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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1994
Page
8
The obituary notices report the deaths of Wesley Svoboda 84 of Cedar Rapids and Mary C. McDowell 78 of Marion on January 15 1994 both after illnesses. Services and burial details follow for each, naming survivors and memorial preferences. Additional deaths include Ruth J Clouse Helena Amelia Lemon Charles Richard Schabo Vida Cleo Graver Henry Carl Grieder Walter J Hodge with service times and burial locations listed.
Ella Veit 77 died Jan 15 1994 at Mercy Cedar Rapids after a sudden illness with arrangements pending at Hrabak Funeral Home Chelsea Leland Phelps 65 died Jan 16 1994 Mercy Health Center Dubuque services Tuesday Colesburg United Methodist Church burial Oak Hill Colesburg survivors include wife Vivian two sons Duwane Marshalltown and Donald Guttenberg a daughter Karen Jaster Elkader mother Bertha Phelps three brothers and three sisters Hazel Arnold 70 of 3074 Muscatine Ave died Jan 15 1994 at University Hospitals services Jan 19 George L Gay Funeral Home burial West Branch Cemetery later Irene Kerkove 88 died Jan 16 1994 People's Extended Care Independence arrangements pending at White Funeral Home Jesup
Lowden Mathilda C. Meier 95 died Sunday January 16 1994 at Mercy Hospital Davenport after a lengthy illness Services 1030 am Wednesday Trinity Lutheran Church by Rev John Ranbarger Burial Trinity Lutheran Cemetery Lowden Friends may call 4 to 7 pm Tuesday at Chapman Funeral Home Clarence Survivors include daughter Betty Bush Pueblo Colorado four sons Fredrick Wheatland Donald Arnold Clarence Norman Littleton Colorado two sisters Louise Kemmann Lowden Lillian Meyerhoff Readlyn Also nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren
Rose Werning and John Burhop Sr. die Jan 16 1994 in Virginia Gay Hospital and at home respectively with arrangements pending in Keystone and Wyoming. Beulah Church dies Jan 15 1994 in Toledo with services in Mason-Hand Chapel and burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. survivors listed. Robert Anderson dies Jan 15 1994 in Cedar Rapids with burial in Vinton Evergreen. no immediate survivors. Harry Crammond dies Jan 16 1994 in Wapello with services in Wapello and burial there. memorials to church. Van Nordstrand dies Jan 15 1994 in New Hampton with services in Colfax and burial at McKeever Cemetery. survivors include wife Hannah and son Earl.
Luella Stortz, 97, of Decorah died Saturday January 15 1994 at Aase-Haugen Nursing Home Decorah after a long illness. Services 1 PM Tuesday at First Lutheran Church Decorah burial at Phelps Cemetery Decorah. Friends may call 3 to 8 PM today at French Balik Funeral Home Decorah and afternoon Tuesday at the church. Survivors include daughter Geraldine Steffens Decorah and two sons Robert Decorah Erlin Mabel Minn.
The SAFE Coalition of Cedar Rapids offers an 8:30 a.m. to noon training in the Linn Room at the Fadies Center 951 29th Ave. SW to assist flood survivors with recovery decisions and coping topics including loss syndrome and post traumatic stress. Lunch follows.
Velma Beebe 86 of Good Neighbor Home Manchester died Sunday January 16 1994 at the home Arrangements are pending at Murdoch Funeral Home Central City Doris E Strother 89 formerly of Martello died Sunday January 16 1994 in Hallmark Care Center Mount Vernon Arrangements are pending at Morgan Funeral Home Mount Vernon
Leo Bena funeral with VFW rites at Brush Chapel at 10:30 a.m. today followed by burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Salome J. Douglas rites at Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories at 3 p.m. Tuesday with entombment at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. John F. Gaston memorial at St. Pauls United Methodist Church at 10:30 a.m. today with inurnment in St. Pauls Collumbarium. Charles R. Wright service at Immaculate Conception Church at 10 a.m. Wednesday with entombment at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Tuesday evening.
The Gazette lists submission times for death notices and obituaries and notes that immediate survivors and a photo publish as a news item. Additional material costs 35 cents per word, with per-word charges for second-day notices and out-of-town deaths.
Linn County District Court reports multiple guilty pleas for assault causing bodily injury and related charges. Christopher W. Rogers received 48 hours in jail for domestic abuse against Gina Finney. Ronald D. Brown also 48 hours. Clayton Trammel and Wesley M. Barry pleaded to lesser simple assault charges with fines and jail credits. Barry on probation. John Burgess and James Wagner faced substance and assault counts with suspended terms and probation. Charles Conn Jr. pleaded guilty to domestic assault with a seven day sentence and five days credited.
Des Moines reports no one matched the Powerball or Lucky Day jackpot in Saturday drawings. Powerball's midweek prize rises to about 21 million with five-number tickets from Wisconsin Indiana and Minnesota each matching the first five numbers for a $100,000 prize. Iowa Lucky Day draw produced no matches for the date and lucky number 77. The next Powerball estimate is 6.1 million and Iowa Cash Game saw numbers 2 15 20 30 35.
Norman L Hoff of Marion Iowa wed Katherine K Huston of Wyoming Iowa. Ray D Lomas III of Rock Island Illinois married April D Clark of Rock Island Illinois.
Dissolutions listed include Kelli E Dolezal with Donnie S Dolezal Katherine Ferris Feldman with David M Feldman Betty J Johnson Martin with James C Martin Cynthia L Perry with Craig A Perry Renee S Frazier with David M Frazier Rebecca A Lanier with Thomas A Lanier Kevin J Peters with Kimberly S Peters Theresa M Hilleshiem with Jimmy L Hilleshiem in a local dissolution notice.
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