Area Obituaries

  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…

  Larry Dean Jackson, age 55, of Kellerton, Iowa, died January 7, 2012 in Ringgold county, Iowa following a motor vehicle accident. He was born on December 25, 1956 at Decatur County Hospital in Leon, Iowa to Clarence Ivyl ‘Ike’ and Verda Louise (Mallatt) Jackson. Larry graduated from Clarke Community Schools in Osceola, Iowa with…

  Jerry Willis was born January 3, 1934 in a farmhouse west of Maloy, Iowa to Loren O. and Dallas M. (Snethen) Willis and moved to Mount Ayr, Iowa when he was three. He went all through grade and high school in Mount Ayr except for the last half of the fifth grade when he…

  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…

  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…

  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…

    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…

  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…

  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…

 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…

  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…