OAKLAND -- Christopher Burton Summers, 52, Oakland, died April 8 at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs.    Services will be held Wednesday, April 13 at 10:30 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation is Tuesday, April 12 from 5-7 p.m.

    PANAMA -- Cole Robert Findlay, 63, Panama, died April 8 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Friday, April 15 at 3 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation will be Friday from 1-3 p.m.

    AVOCA -- Norman D. Nelsen, 80, Avoca, formerly of Harlan, died Saturday, April 9 in Avoca.    Services will be held Wednesday, April 13 at 11:30 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  Friends may call Tuesday, April 13 from 3-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    AVOCA -- Charles “Charlie” Carl Christiansen, 70, Avoca, died April 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Sunday, April 10 at 1:30 p.m.

    PEORIA, IL -- Patrick “Pat” Vern Finken, 58, Peoria, IL, formerly of Harlan, died Wednesday, Dec. 2 in Peoria.    Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with interment in the Harlan Cemetery immediately following mass.    Finken’s brothers and sisters will greet family and friends at the church starting at 10:15 a.m. Saturday. 

    PANAMA -- “Alice from Westphalia” will celebrate her 90th birthday. Alice (Kaufmann) Wegner will mark her 90th birthday on April 14. Her birthday address is P.O. Box 8, Panama, IA 51562.    Alice’s family includes Phil and Carol Wegner, Panama; Ruth Huebert, Panama, and the late Bob Huebert; Norma and Jan Randall, Cando, ND; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and one step-great-grandson. 

    KIMBALLTON -- The family of Margaret Christensen is hosting a card shower in honor of her 90th birthday on April 23. Cards will reach her if sent to 2344 1200th Street, Kimballton, IA 51543.      Margaret and husband, Orvie, have been married for 70 years.

    TENNANT -- Jamie and Kristi Hockett of Tennant will celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary on April 12.    The couple’s children and their spouses are Jessica and Derek Woellhof, Portsmouth, VA; Angela and Ryan Avis, Treynor; and Joshua and Jodi Hockett, Kansas City, MO. The Hocketts have six grandchildren. 

    HARLAN – Myrtue Medical Center announced the addition of Sarah Mgonja, DNP-FNP, a Nurse Practitioner.  Sarah will join Myrtue on August 1, 2016.    Sarah Mgonja received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Creighton University and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Upper Iowa University.