, and Bella Vista, Arkansas, entered into rest on January, 12, 2012, at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of 86. She was born August 10, 1925, in Sheldon, Iowa, to Frank Gordon & Cora (Michael) Gordon. Dorothy graduated from Sheldon High School in 1941. After graduation she moved...
Edward Burdette Kautzky
Jan 11, 2012
Edward Burdette Kautzky, the son of Edward Francis and Bernice Louise Crellin, was born April 29, 1926, at his parents’ home near Minburn, Iowa and died January 11, 2012 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 8 months, and 12 days. Ed was baptized and confirmed at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in...
Gladys Evelyn Hansen
Jan 8, 2012
Gladys Evelyn Hansen, the daughter of Nels and Claudine Greve Olsen, was born February 9, 1922, at her parents’ home northwest of Exira, Iowa and died January 8, 2012, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 89 years, 10 months, and 29 days. Gladys was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. She attended rural...
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