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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1986
Page
8
Obituaries list Terry Gene Mehmen of Center Point and Geneva Halstead of Babbitt Minnesota among the mourned, with multiples from Mount Vernon, Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Iowa City areas. Memorials and funeral details include services at St John’s Center Point, murdoch chapel, Cedar Memorial Cemetery, and regional churches, with military honors noted for several veterans and survivors spanning spouses, children, and siblings.
Ruth Marie Rogers 87 of Auburn Washington former Brandon resident dies after long illness. A Marie Nan Hyde 84 dies in Marengo Hospital. John Van Donselaar 30 administrator at Friendship Manor drowns at Rock Creek Park Kellogg. Otto Niemann 68 dies at Sumner Hillcrest Home. Marie M Strang 90 dies in Burbank CA. Elva Thede 83 dies at Beverly Manor Belle Plaine. Fred Bruns 87 dies Guttenberg Care Center. LeeRoy Buckley 58 dies in Baxter. Emojean Williams 70 dies at Methodist Hospital Rochester. Burial and service details listed.
NRC intends self regulation for drug and alcohol controls at nuclear plants. Policy requires access personnel to be free of substances that impair duties, with immediate access revocation for illegal drug use and possible discharge for alcohol or legal drug abuse. Iowa Electric has no drug testing, while NRC plans random plant inspections and a policy for NRC staff with plant access.
Christopher Jacobe of Winterset aged 3 died after a pool accident at his grandparents home Saturday night. John Gordon Van Donselaar, 30, of Grinnell, disappeared Sunday with his twin sons later found safe. his body was recovered from Rock Creek Lake hours later.
Pearl A. Casey age 87 died Sunday at Washington Care Center after a lengthy illness. Survived by daughter Jane Casey of Moline Illinois son William of Washington and five sisters Bea Kurka Fairfield Vic Van Getsen Moline Kathryn Peck Salt Lake City Eva Bald Bull Shoals and Theresa Tynan Des Moines. Services 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. James Catholic Church. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Rosary to be recited tonight at 7:30 at Jones Funeral Home.
Vernon L. Ronnfeldt 53 died June 24 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center Iowa City after a lengthy illness. He worked 20 years at Wilson Foods Cedar Rapids then as a self employed roofer and painter. Survivors include his wife two sons Vernon Jr Eglin Air Force Base Fla and Herman of Lansing four daughters Beverly Howe Lansing Barbara Cambell Oelwein Josephine and June Nora at home three stepsons Charles Orr Cedar Rapids Jack and Richard Orr Waterville mother Nora Ronnfeldt Waterville four brothers Walter Hartley William Omaha Alfred and Robert Waterville sister Janice Pfiffner Harpers Ferry Services were held June 27 at Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery Military rites by Harpers Ferry American Legion Post 722.
Vital statistics listings note births for July including a son to Pamela Parmater and Rick Parmater in Vinton and a daughter to Phine Cam. Additional births include a son to Susan Eaton and Terry Eaton in Hiawatha and a daughter to Patricia Laronde in Omaha.
James L. Martin and Dee A. Rexroat of Mount Vernon. Kraig M. O Malley and Erica J. Bulman of Marion. Danny R. Booker and Cynthia J. Ward of Cedar Rapids. Dale P. Huddleson of Cedar Rapids with Kathleen M. Cooper of Traer.
A spokesman said the administration deplores any intervention sowing dissension in the Philippine body politic and opposes it. The United States is looking into Marcos role in the uprising, with no conclusion yet and the State Department to be involved in the inquiry.
A sequence of emergency logs from Sunday to Monday records incidents at multiple locations including First Avenue NE and SW, Eighth Avenue near a railroad, and Interstate 380. Entries list mistaken alarms, youths with matches, dumpster fires, standby scenes, unknowns at vacant mobiles, medical emergencies, and arcing wires with specific street addresses and times.
Des Moines police and a negotiator faced a 65-year-old man Richard Peterson barricaded in his northwest Des Moines house after he fired at officers serving a civil contempt warrant. He held a .22 rifle and refused to relinquish it amid a tense standoff as authorities sought a reporter interview.
Illinois lottery numbers drawn Monday in the Illinois Lotto game are listed by the Springfield office. AP reports the winning set for the weekly drawing.
Daily game notes present a 5 5 7 pick four sequence 0 6 9 9 and an estimated grand prize pool of about 2 million dollars for the Lotto drawing.
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