Area Obituaries

Eleanor Louise Miller, 88, passed away on February 3, 2011. She was born to Floyd and Bernice Campbell on March 7, 1922 in Mount Ayr, Iowa. She married Delmar Miller in 1942 and eventually moved to a farm east of Mount Ayr where they raised their four children, Linda (Mike) Gouger, Gale (Diane) Miller, Duane…

       Ervin Spencer, 93, of Ankeny, Iowa, formerly of Lenox, Iowa, died Sunday, February 6, 2011, at the Mill-Pond Care Center in Ankeny. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, February 10, 2011, at Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar, Creston. Pastor Chuck Spindler will officiate. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery…

  Eugene Woollums was born in Ellston, Iowa on August 4, 1929 to John and Edith Woollums. He passed away on February 3, 2011 at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr. Carl graduated from Ellston high school in 1947. On March 17, 1952, he married Jessie Ward of Mount Ayr in Columbia, South Carolina where they…

  Dorothy Verlene Denney was born July 31, 1919 near Tingley Iowa. Her parents were Claude E. and Nellie A. (Goldner) Morrison. As a small child she moved with her family to Archie, Missouri, where she received her education. In 1937 she moved to Redding, Iowa. It was there she met her future husband, Merritt…

  Harold Lee Bower, 76, of Mount Ayr, Iowa passed away January 27, 2011 at Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Harold was born March 5, 1934 in Albany, Missouri to Harry George and Thelma Etta Quigley Bower. The oldest of four children, he graduated from Albany high school in 1952. He enlisted in…

  Desiree Kristine Driskill, 26, of Winterset, Iowa, passed away January 16, 2011 at her home in Winterset. Private services were held on Saturday, January 22, at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home, 205 West Monroe Street, Mount Ayr, Iowa with David Shearer, minister, officiating. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery in Afton, Iowa. A memorial fund has been…

  Oleta Jane Barbour Moon of Omaha, Nebraska passed away on January 21, 2011. Oleta was born November 8, 1919 in Le Roy, Iowa to Mabel and William G. Barbour. The youngest of five children, she graduated from Beaconsfield high school in 1936. Oleta married Normand C. Moon on June 26, 1938 and began married…

    Rosa May Miller, daughter of Alice (Owings) Byrom and Marshall Byrom, was born January 7, 1918 at Brock, Nebraska. She lived most of her adult life at Mount Ayr, Iowa. Rose, as she was called, worked hard on the farm and she later worked at area nursing homes, Sunnyslope Nursing Home and Clearview Home in…

  Edna I. Payne Sickels, 94, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2011 at the Clearview Nursing Home. She was born on March 3, 1916 in Tingley, Iowa the sixth child of the nine children born to Fletcher and Rose Ray Matthews. Her strong belief in the Christian faith was instilled…

  Roger Earl Morrison, 82, passed away Saturday, January 1, 2011, at the Ringgold County Hospital. He was born March 29, 1928, on the family farm south of Tingley, Iowa to Herschel and Macelle Steinkamp Morrison. He attended Eighme #9 country school until January 1941 and graduated from Tingley high school in 1945. He attended…

  Kenneth Leroy Nielsen, age 74, of Blockton, Iowa died unexpectedly on December 27, 2010. Kenneth was the middle son of Victor and Mildred Nielsen and was born in Newell, Iowa on November 17, 1936. Ken went to Iowa State University and earned a bachelor of science degree. He married Joyce McCullough on January 17,…

  Earl Burl Stull, son of Daisy Belle Combs Stull and Percy Clyde Stull, was born in the Nation east of Allendale, Missouri on April 15, 1920. In his younger years, the family moved around residing in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. Burl attended the Mount Ayr high school graduating in 1940. He didn’t like…