Area Obituaries

    Robert Earl Keller, son of Cecil and Edna (Stahl) Keller, was born April 7, 1922 near Diagonal, Iowa. He grew up at Diagonal and graduated from Diagonal high school in 1940.     Bob enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and served in Africa. He was honorably discharged in 1945. On April…

    Thomas Edward Shay, 83, died Sunday, April 15, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center.      Thomas was born December 15, 1928 to John ‘Clem’ and Winifred Shay. He was an army veteran of the Korean Conflict. He worked as a salesman and supervisor for the Metz Baking Company. Thomas never knew a stranger and loved…

    Mary Anne Lane was born December 17, 1947 in Marshalltown, Iowa. She is the daughter of Wayne and Rosetta Rush McGehee. Mary Anne graduated from Mount Ayr Community high school in 1966. On June 5, 1966 she was united in marriage to Roger Lane at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. Mary Anne…

    Lila Mae (Reynolds) Overholtzer, 74 years old, was born May 15, 1937 to Earl (Shorty) Reynolds and Opal Lucille (Puttroff) Reynolds near Kellerton, Iowa. She passed away April 15, 2012 at the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa after fighting a courageous battle with cancer.     Before graduating high school in 1955, she…

  Merlin Wilkins, 83, of Creston, Iowa, died Thursday, April 5, 2012, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services  were held Monday, April 9, 2012, at the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Creston with Pastor Dianna Clark officiating.  Burial was in the Tingley Cemetery. Memorials may be made to…

 Delores Geraldine (Colvin) Stephenson, daughter of James and Lena (Miller) Colvin, was born January 10, 1920 in Worth county, Missouri  and passed away April 8, 2012. At age five she moved with her family to Mills county, Iowa where she grew up. After returning to Missouri, she met Claude Stephenson and they married in Grant…

      Eloise Marie Hall Schmidt, age 83, beloved wife of the late TSgt. Robert T. Schmidt, died on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at her residence in Sumter, South Carolina.    Born on September 8, 1928 in Kellerton, Iowa, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Cora A. Hall. She was employed with…

  Eric Marc Johnson, beloved family member of Carroll and Mary Ellen Devereux Taylor and family, passed away unexpectedly March 28, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. He was 51 years of age. Eric was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Donald and Margaret Johnson. He moved to Portland after graduating from art school.…

  Donald Edward Beardsley, age 89 of Grand River, Iowa, son of John William and Margaret Anna (Lang) Beardsley, was born June 26, 1922 in Kellerton, Iowa and died April 2, 2012 at Lamoni Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lamoni, Iowa. When Don was small, his family moved to Beaconsfield, Iowa.  He attended school there.…

  Ronal ‘Scotty’ Harrison Scott’s vibrant soul left this world suddenly on March 26, 2012. At this time, his family and friends are reminded that God gives and takes on His own time. Yet through it all, they will praise the  name of the Lord, for He is good. Ronal was born August 18, 1943…

  Evelyn LaVera Hunt, 85, of Grant City, Missouri passed away March 31, 2012 at Orilla’s Way, Grant City, Missouri. She was born August 14, 1926 in Gaynor, Missouri to Raymond and Nellie (Hawk) Jobst. She married Alan Alson Hunt on March 22, 1951. They had four daughters. Alan preceded her in death August 16,…

  Marvin Ray Rice, age 76, of Leon, Iowa, the son of Howard Eldon and Ora Marie (Walter) Rice, was born November 22, 1935 on a farm northwest of Kellerton, Iowa in Ringgold county, the youngest of three children. He passed away on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines,…