Schmidt Family Funeral Home Obituaries

William Eyberg

Nov 16, 2020

William (Gene) Eugene Eyberg, a good man, was born on October 31, 1927, to Roy G. and Frances J. Eyberg in rural Union County, Iowa. Gene left us on November 16, 2020. He attended Arispe Consolidated School and graduated in 1945. Gene attended the ASTRP program at South Dakota State as an Army Reservist in 1945 and...

Joyce Hinkel

Nov 11, 2020

Joyce A. Hinkel, 70, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 11, 2020, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic.

Joyce Ann Hinkel was born January 8, 1950, to Robert and Dorothy (Marnin) Tibben in Audubon, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church near Adair, Iowa.

She attended...

Doris Faye Stenstrom Richards

Nov 9, 2020

Doris Faye Stenstrom Richards, the daughter of Raymond and Maude (Gymer) Storm, was born May 17, 1927, in Storm Lake, Iowa and died November 9, 2020, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa at the age of 93 years, 5 months, and 23 days. Doris was baptized as an adult at the Coon Rapids Christian Church in Coon...

Robert "Bob" John Monahan

Nov 8, 2020

Robert “Bob” John Monahan, the son of Lyle and Eleanor (Coleman) Monahan, was born December 16, 1955, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa and died November 8, 2020, at the Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 64 years, 10 months, and 22 days. Bob was baptized and...

Genevieve Meyer

Nov 8, 2020

Genevieve Christina Meyer, who was born to Clarence and Anna K. Foster on October 17, 1924, in Atlantic, IA, gained her angel wings on November 8, 2020, at Atlantic Specialty Care in Atlantic, IA.

Genevieve, who many lovingly know as Jenny, attended Wiota Consolidated School and was a member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church,...

John Lee Hansen

Nov 5, 2020

John Lee Hansen, the son of John Christian Marinus and Jenasena (Mann) Hansen, was born October 14, 1929, at his parents’ home in rural Audubon County near Viola, Iowa, and died November 5, 2020, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa, at the age of 91 years and 26 days. John was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s...

Marion Lee Sorensen

Nov 5, 2020

Marion Lee Sorensen, the son of Viggo and Blanche (Bicking) Sorensen, was born May 10, 1932, in rural Bridgewater, Iowa and died November 5, 2020, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 88 years, 5 months, and 25 days. Marion was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Cumberland, Iowa. He attended rural schools in...

Dallas Laverne Munch

Nov 4, 2020

Dallas LaVerne Munch, the son of Jens Peter and Sena (Larsen) Munch, was born February 19, 1929, at his parents’ farm west of Exira, Iowa, and died November 4, 2020, at the Exira Care Center in Exira at the age of 91 years, 8 months, and 15 days. Dallas was baptized on April 17, 1932, at Bethany Lutheran Church in...

John Sampson

Nov 4, 2020

John Walter Sampson, the son of LeRoy and Edna Sampson was born April 22, 1940, in Westside Iowa. He was the third son out of 11 children. He attended country school until the family moved to Walnut, Iowa. He was in the 7th grade and continued to attend school until he graduated in 1958. During school and...

Helen Petersen

Nov 4, 2020

Helen M. Petersen, 98, of Elk Horn, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn.

Helen Marie was born June 22, 1922, in Elk Horn, Iowa, to Hans and Freda (Larsen) Petersen. She graduated from high school and went to nurses training in Marshalltown with her sister Alice. She...

Evelyn Martin

Nov 3, 2020

Evelyn Jean Martin, 94, of Des Moines, Iowa, and formerly of Casey, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa.

Evelyn's wishes were to have a private family burial in Dalmanutha Cemetery north of Casey, Iowa. No other services are planned.

Ferne Lorraine Curry

Nov 2, 2020

Ferne Lorraine Curry (née Schlater), age 94, of Exira, passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2020 at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa, just two weeks shy of her 95th birthday. Services will include a visitation to be held at Kessler's Funeral Home in Exira on Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., followed by a graveside...

Dale Nelson

Nov 2, 2020

Dale Manvel Nelson, 87, of rural Brayton, Iowa, passed away Monday, November 2, 2020, at the Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa.

Dale Manvel Nelson, son of Manvel and Lydia (Marcusen) Nelson, was born July 31, 1933 in San Juan Capistrano, (Orange County), California.

He attended grade school in Audubon, Country School Jackson #6,...

Darrell Dee Schroeter

Nov 1, 2020

Darrell Dee Schroeter, the son of Louis and Harriet (Winther) Schroeter, was born June 6, 1939, at St. Anthony’s Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa and died November 1, 2020, at the Exira Care Center in Exira, Iowa at the age of 81 years, 4 months, and 26 days. Darrell attended rural schools in Douglas Township west of Audubon, Iowa and...

Donald Peterson

Oct 30, 2020

Donald Oscar Peterson, age 90, died October 30, 2020, at Atlantic Specialty Care due to complications from Cornavirus. Don was born September 24, 1930, in Atlantic, Iowa, to Oscar and Edna (Anderson) Peterson.

Don graduated from Atlantic High School. He married Barbara Roden Bell on May 20, 1952, and they were united in marriage for...

Steven Arthur Christensen

Oct 29, 2020

Steven Arthur Christensen, the son of Arthur and LaVonne (Christensen) Christensen, was born April 16, 1953, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, Iowa and died October 29, 2020, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital at the age of 67 years, 6 months, and 13 days. Steve was baptized and confirmed at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton, Iowa....

Marcella Gaines

Oct 28, 2020

Marcella Ann Gaines, 81, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, October 28, 2020, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic.

Marcella was born September 16, 1939, in Dannevirke, Nebraska, to Axel and Martha (Kyhn) Pedersen. She attended school in Atlantic graduating from the Atlantic High School. She married Jon L. Jordan in 1956. Then...

Tracey Long

Oct 27, 2020

Tracey Long, 52, of Wiota, passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at her home in rural Wiota, Iowa.

Cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time.

Hockenberry Family Care is in charge of the arrangements.

Dale Haupert

Oct 26, 2020

Dale Leo Haupert, 76, from Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Monday, October 26, 2020, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Dale was born June 22, 1944, in Alton, Iowa, to Jacob and Hilda (Pottebaum) Haupert. He grew up in Alton graduating from St. Mary’s High School. He lived in LeMars, Iowa, prior to moving...

Jim "Cricket" Crawley

Oct 25, 2020

James “Cricket” Monroe Crawley, son of Harley Jesse and Edna Mae (Young) Crawley, was born on September 19, 1957 in Audubon, Iowa, and died October 25, 2020 at his home in Hamlin, Iowa, at the age of 63 years, 1 month, and 6 days. Jim was baptized and confirmed at the Brayton Lutheran Church in Brayton, Iowa. He attended school...