Coralville Dike Under Construction To Shield Town
Residents west of Iowa City rush to erect a 400 foot earth dike to prevent flooding after 1944 damage. Mayor Merritt Ewart says all efforts aim to avert repeat disasters as Keokuk and Hamburg suffer rising rivers. Mississippi expected to reach 24 to 25 feet at Hannibal and Quincy. 20 to 21 feet at Keokuk. Farmland and homes in Hamburg submerged. some residents relocate to upper floors.
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Coralville
Iowa City
Merritt Ewart
Iowa
Keokuk
Mississippi
Keokuk Bridge
Des Moines
Missouri
Quincy
Hannibal
Bureau
Hamburg
Nebraska
Missouri River
South‘ern
Excelsior Springs
Canton
Coast Guard
St. Louis
Burlington Railroad
Chillicothe
Bethany
Daily Record Weather And Local Notices
Weather forecast shows Sunday fair with showers likely Monday and Tuesday Westerly winds 10 to 15 mph Highs around 75 and lows near 59 Driving without lights fines arise for Leroy Taylor M Dee Keeney speeding fines for several residents Fires report a car fire on Fifteenth Avenue SE Births list several new arrivals at Mercy St Luke's Independence Traer and other towns obituary notices for Maher Jones Ray Vrooman and Seymour
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Bismarck
BARTS
Leroy Taylor
Oakland Road NE
M. Dee Keeney
Avenue NE
James J. Morgan
Sixth Avenue SE
Leonard Meierkord
Waterloo
John H. Moninger Re-Elected by Coe Alumni Association
John H. Moninger of Chicago was re elected president of the Coe College Alumni Association at a dinner in Voorhees Quadrangle. The event honored the Class of 1897 member John M. Thompson and 1896 honoree Mrs. Frederick Murray American Mother of 1947, with several officers and reports presented.
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John H. Moninger
Coe Alumni Association
Coe College Alumni Association
Voorhees Quadrangle
Chicago
Byron S. Hollinshead
John M. Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Frederick Murray
Alumni Association
Alfred Meyer
Meyer
Moninger
Paul Ray
Coe
Stephen W. Stookey
Fort Worth
Texas
C. F. Clark
Knollwood Drive
Clark
Virgil Fisher Fined For Drunk Driving
Virgil C. Fisher of Stanwood pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 300 dollars plus costs by Judge Floyd Philbrick after a May 23 accident at First Avenue and Twenty eighth Street East. He had initially pled not guilty on May 24.
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Virgil Fisher
Virgil C. Fisher
Stanwood
Floyd Philbrick
Fisher
First Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
Ottumwa Flood Crisis Strands Residents and Shuts Utilities
Floods cripple Ottumwa with a hydro plant leak and city water halted. Navy helicopters bring in supplies for rooftop rescues while 36 blocks flood and 12 blocks of the south side go under water. Emergency crews evacuate, guard units mobilize, and power is restored gradually as highways and rail lines remain impassable.
Floods Sweep Midwest States Amid Rising Waters
Floods and high winds cause property damage across seven Midwest states. One death reported as Wayne Davis, 31, drowns near Bethany. Levee breaches near Beardstown and widespread road and rail disruptions slow aid and evacuations in Missouri Iowa and Nebraska and Kansas face renewed flood threats.
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Midwest
S. E. Decker
U. S
Des Moines
Noone
Iowa
Wayne Davis
Bucks Branch
Bethany
Dike Break Threatens McCausland Basements
Davenport AP reports McCausland Iowa with 125 residents faced a four foot dike breach after heavy rains. The Wapsipinicon river surged, breaching the dike Friday, flooding thousands of acres of low land near the town and threatening basements.
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Davenport
McCausland
Scott County
Violence erupts as Ford foremen strike turns violent
DETROIT UP The 17 day Ford Motor foremen walkout escalated Friday night when a mob of about 400 dragged superintendent Anthony Vella from the River Rouge plant. Vella, 46, was handed to pickets and assaulted before police arrived, suffer ing cuts and bruises from a stair fall at the overpass.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Anthony Vella
Three twisters hit Julesburg Colo injuring some
Julesburg Colorado was struck by three tornadoes on Friday, damaging more than 50 homes and several businesses. The Safeway store, Union Pacific baggage depot baggage room, a $20 000 potato warehouse, and two small firms were destroyed. Roofs of 15 houses were torn off. Some injuries were reported but no deaths.
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Julesburg
Colo
Colorado
Safeway
Union Pacific
Simmonds Files Voluntary Bankruptcy in Cedar Rapids
Harold W. Simmonds, interior decorator and painter of 11th Street NE Cedar Rapids, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition on Friday in the Cedar Rapids division of the federal district court. Debts total $4,884.09 with assets of $811.25.
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H. W. Simmonds
Harold W . Simmonds
Tenth ‘Street
Cedar Rapids Division
Federal District Court
Simmonds
Cedar Rapids 369 Seniors Graduate From Four High Schools
369 Cedar Rapids seniors received diplomas in a Memorial Coliseum ceremony led by Dr. Earl E Harper. He warned against totalitarianism and urged justice and ethical government while urging defense of peace and military strength. Diplomas were handed by four high school principals as robed graduates applauded.
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Memorial Coliseum
Cedar Rapids
Earl E. Harper
University of Iowa School of Fine Arts
Dr. Harper
South Carolina
America
Franklin
Pierre A. Tracy
Wilson
Bruce Eicher
McKinley
Margaret Porter Kamradt
Roosevelt
Zdenek F. Pauk
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
Ralph B. Colton
Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church
Clyde Parker
Remembering unity and restraint in a wary postwar era
Hickenlooper laments past failure to keep allied unity in peace as freedom’s supporters neglected collective power. He warns that delayed cooperation allowed Axis preparation, and urges decisive, intelligent action with other nations to sow peace rather than war.
McFadden Elected Vice President at Gold Star Mothers Meet
Long Beach California Mrs Haddvig McFadden 1929 Eighth Avenue Southeast was elected vice president of the American Gold Star Mothers Friday at the close of a four day convention Cpl Richard Kunzman son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Kunzman 1508 Fifth Street Northwest has been promoted to sergeant After 16 months in service he is a ward master at Brooke General Hospital Fort Sam Houston Texas
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Long Beach
Calif
Haddvig McFadden
Eighth Avenue SE
American Gold Star
Cpl
Richard _Kunzman
Ralph Kunzman
Fifth Street
Brooke General Hospital
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Waterloo man fined in traffic court for speeding
Leonard Meierkord of Waterloo was fined 25 dollars and costs by Judge Harry S. Johnson after pleading guilty to speeding. He was arrested Friday night by patrolmen who clocked him at better than 60 miles per hour on First Avenue near Thirty-sixth Street East.
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Leonard Meierkord
Waterloo
Harry S. Johnson
Meierkord
First Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
Gallagher loses three toes in mixer accident
James Gallagher, 34, suffered the loss of three toes when his left foot was caught in a concrete mixer he was cleaning Thursday. The accident occurred at a Fred Carlsen Company facility in Decorah.
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Decorah
James Gallagher
Fred Carlsen Company
Traffic Toll in Cedar Rapids Rises With Injuries and Deaths
In Cedar Rapids the traffic toll since April 1 reports 62 injuries and 1 death. Officials caution drivers to increase safety amid ongoing incidents, outlining limited details on locations and exact dates while emphasizing prevention measures and community impact.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Penal Institutions Under Survey
Iowa’s five penal institutions are the subject of a statewide survey led by H. H. Hauge. Dr. Walter Lunden, a newly appointed sociology professor at Iowa State College, will prepare recommendations to improve guard and inmate training, academics, and physical programs after visiting Fort Madison, Anamosa, Rockwell City, Mitchellville, and Eldora facilities.
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Lunden
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Rockwell City
Mitchellville
Eldora
Gustavus College
St. Peter, Minn
Bavaria
Notable December honors and degree recipients listed
The list names Cum laude honorees, Phi Kappa Phi members, and degree recipients across arts and music. Barbara Carruthers, Barbara Chartier, Betty Dahl, Vida Rumbaugh, Donald Ebinger, John Holley, Patricia Owens among graduates. James Bonney and others awarded cum laude. Bachelor of arts and music degrees conferred or pending include dozens of recipients such as Barbara Carruthers, Barbara Chartier, John Gray, Jean Hughes, Jane Kirkman, Constance Ogden, Everette Frese, Loren Olson, Charlotte Shanks, and Charles Houser, with summer session candidates and post-summer degree names listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Carruthers
Barbara Jean Chartier
Betty Jean Dahl
Vida Faye Rumbaugh
Donald Raymond Ebinger
John Henry Holley
Patricia Ann Owens
James E. Bonney
Marjorie Ruth Clapp
Winifred C. Deyo
Everette John Frese
Jeanne Marie Taber
John Henry Gray
Jean Ann Hughes
Jane Frances Kirkman
Constance L. Ogden
Phi Kappa Phi
National
Scholastic
Everett Dale Hendricks
Frances Janet Jones
Thomas David McPartland
Mary Helen Mobry
Donald E. Schwinn
Fred Albert Andrews
William J. Armstrong
James F. Baba
Lorayne
Carolyn Baldock
Joan C. Bonner
Lois Jean Breakenridge
Richard L. Budde
Catharine M. Capes
Hazel Shirley Carver
Viva B. Cassady
James Calvin Clowd
Arda Mae Cox
Carol Jean Curran
Marvin Wesley Deschadis
Jeanne Marie Ferguson
Donna Jeanne Flickinger
Dean Angus Frost
Ellen Glee Graves
Donald Charles Grovert
Marjorie Ruth Halstead
Shirley Ann Hilborn
Marilyn Joyce Hoersch
Charles Bert Houser
Clifford R. Jenson
Hugh K. Johnson
Sarah Marie Johnson
Paul George Kellogg
Virgil A. Kellogg
Jane Francis Kirk
Clayton N. Ridout
Helen
Louise Rosain
James Buchanan Ruark
Robert Charles Seber
Richard Leo Sedlacek
Kathryn Loomis Leitner
Reuben H. Leitner, Jr
Nona Belle Slick
Dorothy Helen Sloan
Howard John
Steinbeck
James E. Thomas
Margaret Surfus
Maurice William Trickey
Florence van Winkle
Robert Winslow Wessale
Allane West
Charlene
Arthur Poe Honored by Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Arthur Poe, chairman of trustees, was presented a scroll by the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his service. The ceremony honored Poe for leadership of the Coe board of trustees and his contributions to the community.
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Arthur Poe
Coe Board of Trustees
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Retirement Scroll Honors Arthur Poe in Cedar Rapids
A special scroll was presented to Arthur Poe on his retirement from active business in Cedar Rapids. The citation praises nearly four decades of generous service to education, industrial goodwill, and civic enterprise. Presentation made by President Hollinshead and Chamber of Commerce President Herbert Stamats.
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Arthur Poe
Cedar Rapids
Hollinshead
Herbert Stamats
Chamber of Commerce
Flood Threat Eased in Cedar Rapids After Crest Drops
Cedar Rapids faced a potential flood threat that eased Saturday as River Observer R S Toogood reported a reading of 10.9 feet well below the 13-foot flood stage. The Davenport weather bureau expected the level to fall 2.6 feet from the crest unless heavy rains return. Temperatures ranged from a high of 80 to a low of 62 with afternoon warmth returning.
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Cedar Rapids
R. S. Toogood
Weather Bureau
Davenport
John Miller 55 longtime Linn County resident dies
John William Miller 55 of 2032 Eastern boulevard SE died in a local hospital at 1 57 a m Saturday after a brief illness. Born August 9 1892 in Sibley he worked for Iowa Railway and Light Company Penick and Ford farmed near Central City for 18 years and was a real estate broker for Pardera Realty at death He leaves wife Bernice a son John David Miller a daughter Arlene Hope Halstead of Marion his mother Maria Miller of Cedar Rapids a sister and three grandchildren He was past master of Level lodge 284 A F and A M Central City and a member of Iowa Consistory El Kabir Shrine Ambar Grotto Cedar Rapids Services 1 30 pm Tuesday Turner chapel Rev D Keith Irwin Olivet Presbyterian Church Burial Linwood Cemetery Master Masons to meet Level Lodge at 12 15 pm Tuesday
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John William Miller
Eastern Boulevard
Linn County
Sibley
Iowa Railway and Light Company
Penick and Ford
Central City
Pardera Realty Company
White Real
Ambar Grotto
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
D. Keith Irwin
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Level Lodge
Linwood Cemetery
Masonic
Obituary notices from Cedar Rapids area deaths
Multiple obituaries report deaths in Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Mrs. John Lundquist, 76, died after a brief illness at 620 Tenth Avenue SW. burial at Cedar Memorial. Joseph A. Matoush, retired farmer, died after a brief illness. services at Turner chapel. Infant and stillborn deaths include Merrifield and Spencer infants with private services. Anton Jedlicka, 3102 E Avenue NW, died Friday. services at Brady mortuary and burial at Bohemian National Cemetery.
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Jedlicka
Anton Jedlicka
E Avenue NW
Brady Mortuary
Frank Ward
Bohemian National Cemetery
Coe Academic Prize Winners Announced at Commencement
At Coe College commencement the year’s top scholars were named. Winners include Lewis Garrett Knox scholarship William Du Vall Bever oratorical prize Daryl Sander Rodney Gabler Charles Houser Everette Frese James Graham Constance Krapf Elizabeth Munson Mary Helen Mobry Mary Hamblin Elinor Kanaskie Richard Palmer William DuVall Homer Wilson Mary Phinner Lucille Roberts Alice Schmidt Vida Rumbaugh Lois Breakenridge Winifred Deyo Lorenz Dobner George Meadows Sally Ehlers John L Bower Donna Dean J D Lambert William Cohen Vida Rumbaugh William Chadima and others receiving prizes from many Greek letter organizations and the Cedar Rapids chapter of the AAUW.
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Coe College
Lewis Garrett
South English
Knox
William DuVall
Mt. Carroll, Ill
Daryl Sander
Donnelson
Bever
Rodney Gabler
Elgin
Murray-Fuller Economics
Charles Houser
Des Moines
Everette Frese
Norway
Crawford
James Graham
Cedar Rapids
Erskine
Constance Krapf
Carrie L. Mack
Elizabeth Munson
Clinton
Mary Helen Mobry
Mary Hamblin
Bedford
Elinor Kanaske
Chicago
Richard Palmer
Algona
Creative Writers
American Association of University Women
Mt. Carroll
Ill
Homer Wilson
Ottumwa
Armstrong
Lambda Chi Alpha
Mary Phinner
Mt. Vernon
Chi Omega
Lucille Roberts
Alice Schmidt
Dixon, Ill
Crescent
Vida Rumbaugh
Ackley
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Lois Breakenridge
Dinsdale
Hanson
Winifred Deyo
Oelwein
Kappa Delta Sorority
James Nichols
Richard Hootman
Daniel Calkins
Scranton
Ladies Literary Club of
Gene Morokoff
Marvin Hromek
Carley Pisel
Gilmore City
Lorenz P. Dobner
Yakima
Wash
George C. Meadows
Chicago Tribune
William R. Matoush
Westchester
Iil
National Society
Sons of the American Revolution
Sally Ehlers
Ogden
Mu Psi
John L. Bower
Phi Sigma Iota
Donna Dean
Arnolds Park
Phi Delta Epsilon
J. D. Lambert
Freeport
Fil
William Cohen
Festival of bands and queen candidates lights up Hill Park
Large crowd gathers as the festival unfolds with bands marching from the plaza to Greene Square. Yellow school buses bring participants from Wapello and Fort Madison. Queen candidates attend a luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel with YMB hosts. Miss Eastern Iowa of 1947 will be crowned at the 7:30 p.m. Hill Park show.
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Federal
Wapello
Fort Madison
Plaza
Greene Square
Montrose Hotel
Roosevelt Hotel
Kenneth Moon
Ray, Spirlman
Herb Beckman
Charles Severn
Edmund
Hal Olmstead
Pat Patterson
Young Men's Bureau
YMB
Retail Merchants Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Hill Park
Iowa
U S Charges Railways Overcharging for Planes Parts
Attorney General Clark said the government filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission charging 964 railroads with overcharging the United States for transport of planes and plane parts.
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Washington
INS
Clark
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Fraternity Brothers Fulfill Reunion Pact
IOWA CITY RP Five of six University of Iowa fraternity brothers who made a reunion pact 30 years ago will hold their second meeting here Sunday. In 1917 Rep Tom Martin and five other Alpha Tau Omega members agreed to meet at commencement time in 20 years. They held a reunion in 1937 and agreed to meet again in 10 years.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Tom Martin
Rta
Alpha Tau Omega
Russell W. Lemley
Hal Barry
Cedar Rapids
Ray Clearman
Des Moines
Glenn Hill
Beloit
Wis
Ray C. Fountain
National Guard
Fountain
Washington
Lemley
Ottumwa Flood Submerges Towns and Shelters Evacuees
Water filled the John Deere plant and Morrell Packing, with rail lines under water for miles. Over 1,000 families evacuated from the bottoms south of the river as trucks carried belongings to viaducts. Tent cities formed in Leighton and Foster parks, with Red Cross shelters at Agassiz school and at the naval air base. Evacuees crowded into temporary quarters as crowds watched floodwaters advance into the business district.
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John Deere
Morrell Packing Company
Milwaukee, Wabash
Burlington
Milwaukee
Wabash
Leigh
Ton
Foster Parks
Naval Air Base
Here
Red Cross
Agassiz School
Ottumwa
Diarrheadisease probe urged by Cedar Rapids officials
Drs Day Victor ine Greenblatt Morgan Foster and Carrigg lead a committee to investigate a recent diarrheal outbreak. Sister Mary Eileen Mercy hospital superintendent backs the inquiry. Dr Gough of St Luke's calls for action to quiet rumors. The Dolezal child, born May 6 at the hospital, was treated and discharged but returned with the infection. Survived by parents, brother Kenny, grandparents in Cedar Rapids and Solon, and three great grandparents. Services set for Monday at St Wenceslaus with burial at St John's. Friends may visit Brosh chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Day
E. M. Victorine
Jerald Greenblatt
Morgan Foster
L. G. Carrigg
Mary Eileen
Mercy Hospital
Kieck
E. T. Gough
St. Luke's
Cedar Rapids
Dolezal
Kenny
Frank Staskal
Frank J. Dolezal
Elizabeth Chehak
Paul’ Dolezal
Solon
Helen Borel
North Liberty
St. Wenceslaus Church
Anthony W. Chihak
St John’s Cemetery
Brosh Chapel
Typhoid vaccine flown to Ottumwa for 2200 immunizations
A cargo of typhoid vaccine enough to immunize 2200 persons was flown to Ottumwa after noon Saturday, initiated by the Iowa State Department of Health. Six large navy boats are being flown to Ottumwa from Burlington, with evacuation gear and a helicopter sought from naval district command. Flood damage estimates to crops, land, buildings and livestock were tentative Saturday, with total losses expected to run into several million dollars.
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Des Moines
Ottumwa
Iowa State Department of Health
INS
Burlington
Navy
Ninth Naval District
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Mississippi River
Jil
Daily Record
al Fritz
Fifteenth Avenue SE
Same
Mercy
John Zachar
Linn Boulevard
George Gohmann
Sixteenth Street
Merle Driscoll
Second Street
St. Luke’s
Donald Angell
Fifth Avenue
John Roloff
Independence
Robert Nosek
Ellis Boulevard
Traer
Frank Kosnar, Jr
States Funeral Home
Michael E. Maher
St. Patrick’s Church
Elkader
Mary Ann Jones
Harold Jones
Oelke
Frieden
Evangelical Church
Olin
Don L. Vrooman
Evangelical United Brethren Church
McGregor—Mable Ray
Dubuque
Pilkington
Manchester
Lincoln
Robert Seymour
Gili Funeral Home
Richard A. Rheinschmidt
Second Avenue SE
Carr Lavell
Fourteenth Street
Ward Burroughs
Manhattan Beach
Charles Joss
Wade Patterson
Fifth Avenue SE
Centennial Building Fund
Louis’ Burkhalter, Jr
John Miller
Ities Company
Homer Darbyshire
H. A. Brown
Memorial Park
Loveless
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Chariton
Albia
South Ottumwa
U. S. Naval Air Base
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KBIZ
Iiauct
Finley
Weller
Central Addition
Naval Base
Doyle Jones
South Side
Doyle
Naval Station
Western Union
Morrell and Company
Iowa National Guard
Eddyville
Towa
Oakville
Memorial Union
University
Curtis Bridge
Crandic
Oakdale
Iowa River
Miller
Beardstown
Coal Creek
Richardson County
Kansas
Ford
C.R. Schools
Bayne Freeland
Hickenlooper
Mrs. McFadden
Kunzman
C.R
C.R. Realtor
John Lundquist
Tenth Avenue
Sweden
Edwin W
Oscar H
George A. Lundquist
Carl J. Lundquist
Evanston, Ill
Ervin F. Stepanek
Lundquist
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
O. T. Engquist
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Joseph Matoush
Joseph A. Matoush
Wilson Avenue
Bohemia
West Branch
Edna
H. K. Galloway
West Branch Cemetery
Merrifield
Francis Donald Merrifield
Russell Merrifield
Russell L
Michael
Ella Merrifield
Elizabeth Gorman
Teahen
D. J. Lenihan
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Minute
U.S
Leighton Park
Jou B
Turmer
Sou
Dake Ee
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