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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Robert Swanson
Jan 8, 2012
Robert (Bob) Swanson, 78, a long time resident of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2012, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on May 18, 1933. He was adopted by Howard and Hazel (Sudduth) Swanson of Neola, Iowa. He moved to Walnut, Iowa, and graduated from Atlantic High School...
James Mathisen
Jan 6, 2012
James Milo Mathisen was born in Atlantic, Iowa, March 16, 1948, to Genevieve (Rotherham) and James (Mike) Mathisen and passed away January 6, 2012, at Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn, Iowa, at the age of 63. The eldest of five children, he grew up with his brothers and sisters in Atlantic. After graduating high school in 1966, Jim...
William Matthew 'Matt' Schrier
Jan 5, 2012
William Matthew “Matt” Schrier, the son of William Thomas and Rose Ann Sweeney Porter, was born April 25, 1969, in Corning, Iowa, and died January 5, 2012, at his home in Exira, Iowa, at the age of 42 years, 8 months, and 10 days. When Matt was young, Rose married Stanley Schrier who adopted the children and raised them. Matt...
Darrell Spencer
Jan 3, 2012
Darrell Spencer, 68, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab in Atlantic, Iowa. At Darrell's request, cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic, Iowa is assisting Darrell's family.
N. Lucille Mulford
Jan 2, 2012
Nadine Lucille Mulford, the daughter of Morton and Edith Wright Guy, was born April 28, 1915, at her parents’ home in Beadle County near Huron, South Dakota and died January 2, 2012, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 96 years, 8 months, and 4 days. The family moved from South Dakota to Guthrie County, Iowa...
Betty Irene Christensen
Jan 2, 2012
Betty Irene Christensen, the daughter of Jens K. and Lena Hansen Jensen, was born August 4, 1920, at her parents’ home in Audubon, Iowa and died January 2, 2012, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 91 years, 4 months, and 28 days. Betty was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in...
Wanda Berg
Jan 2, 2012
Wanda Lee Rathman was born on September 11, 1933, the daughter of Victor John and Adella (Palmer) Rathman in Massena, Iowa, and passed away Monday, January 2, 2012, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa. As a child, Wanda lived on a farm north of Anita. Her family later moved to Atlantic where she attended the...
Max Mackrill
Jan 2, 2012
Max Charley Mackrill was born December 13, 1935, in Griswold, Iowa, the son of Robert Jackson and Mamie (Sanders) Mackrill and passed away at the Cass County Memorial Hospital on Monday, January 2, 2012. He attended country school in the Wiota, Anita and Adair areas. On August 4, 1954, he married Grace Wahlert. The couple lived in Omaha, Atlantic,...
Pauline Edwards
Dec 30, 2011
Pauline Nellie Edwards, 89, passed away Friday, December 30, 2011, at Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Anita. Pauline was born September 11, 1922, near Lyman, Iowa, to Ross Edward Havens and Nellie (Johnson) Havens. She graduated with the class of 1941 from the Atlantic High School. She worked in Atlantic during the war years, including assistant manager of Scotts...
Dorothy Ilien Anderson
Dec 28, 2011
Dorothy Ilien Carlson Anderson, the youngest of nine children of Albin and Rose Etta Lofgren Carlson, was born December 8, 1923, at her parents’ home near Griswold, Iowa and went home to Heaven on December 28, 2011, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 88 years and 20 days. Dorothy was raised in...
Josephine Helen Gibson
Dec 27, 2011
Josephine Helen (Damon) Gibson of Audubon, Iowa went home to be with her Lord and Savior on December 27, 2011 after a brief battle with cancer. Josephine was born April 18, 1936, at the home of her parents, George and Mabel (Carlson) Damon in Humboldt, Nebraska. She was baptized into the Evangelical United Brethren Church at Dawson, Nebraska as an...
James Rush
Dec 27, 2011
Jim Rush was born July 3, 1946, in New Harmony, Indiana, to Elvis and Evelyn (Reeves) Rush and passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2011, at his residence in Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of 65. During his younger years his family moved from Indiana and lived in several places before settling in Atlantic, Iowa, as Jim entered his teenage...
Donald Franklin Toft
Dec 26, 2011
Donald Franklin Toft, the son of Thomas and Esther Petersen Toft, was born October 4, 1930 at his parents’ home in Oakfield Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died December 26, 2011 at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 81 years, 2 months, and 22 days. Don was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church...
Muryl Vokt
Dec 26, 2011
Muryl Jean Rathman was born April 15, 1931, in Anita, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas A. and Marie Katherine (Tibken) Rathman and passed away Monday, December 26, 2011, at the Cass County Hospice Center in Atlantic, Iowa. She was baptized in the Franklin Lutheran Church in Wiota, Iowa, and then confirmed in the Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Anita...
Bruce Brown
Dec 24, 2011
Bruce Brown, 86, of Redfield, Iowa, died December 24, 2011, at the Perry Lutheran Home in Perry, Iowa. Bruce was born November 28, 1925, in Casey, Iowa, the fourth son of Zort P. and Cora Brown. Bruce was an army veteran who first worked at the Centerville Airport where he was a mechanic and attained his pilot's license. Later...
Robert John Schmitz
Dec 23, 2011
Robert John Schmitz, the son of William and Margaret Brincks Schmitz, was born January 27, 1929, in Carroll, Iowa and died December 23, 2011, at the Nebraska Veterans Home in Grand Island, Nebraska at the age of 82 years, 10 months, and 26 days. Bob was baptized and confirmed at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dedham, Iowa. He attended the...
Marty Kinzie
Dec 23, 2011
Marty Dean Kinzie was born July 26, 1955, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Cecil Dean and Joyce Lorene (Dorsey) Kinzie and passed away Friday, December 23, 2011, at his home in Anita, Iowa. He lived with his family on a farm north of Anita until he was 10 years old. He then moved to his home on Michigan...
Louis 'Louie' Philip Lauritsen
Dec 19, 2011
Louis Philip Lauritsen, the son of Anders (Andrew) and Maren Pehlsen Lauritsen, was born March 3, 1923 at his parents’ home near Hamlin, Iowa and died December 19, 2011 at his home in Farmington, New Mexico at the age of 88 years, 9 months, and 16 days. Louis (Louie) was baptized and confirmed at the Hamlin Lutheran Church in Hamlin,...
Lucille Edith Kjergaard
Dec 14, 2011
Lucille Edith Kjergaard, the daughter of Clarence and Elsie Larsen Nelson, was born October 4, 1925 at her parents’ home near Harlan, Iowa and died December 14, 2011 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 2 months, and 10 days. Lucille was baptized at the Bethel Baptist Church in Harlan, Iowa and later confirmed...
Nadene Hansen
Dec 14, 2011
Nadene K. Hansen, 77, of Kimballton, IA, passed away December 14, 2011, at Cass County Memorial Hospital. Per Nadene's wishes, cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton, IA at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 19, 2011. Hockenberry Family Care is assisting the family.
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