Obituaries From Iowa Towns Honor Local Residents
Center Point Barbara Osterkamp, 77, died Sunday, June 29, 2025, per Goettsch Funeral Home Anamosa. Oelwein Jerald L. Burco, 85, died Saturday, June 28, 2025, noted by Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home. Postville Terry Hoot Meyer, 70, died Saturday, June 28, 2025, listed with Schutte Grau Funeral Home. Tama Thomas Aaron Davenport, 65, died Saturday, June 28, 2025, Kruse Phillips Funeral Home reported.
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Center Point
Barbara Osterkamp
Goettsch
Anamosa
Oelwein Jerald L. Burco
Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home
Postville
Terry “Hoot” Meyer
Schutte-Grau
Tama Thomas Aaron Davenport
Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home
Lalo Schifrin composer of Mission Impossible dies at 98
Lalo Schifrin, Argentine born composer famed for the Mission Impossible theme, died at 98 in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia complications. He wrote over 100 film and TV scores including Dirty Harry and The Sting and earned multiple Oscar nominations and an honorary Oscar in 2018. He is survived by his wife Donna and children William Frances and Ryan.
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Los Angeles
Lalo Schifrin
Schifrin
Will Schifrin
Los Angeles Times
Hollywood
the Times
Chameleon
Estly
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Luis
Philharmonic Orchestra of
Teatro Colon
Enrique Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim
Paris Conservatory
Dizzy Gillespie
U.S
Gillespie
New York
Donna
William
Frances
Ryan
Oldest Earth rocks may lie in Canada’s Nuvvuagittuq belt
Scientists argue over age of Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt rocks near Hudson Bay. A new study places them at about 4.16 billion years using two dating methods, suggesting they could be the oldest known Earth rocks. The find, published in Science, underscores early planetary history while Inuit authorities restrict sampling to protect the site.
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New York
Canada
Hudson Bay
Quebec
Earth
Jonathan O’neil
University of Ottawa
Science
Addictive use of phones and games rises in children study
A study tracking 4,300 children from ages 9 to 15 over six years found nearly half show high addictive use of mobile phones, with 40 percent for video games and 10 percent for social media. Higher addiction trajectories link to 2 to 3 times greater risk of personal crisis behaviors or ideation.
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Yunyu Xiao
Weill Cornell Medicine
Xiao
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Beverly Hills
Calif
TNS
Mark Reagan
University of Iowa
Munity
Tommy Palliser
Pituvik Landholding Corp
Palliser
Nuwvuagittuq
Nuvvuagittuq
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