Deaths in Linn County and surrounding area March 1994
Obituary notices list numerous Linn County residents and relatives who died in March 1994 including George Knapp born 1924 Marion Navy veteran and former Midland Forge worker. Loretta Weeks Diouhy of Swisher. Morris F. Grissom of Cedar Rapids. Mayors and pastors noted. Memorial funds and military rites mentioned. Burials in Linwood, Walker, Castek and other cemeteries with multiple survivors and service details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Arthur A
Vera Sproston Knapp
Marjorie Sweet
Central City
Navy
Midland Forge
VFW Post
Machinist Union
George
VFW
Memorial and funeral notices from Cedar Memorial
Robert J. Kucera is to be buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery after a 9 30 a m service at St Matthew s Catholic Church. Ruby O Rudd graveside service is at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery at 1 p m with Cedar Memorial Funeral Home hosting. Charles E Gene Young holds a 10 30 a m service at First Lutheran Church with burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials go to the American Heart Association and St Luke s Hospice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Kucera
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
Robert Hogan
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Ruby O. Rudd
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Steve Hindman
St. Luke’s Living Centers
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
American Heart Association
Charles E
Gene” Young
First Lutheran Church
Cedar Memorial Park
Kay Slocum
Church of St. Luke’s
Arrangements Pending for Florence Robovsky Donnell
Florence Robovsky Donnell 82 of Cedar Falls died March 2 1994 at Cedar Falls Health Center after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Kuba Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Robovsky Donnell
Sixth St. SE
Cedar Falls
Kuba Funeral Home
Eastern Iowa obituaries note multiple deaths across towns
Ruth Vanda 96 died March 3 in Covenant Medical Center Waterloo. Theodore Glasgow 72 died March 2 in Grinnell Regional Medical Center with services March 8 at Calvary Baptist Church. Joseph Offerman 72 died March 2 in Covenant Medical Center Waterloo with mass at St Marys and burial at St Alberts. Memorials to hospice. Several other local deaths listed with funeral details across Lone Tree Monticello Oelwein Keswick Clear Lake and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Vanda
Covenant Medical Center
Waterloo
Mason-Hand Funeral Home
Tama
Richard D. Edmond Sr. 75 Dies After Illness in Iowa City
Richard D. Edmond Sr. 75 of Vinton died March 2 1994 at University Hospitals Iowa City after an extended illness. Services set for 1 p m Saturday at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel Vinton with burial Evergreen Cemetery and military rites. Survived by wife June four sons Steve Davenport Bruce Lake Ozarks MO Richard Jr Cedar Rapids Michael Vinton and daughter Mary Cory St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
22Nd Ave
Wesday
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Iowa City
Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home
Charles Mehaffey
Linwood Cemetery
Marjorie
Bev
Palo
Mike Sr
Cedar Rapids
Debbie Kearney
Kevin Sr
Cindy Orcutt
Jeff
Robert
Aurora
Colo
Thelma Justice
Phoenix
Dorothy Rossey
Granny Lois Wakeland
Illinois
Grace Greazel
William Harold Edds
40Th St. Dr
Mercy Medical Center
Muster Funeral Home
Calhoun
Bethel Cemetery
Beech Grove
Stewart Funeral Home
Ann
Mary McManus
Omaha
Steve
Jackson
Richard D. Edmond Sr
University Hospitals
Phillips Funeral Home Chapel
Vinton
Evergreen Cemetery
June
Davenport
Bruce
Lake Ozarks
Richard Jr
Michael
Mary Cory
St. Louis
Obituary: Bessie Blomme 93 in Williamsburg Care Center
Bessie Eva Blomme 93 died March 2 1994 after a long illness in the Williamsburg Care Center. Services were set for 10 30 a m Saturday at Trinity United Church of Christ near Marengo with burial at Zion Reformed Cemetery near Ladora. Friends may call 4 to 8 p m today at Uhlmann Powell Funeral Home Williamsburg. There are no immediate survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta M. Weeks Diouhy
Swisher
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical Center
Brush Chapel
Castek Cemetery
William Harnish
Anna C. Smtis
Hallmar
St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
Louis Trzil
St. John’s Cemetery
Kuba Funeral Home
Jack Starkweather
Marengo
Hoover-Valentine Funeral Home
Bill Weston
Marengo Cemetery
Marsha Armstrong
Ray Steele
James
Sandra
Sandra Rudd
Sharon Steele
Stacy Steele
Shelly Steele
Alice Steele
Eldon
Dick Boots
Branson, Mo
Robert Peck
Bemidji, Minn
Frank Havlicek
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse
Wis
Schultz
Monona
St. Wenceslaus
McGregor
Agnes
Robert
Eileen Page
Marie Ambrose
Monticello
Esther Keener
Keswick
Sigourney
Ottumwa Regional Health Center
Holm Funeral Home
Sorden Cemetery
Webster
Dolores Bowman
Melvin P. Oldorf
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Carl Schmader
Stanwood Cemetery
Chapman Funeral Home
Clarence
Jean
Dennis
Donna
Judy Rohwedder
Tom
Wyoming
Iowa
Evelyn Hasselbusch
London
Harold
Neva Donahoe
Stanwood
Carl
Anna Pruess Oldorf
Stanwood High School
Jean Vande
Gilbert J. Paustian
Grundy
Grundy Center
St. Luke Lutheran Church
Buckingham Cemetery
Overton Funeral Home
Traer
Edith
Ronnie
Grinnell
Betty Erickson
Long View
Wash
Joyce Paustian
Waterloo
Bessie Eva Blomme
Williamsburg
Trinity United Church of Christ
Zion Reformed
Ladora
Uhlmann-Powell Funeral Home
Wilton Man Dies of Lung Cancer at 66
Donald Rife 66 died Friday February 25 1994 at St Luke s Hospital Cedar Rapids from lung cancer Services were February 28 at Wilton United Methodist Church Burial at Oakdale Cemetery with military rites Arrangements by Bentley Lacock Funeral Home Survived by wife Marge daughters Cindy Trea Marion Angie Hinrichs Swisher son Donald West Liberty and sister Pearl Hagge Durant
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Rife
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Wilton United Methodist Church
Oakdale
Bentley-Lacock Funeral Home
Marge
Cindy Trea
Marion
Angie Hinrichs
Swisher
Donald
West Liberty
Pearl Hagge
Durant
Nussle Criticizes Byrd on PrimeTime Live Disaster Aid
Rep. Jim Nussle of Iowa condemns Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia for using disaster relief funds to back non disaster projects. He labels Byrd's approach as "Byrd's revenge" and accuses him of leveraging the appropriations process to fund pork barrel projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Nussle
Iowa
Robert Byrd
D-W.va
ABC TV
Byrd
Nussle
Senate Appropriations Committee
Des Moines Man Identified After Creek Find
A body found in a Warren County creek bed Wednesday has been identified as 42 year old Phillip Terrell of Des Moines. An autopsy found Terrell died from blunt force head trauma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Phillip Terrell
Warren County
Francis Garrity
Terrell
Flight 232 pilot credits luck along with training and teamwork
United Airlines Flight 232 pilot Al Haynes told about 600 attendees at a safety seminar that survival of 184 of 296 aboard owed partly to luck in the Sioux City crash five years earlier, but emphasized crew communication, preparation, execution, and passenger cooperation as the real factors behind the miraculous landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Neumann
United Airlines
Collins Plaza Hotel
Haynes
Sioux City
Marengo Man Killed When Pickup Rolled
A Marengo man, Jack R. Starkweather, 21, died from injuries when his pickup rolled over on County Road F-15 near Marengo at 3 a.m. A passenger, David Guehrn, 23, sustained minor injuries. State Patrol and Iowa County Sheriff’s Department continue the investigation. driver unidentified at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marengo
Pickup
Jack R. Starkweather
David Guehrn
The
State Patrol
Iowa County Sheriffs Department
McKinley School Highlight at Cedar Rapids Open House
The Cedar Rapids Historical Committee will host an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the city archives center to showcase McKinley school the citys first junior high opened in 1922 and now a middle school. Noted alumni and staff include Arthur Collins Paul Engle Ger Metcalf and Grant Wood who taught there 1922 to 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
City Archives
Cedar Rapids Public Works
Sixth St
McKinley School
10Th St
Arthur Collins
Paul Engle
Conger Metcalf
McKinley
Grant Wood
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Wesley
Ruth Small
LaVaughn
Chariton
Evelyn Nunemaker
Richard
Hiawatha
Leroy
Penny
Shirley
Diane
Nancy
Allan
Steven
Randy
Millersburg
She
Charles and
Alta Killian Weeks
Delta High School
Iowa National Insurance
Wesley Clouhy
Little Brown
Nashua
Hospice of Mercy
Morris F
Pete” Grissom
Eighth St. NW
Teahen Funeral
Wayne Schroeder
Walker Cemetery
Walker
Maxine
Maurice
Center Point
John
Shellsburg
Margie Hedlund
Norwalk
Verna Crile
Fairfield
Barb
Joyce Grissom
Midge
Hedrick
Maxine Werner
Allen Motors
Fort Benning
5Th
American Legion
Christ
Barrister Building
East Market St
Indianapolis
Ind
Earl M. Brink
Crestview Acres Nursing Home
Turner Chapel West
Rollin Oswald
St. James United Methodist Church
Marian McConaughy
Joseph
Wingo
Boulder
Clara Walton
Catherine
Earl
Anamosa
Catherine Carr
Penick and Ford
Silver Club
Buildfoes Os and Peace Club
Order of Eagles
Sveaky repMiwdeo
St. Wenceslaus School
St. Wenceslaus P S Church
Rosary Society
Sanctuary Guild
Wanda L. Hamilton Weathers
Turner Chapel East
Michael Palmer
First Church of the Nazarene
Bill Hamilton
Bonnie Gentry
Peggy Jones
Benton, Ill
Francis
Clutier
Theodore
Ted” E. Glasgow
Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Calvary Baptist Church
Eaton Cemetery
Odell
Smith Funeral Home
Pearl
Verla
Nancy Hawk
Centerville
Belleview
Fla
Howard
Kearns
Utah
Eugene
la Verkin
J.C.” Offerman
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Albert’s
Fawcett Funeral Home
Lamont
Rosemary Fangman Offerman
Bill
Pat
Kevin
Mary
Margean
Pete) Tschechaniuk
Audrey Offerman
Sharon Robertson
Alburnett
Jill
Joni
Jamie
Julie Offerman
Natalie
Philip Tschechaniuk
Ralph
Delaware
Mary Columba
Dubuque
Ann Burns
Clementine Young
Bessie F. Kopf
Lone Tree
Ralph J. Wittich
Muscatine
Douglas Harding
Wesley United Methodist Church
Lone Tree Cemetery
Edward
Jane Hintermeister
Nichols
Shirley McIntyre
Grandview
Jessie
Minnie Michael Stephens
Horace F. Kopf
Rose Croix Shrine No. 5
Electa Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Frank E. Schneiter
Peace United Church of
Christ, Monticello
Oakwood Cemetery
Goettsch Funeral Home
Pauline
Gerald
Jan
Sharon Hanssen
Ben
Monica Rodman
Oelwein
Delbert Masters
Clear Lake
Riverview
Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home
Berg
St. Paul’s Church
Freemont Township
Flight 232
al Haynes
C.R
Guehrn
Starkweather
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