Cedar Rapids Obituaries and Services Noted Throughout Area
A series of death notices and funeral details across Cedar Rapids and nearby towns lists Bernadine Spake aged 67, Donald Heffernen 35, Harley Berry 85, Kenneth Shields 77, Park Newbold 84, Kevin Wasson 23, Gretchen Hufford 76, Fred Dvorak 81 and others. Details include birthplaces, marriages, surviving relatives, service times, and burial arrangements. Memorials to the American Cancer Society are encouraged in some notices.
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Bernadine Spake
Illinois St
Cedar Rapids
Denver
Colo
Casper
Wyo
Spake
Loran Spake
Nashua
Rockwell- Collins
Lou Anderson
Wilkesboro
N.C
Georgiana Fry
Turner Chapel West
Jack R. Hooten
Linwood Cemetery
Donald C. Heffernen
Coggan
Parker
Delaware County
Joyce
Thomas
Parker, Colo
Donald
Tim Whitehurst
Sheila
Patricia
Coggon
Tammy Whitehurst
Richard Heffernen
Quasqueton
Harold Kuebler
Altamount
Richard
Manchester
John
Virgil
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Monti
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Masonville
Kenneth M. Shields
Sixth St
Garrison
Nellie Henderson
Marion
Shields
Link Belt
FMC Corp
Kenneth Jr
Doris Koontz
Waterloo
Turner West Funeral Home
Kevin Scott Wasson
Johnson Ave
University of Iowa
Jefferson High School
Kirkwood Community College
Navigators Club
Wasson
Trinity United Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids Jaycees
Jaycee
Sears Roebuck & Co. Credit Department
Walter N. Wasson
Kimberly
Duncan J. Wasson
E.M. Surry
Wilson Hyde
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Church
American Cancer Society
Toledo
W.H
Gretchen) Hufford
Henderson’s. Belle Plaine
Fred L. Dvorak
St. Michael's Catholic Church
Hrabak’s
St. Mary’s
Vining
Keswick
John Burdine
Locke’s
Powell’s
Sorden Cemetery
Kalona
Ellen Mae Yoder
Lower Deer Creek
Oelwein
Merle Ross Bobis
Hintz’s
Sigourney
Clela “Pat” Adams
Reynolds
Esther Reynolds
Michael Hunter
White's
Ruth T. White
Harden’s
White Oak Cemetery
Thornburg
Brooklyn
Harold “Pie” Keller
Nevenhoven
Delsing-Wright’s
Oxford Junction
Josephine Dedina
Hayden’s
Mayflower Cemetery
Winthrop
Joseph Childers Jr
Fawcett’s
Lenway
Alyce S
Gordon Packard
Iowa Senate votes to tie unemployment pay to dependents
The Iowa Senate approved a plan to scale unemployment benefits by dependents with a maximum of 150 dollars for five or more, affecting single workers who would receive up to 124 dollars weekly starting July 1. The chamber also rejected a measure to cap combined unemployment and part-time earnings to former take-home pay.
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Des Moines
Iowa Senate
Chamber
Iowa
Robert Ray
Senate
Snow Returns With Winds to 40 MPH in East Iowa
The Gazette notes springlike views gave way to wind driven snow in East Iowa. The National Weather Service warns of a cold front bringing arctic temperatures and gusts up to 40 mph across the state by evening. A warming trend is forecast for Thursday.
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National Weather Service
Muscatine man arrested in Fort Madison kidnapping case
A 43 year old Muscatine man, Robert Ray Padgett, was arrested early today and charged with first degree kidnapping in the disappearance of 11 year old Kimberly Ann Marshall from a Fort Madison dancing class. He was held on 250000 bond.
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Fort Madison
Muscatine
Nieta
Ill
Robert Ray Padgett
Kimberly Ann Marshall
Keokuk County Hospital
Sigourney
James Carrell
Top Hatter Dancing School
Padgett
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Larry Goebel
NBC airs Jones tape as Ryan death shocks nation
NBC broadcasts portions of Jim Jones’s taped remarks shown on Today amid reports of Rep. Leo Ryan and four others killed at a Guyana airstrip after a Temple investigation. The transcript alleges Jones urged followers to take a potion and suggested orchestrating violence to protect the group.
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NBC
Jones
Jim Jones
Leo Ryan
Guyana
Ryan
Clark amendment under fire in Africa policy debate
Jepsen criticizes Clark for angling in Africa policy and for backing a 1980s amendment restricting US military action in Angola. He links Clark to aiding refugee camps used as terrorist bases and questions Clark's suitability as ambassador. The dispute follows past Carter administration concerns and a later White House reexamination that halted repeal talk.
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White House
State Department
Jepsen
Africa
Clark
Milwaukee Land Co faces bankruptcy move amid funding gap
Milwaukee Land Co officials say debtors approved a low interest loan sale that may avoid court action. The firm seeks 10 million more in April to sustain operations, with options including federal support or another loan from its land holding unit. Weather and aging track hurt 1978 loads, and a bankruptcy plan could be presented by October 1 with a Chicago hearing Monday on the first loan action. The line runs through Cedar Rapids, Marion, Green Island, Tama.
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Milwaukee Land Co
Milwaukee
Tom Phillips
Hillman
Chicago
Iowa
State
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Interstate Commerce Commission
Green Island
Mississippi River
Tama
Youth Sues Over Car Incident for Fifty Thousand Dollars
Bernard Grahek sues two youths claiming one drove toward him while the other opened a car door, causing a cerebral concussion and injuries while he prepared newspapers on Indian Dale Road SE on February 12. Minor Mark Grahek seeks $50,000 with $20,000 for medical expenses and $30,000 in punitive damages.
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Cedar Rapids
Bernard Grahek
Mark
Mark Grahek
Bernard Gradeville
Vine Ave
Scott Brady
Gradeville
Charles
Agnes
Brady
Dorrance
Shirley
Charles Gradoville
Gradoville
Five-car collision injures Marion woman on Blairs Ferry Road
Erma G. Kosmach, 40, of Marion, is in good condition at St. Luke's Hospital with leg injuries from a Tuesday chain reaction on Blairs Ferry Road NE. Douglas A. Snodgrass, 18, Center Point, was ticketed for following too closely after rear ending the line of cars waiting at C Avenue light. Alan W. Jessie, 21, and Phillip R. Petersen, 27, had cars towable from the scene, Gene F. Zacek, 46, sustained minor damage to his car at the head of the line.
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Erma G. Kosmach
10Th Ave
Marion
St. Luke’s Hospital
Blairs Ferry Road
Douglas A. Snodgrass
Route 1
Center Point
C Avenue
Snodgrass
Kesler Road
Alburnett man David Corsmier sought after son missing
Linn County deputies seek James Corsmier 36 father of missing 6 year old David Corsmier after school Tuesday near Alburnett Elementary. Authorities warn he may be armed and dangerous based on prior mental health treatment. Possible green over white 1970 Ford pickup BU 6067 plate 1978.
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Alburnett
Linn County Sheriff's
James Corsmier
Sharon Corsmier
David
Corsmier
Linn County
Sheriff's Department
Israel approves peace proposals paving way for Egypt accord
President Carter praised emergency talks after Israel's Cabinet backed the peace plan by 15 to 1 abstention. Begin warned he would resign if parliament rejects it as Egypt’s Ghali endorsed the plan. A treaty could be signed within weeks in Washington, with Hebrew and Arabic texts to follow in Jerusalem and Cairo.
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Egypt
Israel
Carter
Air Force One
Yitzhak Modai
Knesset
Begin
Butros Ghali
Sadat
Washington
Jerusalem
Cairo
No late rush for licenses in Linn County
Linn County officials estimate 2000 to 3000 vehicles lack the new 1979 license plates and face arrest for driving past midnight without them. A deputy treasurer noted weak first hours of sales for the 1979 registrations and no surge days yet.
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Linn County
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Harley Robert Berry
Edgewood Manor
Ora Minor
Dale
Garden Grove
Calif
Wayne
Rock Island
California
Lyle
Ralph
Cedar Memorial Chapel of
John Cuddeback
Unity Center
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Kenneth Shields
Sixth St. NW
Park Lester Newbold
Bever Ave. SE
Turner Chapel East
Roger Munns
Gazette
Statehouse
East
the Weather Service
Jonestown
G.D.F
God All-Mighty
United States
Foreign Relations Panel
U.S
Angola
Congress
John B. Turner & Son
Turners East
Second Ave. SE
Turner's West
First Ave
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue
Brush Chapel
Mideast
Solon
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