Deaths in Linn County Chronicle list and memorials
Carl R Spaw 86 of Cedar Rapids died February 7 1994 at home after a sudden illness. Services 7 PM tonight at Cedar Memorial and 11 AM Thursday at Eddyville Memorial Chapel. Burial at Eddyville Cemetery. Nelle Kathleen Thacker 96 died February 4 1994 in Sylmar California privately mourned with Stewart Funeral Home services. Elizabeth A Cahill 85 Living Center East died February 7 1994 with services and burial at Cedar Memorial Park. Irma G Lazare 93 Kansas City Kan died February 6 1994 with services at First Presbyterian Church Marshalltown. Otto Kohl 71 Palatka Fla formerly Cedar Rapids died January 31 1994 cremated no service. Margaret Elaine Sieh private services at Cedar Memorial. Elaine V Ella Toms memorial services scheduled at Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories.
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Nelle Kathleen Thacker
Cedar Rapids
Pine Ridge
Sylmar
Calif
Stewart Funeral Home
Scott Bullock
St. Matthew’s Catholic Church
Mount Calvary Cemetery
John
Pattie
Robert
Lorene
Nelle
Irma G. Lazare
Kansas City
Kan
Geneva Towers
Presbyterian Manor
First Presbyterian Church
Marshalltown
Thomas Bower
Riverside Cemetery
Purser-Davis Funeral Home
Wayne
Renown
Carlene Beasley
Bellingham, W
Velma Wintz
Des Moines
Carl
Paul
Center Junction
Sheldon W
Hattie M. Witham Pangburn
Carl S. Lazare
Irma
Iowa
Oxford Junction
Onslow
Olin
Centerville
B.P.W
Otto Kohl
Palatka, Fla
Palatka
Chicago
Margaret Elaine Sieh
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Mercy Medical Center
Elaine V
Ella” Toms
Cedar Memorial Chapel of
Glenn Bender
First Congregational Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Central City Historical Society
Central City
Funeral notices headlined for Kinzie Kucera and Mustonen
Three funeral services are listed with times and locations. Donald H Kinzie to be entombed at Cedar Memorial Park. Miriam E Kucera honored at Has Memorial Presbyterian Church with burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Eino Mustonen to be laid to rest at Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation details are provided for each.
Arrangements Pending for Richard J Noonan
Richard J Noonan age 62 of 1635 24th St NW died February 8 1994 at Mercy Medical Center after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Teahen Funeral Home.
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Richard J. Noonan
24Th St. NW
Mercy Medical Center
Teahen Funeral Home
Death notices and obituaries guidelines and rates
The Gazette publishes death notices and obituaries with immediate survivors as a news item on the page. Additional material such as survivors, employment, education, and hobbies costs 35 cents per word, with second-day notices also at 35 cents per word. For help call 398-8221.
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Obituaries for Roger Vine and Thomas Pless in Iowa deaths
Roger A. Vine aged 66 died February 7 1994 in Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services scheduled 1 p.m. Thursday at Fjelstul Funeral Home with burial in Lutheran Cemetery. survivors include sister Irene Drew and brothers Donald and Harold. Thomas C. Pless aged 76 died February 7 1994 in Country View Nursing Home Waterloo after a long illness. Services 11 a.m. Thursday at St John Lutheran Church. burial in Fairbank Cemetery. survivors include two brothers Jacob and John and three sisters Louise Reiter Ettalena Hein Mae Klenzman plus nieces and nephews. Pless was a World War II Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient.
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Roger A. Vine
Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital
Fjelstul Funeral Home
Lutheran Cemetery
Irene Drew
Decorah
Donald
Harold
Waukon
Thomas C. Pless
Country View
Louise Reiter
Westgate
Ettalena Hein
Fairbank
Mae Klenzman
Sumner
Thomas
Obituary notices collect life tributes across Iowa and Illinois
The notice lists multiple deaths from February 1994 including Christopher Scarff aged 2 months in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin and Marilyn Coffman 61 in Des Moines Iowa. Also named are Clarence Pins 81 Guttenberg Iowa Dennis Kennedy 89 Wellman Iowa Robert Harris Sr. 75 Postville Iowa Genevieve Petratz 85 Sumner Iowa and Lynn Neuhart 49 Glen Ellyn Illinois. Survivors and service details are given for each, with burial and church or funeral home information.
Paul Kramer 91 Dies After Brief Illness in Strawberry Point
Paul Kramer 91 formerly of Dundee died Tuesday February 8 1994 at Strawberry Point Lutheran Home after a brief illness. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday Emanuel Lutheran Church Burial Strawberry Point Cemetery friends may call 2 to 8 p.m. Friday Roberson Funeral Home Survivors include two daughters Pauline Seden Stone Mountain GA Shirley Dorland Marion a son Gary Lena IL nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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Marilyn Jooyce Coffman
Urbandale
North English
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
English River
Church of the Brethren
South English
Powell Funeral Home
Donald
Teresa Mether
Antioch
Tenn
Debra Coffman
Daniel
Medford
Mass
Paul Kramer
Dundee
Strawberry Point Lutheran
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Strawberry Point
Roberson Funeral Home
Pauline Seden
Stone Mountain
Shirley Dorland
Marion
Gary
Lena
Ill
Death Notice John M. Hoker 68 in Iowa City
John M. Hoker 68 of Wheatland died Feb 7 1994 at Veterans Affairs Medical Center Iowa City after a long illness Services 10:30 am Thursday at Christian Free Lutheran Church with Rev Tim Carlson Burial in St Pauls Cemetery Friends may call 4 to 8 pm today at Chapman Funeral Home Wheatland Survived by daughter Kathy Gilbert and son John W both of Wheatland Six grandchildren and four other relatives listed in obituary
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Carl R. Spaw
Pioneer Ave
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Charles Lang
All Saints Catholic Church
Eddyville Memorial Chapel
Eddyville
Eddyville Cemetery
Jack
Richard
Cedar Rapids
Carolyn Armitage
Pittsburgh
Georgia Reed
Seattle
Alice May
Mr. Spaw
Des Moines
William
Alice Spaw
Agnes M. Shaw
Boone
Dahl
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Veterans Shuttle
Jack Spaw
31St St. SE
Robert William
Bill” Harris Sr
Good Samaritan Center
Waukon
St. Paul Lutheran Church
R. Michael Brown
Postville
Schutte Funeral Home
John M. Hoker
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Iowa City
Christian Free Lutheran Church
Tim Carlson
St. Paul’s Cemetery
Chapman Funeral Home
Wheatland
Kathy Gilbert
John W
Russian astronomer hails shared US Soviet space efforts
Russian Academy of Sciences official Alexander Gurshtein says joint US Russian space missions mark a key step toward broader cooperation. He notes the Discovery shuttle flight with Sergei Krikalev as emblem of future joint ventures and compares space collaboration to Antarctica’s international science model.
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Johnson County
Iowa City
Earth
Sergei Krikalev
Space
Alexander Gurshtein
Antarctica
Gurshtein
Russian Academy of Sciences
Soviet Union
Former Nagle aide to head FEMA post
Waterloo farmer John Miller will lead FEMA Region Seven in Kansas City Missouri. a former aide to Rep Dave Nagle will be sworn in February 14 in Washington. Miller coordinated flood recovery in six Iowa Northland counties and aided FEMA during the 1988 drought, bringing farm and state government insight to the region.
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Waterloo
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Kansas City
John Miller
Dave Nagle
Iowa
Washington
FEMA
James Lee Witt
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Parents sue to secure school aid for girl with cerebral palsy
Cedar Rapids couple Craig and Susan Pettit file a federal lawsuit in Cedar Rapids seeking an injunction and costs to obtain a classroom assistant for their 7 year old daughter Jessica who attends private St. Joseph's School in Marion. The suit names Linn-Mar school district Grant Wood Area Education Agency and Iowa Department of Education arguing denial of services violates the ADA.
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Dick Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Craig
Susan Pettit
Jessica
St. Joseph’s School
Marion
U.S. District Court
Linn-Mar
Grant Wood Area
Iowa Department of
Davenport teacher disciplined for showing R rated films
Davenport AP The school board disciplined a Smart Junior High School teacher after two R rated movies Menace II Society and CB4 were shown on January 13 and 14. Parent Roberta Perrault presented board members with a sheet describing a scene from one film. Principal Bruce Potts said the screenings were not appropriate for the school.
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Davenport
Smart Junior High
Bruce Potts
Couple Married 72 Years Found Dead in Milford Garage
Ernest Leitch aged 94 and his wife Mary 92 were discovered in their Milford garage by a neighbor. Authorities say exposure to cold weather likely caused their deaths. no car was in the garage. Mary reportedly entered the garage Monday afternoon and may have fallen, with Ernest later entering to help and becoming unable to return indoors.
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Milford
Ernest Leitch
Mary
Dickinson County
Jeff Goerss
Ernest
Deadline Friday to register for Iowa Senate District 25 special election
Friday at 5 p.m. marks the registration deadline for voters in Iowa Senate District 25. The vacancy, created by Richard Varn’s resignation and Robert Dvorsky’s move to the Senate race, centers in northern Johnson and southern Linn counties with polls across Cedar Rapids Iowa City Coralville North Liberty Solon Sutliff Lisbon Mount Vernon Ely Shueyville Swisher Fairfax Oxford and Tiffin. Rosie Dalton of Iowa City is the Republican opponent.
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Iowa
Senate
Johnson County
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Coralville
North Liberty
Solon
Sutliff
Lisbon
Mount Vernon
Ely
Shueyville
Swisher
Fairfax
Oxford
Tiffin
Richard Varn
University of Northern Iowa
Telecommunications
Robert Dvorsky
House
Rosie Dalton
Lows City
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Fort Smith, Ark
Elizabeth A. Cahill
Living Center East
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Ed Davis
Maranatha Bible Church
Patricia Sanger
Elsie Lewis
Billingham
Wash
Jacqueline Westphal
Elizabeth
Sigourney
Charles
Minnie Reynolds Bales
Harold T. Cahill
Turner Microphone
Alzheimer’s Research
Michigan Ave
Marshall Swanson
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
Donald H. Kinzie
Nick Longworth
Miriam E. Kucera
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Oluf Kongshaug
John Gilmore
Guttenberg
Anoka, Minn
Sarah May
McGregor
Christopher C. Scarff
David
Lisa Scarff
Memorial Hospital
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Thornburg Funeral Home
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Crystal
Tiffany
Clarence W. Pins
Guttenberg Municipal Hospital
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Holy Trinity Cemetery
Luxemburg
Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home
Wilma
Duane
Dennis Kennedy
Parkview Manor
Wellman
Joseph Sparks
First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Donahue
Donna
Robert Jr
Bradley
Fort Atkinson
Paulette Schultz
Johnston
Virgil
West Chicago
Bishop
Beulah Schultz
Ruth Barham
Sparta
Lula Kruse
Luana
T. Genevieve Flatford Petratz
Hillcrest
Arnold Kirschner
Ww. Petratz
Wilson Grove
Becker-Milnes Funeral
Howard
St. Louis
Lynn A. Neuhart
Glen Ellyn
University of Chicago Hospital
St. James Catholic Church
Elm Grove Cemetery
Eden Funeral Home
Karen
Rio Rico
Ariz
Christopher
Aurora
Beatrice
Molokai
Hawaii
Rex
Laird
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Nagle
C.R
Grant Wood Aea
Pettits
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