Obituaries

Jul 7, 2016

Dora Jane Kelley, age 80, of Carthage, Illinois, passed away at 2:30 p.m. Thursday July 7, 2016 at the North Adams Home in Mendon, Illinois. She was born October 13, 1935 in Nauvoo, Illinois the daughter of William and Neva Brown Metternich. OnJuly 18, 1969, She married Steve Kelley. He preceded her in death in December of 1981. Jane...

Jul 4, 2016

Eldon LeRoy Cox

, age 64 of Lomax, Illinois, formerly of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away at 4:23 a.m. Monday July 4, 2016 at his home following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was born November 10, 1951 in LaHarpe, IL, the son of Thurman E. Dick and Mable E Good Cox. He married Brenda Langworthy in...

Jul 4, 2016

Lawrence C. Brokaw, age 82 of Raritan, Illinois passed away Monday July 4, 2016 at Rosewood Care Center in Galesburg, Illinois. He was born May 23, 1934 in Burlington, Iowa, the son of Russell and Mala Calhoun Brokaw. On July 16, 1961, he married Alta Mae Harden in Raritan. She preceded him in death on October 29, 2015. Lawrence...

Jul 2, 2016

George Dues

Mr. George Raymond Dues, 84, of West Burlington, IA, formerly of Dallas City, IL, passed away at 2:40 AM Saturday, July 2, 2016 at The Blair House, Burlington, IA. He was born on January 30, 1932 in Fort Madison, IA the son of George H. and Margaret Williams Dues. On February 15, 1969 he married Sylvia Sue...

Jul 1, 2016

Mrs. Georgia Lee Yetter, 90, of Red Oak Estates in Canton, IL, formerly of LaHarpe, IL passed away at 9:12 PM Friday, July 1, 2016 at the Graham Hospital in Canton. She was born May 25, 1926 in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Willie and June Freeman Stewart. On May 7, 1955 she married James F. Yetter in Pekin,...

Jun 20, 2016

Arthur C. Squier Mr. Arthur C. Squier, 45, of Fountain Green, IL passed away Monday, June 20, 2016 at his home. He was born July 29, 1970 in Peoria, IL, the son of Jerry L and Sherry Lynn Page Squier Sr. He married Jana Holt on January 25, 1996. They later divorced. Art was a 1989 graduate of LaHarpe High...

Jun 4, 2016

Lawrence H. "Jack" Bundy Mr. Lawrence H. Jack Bundy, 70, of Macomb, IL passed away at 5:00 AM Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the VA Medical Center in Iowa City, IA. He was born on June 25, 1945 in LaHarpe, IL the son of Julian and Bonnie Belville Bundy. On December 9, 1965 Jack married Janet Wall in Carthage, IL....

Jun 2, 2016

Mr. Merlin Dean James, 88, of LaHarpe, IL formerly of Blandinsville, IL passed away at 3:15 PM Thursday, June 2, 2016 at the LaHarpe-Davier Health Care Center in LaHarpe. He was born August 12, 1927 in Blandinsville, the son of Orville V. and Frances Myers James. On August 28, 1949 he married Rosalie Kimler in Blandinsville. Merlin was a lifelong...

May 27, 2016

Eva Lorraine Peterson

, 81, of Stronghurst, IL passed away at 1:50 p.m. Friday May 27, 2016 at the Oak Lane Nursing & Rehab in Stronghurst. She was born on March 3, 1935 in Burlington, IA, the daughter of Kenneth F. and Eva Marie Dixon Johnson. On November 3, 1952 she married Gear Edward Skeeter Peterson in...

May 27, 2016

Geneva P. Bideaux Geneva Pearl (Scanlan) Bideaux of Dallas City, Illinois passed away on Friday, May 27, 2016 at the Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois. She was born in Durham Township on May 17, 1925, the youngest child of William and Mamie (Scott) Scanlan. She attended the Durham Center elementary school during 1931-1939 and in her younger years worked...

May 20, 2016

Robert Earl Moore

Mr. , 88, of Blandinsville, IL passed away at 5:47 a.m. Friday May 20, 2016 at the McDonough District Hospital in Macomb, IL. He was born on November 10, 1927 in Point Pleasant Township, near Raritan, IL the son of Harvey and Bertha Rosen Moore. Robert attended Sunny Ridge Country School near Raritan. He...

May 13, 2016

Cale Jameson Hartrick, 17, of Dallas City, IL passed away at 9:51 a.m. Friday, May 13, 2016, at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA. He was born on December 22, 1998 in Merriam, KS, the son of James Dean and Deanna Michelle May Hartrick. Cale attended grade school and junior-high in Dallas City and was currently...

May 12, 2016

Helen Louise Latherow, 100, of Carthage, IL passed away Thursday, May 12, 2016 at the Memorial Hospital in Carthage. She was born on January 1, 1916, to Samuel E. and Ethel (Campbell) Corbitt on a farm east of LaHarpe, Illinois. She attended Western Illinois University for two years and then taught school (grades 1-8) at a rural school west of...

May 11, 2016

Mr. Franklin L. Simpson, 70, of LaHarpe, IL, died May 11, 2016 at the Memorial Hospital in Carthage. He was born on January 18, 1946 in Macomb, IL the son of LeRoy and Barbara Scudder Simpson. On April 14, 1999 he married Lynn Barbara Glasow Taylor in Carthage, she survives. Its impossible to name all his friends and family. He...

May 5, 2016

Mildred Lois Campbell

, 96 of Stronghurst, IL passed away at 6:30 p.m. Thursday May 5, 2016 at Great River Hospice House in West Burlington, Iowa. Lois was born on the Brokaw family farm near Raritan, Illinois on April 26, 1920, the eldest of five children of George and Mary Gunter Brokaw. She attended Cox Grade School...

May 2, 2016

Briscoe Nelson Menke, 89, of the Good Samaritan Home, Quincy, IL, formerly of Carthage and Colusa, IL, passed away 1:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at his home. He was born on January 13, 1927, the son of Berl N. and Mayme F. Briscoe Menke on a small farm near Williamstown, MO. Briscoe married Ruth M. Harl on December...

Apr 30, 2016

Mrs. Alice I. (Moore) Mapes, 88, of LaHarpe, IL passed away at 11:53AM Saturday, April 30, 2016 at the LaHarpe-Davier Health Care Center. She was born June 26, 1927 in LaHarpe, the daughter of George A. and Grace Elizabeth Brown Moore. On January 26, 1947 she married Robert L. Mapes in LaHarpe. He preceded her in death on May 27,...

Apr 27, 2016

Harold Lee Waterman

Harold Lee Waterman, age 72 of rural Stronghurst, Illinois passed away at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday April 27, 2016 at his home. He was born May 27,1943 in Stronghurst, the son of Tim and Olive Kissick Waterman. He was married to Mary Lou Ives. They later divorced. He later married Lois Taylor. They divorced. Mr....

Apr 20, 2016

Mr. Ryan S. Marsden, 39 of Dallas City, IL passed away at 3:29 PM Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Ryan was born on October 3, 1976 in Burlington, IA, the son of Kirby and Theresa Harrison Marsden. He married Jessica Polhans, together they had a son, Riley. Later, he and...

Apr 20, 2016

Mr. Duane M. Woolverton, 86, of LaHarpe, IL passed away at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at the Great River Hospice House, West Burlington, IA.

He was born to Harry and Alice Wright Woolverton on May 11, 1929 at home near Good Hope, Illinois. At the age of 9 he moved to the LaHarpe area. He...