Deaths in Iowa and Colorado Claim Many Lives
Obituaries list Geraldine M. Johnson and others, noting relatives and service details. Included are Tommy Clark, Louie C. Larson, and many locals with funeral plans, memorial funds, and church or cemetery arrangements across Cedar Rapids, Marion, Decorah, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geraldine M. Johnson
Marion
California
Mountain View
Calif
Geraldine Starbuck
Carl W. Johnson
Spokane
Wash
Santa Clara
Covenant Presbyterian Church
O.E.S
William W. Johnson
Frank
Mary Ellen) Lennert
Woodside
Ester Brebner
Cypress
Oak Shade
Murdoch Funeral Home
Tommy Clark
Fifth Ave
Fern Whitney
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Farmersburg
Iowa
Laborers Union, Local 43
U.S. Army
Scott Clark
Opal Clark
Michael
Lester
Larry
Betty White
Turner Chapel West
Charles Mehaffey
Asbury United Methodist Church
Linwood Cemetery
American Legion
Hanford Post
Louie C. Larson
A Ave
Decorah
Larson
Marcia Sisco
Linda Beam
Hemingford
Neb
Lloyd
Alvin
Madison Lutheran Church
Stevie’s
Storms cause wide outages in Linn County cities
High winds and heavy rains toppled trees onto power lines across Linn County causing widespread outages. Cedar Rapids North East and surrounding areas went dark after 11 p.m. Wires down and signals out prompted fire police and sheriff responders to multiple storm calls. An IE spokesman cited a Bowman Woods substation failure and noted Saturday afternoon outages lasting various blocks with high but not record electricity use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Second St. SE
Marion
Linn Sheriff's Deputies
Bowman Woods
Birth notices list numerous July deliveries and locations
Vital Statistics shows births at St. Luke's and Liberal and Madison addresses with dates July 14 to July 17 and parents named. Grandparents listed for several births. Also records a series of emergency calls and incidents including a gas flush at 16th Avenue and 18th Street SW and medical emergencies at multiple addresses across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke’s
Mary Sanchez
Underwood Ave
Jackie
Randy Fossum
Westwood Drive
Teresa
Clark Linn
N St. SW
Shawn
Vern Escher
12Th Ave
Ken
Christine Schumacher
Newhall
Becky
Steve Frink
37Th St. NE
Dianne
Jeffrey Larsen
Manchester
Luann
Steve Kepler
Mount Vernon
Madison
Wis
James T. Colbert
James B. Colbert
Wilson Ave
Frank Karl
Fairfax
16Th Avenue
18Th Street
Fifth Ave
Sixth Avenue
First Ave
Keith Drive
Second Street
First Avenue
Armstong Tire Workers Strike Amid Negotiation Impasse
About 860 union workers at Armstrong Tire and Rubber Co went on strike after talks for a new contract stalled. The expired agreement left seniority and working conditions unresolved. Additional union members in California Tennessee Mississippi and Connecticut were also striking, with about 400 non union workers at the Des Moines plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
UPI
Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co
Rubber Workers
Earl Seymour
United Rubber Workers Union Local 164
Seymour
John Carroll
California
Tennessee
Mississippi
Connecticut
Carroll
Iran and Iraq trade claims over oil facilities in war clash
Both Iran and Iraq asserted damage to the other side’s oil sites as fighting along the border intensified. Iraqi claims of hits on Kharg Island and Basra shelling contrast with Iranian reports of Abadan attacks and large casualty figures, amid unverified battlefield reports and about 100,000 troops on each side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
Iraq
Associated Press
Cyprus
Kharg Island
Gulf
Abadan
Basra
Tehran
Hamadan
Nian
Islamic Republic
U.S
Judge Allows Everglades Deer Hunt Start
Federal Judge Eugene Spellman dissolved a temporary restraining order permitting a two day Everglades deer hunt for about 1500 deer. The plan trims a 5500 head herd with restrictions on age and antler size, targeting fawns and females and enforcing arrests for larger bucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
U.S
Eugene Spellman
Spellman
Everglades
Leland Man Killed In Clear Lake Road Crash
A Leland man Robert Blanken BlankenShip 47 dies when his car fails to negotiate a curve on County Road S-18 north of Clear Lake. The vehicle overturned. he was thrown from the car and found dead at the scene. The 6 45 p.m. crash drew responses from local police, state patrol, sheriff's department, medical examiner, fire department and ambulance crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clear Lake
Leland
Robert Blankenship
Blankenship
Cerro Gordo County
Man Dies From Tractor Accident Near Sigourney
William D. Snakenberg, 65, of rural Sigourney, died at 4:04 a.m. Saturday at the University of Iowa Hospitals after a tractor accident about a week earlier. Keokuk County Sheriff's Department reported no additional details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigourney
Keokuk County
Drowning Reported Near Sigourney at Yenruogis Park
A male drowning occurred in a lake at Yenruogis Park three miles north of Sigourney at 4 p.m. Saturday. Keokuk County sheriff officials withheld the victim’s name and incident details pending relatives notification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigourney — A
Yenruogis Park
Sigourney
Keokuk County
Sheriff's Department
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Graham
Theodore R
Murdoch Chapel
Center Point
Hugh Bird
Raymond United Methodist Church
Sullivan
Thomas M
St. Jude’s Catholic Church
Eugene Kutsch
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Teahen Funeral Home
Sykora
Patricia
Janeba-Kuba Funeral Home
David A. Young
Hope Lutheran Church
Shueyville
St. Luke’s Hospital
Harvey Paul Brown
Jameson
Clarence
Cornell College
Floyd Brown
Jamesport
Theda Settle
Kansas City
Masonic Cemetery
Turner Chapel
Paul E. Mader
Florida
Inez
Mary Kessler
St. Cloud
Fla
Christine Folkins
Charles
Chapel of Light
Osceola Memory Gardens
Kissimmee
Rose Anna Dvorak
Denver
Colo
Merle LeRoy Sorden
Powell’s
English
Brooklyn
Ralph Skarin Sr
Grace United Methodist Church
IOOF
Nevenhoven’s
Dyersville
Zita Johannes
St. Francis Xavier Basilica
Church Cemetery
Kramer’s
Jesup
Velma Duggan
Parker's
St. Athanasius Cemetery
Monticello
Irvin
Babe” Rhatigan
Congregational United Church of Christ
Oelwein
Bob Franzen
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Brant-Kerns
Woodlawn
Willis Hatch
Hazleton
George Spragg
William Dale Snakenberg
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Pleasant Grove
Holm’s. Strawberry Point
Joyce E. Oelrich
Roberson’s
Fayette Wesleyan Church
Strawberry Point
Roberson’s. Traer
Flossie Metcalfe
Overton’s
Buckingham Cemetery
Traer
Waterloo
Marcella Cagley
St. John’s Catholic Church
Independence
Mason Funeral Chapel
West Union
Clarence J. Nesvik
Zion Lutheran Church
West Union Cemetery
Burnham Wood's
Wyoming
Howard
Bill
Hayden’s
Iowa Electric
Northbrook
Jerry and
Chris Wilford
26Th St. NW
Liberal
Kan
Betty
Leonard Hughes
Arling Hughes
Crandall Drive
Armstrong
New York
Judge OK
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Leland Man
The
Gazette Company
Third Ave
Iowo
Lowe
James F. Stewart
Vanity Fair
W.C. Fields
Harry Hirschfield
Cha Heifetz
Sis
George ST
Griminly
Pierson’s Flowershop and Greenhouses, Inc
Ellis Boulevard
Center Pt. Rd
Remwemver
Peck’s
Your
F.I.D. Florist
Blairs Ferry
Edgewood Rd
Fox
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue
S.E
Shirley, Terry
Sue Brosh
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