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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 2005
Page
15
Obituaries list deaths from March 10 to March 14 2005 across Decorah Keota Marengo Manchester New Albin Brooklyn and other Iowa towns. The notices include ages burial details visitation times church names cemeteries and survivors such as spouses children and siblings. Several families request online condolences or memorial gifts to churches or funds.
Emma Sand Byers of Sanborn Iowa died March 6 2005 at Prairie View Nursing Home at age 101 years 10 months 14 days. Services were March 9 at First Presbyterian Church Sanborn with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery Primghar. She was born April 22 1903 in Brookings County SD daughter of Theodore and Ellen Sand. She lived in Hendricks Minnesota and Minneapolis before moving to a farm near Primghar then to Sanborn. Surviving are daughter Betty Koehlmao, sons John Mary Byers and Robert Diane Byers, Orion Thomas, 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church Sanborn and loved tatting crochet embroidery and cards.
Frances Lucille Salter 82 of What Cheer died of heart failure Monday March 14 2005 at home. Services 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Harden Funeral Chapel What Cheer Reverend Vince Homan and Reverend Frances Baumert. Burial Sixteen Cemetery near Thornburg. Visitation 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel. She is survived by a son Bill Crane of Oskaloosa and three sisters Louise Gladson Eloise McClure and Arlene Shelton.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale and ex Governor Robert Ray were lauded at the Hoover-Wallace Dinner for their work saving Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. Senator Tom Harkin praised Ray for aiding the boat people while Mondale urged U S leadership and moral responsibility to help refugees and press others to do likewise.
Iowa State Extension expert Hank Taber says gardeners often cannot tell soybean rust from common rust. O Malley advises delaying bean planting until May 31 to avoid rust and bean beetles. Apple and grape crops may also be at risk. Quadris fungicide is labeled for soybean rust on beans. A warning map is available via the Iowa ag site for applicators.
The board would drop the levy and set a hearing for 7 p.m. April 11 on the 2005-06 budget. The preliminary budget anticipates a 4 percent rise in state funding for regular education, total revenues about 173 million, and a general fund of 147 million. The property tax levy would fall from 15.75 to 15.29 per thousand, while the income surtax rises for an overall 1.7 percent increase.
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