Fort Madison

(Fort Madison, IA) – A motorcycle crash late Saturday night in southeast Iowa’s Lee County resulted in two people being hurt. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2017 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by 28-year-old Todd Helmick, of Argyle (IA) was traveling south on U-S Highway 61, just north of 185th Street at around 11:20-p.m., when […]

Charles Edward Case, 34, of Fort Madison, Iowa, passed away at 1:43 a.m. Thursday, June 25, 2026, at his home. He was born on January 14, 1992, at Martin Army Community […]

Tina L. Summers, 53, of Keokuk, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center in Fort Madison, Iowa. Tina was born on July 23, 1972, in Keokuk, Iowa, the daughter of Harvey “Skip” Gipe, Jr, and Patty Joan Coovert. She graduated from Hamilton High [...]

Edith Marie “Edie” (Breitenstein) Shaffer, 91, of Birkwood Village in Fort Madison, Iowa, formerly of Farmington, Iowa, passed away at 6:50 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at Birkwood Village. […]

Sharma Lee Herrera, 70, of Fort Madison, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at her home. Sharma was born on April 30, 1956, in Exeter, California, the daughter of Charles and Maudie Evelyn (Ashby) Newell. She was later united in marriage to Alejandro Lopez Herrera in 1978 in [...]

Michael H. Pezley, 79, of Donnellson, Iowa, passed away at 2:37 p.m. Monday, June 8, 2026 at the Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center in Fort Madison, Iowa. He was born on […]