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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 10, 1984

Page

8

Local obituaries note Cedar Rapids roots across Florida and Illinois

A slate of metro deaths includes James W. Conley 50 of Cedar Rapids died December 28 in Haines City Florida. Anna Marie Wortman 93 former Cedar Rapids resident died in Decatur Illinois. Alice Howe Barry 95 former Cedar Rapids resident died in Palm Harbor Florida. Memorials and funeral plans span Illinois Indiana Florida and Iowa with services set in Moweaqua South Bend and LaPorte City and with multiple survivors listed.

James W. Conley Cedar Rapids Haines City Fla Alice Howe Barry Palm Harbor Owen T. Barry Barry Iowa State University Pi Beta Phi Sorority Pi Beta Phi First Congregational Church Chapter FO PEO Kings Daughters David H Santa Fe N.M O.T. II Barbara Schmitz Palm Harbor Senior Center Omaha Circle

East Iowa Obituaries: Vera Wurtzel and Others Pass Away

Obituary notices list Vera Wurtzel 78 of Cedar Falls dying Sunday at Windsor Care Center with survivors including two sons Glen and Dean, sister Zella Kane, seven grandchildren, five great grandchildren. Services set 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Overton Funeral Home Dysart. Burial Dysart Cemetery. Other deaths include Paul Wendrich 79 retired tavern operator, Clarence R. Boge 76 farmer, Marvin L. Hull 79 Iowa City, Fern H. Levien 84 Washington, Henry T. Kroul 79 Amana, Danny Lee Martin 14 months, Helen Breshears 64 Oelwein, John B. McAreavy 83 former superintendent, Ed Bushnell 90, and Earl Jensen 74 with details of survivors, service times, and burial sites.

Mabel S. Philpott Willow Gardens Marion Chicago Edward P. Philpott Philpott LaPorte City Iowa Terry A Cedar Rapids Warren O Satellite Beach Fla Florence Robinson Hammond Ind Huisman-Dykeman Chapel West View Cemetery Funeral Home Malinda Hulin Fourth Avenue Care Center Gilman Gaston Ore Harry Hulin LeGrand Pursel-Davis Funeral Marshalltown Cedar Memorial Funeral Home First Ave Navis Harvey C Shueyville United Methodist Church Doug Pope Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Simmons Mary E Turner Chapel Calvin de Vries First Presbyterian Church Oak Hill Cemetery Vera Wurtzel Windsor Cedar Falls Glen Dean Milwaukee Zella Kane Bettendorf Overton Funeral Home Dysart Paul Wendrich Fayette Margaret Paula Addison, Ill John Janus Elmhurst Ill Barbara Shere San Francisco Becker- Milnes Dunham’s Grove Randalia Clarence R. Boge Guttenberg Municipal Hospital Ronald Clyde Willis Richard Daniel Dubuque Dale North Buena Vista Merlyn Greeley Gerald Harold Guttenberg Dianne Walke Ruth Bolsinger Colesburg Alvin Ambrose Earlville Emil Theodore Eugene Dyersville St. Mary’s Catholic Church Mount Olivet Tuecke-Allyn’s Marvin L. Hull Route 3 University of Iowa Wellman Iowa City Moore Trench Inc Juanita Fay Bartel The Eagles Dale Jack Wayne Everette Louise Curtis Modesto Calif Helen Bowen San Pablo George L. Gay’s Memory Garden University of Iowa Hospital Fern H. Levien Washington County Hospital Washington John E John D Vancouver Wash Nell Breitenbach Faye Freshwaters Sioux City Powell’s Keota Amana Marion Lumley Dorothy Freese Mary Smith Otley Emma Seibert Oskaloosa Josephine Gerard Marengo St. John’s Lutheran Church Ohio Cemetery Ladora Hoover-Valentine’s Helen Breshears Oelwein University Hospital Madison Wis Carleen Brown Costa Mesa Don Penley Sun Prairie Jenie Fowler Raytown Florence Southerland Friendly Valley Inamae Cellar Topeka Kan Marion Dugger Hugotom Francis Dugger Osage City Arlie Dugger Kansas Christ United Presbyterian Church Floral Hills Hintz Funeral Home John B J.B.” McAreavy Lantern Park Coralville Ryan Kathryn McNeel Coggan Loras College St. Louis University Parnell Oxford Coggon St. Mary’s George E. Snell Calvary Cemetery George L. Gay Oxford Chapel Earl Jensen Lawrence Ferdinand West Branch Gladys Sondergard Bethany Lutheran Church Barker's

Foat sues woman over inquiry leading to arrest and murder trial

Feminist leader Ginny Foat, acquitted in a 1965 Louisiana murder, sues Shelly Mandell for 5 million dollars claiming invasion of privacy and emotional distress. The suit in Los Angeles seeks punitive damages and medical and legal costs, with more names likely to be added.

Los Angeles Ginny Foat Louisiana Sybil Brand Institute For Women Ms. Mandell Tsenin Ms. Foat California National Organization For Women NOW National Board Connec Tion Moses Chayo New Orleans John Sidote Ms. Tsenin Shelly Arthur Stein

Linn County to go to trial over Hartford claim on 1981 vote machines

Linn County lawyer says spring or early summer 1983 trial likely in Iowa County over Hartford Insurance unpaid claim for 75 voting machines damaged in the Dec 8 1981 fire at Eisenhower School. Insurance offered 39000. county later bought 90 replacements for 313500.

Linn Mary Burke Sazette County Linn County Hartford Insurance Co Harry van Camp Madison Wis Merle Kopel Insurance Company Hartford Eisenhower School

Tractor jumps into gear injures farm worker near Anamosa

Tom Thurston 41 of Stanwood was treated at the scene and flown to University Hospitals Iowa City after a tractor at Don Stickle & Sons farm suddenly jumped into gear. He suffered leg and minor head injuries while working beside the running tractor about 8 30 a.m. Rescue crews aided him for about 45 minutes. The farm sits near Linn County road E 28 just west of the Linn Jones County line.

Gazette Jones Cedar Bureau Anamosa Don Stickle & Sons University Hospitals Iowa City Tom Thurston Stanwood Linn County Thurston Anamosa Ambulance Rescue 57 Lifeguard Air Ambulance Linn-Jones County

President may seek delay of federal pay raises to January

President Reagan plans to propose delaying the next federal employee pay raise from October to January and to set it at 3 1 4 percent. The move would mirror the 1983 delay for white collar civil servants and save the government hundreds of millions. The package may also include 4 or 5 percent raises for military personnel.

Washington Post Washington Reagan Congress U.S Office of Personnel Management

Cargo Plane Crashes and Burns Near Lambert Airport

A DC-3 cargo plane crashed in flames after takeoff from Lambert St. Louis International Airport in Bridgeton Missouri injuring both crew members. The pilot and co-pilot were taken to DePaul Hospital with the co-pilot seriously hurt and the pilot with minor injuries. Officials confirmed two aboard and no ground injuries while the aircraft appeared to be owned by a Canadian cargo line.

Bridgeton Lambert St. Louis International Airport St. Louis DePaul Hospital Randy Harpole Harpole Federal Aviation Administration

Final OK for mental health center at Fillmore

Linn County won approval from the Cedar Rapids Board of Adjustment to relocate its Community Mental Health Center to the former Fillmore School at 520 1th St. NW. A zoning conditional use was approved with one condition: open areas not used for parking must be retained by the county and not sold separately from the school building.

Linn County Cedar Rapids Board of Adjustment Fillmore School Lth St City Zoning Committee and Planning Commission Board of Adjustment

Vital Statistics Notices and Local Entries

Jan 8 to Jan 9 births listed for Marion and Mount Ida Arkansas and Hawaii with multiple family names. Also residents named for Cedar Rapids and Marion with a series of names and addresses. Then a sequence of times and brief incidents including false alarm and medical emergencies at local addresses.

Adel man kills wife then dies by suicide

In Adel Iowa an elderly man Walter Van der Miede 76 killed his wife Katherine 83 then called police to report the slaying and planned his own death. Police arrived within minutes to find both deceased from handgun wounds in their home.

Adel Iowa Walter van der Miede Katherine Bill Hanson van der Miede Sheriff's Office Hanson

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