Area Obituaries

  Opal Marie Webb, formerly of Mount Ayr, Iowa, passed away on June 8, 2011 in Loveland, Colorado.  Opal was born to Joshua and Merzetta (Fender) Hillebran in Sharpsburg, Iowa on February 23, 1923.  She grew up in the Beaconsfield/Tingley, Iowa vicinity and graduated from Tingley high school in 1940. After high school she took…

 Clyde Edgar Brand was born on January 17, 1923 in Madison township, Clarke county, Iowa. He passed away at his home in Mount Ayr, Iowa on June 10, 2011 at the age of 88 years. He was born the second child of 11 to Lewis Gerald and Madge Ramelle Crittenden Brand. He lived in Clarke…

  Howard Eugene (Pete) Burgher was born May 14, 1951 at the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa to Howard and Noma (Hull) Burgher of Tingley, Iowa. Pete grew up on the farm in southern Iowa. He attended elementary school at Tingley until the seventh grade. Pete attended high school in Mount Ayr, Iowa…

  Juanita B. Horst, 87, died peacefully at Mount Ayr Health Care on June 2, 2011. She was a resident of Kansas City, Missouri for 50 years. In recent years she resided in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Juanita was a homemaker who loved to cook and decorate her lovely home. She used any free time to…

  Lucille Fischer, 90, died on June 1, 2011 at Southridge Nursing and Rehab in Marshalltown, Iowa. Services were held Monday, June 6, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Marshalltown. Interment was at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. Pursel Davis Funeral and Cremation Care was entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.vogelfuneralhomes.com. Lucille…

  Charlcey Ann Bowen was born May 13, 2003 in Des Moines, Iowa to Judd and Christina (Shields) Bowen. Charlcey was welcomed home by big brother Trevor and two years later she welcomed little sister Macey Kay home. Charlcey, or ‘Chuck’ as she was known to Macey, Trevor and friends, was a second grade student…

 Floyd A. Ferry, 88, passed away peacefully at the Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Arkansas on November 8, 2010. Floyd was born December 21, 1921 at Piedmont, Kansas to Arthur and Mary Ferry. He married Eleanor Franklin in 1946 and to this union were born daughter Janice and sons Todd and Kent. After Eleanor’s…

  Funeral services for Gordon Sickels, age 89, of Bedford, Iowa, who died Thursday, May 26, 2011, at the Bedford Nursing & Rehab Center will be held Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. at the New Life Missionary Church in Bedford. Interment was held in the Fairview Cemetery in Bedford. Memorials may be given…

  Ervin Wayne Kelley, son of Everet and Margaretta (Adair) Kelley, was born April 22, 1926 in Leon, Iowa. Wayne went through the eighth grade in Leon. He married Mary Corl in Leon. To this union was born one son, Rodnie. They moved to a farm northeast of Kellerton, Iowa where Wayne farmed as many…

    Robert Maurice Hudson, 95, formerly of Mount Ayr, died Monday, May 23, 2011, at Fountain West Health Care Center in West Des Moines. A memorial service will be conducted at a later date.     Bob was born October 12, 1915 in rural Ringgold county to James M. and Mary Hosteter Hudson.   The eighth of…

    Funeral services for William H. ‘Bill’ Gross III, 64, Lawton, were Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. John Cramer, retired United Methodist minister, officiating.     Mr. Gross died Sunday in a local hospital.     Burial was in Highland Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service.…

 Pearl Katherina Jones was born in North Dakota May 26, 1915, the sixth of seven children, to Charles and Katherina Porter. The family moved back to Iowa when she was small and then back to North Dakota where she started school. There were many moves during her young life, always ending up back in the…