Area Obituaries

Garry Neal Smith, son of Billy Junior and Margaret Louise (Pellman) Smith, was born April 11, 1964 in Osceola, IA. Garry grew up at Winterset and went to Winterset High School. Garry was a jack of all trades. He wasn’t afraid to work and always kept busy. Garry worked for Bruce Hutton over the years.…

Larry Wayne “Bill” Hunt was born October 28, 1942 to Elizabeth Adeline (Thompson) and John Sanford Hunt in rural, Worth County, MO. Bill graduated from Mount Ayr High School in 1961. On April 28, 1964 he joined the United States Army and served until April 27, 1967. Bill was united in marriage to Patricia Lynn…

Candi Sue Campbell was born March 28, 1963 at the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr to Roberta Sue (Poush) and Elvin Doyle Campbell. She graduated from Mount Ayr High School in 1981 and later went to Southwestern Community College in Creston and graduated from the nursing program. After graduating, Candi settled in Mount Ayr…

On December 24, 2020, Gary Leroy Wells, loving husband and father of two sons, passed away at the age of 83. Gary was born on June 23, 1937 in Mount Ayr, IA to Vivian and Mae Wells. He attended country school through eighth grade, and later graduated from Mount Ayr High School in 1956 (what…

Margaret Louise (Danielson)Wilson was born November 20, 1931 to Lloyd Christopher Danielson and Ruby Emerald (Knight) Danielson in Mount Ayr, IA. She was the first of eight children, seven girls and one boy, born to “Pete” and Ruby. A lover of music, Margaret took piano lessons from Donella Rhodes when she was just five years…

Vergene Juanita (Wardrip) Smith/Higgins daughter of Clarence Wardrip and Mae (Marsh) Wardrip was born in Ringgold County, IA in 1921. She lived her childhood south and east of Delphos and moved to Benton her senior year. She graduated from Benton in 1940. In June 1940 she married Carroll Holden Smith. To this union two children…

Ralph Allen Hampton was born on February 28, 1961, in Decatur County, IA. He was the youngest of Frank and Maxcine Jane (Smith) Hampton’s ten children. He died at the Mount Ayr Health Care Center in Mount Ayr, IA on Thursday, January 21, 2021. He was a bona fide farm boy, preferring boots and a…

Autumn Gladfelder, 14, of Shannon City, died Thursday, January 28, 2021 at the Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines. Private Family Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be Friday, February 5, 2021 at the Powers Funeral Home 601 New York Avenue in Creston. Burial will be private at the Greenlawn Cemetery, east of Afton. Open…

Arthur Carl Garrett, son of Mark and Elizabeth (Mickelson) Garrett, was born at home, north of Redfield, IA on November 15, 1940. The Garrett family moved to a farm south of Diagonal in 1949, and Diagonal would forever be his home. Art graduated from Diagonal High School in 1960. Art went to Wyoming to work…

Anna Lucille (Vanderpluym) Johnson was born in Ringgold County, IA on May 23, 1925 to Louis and Elizabeth (McManus) Vanderpluym. She joined two sisters, Veldeva and Martena and brother, Paul, and later younger sister, Frances. Lucille attended country school Lincoln #2 through the eighth grade and then high school in Lenox, graduating in 1943. She…

Jeffery Allen Haley, 66, of Grinnell, IA and formerly of Creston; passed away Sunday, January 17, 2021 at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer. A Celebration of Life and burial will be held at a later date. Memorials are to be established. The family would…

Glenda Kay (Murphy) Crandall, 70, passed away January 13, 2021 in Mesa, AZ. with family at her side. She was born December 8, 1950, in Leavenworth, KS, the daughter of Marvin and Bessie (Poole) Murphy. She graduated from Park Hill High School in 1968 and on October 30, 1969, she married John Dale Crandall in…