Obituary for Dorothy M. Podolak Dorothy Marie Podolak, lifetime resident of Atlantic passed away Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Heritage House. She was 90. Dorothy was the daughter of Edward George Pont and Sarah Nevada Hancock Pont. She was born November 6, 1918 on her parents" farm near Atlantic. She attended Country School in Bear Grove Township and graduated...
Obituary for Agnes Mary Brooks Agnes Mary Brooks Agnes Brooks, 93, long time resident of Atlantic, passed away Friday evening, September 11, 2009 at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Agnes Mary was born the daughter of Frank and Julia (Berger) Foltz on December 5, 1915 in Greeley, Nebraska. She grew up there and graduated from the Greeley High School....
Obituary for Juanita E. Turner Juanita Estelle Turner Juanita Estelle (Parsons) Turner passed away Friday, September 11, 2009, surrounded by her loving family. The daughter of John Amos and Beulah Ruth Mallon Parsons, she was born in Casey, Iowa April 13, 1919 and attended school in Walnut and Lewis, Iowa. She was united in marriage to Jess Turner in 1935...
Obituary for Ellen Marie Davis Ellen Marie Davis Elba, Nebraska native Ellen Marie (Taylor) Davis passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at the Weatherly Inn (care center) in Tacoma, Washington. She was 83. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 29, 1926 to Roy D. and Ellen M. (Jacobsen) Taylor. She was raised in Elba from the...
Obituary for Barbara M. Henningsen BARBARA MURRAY HENNINGSEN Barbara Murray Henningsen, 80, Atlantic, Iowa, died Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Barbara Ruth Murray was born in Galva, Iowa, on November 20, 1928, the youngest daughter of Roy James Murray and Genevieve (Crotty) Murray. Barbara grew up on a farm in Galva where she developed a lifelong love of the farm and...
Obituary for Rozanne Neary Schwarz ROZANNE NEARY SCHWARZ Rozanne Neary Schwarz, 72, of Falls Church, Virginia, passed away Sunday, August 16, 2009 at her home. Rozanne, the daughter of Kenneth and Constance Septer Neary, was born June 24, 1937 near Wiota, Iowa. She attended Wiota High School where she graduated in 1955 and was a member of the girl's basketball...
Obituary for Morris J. Blake MORRIS BLAKE Morris J. Blake, 77, of the Atlantic area passed away Sunday, August 16, 2009 at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. The son of Niles and Mildred Blake, he was born August 24, 1931 at the Atlantic Hospital. He attended country school and graduated with the Atlantic High School Class of 1949....
Obituary for Ruth McElfresh RUTH McELFRESH Ruth Velzora McElfresh was born on October 4, 1916 to Jesse Elmer and Winifred Bell McElfresh and passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 13, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Ruth lived most of her adult life in the Denver, Colorado area where she was an art teacher to elementary school children. She had a true...
Obituary for Letha Armstrong Letha Armstrong of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away at the Heritage House in Atlantic on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at the age of 95. Letha Leota Louise (Walter) Armstrong was born to Ada Odessa Worth and Louis Arthur Walter in Lewis, Iowa on July 28, 1914. Her siblings included, sisters Vivien and Mary and a brother Lee....
Obituary for Tateus "Nick" Esechu TATEUS "NICK" ESECHU Tateus "Nick" Esechu, 51, of Atlantic and formerly of Chuuk Island in Micronesia died unexpectedly at his cousin's home in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Sunday, July 26, 2009. Tateus was born the son of Francisco and Rosali Esechu on April 15, 1958 in Chuuk State. He grew up there and was married...