Obituaries

Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

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

Gary William Santee, Sr.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

D. Kuester

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...

Ronald Butler

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...

Aletha Miller

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

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

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

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

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...

Clair William Huff

Clair William Huff

Feb 25, 2010

Clair William Huff, the son of Wilson and Nellie Rumelhart Huff, was born February 23, 1912, at his parents home in Audubon Township, Audubon County, southeast of Exira, Iowa and died February 25, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 98 years and 2 days. Clair was baptized at the Adair United Methodist Church...

Lois Kommes

Lois Kommes

Feb 21, 2010

Lois Marie Bengard, the second of ten children of Lou C. and Annette (Juhl) Bengard was born January 26, 1920, on a farm south of Exira on the Audubon - Cass County line and passed away on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa. She received her religious training at the Exira Christian Church....

Robert Wood

Robert Wood

Feb 19, 2010

Robert A. Wood, 63, died on Friday, February 19, 2010, at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa, after a nine year battle with cancer. He was born January 16, 1947, in Adair, Iowa, to Bernard an Adabelle Wood. He was a 1965 graduate of Atlantic High School and 1969 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University. He moved to Walnut,...

Suzan Kennedy

Suzan Kennedy

Feb 19, 2010

Suzan Kay Hummon was born May 3, 1951, the daughter of Alan Dwight and Elizabeth Anne (Sherpie) Hummon in Omaha, Nebraska, and passed away Friday, February 19, 2010, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Suzan grew up in Merritt Island, Florida, and graduated from Merritt Island High School in 1969. On December 15, 1972, she...

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen

Feb 15, 2010

Rosa Elizabeth Christensen, the daughter of Homer Floyd and Metta Mary Petersen Elsberry, was born April 27, 1921, at her parents home west of Audubon, Iowa and died February 15, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 88 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Rosa was baptized and confirmed at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lincoln...

Joan Johnson

Joan Johnson

Feb 15, 2010

Joan Marie Shepherd Johnson of Corning, Iowa, peacefully passed away February 15, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She was born December 7, 1960, in Fargo, North Dakota, the daughter of Roger and Leora Pollock Shepherd. She lived in Salem, Oregon, until moving with her family to Cumberland, Iowa, in 1975. She attended C&M School...

Randy Parrott

Randy Parrott

Feb 9, 2010

Randy Parrott, 58, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa. Randy Lynn Parrott was born July 19, 1951, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Tuffy and Jean (Harper) Parrott. He attended Atlantic schools and graduated with the class of 1969. On August 25, 1973, Randy married Marie Nilson in Atlantic,...