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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 2024
Page
9
Lois M Seemuth, 93, of Iowa City died Saturday June 8 2024. Funeral services are set for 11:00 a.m. Friday June 14 2024 at Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with burial at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Condolences are requested online at the funeral home site.
Dennis Wayne Robison 64 of Toledo Iowa died June 7 2024 at Premier Estates of Toledo cremation followed by a committal service at 11 am June 14 2024 at St Joseph Catholic Cemetery Prairieburg officiated by Reverend Sean Smith He was born August 12 1959 in Cedar Rapids son of Donald Westphal and Elizabeth Tone Robison He married Corrine Noogle who died May 6 2004 and later Louis Wallerich who died October 26 2021 He is survived by siblings Charles Chuck Robison Lori Bell three nieces and two nephews Preceded in death by parents and both wives Remembrance at murdochfuneralhome com obituaries.
Margaret Elizabeth Bender died June 8 2024 at age 94. Born November 12 1929 in Sigourney Iowa she worked as secretary for Keokuk County Schools and later as postmaster in Keswick Webster Ollie North English Des Moines Ottumwa and Eldon. She married William C Bender in 1954 and the couple farmed near Keswick before moving to Sigourney. Funeral mass June 18 at St Mary Catholic Sigourney. burial Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Donations to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Williamson Dilg, a leading conservationist and founder of the Izaak Walton League, was inducted into the National Rivers Hall of Fame at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque. He championed the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge and lobbied for a Cabinet level Department of Conservation.
The Rev. James Lawson Jr died at 95 in Los Angeles after a short illness. A key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., Lawson taught Gandhian nonviolence to activists like John Lewis and Diane Nash, helped desegregate Nashville in 1960, organized the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, and later led Holman United Methodist Church while teaching at CSU Northridge and UC. He mentored many figures including the Freedom Riders. married to Dorothy Wood Lawson with three sons.
David Boaz, a foundational voice for libertarianism and longtime senior fellow at the Cato Institute, died June 7 in Arlington Virginia at age 70 after a cancer battle. His career spanned books like The Libertarian Mind and The Politics of Freedom and included editing The Libertarian Reader.
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