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

Larry Lee Nielsen

Larry Lee Nielsen

Dec 28, 2010

Larry Lee Nielsen, the son of Wilmer and Elvina Kuntzweiler Nielsen, was born August 12, 1937, at his Grandmother Kuntzweilers home in Audubon, Iowa and died December 28, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 73 years, 4 months, and 16 days. Larry was baptized as an adult at the First Presbyterian Church in...

Delores Anna Christiansen

Delores Anna Christiansen

Dec 28, 2010

Delores Anna Christiansen, the daughter of George and Edna Christensen Hansen, was born March 12, 1924, at her parents home west of Audubon, Iowa and died December 28, 2010, at The Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 86 years, 9 months and 16 days. Delores was baptized and confirmed at the Lutheran Church west of Audubon. She attended...

L. Frances Baier

L. Frances Baier

Dec 26, 2010

Lizzie Frances Baier, the daughter of James and Lily Tollison Bates, was born January 30, 1925, at her parents home in Tipper, Mississippi, and died December 26, 2010, at the Friend ship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 10 months, and 26 days. Frances was baptized and confirmed and attended school near Tipper, MS. She attended...

Kenneth Zimmerline

Kenneth Zimmerline

Dec 24, 2010

Kenneth Laverne Zimmerline was born on April 19, 1940, the son of Charles Laverne and Irene Callista (Pettinger) Zimmerline in Adair, Iowa and passed away on December 24, 2010, at the Iowa Veteran's Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he had lived since 2003. Kenneth was born and grew up on the farm south of Adair. He started school at...

Mardell Miller

Mardell Miller

Dec 21, 2010

Mardell Rozell Miller, 74, was born January 1, 1936, in Wiota, Iowa, the daughter of Fred Henry and Lucille Josephine (Christensen) Fries and passed away on December 21, 2010, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She lived in rural Wiota before moving to Anita, Iowa. Mardell graduated from the Anita High School in 1954. While in...

Ione Leeper

Ione Leeper

Dec 17, 2010

Ione L. Ludlum was born May 29, 1935, the daughter of Everett Glen and Aleda Christina (Hjelm) Ludlum in Rhame, North Dakota, and passed away Friday, December 17, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Ione grew up in Rhame, graduating from Rhame High School in 1953. While still residing in Rhame, Ione married Lavern...

Betty Jean (Griffith) Porter

Betty Jean (Griffith) Porter

Dec 14, 2010

Betty Jean (Griffith) Porter, the first of eleven children of James R. and Lois M. Murphy Waddell, was born November 7, 1939, in Stuart, Iowa, and died December 14, 2010, surrounded by her family, at the age of 71 years, 1 month and 7 days. For the past two years, she fought a brave battle with lung cancer with the...

Roberta Johnson

Roberta Johnson

Dec 14, 2010

Roberta May Kauk was born on the family farm in Harlan County, near Alma, Nebraska, on June 7, 1920, the daughter of William Frederick and Elsie Mae (Baker) Kauk and passed away at the Cass County Hospice Center in Atlantic, Iowa, on December 14, 2010. Roberta was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Johnson; her parents, William and...

Corinne Mae Smith

Corinne Mae Smith

Dec 13, 2010

Corinne Mae Smith, the daughter of Harvey M. and Bernice A. Pedersen Nissen, was born June 14, 1925, at her parents home in rural Elk Horn, Iowa and died December 13, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 5 months, and 29 days. Corinne was baptized and confirmed at the Elk Horn...

Eldon Walter Borkowski

Eldon Walter Borkowski

Dec 11, 2010

Eldon Walter Borkowski, the son of Walter L. and Hilda (Borkowski) Borkowski, was born March 20, 1941, at his parents home in northwest Audubon County, Iowa and died December 11, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 69 years, 8 months, and 21 days. Eldon was baptized April 13, 1941, at the Trinity Lutheran Church...

Ardell Lavonne Hansen

Ardell Lavonne Hansen

Dec 11, 2010

Ardell LaVonne Hansen, the daughter of Ole J. and Mary Mathisen Hansen, was born April 22, 1930, at her parents home in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Iowa and died December 11, 2010 at the Cass County Home Care/Hospice in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 80 years, 7 months, and 19 days. Ardell was baptized May 25, 1930, at the...

"Fred" Scarlett Jr.

"Fred" Scarlett Jr.

Dec 10, 2010

John Frederick Scarlett Jr., 95, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Friday, December 10, 2010, at his home in Adair, Iowa. Fred was born February 21, 1915, in Bosworth, Missouri, to John Frederick Scarlett Sr. and Ella M. Scholl. He attended elementary schools in Bosworth until the family moved to Anita, Iowa, in 1923. He then attended Anita Community Schools...

Burnice Raymond Jones

Burnice Raymond Jones

Dec 9, 2010

Burnice Raymond Jones, the son of Roy Walter and Ruth Shuck Jones, was born October 14, 1920, on his parents farm east of Brayton, Iowa and died December 9, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 90 years, 1month, and 25 days. Burnice was baptized as an adult when he enlisted in...

Doris Conn

Doris Conn

Dec 7, 2010

Doris M. Conn, 89, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Doris Marie Polson was born September 27, 1921, in Creston, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas Jay and Bessie (Tucker) Polson. She graduated from Creston High School and then attended Creston Junior College. Doris went on to teach school...

Marilyn Cooley

Marilyn Cooley

Dec 7, 2010

Marilyn M. Cooley, 74, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at the Cass County Hospice Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Marilyn was born June 27, 1936, to Virgil and Marie (Smith) Schrader in Cumberland, Iowa. She attended community schools in the Cumberland area and graduated high school from Newton High (Iowa) in 1954. On December 2, 1955,...

Emmert Alfred Juhl

Emmert Alfred Juhl

Dec 5, 2010

Emmert Alfred Juhl, the son of Alfred Zink and Mary Sadie Nielsen Juhl, was born May 23, 1930, at his parents home in Sharon Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died December 5, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 80 years, 6 months, and 12 days. Emmert was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours...

Ethel Mardesen

Ethel Mardesen

Dec 3, 2010

Ethel P.M. Mardesen, the daughter of Peter and Maggie Smith Jessen, was born June 16, 1912, at her parents home in rural Audubon County near Exira, Iowa and died December 3, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 98 years, 5 months, and 17 days. Ethel was baptized and confirmed at St. Johns Lutheran...

Marjorie Schneider

Marjorie Schneider

Dec 1, 2010

Marjorie Ann Odle was born February 4, 1933, in Avoca, Iowa, the daughter of George William and Imo Genevieve (Reese) Odle and passed away December 1, 2010, at Twilight Acres in Wall Lake, Iowa. Marjorie graduated from the Marne High School and went to Iowa Western Community College for nursing. She was employed as a Registered Nurse at the...

Jerene Christensen Andersen

Jerene Christensen Andersen

Nov 21, 2010

Jerene Christensen Andersen of Conroe, Texas passed away after battling a plethora of health maladies on November 21, 2010. Jerene was born to Nels Christensen and Jo Ellen Bengard-Christensen on December 21, 1946 in Atlantic, Iowa. She attended Exira High School, after which she went to school to study cosmetology, before discovering her true ambition was merely being a wonderful...

Albert Karns

Albert Karns

Nov 16, 2010

Albert Junior Karns was born March 12, 1927, the son of Albert Jerry and Eva Alvina (Wahe) Karns in Anita, Iowa, and passed away November 16, 2010, at the Cass County Hospice Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Junior was a life long resident of Anita, graduating from the Anita High School. He attended one year of college in Utah. Junior...

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