Obituaries

Christina Simmerman Mills, daughter of Albert Austin Powell and Nancy Laverna (Cooper) Powell, was born July 30, 1922, in Madison County and passed from this life Friday, Jan, 22, 2010, at Kavanagh on 56th in Des Moines, at 87 years of age.

Bessie Beatrice Lamb, daughter of Lowell Elwood Jackson and Maud Evelyn Chew Jackson, was born Saturday, Dec. 2, 1922, in Clarke County and passed from this life Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, at her home in Osceola at 87 years of age.

Gerald Elijah McDaniel, son of William Z. McDaniel and Vesta (Evans) McDaniel, was born April 11, 1919, near Garden Grove and passed from this life on Sunday, Jan. 24, at Good Shepherd Hospice in Lakeland, Fla. at the age of 90 years.

Shirley June Jackson, age 71 of Garden Grove, the daughter of Max Brown and Margaret LaJune (Akers) Rhodes, was born Nov. 30, 1938, in Decatur County. She died at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010.