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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Melvin Lee Petersen, Sr.
May 25, 2010
Melvin Lee Petersen, Sr., the son of Peter L. and Ida Kyhnn Petersen, was born May 18, 1934, at his parents home northwest of Exira, Iowa and died May 25, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 76 years and 7 days. Melvin was baptized and confirmed at the Hamlin Lutheran Church...
Lois Kay Bruch
May 23, 2010
Lois Kay Bruch, the daughter of John I. and Loretta Renze Schultes, was born May 28, 1944, in Carroll, Iowa and died May 23, 2010, at the Manning Regional Health Care Center in Manning, Iowa at the age of 65 years, 11 months and 25 days. Lois was baptized and confirmed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Templeton, Iowa. Lois...

Della Lou Brubaker
May 21, 2010
Della Lou Brubaker, the daughter of William and Pauline Persol Fulbright, was born May 17, 1933, in Long Beach, California and died May 21, 2010, at her home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 77 years and 4 days Della Lou was baptized and confirmed at a Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma. She attended grade school in Oklahoma then graduated...
Thomas Edward Young
May 20, 2010
Thomas Edward Young, the son of Ernest and Doris Mitchell Young, was born November 22, 1926, at his parents home near Viola Center, Iowa and died May 20, 2010, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 83 years, 5 months, and 28 days. Tom was baptized as an infant and later confirmed at the...
Michael Hendrie
May 18, 2010
Michael John Hendrie was born July 10, 1953, the son of Alistair James and Joyce (Hallam) Hendrie in Ilfracombe, Devon, Great Britain, and passed away Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at his home in Casey, Iowa. Mike attended primary school in Marwood and secondary school in Biddesford, completing his education in Chumleigh, Great Britain. He entered the British Army at...
Sharlene Burmeister
May 18, 2010
Sharlene Marie Baier was born May 23, 1936, the daughter of Harold William and Agnes Catherine (Welsch) Baier in Adair County, Iowa, and passed away Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita. Sharlene lived in Cass County her entire life and attended Jackson Township School. On October 5, 1951, she married Cleo Wayne Burmeister at St. Patrick's...
Harold Wilson
May 16, 2010
Harold L. Wilson, 91, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, May 16, 2010, at Atlantic Nursing and Rehab. Harold Leo Wilson was born September 16, 1918, in Anita, Iowa, to Albert L. and Pluma (Cambridge) Wilson. Harold attended schools in Anita, Country School in Cass County and Norway Center south of Wiota. He lived his entire life in Cass...
Lavern Peter Paulsen
May 15, 2010
LaVern Peter Paulsen, the son of Hans Peter and Alma Jensen Paulsen, was born April 28, 1923, at his parents home in Sharon Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died May 15, 2010, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 87 years and 17 days. LaVern was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church...
Mildred Mary Martin
May 15, 2010
Mildred Mary Martin, the daughter of John (Jack) L. and Goldie E. Mueller Murray, was born June 2, 1924, at her parents home in Audubon County near Sharon, Iowa, and died May 15, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 85 years, 11 months, and 13 days. Mildred was baptized and confirmed at St....
Betty Carlene Coglon
May 13, 2010
Betty Carlene Coglon, the daughter of Douglas and Lola Maye Golaway Landrum, was born October 23, 1939, in Clovis, New Mexico and died May 13, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 70 years, 6 months, and 20 days. Betty accepted Christ in her heart at the age of five. She attended...
Max Stephenson
May 13, 2010
Max Lawrence Stephenson, 86, lifelong resident of Adair and Cass county, passed away on May 13, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Max was born on March 7, 1924, in Adair County, on the Stephenson family farm. He was born to Avery and Erma (Marsh) Stephenson. Max attended country school in Adair County through the eighth grade. He...
Larry Marxen
May 13, 2010
Larry Lee Marxen, 71, of Walnut, Iowa, passed away Thursday, May 13, 2010, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 17, 2010, at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic, Iowa. Visitation with family will be from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 16, 2010, at Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic. Burial...
Mary Werth
May 11, 2010
Mary (Jean) Virjean Werth, 90, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn, Iowa. Jean was born October 22, 1919, in Casey, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Estella (Betts) Cameron. She grew up and attended rural schools in the Casey and Menlo areas. She attended Menlo High School and...
Lynda Mcvey
May 11, 2010
Lynda Lorene Vairo was born September 11, 1966, the daughter of Eddie Ray and Linda Kay (Celander) Vairo in Chariton, Iowa, and passed away Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She grew up in Williamson and Chariton, Iowa, graduating from Chariton High School in 1985. On February 23, 2004, she was united in...
Beulah Miller
May 10, 2010
Beulah P. Miller, 94, of Sun City West, Arizona and formerly of Lewis, Iowa, passed away Thursday, May 10, 2010, at Hospice of the Valley in Surprise, Arizona, with her family at her side. Beulah Pearl Biggs was born to Royce and Grace Biggs January 26, 1916, on a farm near Emmetsburg, Iowa. In 1918 her family moved to...
Peggy Lucille Zajicek
May 5, 2010
Alice Peggy Lucille Zajicek, the daughter of Roy and Nina Rundle Winget, was born July 9, 1923, at her parents home in Wentworth, South Dakota and died May 5, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 9 months, and 26 days. Peggy was baptized in 1926 and confirmed in 1935 at the Presbyterian...
Merrilyn Olsen
May 5, 2010
Merrilyn Olsen, the daughter of F.M. and Helen Voss Northup, was born March 27, 1933, in Des Moines, Iowa and died May 5, 2010, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 77 years, 1 month, and 18 days. Merrilyn was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in Audubon. She attended Audubon Community Schools...
Carl Kirkpatrick
May 5, 2010
Carl Reed Kirkpatrick born October 23, 1919, in Guthrie County, Iowa, to Eugene and Elsie Irene (Caltrider) Kirkpatrick and passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2010, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center, Iowa. He was a life long Guthrie County resident, graduating from Casey High School in 1938. As a teenager, Carl worked as a milkman with his...
Leroy Merk
May 3, 2010
LeRoy Roger Merk was born the son of Raymond and Mary (Koenig) Merk on November 4, 1933, in Audubon, Iowa, and passed away May 3, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa. He lived in Audubon County his entire life, attending Audubon High School graduating with the Class of 1951. After high school, LeRoy spent a few years...
Alverta Helen Hansen
May 1, 2010
Alverta Helen Hansen, the daughter of Amiel and Hulda Fries Troll, was born February 10, 1917, at her parents home north of Walnut, Iowa and died May 1, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 93 years, 2 months, and 19 days. She attended rural school, Monroe #5 in Shelby County, Iowa. After school, she...
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