DARRELL J. SPENCER, 68, of Atlantic died Tuesday, January 3 at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center. Per his request, cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time for Darrell J. Spencer. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic is assisting the family.
Ronald Dean Pilcher, 71, of Ankeny (formerly of Adair) died Monday, January 2, 2012 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services for Ronald Dean Pilcher will be Friday, January 6 at 2:00 pm at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 517 SW Des Moines St, Ankeny. Ankeny Funeral Home has the arrangements.
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Visitation will be Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Ankeny Funeral Home, 1510 W. 1st St., Ankeny.
Burial at Ankeny Memorial Gardens.
Ron Pilcher is survived by:
Wife: Barbara (formerly Crozier) Pilcher of Ankeny
Children: Aaron (Jill) Pilcher, Michael (Jeannie) Pilcher, Teresa (fiancé Matt Shelton) Pilcher, and Eric (Jayme) Pilcher all of Ankeny
Sister: Carol Ann (Frank) Weiss of Cincinnati, OH
Brother: Robert Eugene Pilcher of Newton.
Mother-in-law: Virginia Crozier of Adair
Brother-in-law: Tom Crozier of Adair
4 Grandchildren
Memorial contributions may be directed to the family.
Iowa Congressman Tom Latham today (Wednesday) commended the U.S. Department of Transportation’s decision to award Iowa an emergency relief grant of more than $37.4-million to repair roads damaged by historic flooding in 2011 along the Missouri River. Latham, Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation/HUD Appropriations Subcommittee, announced the grant after Iowa officials filed a request for the emergency relief earlier in 2011.
Latham said throughout the summer he saw firsthand the flood damage in western and southwestern Iowa and spoke with the Iowans whose lives were disrupted by the disaster. He says “The flood dealt serious damage to the transportation infrastructure that is critical to the flow of commerce in western Iowa. This emergency relief funding is absolutely necessary to help repair and rebuild these roads and highways and restore certainty to Iowa’s local economies.”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State has named wide receivers coach Courtney Messingham as its offensive coordinator. Messingham replaces Tom Herman, who left to become the offensive coordinator for Urban Meyer at Ohio State. Messingham has spent three seasons under coach Paul Rhoads, coaching tight ends in 2009 and 2010. Messingham is a Waterloo, Iowa native and played at Northern Iowa. He was the head coach at Upper Iowa from 2003-04 and an assistant at Southern Mississippi and Missouri State before joining the Cyclones. Rhoads says in a statement that Messingham has earned the promotion through his hard work as a coach and recruiter. Rhoads says there’s no timetable for hiring a receivers coach to replace Messingham.
MAX MACKRILL, 76, of Adair, died Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Memorial services for MAX MACKRILL will be held Friday, January 6th at 11:00am at the United Methodist Church in Adair. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Adair has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home will be from 5-7pm Thursday (Jan. 5th).
A private family burial is planned.
MAX MACKRILL is survived by:
His wife – Grace Mackrill, of Adair.
His sons – Perry Mackrill & life partner Tim Condon, of Sante Fe, NM; Kirk (Linda) Mackrill, and Troy Mackrill, all of Adair.
And 3 grandchildren.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Michele Bachmann is quitting the Republican presidential campaign, saying she’s “decided to stand aside” in the wake of her sixth place finish in the Iowa precinct caucuses. Speaking deliberatively at a news conference in Des Moines, Bachmann said she had “no regrets” whatsoever and said she ran her race with integrity and will continue to fight for the causes she emphasized on the campaign trail.
It has been a long, deep slide for the Minnesota congresswoman, who enjoyed a high point in her campaign when she won a Republican straw poll in Ames, Iowa several months ago. In her statement, Bachmann referred repeatedly to “Obamacare” and said the Republican Party must not miss a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to repeal both the sweeping health care law under Obama’s watch and the financial regulation law known as Dodd-Frank.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An adviser says last-place Iowa caucus finisher Michelle Bachmann is ending her presidential campaign. That leaves her supporters up for grabs as Rick Santorum tries to establish himself as the conservative heavyweight in the Republican race. Santorum’s near-tie with caucus winner Mitt Romney topped a rise from deep in the polls to contender for the presidential nomination. Like Bachmann, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took a blow in the caucuses — finishing fifth — and he was flying home to decide whether to stay in the race.
Meanwhile, a smiling Romney jetted off to New Hampshire, telling reporters that landslides are terrific but he’d settle for his eight-vote margin of victory. The Bachmann adviser spoke on condition of anonymity before her expected announcement Wednesday morning.
The Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold a Special Session Thursday morning, at the courthouse in Greenfield. During the 9:30-a.m. meeting, the Board will hear from Cass-Adair County Engineer Charles Marker, with regard to Fiscal Year 2013 requests for: the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) Program; Road clearing and Weeds. The Board will also discuss Tax Increment Financing (TIF), and Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) Projects.
A man arrested in Taylor County is lucky to be alive, after tests showed his Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) was three and one-half times the legal limit for intoxication in Iowa. According to the Lenox Police Department, 30-year old Clint A. Auger was arrested at around 6:40-p.m., Tuesday, after authorities were called to the Parking lot of Cheese’s Grocery store, in response to an intoxicated male.
Officials say Auger, who refused to provide an address where he lived, was found to be in possession of two half-consumed bottles of Vodka. Following a preliminary breath test, which indicated his blood alcohol content was at .298, Auger was arrested and transported to the Taylor county jail on a charge of public intoxication.
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