Ames High School Iowa Alumni Obituaries

Martha Lu McDonald McBride of Topsham Maine died on June 5 2025. She was born in Fairmont Minnesota on May 6 1939 to Neil John McDonald and Villa May Enblom McDonald. She grew up in Fairmont Minnesota on Hall Lake with her parents and younger sister Ann McDonald Nelson and younger brother Bruce McDo...

(Mary) Jane Carter Milnes, daughter of James Cloyse and Flora Edna (Ball) Carter, was born February 4, 1927, in Appanoose County, near Plano, Iowa. Reared in a Christian home, she professed her belief in Jesus Christ as her savior at an early age and was baptized at the age of 12 in the Chariton Riv...

of El Dorado passed away Thursday November 20 2025 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born December 28 1939 in Damar Kansas to Joseph George Favreau and Sadie Hannah Loretta Kerr. She was the 4th of 13 children from this marriage. Ramona married Levi Francis Brault in 1957 at St. Marys C...

Philip Edgar Nesse 77 of Bellingham WA passed away on Thursday December 18th at Island Hospital in Anacortes WA. Born on October 7 1948 in Ames Iowa Phil was the son of Edgar and Ruth Huus Nesse. Raised during a time when conservation was gaining national momentum this early influence sparked a love...

Melba Jane Stocker 75 of Jacksonville Illinois and formerly of Arenzville and Carthage died Friday December 5 2025 at her home. She was born on June 11 1950 in Jacksonville the daughter of Martin and Mary Wilson Joeckel. She is survived by her niece Christina Bill Hannah of Lawrenceville GA great ni...

Harold Lee Andy Anderson 100 passed away Monday Jan. 5 at Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Bloomington where he had recently moved to be near his daughter. Born on June 11 1925 in Monmouth he was the seventh of Robert and Grace Dean Andersons eight children. Harold graduated from Good Hope High Schoo...

Ross Allen Knotts, 56, of Morgantown, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 11, 2026. Born in Ames, Iowa, on September 4, 1969, to Darlene Herndon and Eugene Knotts. Ross wa...

Victor Herbert Moss, 81, of Ames, Iowa passed away January 9, 2026 surrounded by his loving family. Vic was born March 7, 1944, to Alta and James Moss in Webb City, Missouri. He...