Area Obituaries

    Samuel Chris Sickels, best known as Sam, was surrounded by his family when he passed peacefully from this life into the arms of Jesus on Friday, August 3, 2012 at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. He was born to Rex and Mildred Sickels on October 9, 1928 at the family farm near Kellerton.    …

     Jerry Allen Monday, 64, of Creston, entered rest on Thursday August 2, 2012 at Creston Nursing and Rehab in Creston, Iowa.     Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, August 6, at the Powers Funeral Home in Creston.  Flag presentation was by the Theodore J. Martens Post #1797 of the V.F.W. in Creston. Burial…

    Bonnie Naomi Richardson, the daughter of Emmett Dean and Mae Lucille (Ragan) Mathes was born April 12, 1928 in Harrison County, MO at home west of Eagleville.  She departed this life on Sunday, August 5, 2012 at Mount Ayr Health Care Center after a courageous battle with cancer.     Bonnie attended Pleasant Hill grade…

    Lynn Standish Stewart of Des Moines passed away on August 2, 2012 at the Fountain West Health Center in Des Moines. Stan, as he preferred to be called, was born June 10, 1935 at Shannon City, IA. He was the youngest of eight children to Charles F. and Hazel Mary Stewart.     Stan spent…

    Merlyn Phillip Allen, 78, of Fort Smith, AR, passed away Wednesday, August 1, 2012 in a hospital in Fort Smith, AR.     He was born in Van Meter to Arthur and Ina Allen. He attended Northwest Missouri State Universtiy and was a past president of Security State Bank in Mount Ayr.     He was…

    Elizabeth Ann (Watson) Warin was born on November 11, 1943 in Creston, IA. Ann, the third daughter to E.M. and Alberta (Miller) Watson, a beloved daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away August 1, 2012. She was 68 years old.     Ann grew up in Diagonal, IA and graduated from Diagonal Community high school…

    Monte Eugene Dailey, son of Donald (Jake) and Geraldine (Gerri) Garrett Dailey, was born August 26, 1947 in Creston, Iowa.     Monte graduated from high school and served in the U.S. Army. He was a heavy equipment operator and had operated his own caterpillar moving dirt. Monte had a love of horses and enjoyed…

    Rosemary Roberts, 49, of Pattonsburg, Missouri (formerly of Mount Ayr, Iowa) passed away Wednesday, July 25, 2012.     She was born November 7, 1962 in Leavenworth,  Kansas, the daughter of David Allen and Joyce  (Allen) Estes Sr.     On June 5, 1980, she married Johnny Ray Roberts Sr. in Redding, Iowa.  He survives at…

    Phyllis Arlene Dukes was born September 25, 1919 at Grand River, Iowa. She was the daughter of George and Zettie (McDowell) Bryant. Phyllis graduated from Daughton country school near Grand River in 1932. She received her GED diploma in 1977.     Phyllis married Merle Dukes of Ellston, Iowa on November 7, 1936. Farming in…

    Lyman Dean Frost was born June 27, 1933 to Roy Raymond Frost and Bernice Laverta Foland Frost. He was welcomed by an older brother, Raymond Harold Frost, at their home on a farm near Beaconsfield, Iowa. They later moved to a farm north of Diagonal, Iowa where he started his schooling in a one-room…

    Ocie Laveta Strange was born February 12, 1918 at the tin house east of Benton, Iowa to Floyd and Ocie Miller Schlapia. She passed away July 17, 2012 at the age of 94 years, five months, and five days at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston, Iowa.     Laveta was married to Walter Eldon…

    Faye Lucille Siple passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The daughter of Louis and Bessie Smith Siple, Lucille was born in Ellston, Iowa on August 4, 1918. She attended school in Kellerton through fourth grade and graduated from Mount Ayr high school in 1935. Lucille excelled at…