Harrison Louis Metcalf was born on April 28, 2021, at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, IA. God decided in the early morning of Sunday, March 12, 2023, that he needed another angel. Harrison (Harry Butts) was a very happy baby boy. His giggles would light up the room. He was very loving to his siblings and cousins. Harry enjoyed eating his pop tarts and playing with his toy trucks. His favorite thing at the park was going down the slide. He played with dinosaurs and many animals...

After a long full life, our father, Albert “Al” Ross of Atlantic, IA passed away peacefully at the Heritage House on March 1, 2023, in Atlantic, at the age of 91.  He was born on April 2, 1931, at home in Redbird, Nebraska. Al was one of four children born to Ernest and Mable (Miller) Ross. Al spent his youth working on the farm and attending country school then boarding in town to attend and graduate from Spencer High School in Spencer, Nebraska in 1949. After graduation,...

James “Jim” Nelsen, age 83 of Anita, Iowa, died at the Cass County Health in Atlantic, IA. He was born on May 30, 1939, at his grandmother’s house in Anita. He was the oldest of three sons born to Roscoe and Maxine (Turner) Nelsen. He graduated from Anita High School in 1958. Jim was united in marriage to Jolene Lager on November 20, 1960, in Greenfield, IA. They were blessed with their only daughter, Janet, in 1965. Jim was a hard-working man and a free thinker…he...

Evelyn Ruth (Knight) Knop the daughter of Nick and Laura Anna (Davis) Knight was born on July 24, 1925, in Glidden, Iowa. She passed away on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa at the age of 97. Evelyn was one of eight children born to Nick and Laura, plus one half-sister. Evelyn attended Ralston Schools till the age of 8th grade. At the age of 18, she moved to Atlantic to live with her sister, Dorothy Lane, and began working. On October 16, 1945, she was...

Elise “Bunnie” Marie Fiedler, age 67, of Atlantic, passed away Friday, February 24, 2023, at Atlantic Specialty Care. Elise, better known to all as Bunnie, was born on December 30, 1955, the daughter of Edward and Annette (Schroeder) Lehmann in the Atlantic. She was raised in Atlantic and graduated with the class of 1974. At an early age, she started to tell her sisters she had big plans. She and her sister Barbara started a shoe shine stand, their dad had made for them, and they...

Richard “Ricky” Grimes, age 71 of Whiting, Iowa and formerly of Adair, Iowa, died at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting. He was born the son of Lloyd and Mildred Grimes on October 4, 1952, in Lee Summitt, MO. Ricky as the family called him, lived in a group home in Higginsville, MO until 2006 when he moved to Shelby, Iowa following his stepmother’s passing (Helen June Grimes) and his father moving to Adair, Iowa. The last three months of Ricky’s life, he lived at Pleasant View...

Dennis Lee Sims, age 79, of Anita, IA, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2023, at Journey Senior Services in Carroll, IA. Dennis was born June 18, 1943, in Clarinda, Iowa to Boyd W. and Gertrude (Smith) Sims, joining older sisters Emogene and Mary and brother Harold. Denny moved to Exira with his family for a few years before they moved to Anita, where he finished high school, graduating with the class of 1963. Denny excelled in all high sports and held high school and state track...

Thomas H Christensen passed away on Feb. 9, 2023, at his home in Anita, Iowa. Tommie was born on Oct. 31, 1932, on the family farm near Brayton, Iowa to Henry Christensen and Pauline (Masching) Christensen. He lived most of his life in the Anita and Brayton area. He graduated from Anita High School in 1952. After school, he married Joanne Thompson on July 11, 1952, at the Anita Methodist Church. To this union 4 children were born, Cheri, Kent, Charl, and Camma. They made their home in...

Mrs. Sharon Lee Winchell, age 84, a longtime resident of Atlantic Iowa, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Sharon was born May 24, 1938, in Webster City, Iowa, the second of two children to Harold and Claudia “Pearl” Davis Christensen. The family lived in Stratford and Malcom before settling in Clemons in 1951 where her parents owned and operated Clemons Grain and Supply. After graduating valedictorian...

Jean Wolfe age 74 of Holt, MO, died at home surrounded by her family on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. She was born a farmer’s daughter on August 4, 1948, near Adair, Iowa, the oldest of Harold and Elnora (Cullen) Sweeney’s four children. Jean attended Country school in Cass County, graduating from Cumberland & Massena High school in 1966. Jean married the love of her life, Timothy Wolfe on October 27th, 1967, in Rockport, MO. The couple moved to Atlantic, IA and had four kids,...