Category: Obituaries

Gary Donald Smith, eldest son of Donald Dean Smith and Gladys Anita (nee Zook) Smith, was born on September 4, 1941, in Osceola, Iowa and passed from this life on December 17,…

Hubert Lynn Mills (Hugh) of Red Bluff, California died December 12th, 2016 at Mercy Hospital in Redding, CA at the age of ninety. Hugh was born at home in Wray, Colorado on…

At the Decatur County Hospital in Leon, Iowa, on April 5, 1994, Jeremy and Donetta (Reed) Phelps brought into this world a beautiful baby girl and they named her Nichole Rose Phelps….

Arlene Elizabeth Lovell, age 93, of Leon, Iowa, the daughter of Robert Leonard and Gladys Mable (Phillips) Payne, was born December 30, 1922, in Armstrong, Iowa. She died at Westview Acres Care…

On a beautiful fall day and very much at peace, Maxine Monroe ended her life’s eventful journey in her home in Leon, Iowa on the 13th day of December at the age…

William Harper was born at home in rural Winterset, Iowa to Maynard Harper Sr. and Sarah (Foley) Harper on March 21, 1932. Bill passed away at the V.A. Center in Des Moines,…

“You Are My Sunshine” March 5, 1933 – December 3, 2016 Outspoken, ornery, fun, musical, prankster, intelligent, faithful, compassionate, loving, competitive… These words are only a sampling of those used to describe…

Nona Irene Webb, age 79, of Leon, Iowa, the daughter of Elmer Glade and Mable Inez (Johnson) Shackleton, was born February 5, 1937, in Harrison County, Missouri. She died Monday, December 5,…

Randal Aaron Cox, age 88, of Osceola, Iowa, son of Georgia Marion and Ruby Edith (Fry) Cox-Hembry, was born August 1, 1928, in Decatur County, Iowa. He died at the Greater Regional…

Anna Louise Lane, age 89, world’s greatest chicken and noodles maker, died at her home in Leon, Iowa on November 24, 2016, surrounded by the things that she loved–family, food, holiday tradition,…