Jimmie “Jim” Dean Bammer, son of Neva Lorene (Keever) and Marshall Waldon Bammer, was born November 13, 1948 in Mound City, Missouri. Bammer, 63, of Creston,  Iowa, died, Monday, December 26, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. 

   John E.W. (Jack) Bonebrake, son of Rollo and Ruth (Wilson) Bonebrake, was born November 19, 1918 at the family home in Diagonal, Iowa. Jack passed away on December 30, 2011 at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr. 

   Anna Mast passed away December 30, 2011 at her home in Windsor, Missouri. She was born October 13, 1943, the daughter of Amos and Esther Mast.

  Lela Ione Pershin Dukes, daughter of Forest Pershin and Audrey Raynor Pershin, was born March 26, 1913 near New Market, Iowa and departed this life at her home at Ellston, Iowa on December 29, 2011 at the age of 98.

   Clarke Eldon Perkins, age 55, of Lamoni, Iowa,was the son of the late Marvin Lee Perkins, Sr. and Mary Jane (Turck) Lovell. Clarke was born on November 6, 1956 in Emmetsburg, Iowa and passed away at his home Thursday, December 29, 2011.

   Sister Nan Ross BVM, 83, of Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa, formerly of Maloy, Iowa, died Monday, December 19, 2011. She was born on February 21, 1928 in Newton, Iowa daughter of John William and Helen Frances (Harris) Ross, the third of four children.

  After surviving serious heart attack, stroke and a bout with cancer, Milford Duane Varner passed away on August 10, 2011 of causes incident to age. Milford was born September 3, 1932, in Diagonal, Iowa to John and Madge Ethington Varner.

   Lola Marguerite (Corll) Terwilliger, daughter of Floyd J. and Sarah E. Corll, was born March 13, 1919, along with her paternal twin sister, Nola, and departed this life on December 26, 2011, while in the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, at the age of 92.

   Helen J. Oshel, daughter of William (Bill) and Gladys (Woosley) Sickels, was born April 6, 1919 near Kent, Iowa and passed away December 12, 2011 at Clearview Home in Clearfield, Iowa at the age of 92 years, eight months and six days.

   Evelyn Grace Pollard Sissel was born May 12, 1915 at home in Derby, Iowa and passed away December 15, 2011 at the Health Care Center in Mount Ayr, Iowa at the age of 96 years.