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Roy Ellerhoff
Aug 24, 2008
Roy Ervin Ellerhoff, 81, of Tipton, Iowa, passed away on Sunday, August 24, 2008. Roy was born February 7, 1927, to Ervin and Charlene (Pfeifer) Ellerhoff in Burlington, Iowa. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1944, where he had been president of the Radio Club and a member of the National Honor Society. He married Eldora Sophia Jipp...
Herbert Hoover
Aug 23, 2008
Herbert Hoover, 79, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Saturday, August 23, 2008, at Avoca Nursing and Rehab Center in Avoca, Iowa. Herbert Raymond Hoover was born June 28, 1929, in Walnut, Iowa, the son of Raymond Eldon and Pauline Gertrude (Pross) Hoover. His early childhood was spent in Marne, Iowa, where he attended school; then the family moved to...
Richard Jerome Jorgensen
Aug 20, 2008
Richard Jerome Jorgensen, the son of Harvey and Lydia Ulven Jorgensen, was born August 26, 1942 in Carroll, Iowa and died August 20, 2008 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 65 years, 11 months and 24 days. Richard was baptized October 11, 1942 and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended rural...
Gary Hulsebus
Aug 19, 2008
Gary Hulsebus, 63, of Lewis, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, August 19, 2008, at his home. Gary Lee Hulsebus was born December 28, 1944, at home on the farm southeast of Lewis, Iowa, the son of Merlin Fay and Theone Maxine (McCullough) Hulsebus. He grew up on the farm and went to school in Griswold where he played basketball and...
Alfred Minter Potter
Aug 14, 2008
Alfred Minter Potter, the son of Alfred Henry and Nellie Eliza Stogdill Potter, was born August 16, 1933, in Council Bluffs, Iowa and passed on August 14, 2008, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 74 years, 11 months, and 28 days. After Alfreds mother passed away, Alfred, his brother and sister moved to the USA Christian...
Marvin Jensen Johnson
Aug 14, 2008
Marvin Jensen Johnson, the son of Harry and Daisy Jensen Johnson, was born December 4, 1921 at his parents home in Cass County near Anita, Iowa and died at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 8 months, and 10 days. Â Â Â Â Â Marvin was baptized June 24, 1926 at the Exira Lutheran Church. He attended rural...
Clara Mcclure
Aug 13, 2008
Clara Louise Rolston McClure, 77, of Anita, Iowa, died quietly at home on Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Clara Louise Rolston McClure was born April 19, 1931, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only daughter of Ida Frances (Robinson) Rolston and Harold Leland Rolston and step-daughter of Edwin W. Griste. She was baptized in the Christian Church in Unionville, Missouri. Louise...
Kenneth Lebeck
Aug 11, 2008
Kenneth E. Lebeck, 62, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, August 11, 2008, at the Exira Care Center, Exira, Iowa. Kenneth Eugene Lebeck was born July 18, 1946, in Audubon County, Iowa, the son of Edward and Mary Jane (Potter) Lebeck. He spent his entire childhood in Audubon, attended school there and graduated from Audubon High in 1964. Kenny...
Vyrle Devoss
Aug 2, 2008
Vyrle L. DeVoss, 92, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away on August 2, 2008, at the Allen House in Atlantic. Vyrle was born the son of Ralph and Ruth (Westerlund) DeVoss on December 5, 1915, on their farm near Morton Mills, Iowa. He grew up with this two brothers George and Dean and a sister, Vernita, on the family farm....
Robert Artlip
Aug 1, 2008
Robert "Bob" Artlip, 72, of Elliott, Iowa, passed away Friday, August 1, 2008, at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, after a brief illness. Robert Glen Artlip was born on July 20, 1936, in Elliott, Iowa, the son of Delbert and Doris Artlip. On December 17, 1956, he married the love of his life, Sharen Cable, at the...
Fred Nmi Cole
Jul 31, 2008
Fred Cole, the son of Fred Harris and Cecille Lucille Beal Cole, was born June 2, 1926, in Kansas City, Missouri and died July 31, 2008, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 82 years, 1 month, and 29 days. Fred was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. He attended school in Lewis, Iowa and then...
Donald Karns
Jul 31, 2008
Donald Cloyd Karns, 75, a longtime Anita resident, businessman, community and civic leader, died Thursday, July 31, 2008. Don was born October 30, 1932, in Adair, Iowa. Don was the younger of two children of Cloyd and Irene (Gipple) Karns. The family moved to Missouri in 1935; Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1937; and returned to Adair County in August 1943,...
Johnnie Dale Swensen
Jul 29, 2008
John Dale Swensen, the son of LaVern Henry and Jeanette Lois Jensen Swensen, was born December 10, 1953, in Audubon, Iowa and died July 29, 2008, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 54 years, 7 months, and 19 days. John was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended...
Linda Marie Paulsen
Jul 29, 2008
Linda Marie Paulsen, the daughter of Harry Walter and Eleanor Mary Hoch McAllister, was born September 1, 1949, in Chariton, Iowa and died July 29, 2008, at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa at the age of 58 years, 10 months, and 28 days. Linda was baptized and confirmed at Sacred Heart Church in Melcher,...
Richard Sherman
Jul 27, 2008
Richard L. Sherman, 59, of Casey, Iowa, passed away Sunday, July 27, 2008, at Colonial Manor in Anita, Iowa. Richard Lloyd Sherman was born January 28, 1949, in Creston, Iowa, the son of Lloyd George and Lorna Ima (Weber) Sherman. He grew up on his parents' farm outside of Casey and continued to live in the Casey area his...
Roy Samuel Lawson
Jul 24, 2008
Roy Samuel Lawson, the son of Samuel and Hazel Anderson Lawson, was born May 13, 1929, at his parents home in Cameron Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died July 24, 2008, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 79 years, 2 months, and 11 days. Sam was baptized and confirmed at the Gray Methodist...
Richard Hemmingsen
Jul 23, 2008
Richard Hemmingsen, 72, of Marne, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at his home. Richard was born on April 24, 1936, at his parents' home southeast of Elk Horn in Shelby County, Iowa. He was the son of Peter and Elsie (Peterson) Hemmingsen. Peter and Elsie were Danish immigrants moving from Mon, Denmark, to New York in 1928,...
Ruby Ernestine Heath
Jul 20, 2008
Ruby E. Heath, the daughter of Edward J. and Ida S. Jacobsen Wahlert, was born March 8, 1910, at her parents home east of Exira, Audubon Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died July 20, 2008, at the Exira Care Center in Exira at the age of 98 years, 4 months, and 12 days. Â Â Â Â Ruby was baptized at the Exira Christian...
Orville Tibben
Jul 20, 2008
Orville F. Tibben, 84, of Anita, Iowa, passed away Sunday, July 20, 2008, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. Orville Fredrick Tibben was born on July 29, 1923, in Audubon County, Iowa, the son of John (Fred) Fredrick and Clara Wilhelmina (Hocamp) Tibben. He was baptized at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guthrie County, Iowa,...
Curtis Dale Schrock
Jul 18, 2008
Curtis Dale Schrock, the son of Walter and Alice Jurgens Schrock, was born February 6, 1955, in Audubon, Iowa and died July 18, 2008, at his home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 53 years, 5 months, and 12 days.     Curtis was baptized and confirmed at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Audubon. He attended Audubon Community Schools, graduating with...
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