Noble Law office to close
Another business is leaving Mount Ayr. In a letter to landlord David Cunning, attorney Lisa Noble has announced her plans to terminate the lease on the former Cunning Insurance office located on the north side of the Mount Ayr square. “I had real hope that business would be good in Ringgold County and surrounding counties,”…
Read MoreSYLVESTER THEODORE GUNTER
SYLVESTER THEODORE GUNTER, SON OF COLUMBUS T. AND IDA B. GUNTER, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 9, 1901, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 12, 1924, AGED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWO DAYS. AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS HIS PARENTS MOVED TO ST. JOSEPH, MO. WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD AND SINCE THE DEATH OF HIS…
Read MoreHouse on E. Jefferson
BY MIKE AVITT Shirley Hickman ran this photo in her “Ayr Views” column of March 29, 1990. The house was identified as being at 202 E. Jefferson in 1917 but no other information was available at that time. Shirley asked her readers for help and she got it in the following weeks. The home was…
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2019
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, March 19, 1919.) Now that the weather conditions are becoming more favorable and the roads are getting passable, people who have been doing their traveling by the slow methods employed in the day before automobiles became a necessity in order to keep pace with the…
Read MoreThank you road crews!
To the editor I just want to give a big old great job slap on the back to the guys at the secondary road crew. This winter has been never ending with more on the way, maybe not the worst I’ve seen but bad none the less. Only a handful of people know what they…
Read MoreMARGARET ELLEN FORD
Margaret Ellen (Sullivan) Ford was born August 3, 1920 on a farm south of Afton to Charles and Sarah (Scherer) Sullivan. As the oldest of four children, she had many chores both inside and outside the house. She much preferred being outdoors, working as a “tomboy” alongside her father. During one of those outside jobs…
Read MoreMARGARET LOUISE SKARDA
I was born Margaret (Peggy) Louise Mohr on May 14, 1928 in a house by the side of the road in Cromwell, Iowa. I lived there a short time with my parents, Griffith and Edith Mohr; three brothers, Dwight Eugene, Hollis Griffith, Alfred Loren; and one sister, Doris Leah. We moved shortly to Prescott, Iowa…
Read MoreJOAN MARIE STRINGHAM
Joan Marie (Haley) Stringham was born November 3, 1943, in Creston, Iowa, to James Calvin Haley and Dorotha Olive (Lane) Haley. Joan grew up her brother, Robert, and sisters, Julia and Mary Jane. She went to school in Benton and then graduated from Mount Ayr High School in 1962. Joan was united in marriage to…
Read MoreCLAIR LEROY WILLEY
Clair Leroy Willey, 82, of Marion, passed away peacefully Sunday, January 27, 2019, after a courageous one and half year battle with cancer. A visitation will be held on February 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Red Cedar Lodge, Squaw Creek Park, 4305 Squaw Lane, Marion, Iowa. Leroy’s memorial service will be held March…
Read MoreRaiders narrowly escape Nodaway Valley
It was brought to my attention, I regretfully omitted two games a couple weeks ago for the Raiders basketball team. Mount Ayr 50, NV 44 The Raiders went to Greenfield last Tuesday night and came home with a narrow win. Mount Ayr won 50-44 with Isaac Grose and Dawson Frost leading the team with 16…
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