Deaths in Linn County and surrounding area
Obituaries from Linn County list Glen E. Behymer 33 of Ottumwa and Elmer J. Bear 87 of Heritage Acres among others. Behymer died at home after illness. services Friday in Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories with burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Bear died at Heritage Acres. services Friday at Turner Chapel East and burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Additional notices include Dick Arp, Bernice Fellwock, Bernice Ruth Pierce, Connie Riley, and Ralph Webster with service times, burial sites, and survivors noted where available. Names, birthplaces, family relations, and memorial funds are listed for each.
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Glen E. Behymer
Third St
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Lisa
Jesse
George
Cedar Rapids
Josephine King
Ottumwa
Jack
Linda Baker
Marshalltown
Margorol
Odessa
Rex
Pam Dietz
Diana
Bob Stevens
Chuck
Leona Phelps
Vinton
Ige
Glen
Lisa K. Bergstad
J.R. Painting
L.H. Ruyter
Vinton Assembly of God Church
Elmer J. Bear
Heritage Acres Care Center
Turner Chapel East
Bessie Ernst
Ellen Stevenson
Elgin
Henry
Emma Olson Bear
Dick Arp
Murdoch Funeral Home
Marion
Cedar Memorial Park
Bernice M. Fellwock
Turner Chapel West
Bernice Ruth Pierce
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Zion Cemetery
Colesburg
Connie Ray Riley
Larry Hayward
First Presbyterian Church
Ralph Carl Webster
Teahen Funeral Home
Linwood Cemetery
Arrangements Pending for Lloyd Benesh
Lloyd Benesh aged 73 of 2400 Victoria Dr SW died Tuesday at St. Luke's Hospital after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Brush Chapel. The Gazette publishes basic death notices and obituary details with optional photo and extra material at per word rates.
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Lloyd Benesh
Victoria Dr. SW
St. Luke’s Hospital
Brush Chapel
the Gazette
Obituaries From Ossian and Nearby Iowa Towns
Edna Dummermater 84 died in Ossian Senior Hospice. Services at St. Pauls Lutheran Postville with burial at Hillside Cemetery Ossian. Survivors include brother Palmer Johnson and sisters Esther Johnson and Henrietta Graham. Jane D Bottomley 68 died in Covenant Medical Center Waterloo. Services at Dysart United Methodist Church and burial at Dysart Cemetery. Survivors include husband Bernard, children, siblings and extended family. Mabel O Nesvik 99 died in Decorah Aase Haugen Home. Services at Stavanger Lutheran rural Ossian with burial at church cemetery. no immediate survivors. Peter Harding Sorensen 69 died in Mercy Hospital Iowa City. Services at St. Marys Catholic Church with burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Survivors include wife Dorothy, six sons and two daughters. Lee Harold DeGraw 81 died in Mercy Hospital Oelwein. Services at Brant-Kerns-Jamison Funeral Home Oelwein with burial at Hazleton Cemetery. Survivors include wife Mary, two sons Ralph and Jerry, two daughters Bethena Whitesell and Elsie Walker, grandchildren and a great-grandson. Robert L. Gee 52 died at home after long illness. Services at St. Johns Catholic Church with burial at church cemetery. Survivors include wife Shirley, two sons Douglas and Steven, two daughters Laura and Lisa, father Lacey, sister Carolyn Elliott, brother David, and six grandchildren.
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Edna Dummermater
Ossian Senior Hospice
Ossian
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Postville
Hillside Cemetery
Ossian Funeral Chapel
Palmer Johnson
Esther Johnson
Henrietta Graham
Ida Grove
Jane D. Bottomley
Covenant Medical Center
Waterloo
Dysart United Methodist Church
Dysart Cemetery
Overton Funeral Home
Bernard
David
Cedar Rapids
Patricia Stevn
Jean Black
Manchester
Max Paton
Dawsonville, Ga
June Keidel
Dysart
Jean Mitchell
Rockville, Md
Mabel O. Nesvik
Aase Haugen
Decorah
Stavanger Lutheran Church
Schmitz Funeral Home
Peter Harding Sorensen
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Mount Calvary Cemetery
George L. Gay Oxford Chapel
Dorothy
Larry
Coralville
Mike
Jim
Paul
Oxford
Steve
Chuck
North Liberty
Mary Sue
Diane
Lee Harold DeGraw
Mercy
Robert L. Gee
St. John’s Catholic Church
Church
Reiff Funeral Home
St. John's Rosary Society
Shirley
Douglas
Miles
Steven
Independence
Laura Decker
Lisa White
Lacey
Carolyn Elliott
Fort Myers, Fla
Chicago
Obituaries of Hintz, Severn, Wacha, DeMeulenaere in area churches
Obituaries noteMarc Hintz 77 died after a lengthy illness in Mercy Hospital services at Hintz Geilenfeld Funeral Home and burial at Woodlawn. E M Severn 91 died after a long illness with services at Community Presbyterian Church and burial at Postville Cemetery. James L Wacha 98 died after two months of illness with services at Mason Hand Funeral Home and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo. Agnes C DeMeulenaere Services 10 30 a m today at St Bridgets Church burial Calvary Cemetery preceded by daughter Lorraine Kurovski funeral home McAninch Fremming. Survivors listed across obituaries.
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Marc Hintz
Mercy Hospital
Hintz-Geilenfeld
Woodlawn Cemetery
Kathleen
Hazel Hocking
Whittier
Calif
Georgiana Cave
Tokyo
Marc Jr
Roswell
N.M
John
Oelwein
James L. Wacha
Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center
Marshalltown
Mason-Hand Funeral Home
Toledo
Mary
Evelyn Bidwell
Marie Wacha
Bernice Higginbotham
Agnes C. DeMeulenaere
St. Bridget’s Catholic Church
Calvary Cemetery
Lorraine Kurovski
McAninch- Fremming Funeral Home
Vital Statistics Births Feb 17 18 St Luke's Mercy
Birth notices from Mercy and St Luke's list several newborns with parents in Solon Shellsburg Mount Vernon Marion Vinton Whitten Whitten areas. Names include Sharon Johnson Jeanne Fisher Darcy Darrah Stacey Garthwaite and others with daughters and sons reported on February 17 18.
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Mercy
Sharon
Dan Johnson
Solon
ST. Luke’s
Darcy Darrah
Mount Vernon
Stacey
Thomas Garthwaite
Nellie Farley 104 Dies in Waukon Iowa
Nellie A Farley 104 died Sunday evening at the Good Samaritan Center. Services 11 a m today at St Marys Church Lycurgus with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery rural Waukon. Friends may call 8 to 10 30 a m at Hanson Funeral Home.
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Nellie A. Farley
Good Samaritan Center
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Lycurgus
Mount Olivet
Waukon
Hanson Funeral Home
Degree Days Report Shows 11 Percent Normal
Degree days data from Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co covers Monday February 17 with totals through February 17 4621 and through GRE 20 showing 4797 for the period. Percent of normal year lists 11 percent and total normal year 6531.
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GRE
COE Serch
Iepeonabervenss
Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co
North Linn voters reject $3 million school bond proposal
North Linn district voters decisively defeated a $3 million bond last night in Linn County. About 948 opposed and 445 in favor, the measure needed 60 percent to pass. Officials will review options and consider future district road projects linking three communities.
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Donna Lee Olson
Jazette
North Linn
Linn County
Coggan
Walker
Troy Mills
Linda Langenberg
Haughenbury
Hal Pruin
Bath
Vinton School Board Approves Budget With Tax Increase
The Vinton school board tentatively approves next year’s budget including a $1.05 raise in the property tax to $15.58 per $1,000, expected state aid over $4 million, and allocations for cash reserves and facility projects. They also approve a Whittle Communications Channel One agreement for classroom video news, with one vote against citing concerns over delivering an audience to a private company.
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Regina Huelman Gazette
Vinton
Vinton School Board
Everett Hidlebaugh
Whittle Communications
Knoxville
Hidlebaugh
Dave Coulter
Kurt Karr
Anamosa Council and School Board Push Tax Increases
Anamosa residents face higher levies as the city council proposes a 4.4 percent city tax rate to 9.80 per 1000 with a 1,822,238 budget and a public hearing on March 2. The Anamosa School District plans a 75 cent levy rise to 14.56 per 1000 with a 3,779,786 budget and a hearing on March 9.
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Anamosa
West Middle School
Two Minnesota Men Die In Snowy Highway Crash
Snow and ice covered roads likely caused a Tuesday crash on Highway 63 near Chester killing Bruce Swanson 35 of Stewartville and Lonnie Hansen 23 of Leroy. Truck driver Steven Be heng 30 of Miltona was hospitalized.
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Highway 30
Chester
Minnesota
Howard County Sheriffs Department
Bruce Swanson
Stewartville
Minn
Swanson
Lonnie Hansen
Leroy, Minn
Steven Beheng
Miltona, Minn
Cityline News Hotline Phone Number Included for Updates
Cityline urges readers to call 363 7000 for up to the minute news reports and directs dialing category 2500 for current updates. Local newsroom emphasizes rapid access to breaking coverage across topics.
Smiley wins critics honor for Thousand Acres
Ames author Jane Smiley receives the National Book Critics Circle Award for her grim Iowa farm novel Thousand Acres. The book, inspired by King Lear and set in a rural Iowa county, follows a farmer's family and their loss of the farm as pressures mount. Smiley, an Iowa State University English professor, notes the idea came from a drive on I-35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
National Book Critics Circle Award
Iowa
Jane Smiley
Shakespeare
King Lear
Smiley
Iowa State University
Minneapolis
Iowa County
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Castalia
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Dan
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Lancaster
Hazleton
E. Mae Severn
Community Presbyterian Church
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Schutte Funeral Home
Eugene
Allen
Rockton
Tama
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Jeanne
Ronald Fisher
Shellsburg
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Cheryl
Dave Hanover
Sutton Rd
Kerri Himes
34Th St. Dr. SE
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13Th St. NW
Tracy Andrew
15Th St
Mary and
Trent Brunssen
29Th Ave
Carla
Gene Cummins
Whitten
Jill
Brian Olson
East
N. Linn
Jim Haughenbury
Vinton Board OK
John G. Adney
City Hall
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