Obituaries

Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Wanda Holly Flathers

Wanda Holly Flathers

Nov 13, 2010

Wanda Holly Flathers, the daughter of Louis and Annette Juhl Bengard, was born November 8, 1922, at her parents home in rural Audubon County near Exira, Iowa, and died November 13, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 88 years and 5 days. Wanda attended the Exira Community Schools graduating with the High...

Beverly Uhlman

Beverly Uhlman

Nov 10, 2010

Beverly J. Uhlman, 74, of Adair, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at the New Homestead in Guthrie Center. Beverly Joanne Uhlman was born February 27, 1936, in Guthrie County, Iowa, to Otis E. and Ruth I. (Moreland) Leib. She attended school at the Guthrie Center Community Schools graduating in 1953. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran...

Allen Leroy Oakley, Jr.

Allen Leroy Oakley, Jr.

Nov 8, 2010

Allen LeRoy Oakley, Jr., the son of Allen LeRoy Oakley, Sr. and Janice Crees Oakley, was born July 2, 1958, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and died November 8, 2010, at The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 52 years, 4 months, and 6 days. Allen was baptized at the First Christian Church in Audubon, Iowa. He...

Donna Beauchamp

Donna Beauchamp

Nov 6, 2010

Donna Mae Beauchamp was born May 11, 1932, the daughter of Rolland R. and Sophie Olivia (Miller) Richter in Blair, Nebraska, and passed away on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. She graduated from high school in Blair, Nebraska. After graduation, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where she worked as a secretary for...

Richard Hamlin Carter

Richard Hamlin Carter

Nov 5, 2010

Richard Hamlin Carter, the son of Henry Montgomery Carter and Delphine Ida Mae Hamlin Carter, was born May 21, 1919 in Greeley Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa November 5, 2010 at the age of 91 years, 5 months, and 14 days. Richard was raised on his parents farm in Hamlin Township north...

Darryl Lee Alff

Darryl Lee Alff

Nov 5, 2010

Darryl Lee Alff, the son of Reinhold Edward and Florence Edna Ping Alff, was born March 8, 1941, at his parents home in Silver City, Iowa and died November 5, 2010, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 69 years, 7 months, and 27 days. Darryl was confirmed April 30 1955 at the Zion Lutheran Church in...

Jayne Henrich

Jayne Henrich

Nov 4, 2010

Jayne Henrich, the daughter of Urban and Helen Jayne Henrich, was born August 5, 1955, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and died November 4, 2010, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 55 years, 2 months, and 29 days. Jayne was baptized at the Sioux Falls Christian Church. She attended Sioux Falls Community Schools...

Gladys Leona Schwenneker

Gladys Leona Schwenneker

Nov 3, 2010

Gladys Leona Schwenneker, the daughter of John Henry and Anna Marie Dorthea Anderson Hocamp, was born July 23, 1914, at her parents home in Audubon Township, Audubon County southeast of Exira, Iowa and died November 3, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 96 years, 3 months, and 10 days. Gladys was baptized and...