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ANDREW DUANE LEWIS, 32, of Carroll died Saturday, December 14th at his home in Carroll. Funeral services for ANDREW DUANE LEWIS will be held on Wednesday, December 18th at 11:00am at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lidderdall. The Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll has the arrangements.
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Friends may call on Tuesday from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll.
The casket will be moved to the church at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday where visitation will resume until the time of service.
Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery near Lidderdale.
ANDREW DUANE LEWIS is survived by:
Fiancé: Stacy Sporleder of Carroll.
Children: Jordan Jacobsen of Omaha, NE; Kane, Angelica, and Emma Lewis of Carroll, and Xavier Lewis-Sporleder of Carroll.
Mother: Susan (Marc) Lewis-Holm of Defiance
Father: Rodney (Rhonda) Lewis of Carroll
Brother: Rudy (Candice) Lewis of Little Sioux
Step-Brother: Ryan (Bri) Pille of Waterloo
Step-Sister: Lyndsie (Kevin) Kammin of Carroll;
Grandparents: Alice Martinez of Irwin; Richard Straw of Nebraska City, NE; Karen Lewis of Red Oak.
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Home prices in Iowa were up, but overall sales were down in November, compared to a year ago. That’s according to a new report from the Iowa Association of Realtors. The incoming I-A-R president for 2014, Kathy Miller of Sioux City, says the average sale price of an Iowa home increased four-percent to $153,683 last month. The median sale price was also up four-percent, growing from $125,000 in November 2012 to $130,000 this November. The total home sales dipped only slightly, with 2,749 homes sold this November compared to 2,795 in 2012.
In addition to the rising prices, sellers are also benefiting from a drop in the “days on the market” figure — or DOM. In November 2012, the DOM was 101, while this year the report shows just 81 DOM, a decrease of nearly 20-percent. Miller says it’s still an excellent time for buying a home, as interest rates are averaging around 4.25-percent.
“What I’m seeing…is lower days on the market, low interest rates, and positive growth in prices. It’s a strong housing market for both buyers and sellers,” Miller says. In terms of year-to-date, home sales in Iowa have increased 7.7 percent this year over last.
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ROBERT STERNER, 84, of Willey, died Tue., Dec. 17th, at home. A Mass of Christian Burial service for ROBERT STERNER will be held 1-p.m. Sat., Dec. 21st, at St. Mary’s Church in Willey. Ohde-Twitt Funeral Home in Carroll has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3-p.m. Friday (12/20), where a Rosary will be held at 4-p.m. and a Prayer service at 6-p.m. Visitation will resume at Noon on Saturday, at the funeral home.
Burial will be in the St. Mary’s Cemetery.
ROBERT STERNER is survived by:
His wife – Bessie Sterner, of Willey.
His daughter – Susan Chism, of St. Cloud, FL.
7 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
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AMES, Iowa (AP) — A livestock specialist at Iowa State University says falling corn prices are generating some optimism that cattle farmers can again make money. Historically high corn prices during the last several years drove up the cost of feed and many producers cut herd numbers as drought intensified.
Lee Schulz, a livestock specialist and assistant professor of economics, says producers have been in survival mode but are beginning to talk about expansion. There’s interest in building new facilities and growing herds. Feedlots made money on cattle sold in October, breaking a long streak of monthly losses.
He says it will take several years to build the herd with increased calf crops and increasing cattle supplies because of the time it takes for calves to mature.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa says it will launch a new design for its home web page for the first time since 2008. The university says the changes aim to improve a site that has been visited 11 times by 2.4 million people this year. University official Lin Larson offered a preview of the changes in a university article posted online Tuesday. He says the redesign “isn’t just a facelift, but a fresh start.”
He says the new site should make menus simpler to navigate and work better on mobile devices. Larson says the designers chose to make information for new users one central focus of the page, www.uiowa.edu.