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Local obituaries for the Atlantic, Anita, Adair, Exira, and Audubon, IA areas
Dorothy Marie Nelson
Feb 4, 2010
Dorothy Marie Nelson, the daughter of Nels P. and Clara Hansen Esbeck, was born June 28, 1918, at her parents farm east of Kimballton, Iowa. Dorothy went home to be with the Lord on February 4, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 91years, 7 months, and 6 days. Dorothy was baptized and...
Paul Schaaf
Feb 1, 2010
Paul Donald Schaaf was born June 7, 1947, the son of Donald and Marcella Jeanette (Eilts) Schaaf in Atlantic, Iowa, and passed away Monday, February 1, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. He was raised on the family farm south of Wiota, attending country school, Wiota School and graduating from the Anita High School. Paul...
Betty Pedersen
Jan 28, 2010
Betty Jean Michaelsen Pedersen, 74, passed away at her home in Atlantic on Thursday, January 28, 2010. Betty, daughter of Helen Rasmussen Michaelsen and Nels Peter Michaelsen, was born on April 15, 1935, in Audubon County. At the age of three, her family moved from a farm near Exira to another farm near Viola Center. There she attended Viola...
Lola Nielsen-Weuve
Jan 28, 2010
Lola Mae Highsmith was born February 25, 1924, in State Center, Iowa, the daughter of Lewis Carl and Lilly Mae (Thornly) Highsmith, and passed away Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She attended high school in State Center, graduating in 1941. Following graduation, she attended AIB College of Business and worked at the...
Doris Bireline
Jan 26, 2010
Doris Marie Bireline of Adair, Iowa, the daughter of Carl and Minnie Wesack was born on the family farm, Northwest of Adair, Iowa, in Guthrie County, on the 4th of May, 1919. Doris passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at the age of 90, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa, where she made her home for the...
Robert Willms
Jan 24, 2010
Robert Christian "Bud" Willms, 83, was born on February 28, 1926, in Atlantic, Iowa, the son of John Henry and Ella Katrina (Markxen) Willms and died Sunday, January 24, 2010, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa. Bud was raised in Atlantic, Iowa, and graduated from Atlantic High School. Following graduation, Bud entered the United States Army. After being...
Dean Lewis
Jan 24, 2010
Dean Elias Lewis passed away January 24, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Dean was born August 16, 1914, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Harley Leroy and Susan Ann (Hughes) Lewis. In his younger years, he drove an ambulance for the University of Iowa and worked as a Driver's License Examiner prior to serving in World...
Agnes Johnson
Jan 21, 2010
Agnes Lindblom Johnson was born on a farm between Anita and Wiota on August 16, 1909, the daughter of Oscar and Flossie (Hill) Lindblom, and passed away Thursday, January 21, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. When Agnes was two years old, her parents moved with her and her older bother, Glen, to Anita. Agnes attended school in...
Lois Janet Schmidt
Jan 20, 2010
Lois Janet Schmidt, the youngest child of Percy and Hazel F. Dewey Blair, was born April 29, 1934 in Bosworth, Missouri and died January 20, 2010 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 75 years, 8 months, and 21 days. Lois was one of four children having two sisters and one brother. Her family...
James Weitzel
Jan 20, 2010
James Eldon Weitzel was born November 10, 1931, the son of Harry Edward and Evelyn Bernice (Nelson) Weitzel in Atlantic, Iowa, and passed away Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Jim was a life long Atlantic resident, graduating from Atlantic High School in 1949. On July 23, 1952, Jim was united in marriage with Ruth...
Curtis R. Petersen
Jan 19, 2010
Curtis Ray Petersen, the son of Raymond Leonard and IdaMae Hansen Petersen, was born June 20, 1943, in Audubon, Iowa and died January 19, 2010, at St. Anthonys Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa at the age of 66 years, 6 months, and 29 days. Curtis was baptized and confirmed at the Exira Lutheran Church in Exira, Iowa. He attended rural...
Thelma Minkner
Jan 18, 2010
Thelma Estella (Krumm) Minkner was born December 15, 1918, the daughter of George Martin and Bertha Sophia (Huss) Krumm in Chamberlin, South Dakota. She passed away Monday, January 18, 2010, at the Millard Good Samaritan Home in Millard, Nebraska. The family moved to Adair when Thelma was young. She went to school in Adair graduating from Adair High School...
Charles Arthur Goeken
Jan 17, 2010
Charles Arthur Goeken, the son of Arthur G. and Jessie Polkingharn Goeken, was born June 11, 1922, at his parents home in Cass County near Marne, Iowa and died January 17, 2010 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 87 years, 7 months, and 6 days. Charlie was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in...
Luther Gillett
Jan 16, 2010
Luther Henry Gillett was born March 10, 1921, in a farm house north of Atlantic, Iowa, the son of Lester Henry and Martha Belle (Bragg) Gillett and passed away Saturday, January 16, 2010, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Luther's family moved into Atlantic, at 905 Linn Street, where he lived with his parents and two sisters,...
Louis William Dreher
Jan 12, 2010
Louis William Dreher, the son of Emil and Eda Rathkamp Dreher, was born April 10, 1921, at his parents home north of Audubon, Iowa and died January 12, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon at the age of 88 years, 9 months, and 2 days. Louis was baptized and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. He attended rural school,...
Roger Christensen
Jan 11, 2010
Roger L. Christensen, 61, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, formerly of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away at his home on Monday, January 11, 2010. Roger Lean Christensen was born June 22, 1948, in Atlantic, Iowa, to Alfred Lean and Rosie Olive (Harmsen) Christensen. He attended school in Atlantic graduating from the Atlantic High School. After his first son was born he...
Cheever Tuffin
Jan 10, 2010
Cheever Tuffin, 88, of Casey, Iowa, passed away January 10, 2010, at the Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, Hope Harbor, in Storm Lake, Iowa. Cheever Lowell Tuffin was born May 9, 1921, in Guthrie County, Iowa, the son of Wendell Cheever and Mary Myrtle (Johnson) Tuffin. He was a life time resident of Guthrie County, Iowa, attending rural schools...
Margaret Jahn-Nielsen
Jan 10, 2010
Margaret Jahn-Nielsen was born Margaret Ann Pratt in Moorhead, Iowa, the second of seven children of Earl and Edith (Shoff) Pratt. Friends and family fondly recall her many stories of growing up and attending school in that small, western Iowa town. In 1943, she married Edwin C. Jahn of nearby Ute, Iowa, and the young couple headed to California,...
Robert Clausen
Jan 8, 2010
Robert LeRoy Clausen was born March 12, 1923, southeast of Brayton, Iowa, the son of Albert and Florence (Nelson) Clausen and passed away Friday, January, 8, 2010, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. He attended country schools in Cass and Audubon Counties, and graduated from Exira High School. On April 12, 1946, Robert married Leona Mable Kahl at the...
Leona Christina Rubel
Jan 5, 2010
Leona Christine Rubel, the daughter of John and Anna Marie Juel Lykke, was born September 19, 1911, east of Kimballton, Iowa and died January 5, 2010, at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 98 years, 3 months and 17 days. Leona was baptized at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton, Iowa and confirmed at the Hamlin...
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