Area Obituaries

MARSHA JUNE LUCKETT-SMITHSON Marsha June Luckett-Smithson, daughter of Charles and June (Ponader) Smithson, was born April 18, 1941 at Paterson, New Jersey. Marsha graduated from high school and college. Marsha’s husband was in the U.S. Army and she lived in several cities and military bases all over the world. Most recently she has lived in…

JEAN KEENAN WURSTER Jean Keenan Wurster was born October 24, 1925 to Gladys and Rue Keenan at the family home near Maloy, Iowa. She had five siblings, Lee, Dorothy, Virginia, Robert and Karl. Jean graduated from Maloy high school in 1942. She worked in the grocery store in Blockton, Iowa saving her wages so she…

PATRICIA RUTH CREES Patricia Ruth Crees was born February 16, 1930 at her home in rural Decatur, Iowa and passed away on December 24, 2012 at the Westview Care Center in Leon, Iowa at the age of 82 years. The eldest child of Michael and Ruth Ellars Crees, Patricia suffered from a major illness at…

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…

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…

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…

MILDRED ‘MILLIE’ SELMA STORHOFF Mildred ‘Millie’ Selma Storhoff was born May 21, 1918 to Peter and Caroline Swenson of Nome, North Dakota. She was the third of three daughters and had a younger brother whom she was very fond of. Millie was raised in Nome and graduated from Nome high school in 1936. She 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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…