AVOCA -- Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Avoca for Richard Russmann, 85, Avoca.

    IRWIN -- Funeral services for Stuart O’hara, 49, Irwin, will be Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. at United Methodist Church in Irwin.    More information is pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home, Harlan. 

    OMAHA, NE -- David Lee Anderson, 25, Omaha, NE, died September 6 at Creighton University Medical Center.    Private visitation for family and close friends will be held at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.    Anderson is survived by mother Mary Schwery of Omaha; maternal grandfather Richard Schwery of Panama; aunts Michele Schwery of Panama, Connie Carmody of Woodbine, and Christel (Greg) Kelley of Woodbine; and uncles Leo (Jan) Schwery

    HARLAN - A Celebration of Life for Janice (Derby) Palmer will be held at Fresh Encounter Fellowship, 1003 Tarkington Street in Harlan on Saturday, September 17 at noon.    At this informal event, lunch will be served. Please contact Tom Palmer at 425-802-7187 or email at tomdpalmer@comcast.net if you plan to attend. 

HARLAN – A former Harlan Community High School student helped design the landscape of a portion of Iowa State University’s campus this past spring, a project that was part of Iowa State’s Arbor Day.    Katrina Knudsen, now a graduate assistant in the Horticulture Department at ISU and a 2012 graduate of HCHS, is a member of the Graduate Student Horticulure Society (GSHS), and helped design Witchhazel Walk between Horticulture Hall and Osborn D

HARLAN – An Ames, IA-based firm who has plans to develop a salmon production facility in Harlan offered nearly 30 area investors and residents an inside look at their business plan as well as an opportunity to be a ground-floor investor in the project.            The Tuesday meeting at the Therkildsen Center was one of six held across Iowa allowing the company to tell their story of what could be Iowa’s third inland fish operation.    The comp

    IRWIN - “We must remember these American Heroes and speak their names when we see their family members.

    HARLAN -- The family of Mary Schmitz is planning a card shower in honor of her 90th birthday on September 18.

PERSIA -- Lois Albers of Persia will celebrate her 80th birthday on September 12. Her family is honoring her with a card shower in celebration of her birthday. Cards will reach her if sent to P.O. Box 34, Persia, IA 51563.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––    Birthday Milestone stories and photos are published free of charge in the newspaper on a Family Living page.