Death notices from Cedar Rapids and surrounding Iowa towns
A list of postponed funeral services across Iowa dates for North English to Decorah, with many services moved to Monday or later times. Names include Barbara Kubovec, Ernest Medulan, Ione Gray, Josephine Dixon, Marilynne Stankee, Alvie Carl, Mabel Thurston, Robert O Young Sr, Florence Miller, Jane Blekeberg, Bobby Jackson, Harriett Mehlhaus, Mrs Walter Eberling, Marvin Kricke, Charles Cook, Clinton Libby, Louise Primrose, Alice Ford, Anna Lamp, John F Wilson, Margaret Allen, Robert McKinney, Marie Broghammer, Ardis Horak, Mary Kennedy, and Ray Hayes, venues at Powell Funeral Home, Janeba, Kuba, Murdoch's, Sacred Heart Church, Peace Lutheran, Madison Lutheran, Cedar Memorial, Goettsch's, Olson-Fjelstul, Thornburg's, St Mary’s, Overton's, Turner Chapel, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Mohr
Powell Funeral Home
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Sigourney
Cedar Rapids
Barbara Kubovec
Janebaa Funeral Home
Ernest Medulan
Kuba Funeral Home
Marion
Ione F. Gray
Murdoch’s
Center Point
Josephine Dixon
Sacred Heart Church
Walker
Coggan
Marilynne Stankee
Peace Lutheran Church
Ryan
Murdoch's
Marengo
Alvie Carl
Hoover-Valentine
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Morley
Florence Miller
Goettsch’s
Anamosa
Decorah
Jane Blekeberg
Madison Lutheran Church
Madison Cemetery
Olson-Fjelstul
Iowa City
Bobby Jackson
St. Thomas More Church
Donohue Lensing
S. Dysart
Harriett Mehlhaus
Dysart United Methodist Church
Dysart Cemetery
Overton Funeral Home
Postville
Walter Eberling
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Postville Cemetery
Schutte Funeral Home
McGregor
Marvin J. Kricke
Tipton
Anna Lamp
Sheets and Son
Local Weather and Birth Announcements Summary
Wind NW at 25 mph with blowing snow. Monday sunrise 7 32 sunset 5 00. Jan 13 a son for Mr and Mrs Joseph Irwin 3117 Carriage Drive SW. Jan 12 a daughter for Mr and Mrs Antonio Vega Jr 2343 B Ave NE. Jan 13 a son for Mr and Mrs Thomas Smith 1205 Fifth St NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Irwin
Carriage Drive
Antonio Vega Jr
Ave
Thomas Smith
Fifth St. NW
Two Newborns Reported in Iowa and Ohio
At Oskaloosa Mr and Mrs Gary Reid welcome a son born January 11. Grandparents are Ralph Reid in Cedar Rapids and Stan Travnicek in Swisher. At Columbus Mr and Mrs John B Wilson welcome a son born January 11. Mrs Wilson’s parents are Herbie Westrom and Mr Lorraine Wilson is the father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Gary Reid
Ralph Reid
4Th St
Cedar Rapids
Stan Travnicek
Swisher
Columbus
Ohio
John B. Wilson
Wilson
Herbie Westrom
Park Ave
Lorraine Wilson
Midway Drive
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Publication Details
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 by The Gazette Company prints daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscription rates by carrier 1.15 weekly and by mail 56 per 7 issues or 4 weeks 56 80 per 52 weeks. No mail schemes accepted in Gazette carrier areas. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette Company
Third Ave
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gazette
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids City Briefs and Theft Reports
Public notice of Cedar Rapids education hearing on Monday at Grant Wood Area Education Agency regarding the 1979-80 contract negotiations. Reports of thefts include a police scanner worth 289 dollars, three snowblowers valued at 285 219 dollars, a shotgun 175 and a rifle 100 with 27 dollars in change taken from residences Friday or Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Education Association
Cedar Rapids Community School
Grant Wood Area
Sixth St
Steven R. Schnor
Seventh Ave
Jerry Mahring
34Th St
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon Road
Darlene Everson
Harold Drive
Fourteenth Avenue SE
George Duchaarme
Hull Ave
Extradition sought for hijackers of Air Tunis jetliner
Tunisian authorities asked Libya to extradite three men who hijacked an Air Tunis jet and held 83 passengers and crew in Tripoli for more than half a day before surrendering. The hijackers' motive and exact charges were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunis
Tunisia
Libya
Air Tunis
Tripoli
Shah selects regency council before temporary Iran departure
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi named a regency panel to act as his representative during a planned temporary vacation from Iran. The move aims to stabilize Shah-era politics as Prime Minister Bakhtiar forms a civilian government to quell violence and avert a possible military coup. His mother and sister reportedly fled to a Palm Springs hideaway before relocating to an undisclosed location. On this date in 1953 Yugoslavia named Tito president by a landslide vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shah
Shahpour Bakhtiar
Iran
Supreme Court
Palm Springs
Calif
Rancho Mirage
Walter Annenberg
Beverly Hills
Yugoslavia
Tito
Contract vote rescheduled as snow delays ratification
Street Department workers and Local 620 AFSCME volunteers will plow streets instead of voting on the tentative contract today. The 360 member Local 620 ratification election is moved to 2 p.m. January 21 at IBEW Local 405. President Wayne Clymer declined to comment on the contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of State
IBEW
Wiley Boulevard
Wayne Clymer
Local 620
Weather disrupts travel as Cedar Rapids hospitals mobilize aid
Wind and low visibility crippled travel with O'Hare Airport shut and all flights from Cedar Rapids canceled. Mercy Hospital seeks four-wheel-drive volunteers to escort staff, as Hawkeye Roach and Cedar Four-wheelers join Schamberger Motors to bring nurses, cooks, pharmacists, and lab techs to care for patients. St Luke's deploys similar four-wheel-drive pickup to transport workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’hare International
Chicago
Marty Kloska
United Airlines
Cedar Rapids
Ozark Airlines
Judith
Mercy Hospital
Hawkeye Roach
Cedar
Schamberger Motors
Mercy
School of Nursing
Winter Storm Disrupts Iowa Travel and Events
A severe storm blocks Highway 30 near Mount Vernon and overloads Cedar Rapids phone lines as residents endure closures and postponements. PDQ Bach concert shifts to Monday while St Luke's thanks four wheel drive crews. Politician Philip Crane campaigns despite travel advisories. communities rally to help each other amid snow ahead of more wintry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCalley
Weather Service
Midwest Storm Leaves Roofs Collapsed and Flights Halted
A major winter storm staggered the Midwest with a Chicago racquet club roof collapse and O'Hare Airport shutting down as blizzard conditions spread. Snow and wind crippled Illinois Iowa and Kansas with drifting snow and subzero wind chills. Dozens of high schools and colleges canceled games while power outages affected Portland and other areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Chicago
O’hare International
Ilinois
Iowa
Kansas
Chicago Fire Battalion
Ronald Maloney
Schaumburg
Portland
Ore
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Illinois
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb
O’hare
Texas Panhandle
Cambodian Leader Seeks Nonaligned Shift in Invasion Debate
In the third session of the debate on the invasion the United States and nonaligned countries join against the Soviet bloc stance. Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk, speaking for the ousted Pol Pot government, urges a nonaligned shift away from the Soviet bloc and toward respect for regional territorial integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambodia
United States
Norodom Sihanouk
Pol Pot
Terrorists to fly to discuss Mideast peace with United States
A scheduled delegation including Ambassador Alfred R. Atherton and Herbert Ansell plans a Cabinet level meeting in Washington aimed at breaking the deadlock over a Mideast peace treaty. In Lebanon a PLO spokesman urged guerrillas on alert for a possible Israeli reprisal after the Maalot raid.
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Israel
Egypt
United States
Department
Alfred R. Atherton
Herbert Ansell
David Korn
State Department
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Maalot
Soviets decry Sihanouk appearance amid Cambodian aid debate
The Cambodia crisis unfolds as Sihanouk questions his claimed government while Vietnam faced with Pol Pot rule is accused of sovereignty violations. Diplomatic moves in the U.N. Security Council seek a softer resolution to pressure Vietnam, with nonaligned nations split on China’s tougher stance.
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Young
Washington
Pol Pot
Vietnam
U.N
Phnom Penh
Heng Samrin
United States
China
Cambodia
Grassley Named Assistant House Republican Whip
U S Rep Charles Grassley has been named an assistant House Republican whip for Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan. The whip system rallies partisan support for legislative initiatives in Congress.
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Washington
U.S
Charles Grassley
Iowa
House
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Congress
Also Mentioned on This Page
Manchester
John F. Wilson
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Shelly’s
Traer
Margaret K. Allen
Overton's
Buckingham Cemetery
Robert A. McKinney
Cedar Falls
Marie Broghammer
St. Benedict’s Catholic Church
Church Cemetery
Olson-Fjelstul Funeral Home
Horak
Ardis L
United Methodist
Clark Ray Hayes
Oakland Road
Turner Chapel East
C.R. Weather
St. Luke's
A Ave. NE
F Ave
Seeley Ave
Second Ave
Walker St
Memorial Drive
Frontier Garden Center
Woodfield
D.J
Charter Coaches
Adv
All Saints School
Tehran
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
St. Luke's Hospital
Springville
Dick Young
Peter Schickele
Paramount
Schickele
American Legion
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Iowa Department American Legion
Des Moines
Mount Vernon
Philip Crane
Davenport
Coralville
Iowa River Power Co
Crane
Sheraton Inn
Storm Staggers
Plains
Oklahoma
Interstate 35
Texas Line
National Guard
Grant County
Iowa State Patrol
Gordon Wamsley
Waterloo
Omaha
Oklahoma State University
Colorado
Deerfield
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Novak Monument CO
14Th Ave
Flowers & Plants
Joan B. Turner & Son
Turner's
Boosecond Ave
Turner's West
Sihanouk
Gwendoline C. Konie
Zambia
Soviet Union
Bangladesh
Kuwait
Jamaica
Gabon
Nigeria
Grassley
Stewart Funeral Home
First Ave
William J. Stewart
James F. Stewart
John E. Lopes
3Rd Ave
Pierson’s Flowershop & Greenhouses, Inc
Ellis Blvd
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