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.   Lela graduated from Gravity high school and then attended teachers college at Red…

  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. She was co-owner of the Redding Country Store of Redding, Iowa for 14 years. She and her sister, Mattie Mast, moved to Windsor on July 24, 2011. Survivors…

  John E.W. (Jack) Bonebrake, son of Rollo and Ruth (Wilson) Bonebrake, was born November 19, 1918 at the family home in Diagonal, Iowa. He was welcomed by his older sister, Lyla, and older brother, Corwin, and later they all welcomed their brother, Ronald. He received his elementary and high school education in Diagonal, graduating…

  Jim Bammer, 63, of Creston,  Iowa, died, Monday, December 26, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services were Thursday, December 29, 2011, at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Pastor Celeste Waymire officiated the service. Burial was in the Grandview Cemetery west of Sidney, Iowa. Memorials may be made to the…

  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. Sister Nan graduated from high school at Saint Joseph’s Academy…

  Clarke Eldon Perkins, age 55, of Lamoni, Iowa, who never had a bad day, 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. Clarke went to school at…

  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. Helen graduated from Lenox high school in May of 1937. Helen was…

  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. Lola, in addition to Nola, was welcomed into…

 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 deeply loved by his family, a kind and gentle man, respected and revered by the many people he met in the course of his life. Milford was born…

  Shirley Ann Buchanan, daughter of Leroy and Thelma Dellinger, was born September 17, 1935 at Hutchinson, Kansas. Shirley met her future husband, Melvin Buchanan, in Hutchinson. They were united in marriage at Melvin’s parent’s home in Diagonal, Iowa on November 3, 1951. Because of Melvin’s work, the family lived in various towns but Diagonal…