Longtime Cedar Rapids inn owner among local obituaries
A batch of obituaries announces the deaths of Charles Matthews 83, Joseph Tellin 91, Margaret Hahn 70, Everette Martinson 75, Miller Robert W, Aletha Mickel Paulson, Helen E Trunecek, Walter Frederick W, with service times and burial locations. Matthews owned Draport Inn Cedar Rapids for 33 years. Tellin and Hahn had Cedar Rapids connections. Martinson ran a Marion nursing home. others listed with church services and memorials.
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Charles Matthews
17Th Ave
Mercy Hospital
Tama-Toledo
Mary Anna Martinek
Marion
Draport Inn
Cedar Rapids
Order of Eagles
Shirley Matthews
Karen Cambridge
Donna Schroeder
Lillian Martinek Rompet
Joseph Martinek
Hazel Ahlgren
Brush Chapel
John Woods
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Mr. Matthews
Czech National Cemetery
First Presbyterian Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mercy Hospital Endowment Foundation
Mary Lawrence
10Th St. SE
Trunecek
Helen E
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Lloyd E. Brockmeyer
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Walter
Frederick W
Trinity Lutheran Church
Roland Hischke
First Ave
Knoxville
Iowa
Greenwood Cemetery
American Legion Post 168
Turner Chapel West
East Iowa Deaths Highlight Fayette Resident Paul Wendrich
Obituaries report the deaths of Paul Wendrich 79 longtime Fayette resident and former businessman in Maple Crest Manor. Services pending at Becker Milnes. Other notices include Duane Kinsinger 32 of Iowa City. Elmer Frederick Zimmerman 71 of Wellman and Iowa City. Marvin Sitter Booth 73 of Iowa City and Wellman. Sophia Silhanek 66. Eunice Norton 57. Elmer E McArtor 83 with services details and burial plans. Memorials to Mercy Hospital Foundation and church-related tributes noted.
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Paul Wendrich
Fayette
Maple Crest Manor
Becker-Milnes
Duane K. Kinsinger
Hollywood Boulevard
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
West High School
Kirkwood Community College
First United Methodist Church
Orville
Kathleen Kinsinger
Deanna Milbrandt
Ronda
Ethel Kinsinger
Kalona
George Gay
Charles Downing
Janice Tomsonovic
Memory Gardens
Mercy Hospital Foundation
Elmer Frederick Zimmerman
Park View
Wellman
Johnson County
Linder Tire Co
Phoenix
Ariz
Melva Wilson
Methodist Church
American Legion Post
George
Geroge Gay's
Vital Statistics Bunch of Birth Notices and Fire Calls
Jan 5 announces multiple births with listed parents in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas including Patricia Mills and Candy Lacy. Entries also note grandparents names and locations in Marion Bremerhaven Germany and other Iowa towns. Fire calls recorded as: extraction at Second Avenue and Tenth Street SE and a dryer fire on Fifth Avenue SE with times.
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Second Avenue
Tenth Street
Fifth Ave
Mount Vernon Road
K Ave
Reagan considering cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
President Reagan weighs substantial reductions in Medicare and Medicaid for fiscal years 1985 to 1988, aiming to save billions by restraining physician payments, expanding a catastrophic coverage concept, shifting costs to patients, and extending Medicaid matching cuts. The package also targets AFDC reforms including work incentives and income counting.
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Reagan
Washington Post Service
Washington
U.S. Treasury
Des Moines Postal Service Declares Weather Emergency
Des Moines postal officials declared a state of emergency due to heavy mail volume and weather delays. The measure briefly set a seven day 111 hour week for mail processors before union protests prompted its rescission.
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Des Moines
U.S. Postal Service
American Postal
Postal Service
St. Louis, Mo
William Burch
Larry Dingman
Cedar Rapids Derby Rules Set for 1984 Fiberglas Shells
The Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby Association outlines 1984 rule changes including optional Fiberglas shells for senior cars and expanded age groups. A clinic and registration session will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Frank Nye Jaycee Center, with a senior Fiberglas shell on display. The July 8 race is open to ages 9 through 15 across junior and senior divisions. The association is named host club for the World of Wheels show January 13 to 15 at the Five Seasons Center. Derby participants will provide security and setup for the show.
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Frank Nye Jaycee Center
Cedar Rapids
Soap Box Derby Association
Nevin Leichliter
Cedar Rapids Jaycees
Leichliter
The
Derby Association
Five Seasons Center
Doolin Replaced as Union Chief at Quaker Oats
Local 110 of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union elects new officers after Emmitt Doolin resigns amid embezzlement charges. Wally Lechtenberg becomes president, Wayne Greiner elected vice president, and Roger Bruner takes Greiner's trustee post. Local 110 covers about 1,000 Quaker production workers in Cedar Rapids.
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Quaker Oats Co
Cedar Rapids
Emmitt Doolin
Wally Lechtenberg
Wayne Greiner
Roger Bruner
Greiner
Doolin
U.S. Attorney's Office
Local 110
Quaker
Promoter Turns Himself In After Davenport Bank Robbery
Davenport Iowa promoter Robert Michelsen surrendered at 12 30 p m to Scott County authorities admitting to a morning bank robbery at Central Trust and Savings Bank Mount Joy. Federal prosecutors to file bank robbery charges and police traced a car near Highway 130. The same promoter had staged The Time Tunnel New Year show with Lou Christie and Leslie Gore, which was halted when they said Michelsen hadn t paid them.
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Congress
House
Trent Lott
Miss
Medicare
Davenport
Iowa
Quad Cities
Scott County
Forrest Ashcraft
Robert Michelsen
Central Trust & Savings Bank
Mount Joy
Ashcraft
Michelsen
Iowa Highway Patrol
Jim Lewis
Highway 130
Lou Christie
Leslie Gore
Ottumwa Bowling Alley Destroyed by Fire in Ottumwa
A fire tore through the South Side Bowl in Ottumwa Iowa leaving the 10 lane alley a mass of twisted steel and rubble Fire Inspector Joe Selix valued the loss at 400000 with no cause yet determined The blaze also destroyed two trucks one van three cars four boats and stored goods near the building Heat melted vinyl siding on a neighboring single family home The sprinkler system had failed to be repaired after being waived by the city council in 1976 at the owner’s request The building owned by John Blomme was one of two bowling alleys in the city.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Joe Selix
Selix
John Blomme
Marion Man Dies After Shooting In Parking Lot
Carl Stanley Odean 62 of 700 35th St Lot 34 died at St Luke's Hospital after being found shot in the head in a Marion Me Too parking lot. He was flown by Lifeguard to the hospital and pronounced dead at 9 20 p.m. Police treat as death by own action while Linn County Medical Examiner investigates.
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Marion
Carl Stanley Odean
St. Luke's Hospital
Marion Me-Too
Odean
35Th St
St. Luke’s
Linn County Medical Examiner's Office
Four Freedoms Outlined By FDR in 1941
On this date in 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt defined the four freedoms of the American goal as freedom of speech and worship and freedom from want and fear. The speech framed wartime aims and moral purpose for the United States.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Elderly man dies as West Des Moines house fire destroys home
In West Des Moines an 89 year old man died and a 26 year old firefighter was injured when a two story wood frame house burned early Thursday. Pearl Thomas' body was recovered after firefighters arrived about four blocks from the station. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined.
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West Des Moines
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METRO
Josephine Tellin
Crestview Acres
Cedar Rapids Area
Edward Tellin
Agnes Fleming
Minnie Hermanek
Albuquerque, N.M
Margaret F. Pumphrey Hahn
Pioneer Ave
Americana Healthcare Center
New Market
Ralph T. Ackerman
F. Cruz Hahn
Iowa Adjustment and Credit Bureau
All Saints Catholic Church
Thomas E. Ackerman
North Hollywood
Calif
Gerald R. Ackerman
Venice
Jimmie Pumphrey
Myrna de Jarnette
Verne Runyan
Hilda Hansen
Friendship
Wis
Edmund J. Becker
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Stewart Funeral Home
Everette A. Martinson
Oakland Road
DeKalb
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Helen Krause
Rosaline Collins
Martinson Nursing Home
St. Pius X Catholic Church
James P
Elk Grove
William P
John M
Marlene Korbel
Mary Elizabeth Schroeder
St. Paul
Minn
Violet Kieswetter
Marvin Sitter Booth
Gladys
Robert
Larry
Russell Miller
Fort Lupton
Colo
Karen Huffman
Bettendorf
Lois Lang
Violet Wolfe
North English
Burrell
Chadron, Neb
Irwin
Chappell, Neb
South English Baptist Church
Powell’s
Wellman Cemetery
Tama
Sophia Silhanek
Harrison’s
Waukon
Eunice Norton
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Joe
Pam
Windsor
Patrice
Dyersville
Terry
Paul
Lansing
Phil
Cedar Falls
Emmett Cahalan
St. Pius Catholic Church
Cherry Mound
Burial Church
Elmer E. McArtor
Washington County Hospital
Maude
Duane
Mount Pleasant
Vaughn
Keota
Utah
Jones
Crawfordsville
First Baptist Church
Candy Lacy
15Th Ave
Patricia Mills
Bowling St
St. Luke's
Carrie
Steven Foley
Deborah Drive
Judith Rainville
13Th St
Donna
Daniel Watts
Ave
Barbara
Darryl Bernard
Kurdette Drive
Debra
John Hoeger
E. Clark
W. Melbourne
Wendy
Jon Shramek
Jan
Earl Schnitzlein
Danbury St
Edward C. Shramek
B Ave
Bremerhaven
Germany
Tammy
Keith Meskimen
Regis Meskimen
Harry Klumph
Center Point
George F. Billmeyer
Debra K. Hamlett
Steven D. VanHoven
Randalene A. Sauer
John E. Gallagher
Beth A. Mescher
Rebecca Dorane
Steven Patrick Kindl
Jeanne C
Ray L. Jiruska
D.M. Mail
Union
Ottumwa Bowling Alley
Marion Man
W. Des Moines
John E. Lapes
Lewes
Third Avenue S.E
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