Gifford F. Knapp, 88, of DeSoto, Kansas, went home to be with the Lord on March 16, 2011 and was reunited with Evelyn, his wife of over 65 years.

Naomi Bryant, daughter of Kenneth Burl (KB) and Ethel (Onstot) Scott, was born September 5, 1914 on the family farm west of Beaconsfield, Iowa. She became a resident of the Mount Ayr Health Care Center and passed away on March 16, 2011 at the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr.

   Lawrence Ivan Kilgore, son of Zenas and Eunice White Kilgore, was born May 30, 1928 at home north of Diagonal, Iowa. He passed away March 2, 2011 after a short stay in the Creston Nursing & Rehab Center.

Louise Patricia “Pat” Eagan Johnson was born February 24, 1924, the third daughter and seventh of 12 children to Cornelius Joseph “Con” and Helen May “Nell” (Fagan) Eagan in rural Adair county, Iowa.

She died March 3, 2011 at the Clearview Nursing Home in Mount Ayr, (Ringgold county), Iowa after a short bout of cancer.

  Louis Clayton, age 94 of Blockton, died Monday, February 28, 2011 at the Bedford Nursing and Rehab Center. Louis Clayton was born on April 22, 1916, on a farm in Antelope county, Nebraska, the son of Emma (Larsen) Clayton and Aldred B. Clayton. 

   Vaughn Andrew Case was born to Orville Rolland Case and Jennie Miller Case born December 21, 1923 on a farm south of Ellston, Iowa where he lived all of his adult life. 

Vaughn passed away March 1, 2011 at the Mount Ayr Health Care Center

   Richard Harrison Brock, son of Edward and Mary Olive (Jones) Brock, was born January 5, 1917 at Jewell, Iowa. Richard passed away the morning of March 4, 201

      Zelma Mae Woollums was born May 12, 1911 on a farm south of Ellston, Iowa to Oscar and Nettie (Stephens) Roberts and passed away February 18, 2011 at the age of 99 years at the Mount Ayr Health Care Center. Zelma was the third of four children and her siblings were Ella, Lee and Leena.

 Joseph Willard Rusk was born October 13, 1923 in Biloxi, Mississippi. He passed away Monday, February 14, 2011, at the Clearview Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa.

     Ruth B. Knudson, formerly of Albion, Iowa, died February 17, 2011 at Bartel’s Lutheran Retirement Community in Waverly, Iowa, at the age of 95. In 2010, she had resided at Clearview Estates in Mount Ayr for six months.

The daughter of Frank and May (Lesan) Blanchard, Ruth was born in 1916.