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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 2011
Page
5
Fragmented obituary index lists many names with unclear spellings and broken affiliations. Readable entries include Shirley and others. remaining lines confuse due to OCR errors. The item suggests a local memorial page with scattered names and dates, typical of a town newspaper’s public notices section.
An incomplete death notice lists multiple names and ages with garbled lines and odd spellings. It references firemen, locations like Maquokata and Batson, dates such as 204 and 2011, and various uncertain identifiers, producing a jumbled tableau of potential obituaries.
An OCR filled page fragment rattles through a crowded list of people, places, events, and dates from a local community scene. It mentions schools, churches, social groups, and assorted Norwegian sounding sites, with scattered names like Maxio Arora and Monsignor Abert. The text is garbled and hard to follow, but hints at a sequence of meetings, feasts, and visits across many locales.
The obituary lists Mary Shishen, aged 96, with a long stream of family names and mentions of kin including Kewhtusba, Werrian, Anne Buren, and Elizabeth Vintine. It notes prior generations and several spouses, then lists many descendants and relatives across regions, ending with tributes to Mary and acknowledgments of survivors.
A notice lists services for January 3 at First United Methodist Church Central City, conducted by Rev Wik Noodhais. The vigil and wake follow at Matera Funeral Home with interment at Mount Clank Cemetery in Dea bal City.
Fragmented obituary items appear amid garbled text with names and dates unreadable. The legible fragments suggest funeral notices and family tributes but lack coherent facts, making it difficult to identify individuals or events for a precise historical record.
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