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Rev. Flugstad
Apr 7, 2010
Rev. Luther M. Flugstad, 83, of Adair, Iowa, (and formerly of Palmyra, NE) died Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at his home in Adair. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Monday, April 12, 2010, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Adair, with the Rev. Ray Holmquist officiating. Visitation with family present will be Sunday, April 11, 2010, from 2:00 - 4:00...
Stanley Craig Worster
Apr 6, 2010
Stanley Craig Worster, the son of Paul C. and Norma J. Bruun Worster, was born November 7, 1951, at the St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa and died April 6, 2010, at his home in Denver, Colorado at the age of 58 years, 4 months, and 29 days. Stan was baptized April 13, 1951, and confirmed April 11, 1965,...
Delma Harris
Apr 5, 2010
Delma Mary Ferguson was born on a farm near Mitchell, South Dakota on March 8, 1923 to John William and Lessie Ruth (Clapsaddle) Ferguson. She passed away on April 5, 2010, at her home north of Atlantic where she farmed with her husband, Lyle, and where they raised their three sons. Delma moved to Iowa with her family in...
Carlton (Moss) Leander Jensen
Apr 3, 2010
Carlton (Moss) Leander Jensen, the son of Carl and Elizabeth Leander Jensen, was born October 13, 1925, in Brayton, Iowa, and died April 3, 2010, at the Exira Care Center at the age of 84 years, 5 months and 21 days. Carlton attended rural schools in Oakfield. Moss didnt have a lot of schooling but learned a lot from life...
Sidney Vernal Christiansen
Mar 30, 2010
Sidney Vernal Christiansen, the son of Lars J. and Amalie Jeppesen Christiansen, was born December 11, 1922, near Kimballton, Iowa and died March 30, 2010, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 3 months and 19 days. Sid was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton. He attended parochial school in Kimballton, rural...
Marie Schafer
Mar 30, 2010
Marie (Eberl) Schafer passed away March 30, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa, at the age of 92 years. She was born in Omaha on June 8, 1917, the daughter of Charles and Anne (Formanek) Eberl. Her mother died of pneumonia when Marie was four years old, after which she and her sister Anne moved to Lindsay,...
Billy Ray Bolin
Mar 29, 2010
Billy Ray Bolin, the son of John Curtis and America Odessa Ballew Bolin, was born July 31, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas and died March 29, 2010, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 55 years, 7 months, and 28 days. Billy was baptized at the Pentecostal Church in Lake City, Arkansas. He attended Bay...
Gary William Santee, Sr.
Mar 29, 2010
Gary William Santee Sr., the son of John and Loretta Leeper Santee, was born April 26, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska and died March 29, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 65 years, 11 months, and 3 days. Gary attended Omaha Public Schools and Tech High School in Omaha. He was employed as...
Louis Lemke
Mar 22, 2010
Louis E. Lemke, 89, of Des Moines, Iowa and formerly of Casey, Iowa, passed away Monday, March 22, 2010, at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa of natural causes after a short illness. Louis E. Lemke was born April 23, 1920, in Casey, Iowa to August and Maria (Krause) Lemke. He was raised in Casey and attended Casey...
John Donald Tibben
Mar 21, 2010
John Donald Tibben, the son of Frank and Lillian Crees Tibben, was born November 9, 1912, at his Grandmother Tibbens home east of Exira, Iowa in Audubon Township, Audubon County and died March 21, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira at the age of 97 years, 4 months, and 12 days. Don was baptized at his Grandmothers home...
Edward Ruggles
Mar 18, 2010
Edward Elihu Ruggles, 96, of Marshalltown, Iowa, passed away Thursday March 18, 2010, at the Iowa Veterans home in Marshalltown Iowa. Edward was born August 27, 1913, in Roscoe, South Dakota, the son of William Garfield and Lillian (Stephenson) Ruggles. He graduated from Anita High School in 1930. Ed worked for the CCC during the depression and joined the...
Lyle Scholl
Mar 16, 2010
Lyle Joseph Scholl, 93, died Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. Lyle was born to Fred and Alta (Gissibl) Scholl on a farm south of Anita. Lyle, his brother Leo, and their father were classic German yeoman farmers their entire working careers. Lyle loved his popping John Deere tractors, loved watching hungry cattle lined...
Eleonora Petersen
Mar 15, 2010
Eleonora Katharine Marie Fett was born March 1, 1916 on a farm northwest of Adair, Iowa. She was the first-born child of Fred W. Fett and Mary J. (Vokt) Fett. Eleonora was baptized on March 26, 1916 at the home of her parents by Pastor A. H. Duletzki of St. John's Lutheran Church northwest of Adair. Her baptismal sponsors...
Ronald Butler
Mar 10, 2010
Ronald Lee Butler, 69, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Ronald was born August 11, 1940, in Lewis, Iowa, to Robert and Maxine (Marxen) Butler. He was raised in Lewis until his family moved to Atlantic when he was in the 6th grade. He...
D. Kuester
Mar 10, 2010
D. Evangeline (Carlton) Kuester was born on May 13, 1919, to Edward F. and Madeline (Sheley) Carlton. D. Evangeline Kuester passed away peacefully at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Evange grew up in Anita graduating from the Anita High School in 1936. She had various jobs and enjoyed helping her dad farm. On March...
Aletha Miller
Mar 8, 2010
Aletha Lucille Eilts was born on December 25, 1926, on the family farm in the rural Wiota area, the daughter of Henry William and Emilie Augusta Anna (Brauer) Eilts and passed away Monday, March 8, 2010, of pancreatic cancer at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She attended country school and Cumberland schools, graduating from Cumberland High...
Michael Ericksen
Mar 7, 2010
Michael Allen Ericksen was born January 5, 1983, in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, the son of Roger Allen and Linda Louise (Kent) Ericksen and passed away Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, IA. He was baptized at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church in Elk Horn, Iowa. During his childhood, Mike lived in Clarinda,...
Marcella Christensen
Mar 5, 2010
Marcella Mae Christensen, 79, of Atlantic, Iowa, and formerly of Anita, Iowa, passed away Friday, March 5, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Marcella was born December 23, 1930, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Henry and Hazel (Leopold) Little. Marcella was raised in Lincoln and attended school until the ninth grade. She later met and married Willis Merritt and moved...
Emily Eden
Mar 3, 2010
Emily Elizabeth Eden of Anita, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Emily was born December 22, 1979, to Steven and Dana (Blazek) Eden in Atlantic, Iowa. She was baptized and was a member of the Anita Congregational United Church of Christ. During her school days in Anita she was in FFA showing animals...
Kenneth Viether
Mar 1, 2010
Kenneth Henry Viether, 91, formerly of Marne, Iowa, was born November 30, 1918, in Kimball, Nebraska, the son of Henry and Della (Timm) Viether and died Monday, March 1, 2010, at the West Bridge Care and Rehabilitation in Winterset, Iowa. Kenny's family moved to Rock Island, Illinois, when he was a child, where he attended school until the eleventh...
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