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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 2018
Page
11
Multiple Iowa obituaries dated Jan 2018 recount Jamie Kilpatrick of Cedar Rapids and others from Iowa City and Marion. The notices list family survivors, service details, and memorial preferences including VFW and local funeral homes. Jamie Kilpatrick served in Korea and was active in veterans groups. Bob Kacick of Marion is remembered for family, work, and community involvement.
James Richard Gowin, 75, of Williamsburg Missouri, born October 11 1942 in Fulton, served in the U S Army 1964 to 1967, married Diana Bogle in 1967, owned Jim's Water Conditioning, and died January 21 2018. Survived by wife Diana, sons Terry and Dan, four grandchildren, siblings, and other relatives. A celebration of life will be January 27 2018 at Powell Funeral Home, with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery and visitation January 26.
Naomi Parker Fraley, the West Coast machinist linked to the Rosie the Riveter poster, died at 96 in Longview Washington. Her likeness sparked decades of debate after a 1942 Alameda Lathe photo surfaced and later matched the iconic We Can Do It image once identified by researchers.
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela died in Johannesburg at 78 after a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2008. Known as Bra Hugh he fused jazz with African folk creating world music and wrote the anti-apartheid anthem Bring Him Back Home. He collaborated with Herb Alpert Paul Simon Miriam Makeba and Mbongeni Ngema and scored Grazing in the Grass a No. 1 instrumental hit.
Ursula K. Le Guin, prize-winning science fiction writer known for Earthsea and a prolific body across fiction poetry essays and children’s books, died Monday in Portland Oregon at age 88. The Berkeley raised author earned the 1972 National Book Award and held honors from the Hugo and Nebula awards among others.
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