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Two City Officials Die of Heart Attacks in 1955
In Cedar Rapids 1955 saw the deaths of Mayor Milo Sedlacek on September 19 and Parks Commissioner Richard C. Jones on December 26 from heart attacks. A photo shows the casket being moved past First Presbyterian Church toward the hearse.
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Cedar Rapids
Milo Sedlacek
Richard C. Jones
First Presbyterian Church
Ette
Tom Merryman
Stephen McDowell
Monticello
St. Louis
George Mills
Mills
Illinois
Mississippi River
Iowa
Gazette
John Reynolds
Herbert Hoover
Johnson Avenue NW
Wright and Erskine
Coneee