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

Scott Hockenberry

Scott Hockenberry

Apr 27, 2008

Scott A. Hockenberry, 58, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Sunday, April 27, 2008, at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Scott Allan Hockenberry was born April 8, 1950, in Atlantic, Iowa, to Donald Scott and Cora Maxine (Herrick) Hockenberry. He attended grade school in the last country school in the Atlantic area and went to Atlantic High School, graduating...

Donna Lou Toft

Donna Lou Toft

Apr 26, 2008

Donna Lou Toft, the daughter of Carl J. and Lola I. Tibben Voss was born January 22, 1933 at her parents home east of Exira, IA and died April 26, 2008 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, IA at the age of 75 years, 3 months and 4 days. Donna Lou was baptized and confirmed at St. Johns...

Lester Joe Arthur Staub

Lester Joe Arthur Staub

Apr 24, 2008

Lester Arthur Staub, the son of Arthur R. and Louisa M. Schirmer Staub was born December 19, 1916 at his parents home in Augusta, Iowa and died April 24, 2008 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 91 years, 4 months, and 5 days.      Joe was baptized and confirmed at St Marys Catholic Church in Augusta....

Erma May Rucker

Erma May Rucker

Apr 19, 2008

Erma May Rucker, the daughter of Hans and Amelia Blom Jorgensen, was born July 28, 1918 at her parents home in rural Cass County near Atlantic, Iowa and died April 19, 2008 at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 89 years, 8 months and 21 days. Erma was baptized February 1, 1919 at the Oak...

Irma Matilda Sander

Irma Matilda Sander

Apr 19, 2008

Irma Matilda Sander, the daughter of Henry and Emma Brinker Snyder, was born December 20, 1907 at her parents home in Breda, Iowa and died April 19, 2008 at the Friendship Home in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 100 years, 3 months, and 29 days.      Irma was baptized and confirmed at St. Bernards Catholic Church in Breda. She attended...

Walter Gettler

Walter Gettler

Apr 19, 2008

Walter Gettler, 84, of Greenfield, Iowa, passed away Saturday, April 19, 2008, at Greenfield Manor in Greenfield, Iowa. Walter Nelson Gettler was born on October 31, 1923, in Valley Falls, Kansas, the son of William and Mary (Mosman) Gettler. He attended country school and the Catholic Parochial School in Coon Rapids, Iowa. Walter then returned home to help on...

Dorothy Smith

Dorothy Smith

Apr 19, 2008

Dorothy I. Smith, 98, of Exira, Iowa, passed away Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the Exira Care Center in Exira. Dorothy Irene Hammontree was born on May 15, 1909, in Sheridan, Wyoming, the daughter of Andrew Ray and Beulah (Townsend) Hammontree. On March 6, 1926, she was united in marriage to Theodore Smith in Sheridan, Wyoming. In 1928, they...

Wilma Templeman

Wilma Templeman

Apr 18, 2008

Wilma Templeman, 98, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Friday, April 18, 2008, at the Allen House in Atlantic. Wilma Eleanor Smith was born June 11, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of William and Eleanor (Sawyer) Smith. She attended Technical High School in Omaha. In 1925 she was united in marriage to C. Van Harlan. They farmed in the...

Betty Anderson

Betty Anderson

Apr 18, 2008

Betty S. Anderson, 70, of Brayton, Iowa, passed away Friday, April 18, 2008, at Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn, Iowa. Betty Sue Harrell was born on February 18, 1938, in Atoka, Oklahoma, the daughter of Troy and Theresa (Salmon) Harrell. The family later moved to Texarkana, Texas, where she lived for 35 years until moving to Iowa. On...

Harold Benjamin Hoegh

Harold Benjamin Hoegh

Apr 14, 2008

Harold Benjamin Hoegh, the son of Benjamin C. and Emma Clausen Hoegh, was born May 13, 1921, at his parents home in Oakfield Township, Audubon County, Iowa and died April 14, 2008, at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn, Iowa at the age of 86 years, 11 months, and 1 day.      Harold was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in...

Delores Fleming

Delores Fleming

Apr 14, 2008

Delores Fleming went to her Heavenly Home at the age of 77, on Monday, April 14, 2008, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She was the 10th of 12 children, born December 18, 1930, to Albert and Luella Mae Gray in Thurman, Iowa. She attended Thurman schools until her graduation. On August 27, 1949, she was married...

Keith Staples

Keith Staples

Apr 13, 2008

Keith Staples the son of Charles and Francis (Bussie) Staples, was born September 9, 1931 in Cavalier, ND and died April 13, 2008, at his home in Omaha, NE at the age of 76 years, 7 months, and 4 days. Keith attended school in Cavalier and served his country in the Army during the Korean Conflict from 1952 until he...

Leroy John Obermeier

Leroy John Obermeier

Apr 13, 2008

LeRoy John Obermeier, the son of Frank and Catherine Bohlman Obermeier, was born August 21, 1931, at his parents home near Templeton, Iowa and died April 13, 2008, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of 76 years, 7 months, and 22 days. LeRoy was baptized at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Templeton and later confirmed...

Boyd Kading

Boyd Kading

Apr 12, 2008

C. Boyd Kading, 91, of Casey, Iowa, passed away Saturday, April 12, 2008, at The New Homestead in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Carl Boyd Kading was born November 6, 1916, at the family farm in Walnut Township, Adair County, Iowa, the son of Otto F. and Anna M. (Hain) Kading. Boyd grew up on the family farm and farmed his...

Leroy Peter Larsen

Leroy Peter Larsen

Apr 10, 2008

LeRoy Peter Larsen, the son of Lawrence and Margaret Hansen Larsen was born April 22, 1919 at his parents home near Elk Horn, Iowa and died April 10, 2008 at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 88 years, 11 months and 18 days. LeRoy was baptized and confirmed at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church...

Bernice Raper

Bernice Raper

Apr 9, 2008

Bernice E. Raper, 88, of Urbandale, Iowa, (formerly of Casey and Stuart, Iowa) passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at Urbandale Health and Rehabilitation Center. Bernice Ester Chase was born on August 22, 1919, in Fillmore, Iowa, the daughter of Frank and Ester Chase. When Bernice was three her mother passed away and at the age of six was...

Donald Abel

Donald Abel

Apr 8, 2008

Donald L. Abel, 71, of Walnut, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in his garden doing what he loved. Donald Lee Abel, was born March 28, 1937, at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Burl H. and Lydia B. (Smith) Abel. At his birth, the family lived in Malvern, Iowa, and upon his parent's deaths,...

Leo Wright

Leo Wright

Apr 7, 2008

Leo Wright, 86, of Casey, Iowa, passed away, Monday, April 7, 2008, at Select Specialty Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Leo L Wright was born on January 13, 1922, in Audubon County, Iowa, the son of Uri Land and Eva Helen (Goochey) Wright. He lived in Audubon County for a short time before his family moved to Guthrie County where...

Raymond Stein

Raymond Stein

Apr 5, 2008

Raymond H. Stein, 73, of Lewis, Iowa, passed away Saturday, April 5, 2008, at the Atlantic Nursing and Rehab Center in Atlantic, Iowa. Raymond Henry Stein, the son of Michael Ambrose and Isabelle Mary (Foxhoven) Stein, was born July 2, 1934, northwest of Portsmouth, Iowa, on the family farm. He attended country school through the eighth grade, later earning...

Mabel Ruth

Mabel Ruth

Apr 4, 2008

Mabel M. Ruth, 92, of Tabor, Iowa, (formerly of the Adair-Casey area) passed away, Friday, April 4, 2008, at the Tabor Manor Care Center. Mabel Marie Kading was born on September 22, 1915, the daughter of Charles and Anna (Stolk) Kading in Adair County, Iowa. She was baptized on November 14, 1915, and confirmed on April 13, 1930, at...

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