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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1994
Page
8
A run of obituaries from Linn County notes Stata A Hogan Bading 90 Cedar Rapids area. Ruza Paidar Stackhouse 85 North Hollywood CA. William Lee Hamilton 68 Tipton. Marvel M Fitzsimmons 92 Cedar Rapids. Fred E Greenwell 56 Iowa Falls. Details include birth and death dates, service times, burial places, survivors, and funeral home arrangements.
Guy Trout aged 96 of Webster City dies at Windsor Care Center Cedar Falls services set 10:30 a m Thursday Foster Funeral Home Webster City burial Graceland Cemetery survivors include daughter Dorothy Hotchkiss of Cedar Rapids Eugene J Kiefer 70 of 1212 Vernon Hills Blvd SE dies at Mercy Medical Center arrangements pending Cathy Ann Hughes memorial set 2:30 p m Wednesday First Presbyterian Church calls 4 9 p m today Murdoch Linwood Funeral Donald McCalley services 10:30 a m today Linwood Cemetery burial Kenwood Park United Methodist Church with Cedar Chapter 184 ces Rev Martin Miller officiating Genevieve Marie Morris service 3 p m today Kenwood Park United Methodist Church burial Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery memorial donations to church or donor choice.
The Eastern Iowa notice lists Herman Wagenknecht 89 of Washington died April 3 after a long illness with services at Jones Funeral Home and burial in Oregon Township Cemetery Ainsworth. Edward Fratzke 75 of Brandon died April 3 in Cedar Rapids. graveside service at Mount Hope Independence. Multiple survivors listed for each profile. locals attend services in Keystones and nearby towns.
Erma Gibbs 89 died April 3 1994 at Good Samaritan Home West Union after illness. Services April 6 Illyria Community Church Elgin burial Strawberry Point Cemetery. Survivors: three sons Arnold Reese Wayne and Barbara Borchert. Marie C Manderscheid 385 Stonehill Dubuque formerly Zwingle died April 2 1994 at Mercy Health Center St. Joseph Unit Dubuque. Services April 6 at Saint Marys La Motte burial Mount Olivet Cemetery Dubuque. Memorial fund established.
Gazette senior editor Ken Sullivan reports that Fred Grandy defends a strategy to cut taxes and shrink spending to spur economic growth in Iowa. He argues the plan prioritizes prosperity and targeted investment over favors while Branstad calls it naive. Grandy also questions centralizing child support collections, urging local pressure to improve effectiveness.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Fred Grandy said he will concentrate his primary campaign in Eastern Iowa and Des Moines where about 60 percent of GOP voters reside. He plans weekly visits to the Iowa City Cedar Rapids area before the June 7 primary and defended his voting record while critiquing Branstad’s attacks.
AP reports two inmates fled from a Fort Madison minimum security prison farm around 7 last night. Police search for Jeffrey Jordan age 23 serving five years for drunken driving and burglary and James Husted age 26 serving ten years for assault with intent to inflict serious injury, carrying a concealed weapon, willful injury and burglary.
Edward Deases 25, already serving two life terms for murder, was one of two inmates involved in an escape attempt at a state penitentiary. He and Kenny McKettrick, 27, broke from an exercise area, fashioned weapons from broom handles, and sparked a guard assault during capture efforts. Deases had earlier killed Joseph Perea and Jennifer Gardner.
Kristy Prokop a 26 year old morning radio host for KKAR was abducted in Council Bluffs at about 4 30 a m and driven to a Bloomington Minnesota suburb where she was released unharmed She called her husband around 10 30 a m and described being kidnapped at knife point after leaving a store and was later freed by an unknown man
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