NORMA SARA BICKEL  WEEHLER Norma Sara Bickel Weehler was born at home in Sherman county, Nebraska to Henry and Katherine Sheehan Bickel on June 1, 1920. She died at the Clearview Nursing Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa on December 20, 2012. Norma attended the Bickel school in Nebraska for the first eight years of her…

ROBERT WAYNE “HAP” RICHARDS Robert Wayne Richards, son of Ernest and Elizabeth Moore Richards, was born at home near Tingley, Iowa on January 3, 1924. Robert’s nickname of ‘Hap,’ short for happy, was given to him by a teacher and it stuck with him for life. Hap was the captain of the Mount Ayr football…

GRACE ARLENE JACKSON FOSTER Grace Arlene Jackson was born October 5, 1924 in rural Ringgold County, near Kellerton, Iowa and departed this life peacefully on Sunday, December 23, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. Grace was the fifth of six children born to Katheryn M. Webb and Mervyn G. Jackson. Grace grew to womanhood and attended…

DICK BARNES Dick Barnes, son of Ben and Sadie Barnes, was born on the family farm near Lamoni, Iowa on November 16, 1923 and departed this life on December 13, 2012 while in the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Dick was welcomed into the family by one brother, Bill; two older sisters, Margaret…

SUSAN DIANE EASTIN Susan Diane Eastin, daughter of Donald E. and Mildred H. (Main) Sobotka, was born April 3, 1958 at the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Susan grew up in Mount Ayr and on the farm south of Beaconsfield, Iowa. She went to Mount Ayr and Grand Valley high school. Susan married…

CHARLOTTE ELAINE  MANZER DEVEREUX Charlotte Elaine Manzer Devereux, 97, daughter of Roy Colonel Manzer and Ella Mabel Whitney Manzer, was born June 3, 1915 in Pierce, Nebraska. After a short illness she passed from this life December 8, 2012. Following high school graduation, charlotte graduated from Saint Vincent’s School of Nursing in Sioux City, Iowa.…

MARJORIE YASHACK Marjorie Yashack died peacefully, surrounded by family, on December 8, 2012 at the Greater Regional Hospice House in Creston, Iowa.  She was born on September 3, 1923 in Bedford, Iowa to Irvin and Edna (Perkins) Dowell. She grew up on the family farm outside Diagonal and graduated from Diagonal high school in 1942.…

MAY LUELLA PEARCE LEEPER May Luella Pearce was born in Kellerton, Iowa to Charles Henry Pearce and Elsie Mary Brooner Pearce on May 11, 1921. May passed away peacefully surrounded by family on December 3, 2012. She was united in marriage to Francis Wallace Leeper on May 23, 1941 in Bethany, Missouri. To this union…

FRANCIS WALLACE ‘BUCK’ LEEPER Francis Wallace ‘Buck’ Leeper was born in Ringgold county, Iowa to William Wesley and Liccie (Tedrow) Leeper on June 17, 1921. Francis passed away peacefully on December 1, 2012. Francis was united in marriage to May Luella Pearce on May 23, 1941 in Bethany, Missouri. To this union four children were…

CAROLE F. ALLEN Carole F. Allen, who resided in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, passed away due to pancreatic cancer at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri on November 14, 2012. She was the daughter of Warren Weldon Fannen and June Pride Fannen of Saint Joseph, Missouri. Both preceded her in death.  She was…