Area Obituaries

     Retha Geneva Simpson was born August 29, 1908 and left this pilgrimage March 2,1918 at age of nine year, six month and three days. She was the oldest daughter of Jesse and Ida Simpson. Retha leaves to mourn her absence a father, mother and one brother Wayne besides a host of friends and relatives.…

     Lucy, daughter of Christian and Barbara Mosier, was born May 5, 1882, at the old Christian Mosier homestead near the Oakland Church, in Ringgold County, Iowa. There her early life was spent, with the exception of a short time in Dakota. She attended college at Indianola.      She was the youngest of eleven children, four…

     A telegram last Saturday brought the sad news of the death in Colorado of Little Golda Fay Higgins, only daughter of Marion A. Higgins, formerly of Mount Ayr. The brokenhearted father brought the child back and she was laid to rest Sunday afternoon by the side of her mother whose death occurred May 26th…

Wylene Marie (Shipley) Stewart was born in Stanton, Nebraska on September 19, 1938, the daughter of Frederick and Ruth Shipley, and passed away peacefully with her family by her side on January 15, 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 71. Wylene grew up living throughout Nebraska during her childhood. She graduated from…

MRS. EDWARD BIXLER, WHO WITH HER HUSBAND CAME LAST WEEK FOR A VISIT WITH GEORGE HASS AND FAMILY, DIED VERY SUDDENLY YESTERDAY MORNING.  SHE HAD NOT BEEN FEELING WELL FOR SOME TIME, BUT NO SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS WERE FEARED, AND HER DEATH IS A SEVERE SHOCK TO THE RELATIVES.  MR. AND MRS. BIXLER WERE MARRIED THE…

THE DEATH OF WILLIAM H. SKINNER, CAUSED BY AN OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE, OCCURRED MONDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME IN KELLERTON.  IT IS NOT BELIEVED THAT MR. SKINNER TOOK THE MORPHINE WITH SUICIDAL INTENT.  FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS HE HAD NOT BEEN FEELING WELL AND WAS SUFFERING SEVERE PAIN FROM AN ULCERATED TOOTH.  HE TOOK…

N.C. GERMAN, SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN GERMAN, DIED ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE GERMAN HOUSE AFTER A LONG AND LINGERING ILLNESS.  HIS DEATH CAME AS A SEVERE SHOCK TO HIS FRIENDS, ALTHOUGH FOR A LONG TIME THEY HAVE ENTERTAINED NO HOPE OF HIS ULTIMATE RECOVERY.  HE WAS TAKEN ILL OVER A YEAR AGO…

JACK STAMPER OF GRANT TOWNSHIP WAS VICTIM OF AN ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY WHICH RESULTED IN HIS DEATH.  HE WAS REBUILDING AN OLD CAVE AND WHILE AT WORK THE FRAME WORK WHICH WAS QUITE ROTTEN GAVE WAY AND HE WAS BURIED BENEATH THE DIRT AND RUBBISH.  IT WAS SOME TIME BEFORE HE WAS DISCOVERED AND IT…

MR. W.A. REGER, AN HONORED AND RESPECTED CITIZEN OF MOUNT AYR AND RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED SUNDAY AT 2 O’CLOCK P.M. AT EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, WHITHER HE HAD GONE IN QUEST OF HEALTH.  DEATH CAME IN THE FORM OF PARALYSIS.   MR. REGER WAS BORN IN WEST VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY 18, 1852, AND HAD REACHED THE AGE OF…

EDWARD STUCK, SON OF JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH STUCK, WAS BORN OCTOBER 10, 1825, IN UNION COUNTY, PA.  AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT AYR, IA., OCTOBER 23, AGED 76 YEARS AND 13 DAYS.   HE WAS REARED ON A FARM AND RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF THAT DAY.  WHEN HE WAS ABOUT…

THOMAS ROSS, AGED AND REVERED CITIZEN OF MOUNT AYR AND RINGGOLD COUNTY, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1901.  MR. ROSS WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF MOUNT AYR, HAVING BEEN BORN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO, JULY 4, 1816.  HE WAS EIGHTY FIVE YEARS OLD. MR. ROSS LIVED IN ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO UNTIL HE WAS…

HANNAH HUGHES, DAUGHTER OF THOMAS AND JANE HUGHES, WAS BORN FEBRUARY 23, 1854, IN DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA.  WITH HER PARENTS SHE REMOVED TO THEIR FARM IN LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA  IN 1855.  THERE SHE HAS LIVED EVER SINCE, AND THERE SHE DIED OCTOBER 17, 1901 AGED 47 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 24…