Area Obituaries

 Cullen K. Geist, 61, was born June 1, 1949 in Osceola, Iowa  to Carroll and Cleola (Burchett) Geist, and passed away November 24, 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa Cullen graduated from Mount Ayr Community high school and Northwest Missouri State University. He played football in high school, college and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys.  On…

  Edna May Roach was born March 5, 1927 in Hatfield, Missouri to Jesse and Lucy Roach. She grew up north of Allendale, Missouri and attended Jackson school through the eighth grade. Edna married Loren Herbert Baker on September 20, 1946. To this union were 11 births. She lived to take care of her husband,…

  Rue Ray Nickle, son of Flossie (Curry) Nickle and Ray D. Nickle, was born February 18, 1916 at the family farm south of Clearfield, Iowa. Rue graduated from Clearfield high school and married Ruth Stingley on June 4, 1938 at her parents’ home near Bedford, Iowa. In 1950 they were able to move to…

  Wanda Fern Jones Bennett was born at home in Lotts Creek township on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 to Wesley, Sr. and Pearl (Porter) Jones. Wanda attended country school and then attended high school in Mount Ayr through her junior year, later earning her GED. Bob and Wanda started dating on Bob’s 16th birthday,…

  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…

  Nola Marjory Corll Landphair was born March 13, 1919 to Floyd and Sadie Powel Corll, along with her paternal twin sister, Lola, on the family farm in Washington township. The twins were welcomed by older brothers William and Donald and sister Robyn. Their family was completed with the addition of younger sister Fern and…

  John Ruckman passed away Sunday, November 7, 2010, at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. John was a former resident of Mount Ayr, Iowa. John was born in Diagonal, Iowa on October 26, 1931 to the late Homer E. and Diamond Ruckman. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force (1951-1955)…

  Dr. Cletus E. Tindle passed away November 13, 2010 in Osceola, Iowa at the age of 91. Dr. Tindle was born to Ralph and Lola Tindle in Clearfield, Iowa on March 23, 1919. He graduated from Diagonal high school in 1938 where he was a member of that school’s state basketball championship team. After…

  Margie A. Flanery Walter, 73, died October 29, 2010, at the Life Care Center of Osawatomie, Kansas. She was born June 14, 1937, on a farm north of Bucyrus, to A.T. and Gertrude Portwood Flanery. She has lived within the surrounding area all of her life. She attended one-room schools and graduated from Stilwell…

  Mary Louise McCreary, daughter of Russell Vance and Hazel Beatrice (Dugan) Hogue, was born at her grandmother Dugan’s in Mount Ayr, Iowa on June 1, 1922. Mary attended Liberty Township Side Hill Rural School north of Mount Ayr and graduated from Mount Ayr high school in 1940. She was then employed at the Ringgold…

  Helen Lois Hammans was born November 9, 1923 at the farm home east of Arispe in Union county, Iowa. She was the youngest of five daughters born to Curtis and Stella (Allison) Hammans. Her entire childhood was spent on the family farm. She attended Arispe Consolidated School and graduated from there in 1941. She…

  Byron ‘Gene’ Greenman passed away peacefully at home on November 8, 2010. He was born in Ringgold county on March 6, 1928 to Weldon and Grace Greenman.  Byron moved to Valley Junction in 1955 and lived there most of his life. He was an excellent carpenter and retired from AMF-Western Tool. Byron loved music,…