Willard student David McElvogue remembered by teachers and staff
Vicki Twedt and Willard colleagues recall David McElvogue a devoted special education student with a lively personality who filled the school with warmth. He received a bone marrow transplant in 1997 and faced multiple hospitalizations and a stroke before his death. His family settled with the state in 1999. Funeral services are set for Grace Church in Des Moines.
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University Hospitals
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DuPont Hospital For Children
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Grace Church
Des Moines
Kirkwood to Open National Mass Fatality Training Center
Four years of work by Peter Teahen and Lisa LaDue produced a mass fatality response manual to guide county and state courses. Kirkwood College will host the center with a 40 hour course, online options, and satellite classrooms led by Doug Feil. The manual covers morgue setup, victim handling, family contact, and cost recovery for local governments.
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Teahen
LaDue
American Red Cross
Alaska Airlines
Kirkwood
Doug Feil
Oklahoma executes Wanda Jean Allen first black woman since 1954
Wanda Jean Allen, 41, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the murder of a childhood friend and later a lesbian partner. Governor Keating denied a last-minute stay as federal courts refused to intervene. Allen’s death marked the first such execution of a Black woman in the United States since 1954.
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Okla
United States
Wanda Jean Allen
Oklahoma State Penitentia
Frank Keating
U.S. Supreme Court
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