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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1992
Page
8
Obituaries summarize deaths in Linn County including Dr. W Leslie Garnett 98 of Cedar Rapids with extensive career. Lester Horak 78 of Cedar Rapids. David Montague 57 of Cedar Rapids. Frances Brandt Palmer 80 formerly of Cedar Rapids. Gertrude Delbridge 99 of Marion. Services, burial details, survivors and memorials listed.
Mark A Welu 26 of Dubuque dies at home. Visitation 2 9 p m today at Hoffmann Schneider Funeral Home. Services 11 a m Wednesday Resurrection Church with burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Survivors include parents David and Carol and siblings Jane Schollmeyer and Julie. Welu Printing Co. executive also served in Dubuque and Cedar Rapids. Nellie L Avis 2 p m today Murdoch Funeral Home Marion burial Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Jordan Dighton funeral 10 30 a m today Murdoch Linwood Funeral Home with viewing after 9 30 a m burial Linwood Cemetery. Phillip C Wright 81 of 203 Robins Rd Hiawatha dies Monday at Crestview Acres Nursing Home Marion after long illness. Services Thursday Cedar Memorial Funeral Home arrangements pending.
Raymond Monty 86 dies after long illness at home in Brooklyn burial at Brooklyn Cemetery services Thursday at First Presbyterian Church. Marian Telford 88 dies in Aase Haugen Home with cremation. Alfred Fritz Ovel 76 dies in Dubuque services Thursday St Francis Xavier Basilica burial church cemetery. Edith M. Kenyon 98 dies in Good Neighbor Home arrangements pending. Roy Milton Olson 84 dies in Cedar Rapids services Thursday Trinity Lutheran Norway burial Norway Cemetery. Virginia Esther Whipple Holmes 75 dies in Cedar Rapids memorial services Wednesday Phillips Funeral Home Chapel burial Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg. Paul G. Wells 94 dies at home arrangements pending. Irene C. Vavroch 63 dies in Marshalltown lung cancer services Thursday St Patrick Tama burial Tama. Dayton Countryman 2-month-old son of Angie Countryman dies. arrangements pending.
Douglas E. Dobbs 35 died Monday at home. Services 10 a.m. Thursday at Jones Funeral Home with burial at Welsh Cemetery Sharon Center. Friends may call Wednesday afternoon at the funeral home from 7 to 8 30 p.m. Survivors include wife Meg two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth a son Brian all at home his parents Herbert and Joyce of Detroit Mich and two brothers Herbert Jr. and Graeme of Detroit.
The Gazette lists submission hours for death notices and obituaries and notes that immediate survivors and a photo may be published as a news item. Additional material such as survivors and activities is billed at 35 cents per word, with second-day and out-of-town notices also charged at that rate.
Iowa state receipts rose 5.5 percent in January, with total January receipts at 277 million and year-to-date near 1.753 billion. Dennis Prouty notes corporate income tax gains and use tax jumps offset slower personal income and sales tax growth amid shopping caution and a weak national economy.
Charles Morehead Wright, 34, of Waterloo, allegedly threatened Hy-Vee staff with a handgun to steal two hams worth 22.79 each, then tried to return them for a cash refund hours later. He was arrested, charged with first degree robbery, and held on 25,000 dollars bond after a court appearance.
Mercy hospital reports February 2 births to Kathy and Kevin Bye a daughter. Sarah and Thomas Anderson a daughter. Denise and Phil Pape a son. St Luke's notes February 2 Darlene and Stewart Galloway a son at 122 12th St NW and February 3 Janet and Marvin Moffitt a son in Vinton.
The University of Northern Iowa posted a spring 1992 enrollment of 12,207, the first spring total above 12,000. Registrar Philip Patton noted an increase of 341 students or 2.9 percent from 1991, with 11,037 undergraduates and 1,170 graduates.
The Washington County medical examiner ruled 35 year old Douglas Dobbs of Washington Iowa died of accidental strangulation by hanging. He died at his home on Monday.
Kevin Leslie Harris 33 dies in a head-on collision on Dunkerton Road after crossing the center line into a westbound semi. Driver of the other truck, Kermit Bruner 33 of London Kentucky, suffers minor injuries. sheriff's deputies report.
A Des Moines man, 61 year old Raymond Maurice Bristow, died Monday when his two seat homemade plane crashed in a cornfield west of Boone. He was alone, and the FAA was to investigate. no witnesses were reported.
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