Area Obituaries

  Frankie Kay Johnson, 48, was born October 10, 1963 in Ringgold county, Iowa to Frank E. and Joyce G. (Hale) DeBoard. Frankie worked for several years at Clearview Home and the Mount Ayr Health Care Center. She married Randy L. Johnson of Saint James, Minnesota in 1985 and they later divorced. Together they had…

  Perry Vaughn Woollums was born October 2, 1934 to John and Edith (Gray) Woollums. He passed away February 9, 2012 at the age of 77. He graduated from Ellston high school in 1953 and attended the RCA Institutes vocational school in New York City. Perry served his country in the U.S. Army from April…

  On February 24, 1937, Violet Allen Blauer and Clarence Eldon Blauer welcomed to this world a 10-pound baby girl they named Norma Jean Blauer. They lived at Tingley, Iowa in Ringgold county. Norma lived on a farm south of Tingley with her parents. In 1938 Shirley Mae Blauer was born and now Norma had…

      Lillian Landis, the daughter of Robert Moyer and Laura Elena (Clark) Landis, was born August 30, 1918 near Quakertown, Pennsylvania and died February 1, 2012 at the Griswold Care Center in Griswold, Iowa at the age of 93 years, five months and two days. Lillian attended Brick Tavern Country School. When she was 13…

     Norma Hohlfeld, 76, died Monday, January 23, 2012, at Methodist West Hospital in West Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services were held Saturday, January 28, at Trinity Lutheran Church, of which she was an active member. Norma was born on October 27, 1935 in Winnebago, Minnesota to Grace (Adams) and John Talley. Funeral services…

  Herman Sylvester Wilkes, 81, of Knoxville, Iowa, passed away Thursday, January 19, 2012. He was born to Myron and Lola (Bowery) Wilkes on January 13, 1931, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Herman graduated from Knoxville high school, class of 1950. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War.…

  Robert Darren Taylor, age 40, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, died January 13, 2012. He was born May 25, 1971 at Ringgold County Hospital to Alan and Gerri (Caldwell) Taylor. Bob enjoyed fishing in Grandpa Jack and Grandpa Lynden’s ponds, and watching Lynden feed the catfish. He loved time on the farm with Mike and…

  Sue A. Smith, 79, of Rock Island, Illinois, formerly of Coal Valley, Illinois, died quietly at home on Monday, January 16, 2012, surrounded by her family and friends. Services were Saturday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Coal Valley, with Rev. Robert Hagen officiating. Burial was in Coal…

  Lori (McAninch) Yeager, 45, of Mount Ayr, Iowa and a former resident of Albany, Missouri, passed away Friday, January 13, 2012.  Lori, the daughter of Eugene and Shirley (Jones) McAninch was born August 10, 1966 in Albany, Missouri.  In 1985 she graduated from Albany high school. After graduating, she started working at the Gentry…

  Elsie Cleone (Johnson) Thompson, daughter of  William Albert Johnson and Mary Edith (Lutman) Johnson, was born in Tingley township, Ringgold county, Iowa August 13, 1920. She was 91 years, four months and 25 days of age when she passed from this life January 7, 2012 at the Clearview Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. As…

  Dennis R. Duffield, 78, of 2020 Lauren Drive S.W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Saturday, January 14, 2012, at Saint Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids. A memorial visitation will be held at a later date. Burial will be in the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, Van Meter, Iowa, at a later date. Arrangements are by Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home.…

  Louise Knapp Addison was born March 30, 1923 in Lowellville, Ohio to Frank and Kathryn (Hogan) Knapp. She was the 10th of 13 children in the family. Louise was united in marriage to Elmer Addison on April 29, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. Elmer and Louise had two daughters, Lynn was born in 1949 and…