Entries for December 2011

  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.

   Leslie Wilbur Landphair was born to Katie and Kingsley Landphair March 20, 1919 on the family farm in southern Decatur county near Pleasanton, Iowa. Wilbur passed away at the age of 92 on December 17, 2011 at the Clearview Nursing Home.

   Shirley Ann Buchanan, daughter of Leroy and Thelma Dellinger, was born September 17, 1935 at Hutchinson, Kansas. Shirley passed away on December 17, 2011 at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston

 Melvin Frasier Newton was born on July 23, 1922, to Burr and Ethel Burdette Newton on the family farm in Ringgold county, Iowa. Death came to Melvin on Saturday evening, November 26, 2011, at his home in Park Centre in Newton. He was 89.

 Velma Louise Hill, daughter of Orville and Mary Sheldon, was born March 12, 1921 at Diagonal, Iowa and passed away December 5, 2011 at West Bridge Care & Rehabilitation in Winterset, Iowa.

   Melvin Eugene Doolittle, son of Clifford Dorman and Ethel Arena (Still) Doolittle, was born August 16, 1942 in Nevada, Iowa and passed away at his home in Kellerton on December 6, 2011.

 Betty Catherine Boyer, second child of Mary Ethel (Smith) Beemer and Simmie Bryan Beemer, was born November 5, 1919 in rural Conway, Taylor county, Iowa. Betty passed away on December 7, 2011 in Creston, Iowa.