Area Obituaries

Dale Eric Frost, son of Raymond Harold and Mary Roberta (Reynolds) Frost, was born October 31, 1965 in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Dale graduated from Mount Ayr Community high school in 1983. While growing up, Dale and his best friend, Mike Bird, were ‘amateur engineers!’ They kept busy tearing things apart and trying to put them…

Roger Dale Tipton was born in the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa on April 3, 1957, the son of the late Clifford Herman Tipton, Sr. and Thelma Mickael Tipton. Roger passed away October 26, 2009 at the Clearview Home at the age of 52 after a long lengthy illness. Roger has had many…

Mary Ann McVey, daughter of Frank and Juanita Blanche (Hall) Long, was born October 5, 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa. Mary grew up and lived in Madrid, Iowa. Mary was united in marriage to Tom Floyd McVey on March 14, 1959 in Madrid, Iowa. They lived in Madrid until moving to Mount Ayr in 1986.…

     Clara Galene Varner passed peacefully from this life on October 24, 2009 at the Don and Marilyn Anderson HospiceCare facility in Madison, Wisconsin.     Galene was born at home in Blockton, Iowa on September 28, 1919, the fourth of five children of Allen and Lena Stephens. Galene fondly recalled her childhood as a time…

Merritt Leo Triggs, son of John William and Carrie Hutchinson Triggs, was born May 14, 1921 on a farm south of Mount Ayr, known as the Old Ferber farm. Merritt graduated from Mount Ayr high school. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior in 1946 and was baptized by Rev. Harold Reel. He joined…

Donna Iris Smith, daughter of Samuel Hayden and Naomi Meriam (Nickeson) Smith, was born May 10, 1922 at Chugwater, Wyoming. Donna’s mother died in 1929 when she was seven years old and her aunt, Iva Agnes Smith Barnhill, came into the home and helped raise her. The family lived in Wyoming, Missouri and Iowa, settling…

  Pauline Long Wheelen, 93, passed through heaven’s gates at 2 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at the Clearview Nursing Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa with family and friends gathered to say good-byes. Born May 12, 1916 near Delphos, Iowa, she was the daughter of Charley Henry and Winnie Lee Thomas Long. She attended Hazel…

  Charles ‘Charlie’ Nicholas Manders, 80, died on October 1, 2009. Charlie was born November 10, 1928 to Ralph and Josephine Manders in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Waukee high school in 1946 and served in the Army during the Korean Police Action and served his time in Germany. For a short time he…

  Algie Ira Link, youngest of the three children of John Algie and Rosetta M. (Pritchard) Link, was born December 16, 1931 on the farm north of Mount Ayr, Iowa that had been in the family since 1914. He passed away October 1, 2009 at the Clearview Home in Mount Ayr at the age of…

  Joseph Jerome ‘Joe’ Novak, son of LaVerne and Mary (Swett) Novak, was born May 11, 1953 in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Joe graduated from Diagonal high school in 1971. He went to Northwest Missouri State College in Maryville, Missouri for one year. Joe married Peggy Hughes on August 21, 1976 in Lamoni, Iowa. To this…

 Clyde Eugene Hogue, 86, passed away peacefully on the morning of September 26, 2009 at the home of his daughter in Mount Ayr, Iowa after a lengthy illness of congestive heart failure. He was born in Ringgold county, Iowa on December 4, 1922. His twin brother, Carl Edward, did not survive the birth and he…

Joan Owens of Clearfield, Iowa passed away September 26, 2009 in Andover, Minnesota where she had been living the past two years. Joan was born on December 18, 1917 to Mabel Schishler Wiley and John Wiley in Kellerton, Iowa. After receiving Manual Teacher Training she taught in a one-room school in the Kellerton area. On…