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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1988
Page
11
Obituary notices list Kalee D Waters 49 of Cedar Rapids and Harold Klingler 79 of Mesa former Linn County resident among others. Includes Mary J Thompson 52 Davenport and Ben Cook 83 Cedar Rapids area death notices with service details and funeral home arrangements.
Ellanora M. Bond age 83 of 830 22nd Ave SW died Thursday afternoon in St Luke’s Hospital. Murdoch Linwood Funeral Home handles arrangements.
Ruth Hundley 72 died after a short illness at Anamosa Community Hospital. Survivors include a daughter Luanne Crofts and three sons, plus a sister, seven grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Services 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St Paul Lutheran Church. Burial Union Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 tonight at Fawcett's Lamont. Florence Baish 80 died after a short illness at Covenant Medical Center Waterloo. Survivors include brothers Elmer and Carl Santman and sister Lucile Underwood. Services 10 a.m. Saturday at United Methodist Church. Burial Dysart Cemetery. Friends may call after 10 a.m. today at Overton's.
Edna B. Burns 60 of Hopkinton died Thursday in Delaware County Memorial Hospital Manchester. Survivors include husband Robert three sons William Marion Gary Hopkinton Steven Dubuque two daughters Charlene Johnson Oskaloosa Janice Trenary Ryan two brothers Loren Smith La Porte City Glen Smith Manchester mother Emma Smith Manchester 11 grandchildren two great grandchildren. Services 10 30 a m Saturday at St John s Lutheran Church Hopkinton burial Hopkinton Cemetery friends may call after 1 p m today at Goettsch s Hopkinton memorial fund established.
Daniel P. Baustian 25 formerly of Brooklyn and North Platte Neb died July 18 in a helicopter crash at sea near San Francisco. He served as an aviation structural mechanic in the Navy. Survivors include wife Helene daughter Stephanie and parents Rita and Gerald. Memorial services set for 2 30 p m Sunday at St Patrick s Catholic Church. Neuenhoven s obituary lists 86 year old Leo Volimecke who died in New Hampton following a short illness. He was a retired farmer. Survivors include wife Mary four sons three daughters and 12 grandchildren. Services 11 a m Saturday at St John s Catholic Church burial in church cemetery. Friends may call 2 to 9 p m today at Chekal s with rosary at 3 p m and parish Scripture service at 8 p m.
Moscow reporters say the 400 year old St Basil's Cathedral faces cracked walls a leaky basement and moisture damage but remains open to keep tourism income flowing to the State Historical Museum. The paper notes the cathedral earns about 300000 rubles annually while the adjacent museum undergoes repairs.
DES MOINES Spinners won 40000 on the Iowa Lottery Wheel last night, but the 1000000 jackpot remained unclaimed. Winners of 10000 include Barbara Meyer Dougherty Lester Flo and William White. Five thousand dollar prizes went to Harold Schoolen and Anna Decou. Next week's finalists are William Toye Patty Glau Tamara Cheramy and Cletus Apel.
Illinois lottery report shows the Thursday Lotto draw with numbers 6 54 and the jackpot listed as 5 million dollars. No additional prize details were provided in the brief.
Aug 4 and Aug 3 birth notices list new parents and newborns at Mercy and St Luke’s hospitals. Lifelong families include Dawson, Hackman, Teslow, Elderbrook, Sodman, Freese, Bertrand, Hagerty, Petersen, Roach, Trosky, Ford, Evans, and Halstead with various addresses in Swisher Marion and nearby areas.
List of marriage licenses granted including Carlos Vega and Amy R. Mochal, Robert L. Pemble and Teresa R. Brummer, James A. Haufle and Leona L. Reed, Christopher E. Edwards and Jeanne L. Meyer, James R. Swenson and Lisa S. Schroeder, Leonard J. Thompson and Linda M. Merck, Christopher J. Swanke and Gretchen L. Lorber, all of Cedar Rapids. Also Donald W. Styron and Lorraine S. Lund of Vinton, Douglas A. Ness of Marion with Michele L. Miner of Luzerne, and Joseph R. Hayes of Excelsior, Minn. with Ann K. Nordstrom of Minnetonka, Minn.
Clarisse T. Maxlow 87 died Thursday morning at Peoples Nursing Care Center. Survived by two daughters Catherine Drews Round Lake Illinois and Patricia Shaver Washington Iowa, two brothers Erwin and Walter Blanchard Pine City Minnesota, a sister Mildred Christenson Waterloo, five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Funeral 11 a.m. Saturday at White's. burial Mount Hope Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today. Rebekah service at 7:30 tonight.
Inez D. McLeish 94 a retired Oelwein area schoolteacher died after a lengthy illness Wednesday in Grandview Care Center. Survivors include three stepsons Elmer and Charles and Andrew. a stepdaughter Margaret Hughson. stepgrandchildren. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday Brant Kern Jamison funeral home burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Memorials to Grace United Methodist Church.
Agnes Balk 92 of Minneapolis formerly of Waucoma died of natural causes Wednesday in a Minneapolis hospital. Survived by three daughters Suzanne Kretzschmer Fort Worth Texas Rosemary Lovett Richfield Minn Phyllis Finnelly Redmond Wash a son Thomas Novi Mich a sister Elizabeth Krick Blue Island Ill 19 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren Services set for 11am Saturday at St Marys Catholic following 930am Saturday at Waucoma Funeral Chapel.
Sailors aboard the USS Forrestal report a ghost named George haunting below deck areas including a former morgue. Accounts describe flickering lights, moving doors, disembodied voices, and a ladder descent to pump room No 1. Navy officials call it a lighthearted, even “cute” piece, though several sailors insist the sightings are real and unsettling.
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