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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Maxine Orstad
Jan 10, 2011
Maxine J. Orstad, 89, of Griswold, Iowa, passed away Monday, January 10, 2011, at the Cass County Hospice Center. Maxine June Orstad was born June 15, 1921, on a farm near Grant, Iowa, the daughter of Ralph and Louise (Lindner) Vetter. She attended school in Grant and graduated in 1939 from Grant High School. She was united in marriage...
Viola Juhler
Jan 9, 2011
Viola Ruth Juhler, 89, of Winterset, Iowa, formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, January 9, 2011, at the Winterset Care Center South in Winterset, Iowa. Viola was born May 8, 1921, in Wiota, Iowa, the daughter of Bernhard and Clara (Nagel) Eilts. She graduated from Atlantic High School with the class of 1939. Following her graduation, Viola taught...
Alan Eugene Henriksen
Jan 8, 2011
Alan Eugene Henriksen, the son of Virgil and Betty Hindman Henriksen, was born August 8, 1959, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa and died January 8, 2011, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 51 years and 5 months. Alan was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended Gray...
Michael Larsen
Jan 6, 2011
Michael Phillip Larsen was born January 27, 1955, the son of Darrel James and Agnes Monica (Muell) Larsen in Harlan, Iowa, and passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, January 6, 2011, at his home in Atlantic, Iowa. He graduated from the Harlan High School in 1974. Mike attended Iowa State University for two years where he was a member of...
Norma Larsen
Jan 6, 2011
Norma Jean Larsen, 76, of Casey, Iowa, passed away Thursday, January 6, 2011, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Jeanie was born to Nellie and Floyd Chambers on a farm in rural Adair County on March 25, 1934. She graduated from the Casey Community School in 1951 and moved to Omaha Nebraska, to attend secretarial school....
Robert Einhaus
Jan 5, 2011
Robert "Bob" G. Einhaus, 88, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, January 5, 2011, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bob was born July 1, 1922, in Hampton, Iowa, the son of John and Bertha (Heitman) Einhaus. He graduated from Hampton High with the class of 1940. Bob also served in the Untied States Army were he...
Annis Marie Zinke
Jan 4, 2011
Annis Marie Zinke, the daughter of Chris and Sena Christensen Krogh, was born April 13, 1918, at her parents home in Greeley Township, Audubon County, Iowa, and died January 4, 2011, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 92 years, 8 months and 21 days. Annis was baptized and confirmed at the Danish Lutheran Church...
Barbara Taylor
Jan 4, 2011
Barbara Louise Nottleson Taylor, 78, of Atlantic, Iowa, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, died peacefully on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, at the Cass County Hospice Center. She was born in Iola, Wisconsin, to Roy and Edith Nottleson of Scandinavia and was united in marriage to Curtis Lee Taylor of Iola on June 16, 1951. She graduated second in her class...
Ellen Patrea Rasmussen
Dec 31, 2010
Ellen Patrea Rasmussen, the daughter of Peter Thomas and Hansina Petersen Hansen, was born September 6, 1919, at her parents home in Viola Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died December 31, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 91 years, 3 months, and 25 days Ellen was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church...
Mildred Christensen
Dec 31, 2010
Mildred Rose Cameron was born at her parents' home in Menlo, Iowa, February 8, 1918, the daughter of Chester and Grace (Mills) Cameron and passed away Friday, December 31, 2010, at her home in Adair, Iowa. She lived most of her life in Guthrie County. On June 27, 1938, Mildred was married to George Edward Christensen in Greenfield, Iowa....

Ollivene M. Larsen
Dec 29, 2010
Ollivene M. Larsen, the daughter of Dewight L. and Bessie Miller Wickham, was born February 18, 1919, at her familys home in Audubon, Iowa and died December 29, 2010, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon at the age of 91 years, 10 months, and 11 days. Ollivene was baptized and confirmed at the First Methodist Church in Audubon....
Verda Paulsen
Dec 29, 2010
Verda "Bert" Mae Haszard was born July 13, 1932, in Persia, Iowa, the daughter of Merlyn Leroy and Esther Mae (Rosenbeck) Haszard and passed away Wednesday, December 29, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. Bert was a member of the Congregational United Church of Christ in Anita. She graduated from the Anita High School. On November 5, 1949,...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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