Area Obituaries

PHILA NAOMA VARDAMAN, DAUGHTER OF B.W. AND LAVINA RANDALL VARDAMAN, WAS BORN IN BEDFORD, TAYLOR COUNTY, IOWA, OCTOBER 30, 1859 AND DIED IN TINGLEY, MAY 17, 1943, AT THE AGE  OF 83 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 17 DAYS. IN 1867 THE FAMILY MOVED TO MOUNT AYR WHERE HER FATHER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ON APRIL…

CLYDE COURTLAND SKINNER, SON OF WILLIS AN PHEBE SKINNER, WAS BORN IN TAYLOR COUNTY NEAR BLOCKTON, IOWA, FEBRUARY 7, 1881, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 13, 1943 AT AGE 62YEARS, THREE MONTHS AND SIX DAYS. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE WITH LULA E. POLLEY FEBRUARY 8, 1905. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN ONE DAUGHTER. WITH…

W.H. LONG RECEIVED A MESSAGE MONDAY MORNING CONVEYING THE SAD NEWS THAT HIS BROTHER, ED M. LONG, OF LOS ANGELES, CA., HAD PASSED AWAY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:25. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY IN LOS ANGELES. MRS. LONG DIED MARCH 15 IN THE ANGELUS MANOR HOSPITAL IN LOS ANGELES, DEATH BEING CAUSED FROM HEART ATTACKS.…

WILLIS DIX WAS BORN IN OTTAWA, KS., APRIL 7, 1878 AND DIED IN A CRESTON HOSPITAL MAY 10, 1943, AT THE AGE  OF 65 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND THREE DAYS. FOR THE PAST 33 YEARS HE HAS MADE HIS HOME WITH MR. AND MRS. R. E. HUNT AND FAMILY. MR. DIX HAD NO KNOWN IMMEDIATE…

Homer Case, son of Othanal and Barbara Case was born in Ringgold County, Iowa, July 15, 1870 and departed this life May 2, 1943 at his home near Ellston, Iowa. This community has been his home most all his life. He was married to Miss Nellie Arnold, December 7, 1895. To this union were born…

HATTIE MAY, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND EVELINE STACY, WAS BORN IN RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, APRIL 2, 1865 AND PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, CLYDE, EAST OF MOUNT AYR, APRIL 28, 1943, BEING 78 YEARS AND 26 DAYS OLD. SHE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS. DURING…

Martha Jane Bickett was born near Little York, IL., August 11, 1851 where she grew to young womanhood. On February 20, 1873, she was united in marriage to Arthur H. Bickett in Aledo, IL., where they established their first home. With her husband, she came to Mount Ayr in 1877 which has since been her…

John William Harris, son of James H. and Mary Kathryn Harris, was born September 22, 1877 and departed this life April 21, 1943 at Iowa City, Iowa at the age of 66 years, six months and 29 days. January 21, 1905, he was united in marriage to Bertha Schuster of Grant City, MO. To this…

Francis Drake, son of Charles and Minnie Shelden, was born near Diagonal, Iowa, April 27, 1889 and departed this life April 13, 1943 at his home in Diagonal, at the age of 53 years, 11 months and 14 days. He had been in failing health for the past two years. On January 12, 1910, he…

Fred M. Cain, son of Edward and Josephine Cain, was born at Indianapolis, IN., February 27, 1896 and died at the Veteran’s Hospital at Lincoln, NE., April 17, 1943 at the age of 47 years. Following the death of his father and a sister, Ruth, in 1899, the mother brought her family to Mount Ayr,…

Funeral services for Owen Lesan were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Rhoades Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. W. Harold Smith, pastor of the local Church of Christ. Mr. Lesan died Wednesday, April 21, at his home in Chanute, KS., at the age of 84 years. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon…

Mrs. Linnie Dowell passed away Saturday, April 24, at a Battle Creek, MI.  hospital after an illness of several months’ duration. Mrs. Dowell will be remembered as Miss Linnie Frank, school nurse in Mount Ayr about 15 years ago.  Later she served as school nurse at Bedford and in recent years she has been employed…