Robert Darren Taylor, age 40 of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, died January 13, 2012. He was born May 25, 1971 at Ringgold County Hospital to Alan and Gerri (Caldwell) Taylor. Bob enjoyed fishing in Grandpa Jack and Grandpa Lynden's ponds, and watching Lynden feed the catfish. He loved time on the farm with Mike and Connie Lynch. Bob learned to drive by mowing Randy and Karen Taylor's yard endlessly on their new lawnmower. His favorite past times were picking...

Elsie Cleone (Johnson) Thompson daughter of William Albert Johnson and Mary Edith (Lutman) Johnson was born in Tingley Township, Ringgold County, Iowa August 13, 1920. She was 91 years, 4 months and 25 days of age when she passed from this life January 7th 2012 at the Clearview Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. As a young girl, Cleone and her family lived in the Tingley and Shannon City areas. She graduated with the Class of 1937 from Tingley High...

John E.W. (Jack) Bonebrake, son of Rollo and Ruth (Wilson) Bonebrake, was born November 19, 1918 at the family home in Diagonal, Iowa. He was welcomed by his older sister Lyla and older brother Corwin and later they all welcomed their brother Ronald. He recieved his elementary and high school education in Diagonal, graduating with the class of 1936. He worked at the Diagonal Reporter while in high school and learned the printing trade. After...

Lela Ione Pershin Dukes, daughter of Forest Pershin and Audrey Raynor Pershin, was born March 26, 1913 near New Market, Iowa and departed this life at her home at Ellston, Iowa on December 29, 2011 at the age of 98. Lela graduated from Gravity High School and then attended teachers college at Red Oak. She taught school north of Ellston at the Dickson Country School. Lela married Vincent Dukes on February 27, 1932. At that time, she decided...

Lola Marguerite (Corll) Terwilliger, daughter of Floyd J. and Sarah E. Corll, was born March 13, 1919, along with her paternal twin sister, Nola, and departed this life on December 26, 2011, while in the Ringgold County Hospital in Mt. Ayr, at the age of 92. Lola, in addition to Nola, was welcomed into the family by two older brothers, William and Donald and one older sister, Robyn. Her family was completed by the addition of a younger sister,...

Leslie Wilbur Landphair was born to Katie and Kingsley Landphair March 20, 1919 on the family farm in southern Decatur County near Pleasanton, Iowa. Wilbur was welcomed by older sister Lavera, and was later joined by younger siblings Venita, Blanch, Harl, Charles, Helen, Donald, and Macyl. Wilbur passed away at the age of 92 on December 17th, 2011 at the Clearview Nursing Home with daughter Karen (husband Stan) Means and son Ron (wife Martha)...

Shirley Ann Buchanan, daughter of Leroy & Thelma Dellinger, was born September 17, 1935 at Hutchinson, Kansas. Shirley met her future husband, Melvin Buchanan, in Hutchinson. They were united in marriage at Melvin's parent's home in Diagonal, Iowa on November 3, 1951. Because of Melvin's work, the family lived in various towns but Diagonal was always home. Shirley was a very spirited lady who enjoyed life. She enjoyed crocheting and working...

Evelyn Grace Pollard Sissel was born May 12, 1915, at home in Derby, Iowa, and passed away December 15, 2011 at the Health Care Center in Mount Ayr, Iowa at the age of 96 years. Evelyn was the oldest child of Grover C. and Kizzie Griffin Pollard. Howard Dean Pollard and Ferne Louise Pollard Gleason were her siblings. In 1930 the family moved from Derby, IA, to Eagleville, MO, where she graduated from Eagleville High School in 1932....

Helen J. Oshel, daughter of William (Bill) & Gladys (Woosley) Sickels, was born April 6, 1919 near Kent, Iowa and passed away December 12, 2011 at Clearview Home in Clearfield, Iowa at the age of 92 years and 8 months and 6 days. Helen graduated from Lenox High School in May of 1937. Helen was married June 3, 1937 at Shenandoah, Iowa to Ralph Oshel. To this union were born three children; Mary Ann, Sherri Rae, and Larry D. Helen was a house...

Betty Catherine Boyer, second child of Mary Ethel (Smith) Beemer and Simmie Bryan Beemer, was born November 5, 1919 in rural Conway, Taylor County, Iowa. She grew up and attended Conway Consolidated Schools, graduating in 1939. The family lived at Sumner, Chariton County, Missouri, from 1921 to 1929. She met her life mate, Marvin R. (Wigg) Boyer, who was from Sharpsburg, Iowa, at a Lenox, Iowa café. They were married at Bedford, Iowa on...