Death notices from Cedar Rapids area obituaries
Obituaries list Loretta Shelton 82 of Cedar Rapids with service at Beatty-Bearle-Murdoch Funeral Home. Pearl Weiler 81 in Aurora Colorado, formerly Ryan Cedar Rapids. Sarah Beckman 389 former 1013 16th St. NE dies in nursing home. Anna Hlavacek 83 Cedar Rapids dies in nursing home. Additional notices include Bascombe James William at Turner Chapel West, Vernon Rogers 80 in Iowa City, Lola Carver Hughes 89 Webster City, Gertrude Kuelper 61 Decorah, Oscar S. Thompson 82 Decorah Big Canoe Lutheran, Dewey Farmer 79 Elkader, James O Meara 69 Farley, Wayne Timm 54 Tama, Clinton Fentinel 18 South Tama, Mamie Vanek 94 Jesup, Jessie Crawford 83 Jesup, Raymond Olson 56 Jesup. Funeral details, calls, and burial sites listed.
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Sarah Theresa Beckman
16Th St. NE
Venosta
Quebec
Canada
Cedar Rapids
Beckman
Immaculate Conception Church
Sanctuary Society
Wilbert J
William F
Hobbs
N.M
John J
Huntington Beach
Calif
Ernest Kinzey
Moline
Ill
Leo Daley
Ottawa
William P. Leonard
St. John’s Cemetery
Stewart Funeral Home
Joseph Mollner
Iowa City
Vernon E. Rogers
George L. Gay
Decorah
Oscar S. Thompson
Big Canoe Lutheran Church
Steine’s. Elkader
Dewey J. Farmer
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Witt's
Farley
James L. O'Meara
St. Joseph’s Church
Reiff’s
Toledo
Wayne Timm
Harrison's
Tama
Oak Hill Cemetery
Clinton R. Fentinel
South Tama High School
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Mason-Hand's
Mamie Vanek
Beckman-Jones
First Presbyterian Church
Jesup
Jessie Crawford
Parker's
Raymond Olson
Parker’s
Justice Rees delays action in Hadjis case
Supreme Court Justice Warren Rees of Anamosa issues an order delaying any action in two charges against Cedar Rapids man Demetrios Hadjis stemming from an incident January 17 at Gregorys Down Under Lounge. The stay halts trial proceedings while Hadjis appeals a district judge ruling on discovery and severance.
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Warren Rees
Supreme Court of Iowa
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Gregory’s
Down Under
First Ave
Rees
Supreme Court
Demetrios Hadjis
29Th St. Drive
Hadijis
John Maher
Lynne Brady
Hadjis
Linn
Maher
Brady
Sterling Benz
George Gibson
Former U of museum head wins $3,000 award
Alfert Wilke, former director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, is named a winner of a $3,000 Academy award alongside six other artists. He will receive the prize May 17 in New York. Works by Wilke and the others will be shown at the Academy Institute galleries on Auburn Terrace.
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University of Iowa Museum of Art
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Alfert Wilke
Rural Salon
New York
Jack Levine
Wilke
Bavaria
Germany
United States
Denver
Poet John Hall Wheelock Dies at 91 in New York
New York AP reports poet and longtime editor in chief John Hall Wheelock died Wednesday at age 91. Wheelock directed Scribner’s Sons for decades and was a prominent literary figure.
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New York
John Hall Wheelock
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Red Cross volunteer sent to assist Omaha flood victims
A Grant Wood Area Chapter Red Cross volunteer, Raymond Reff of Manchester, is departing Friday to aid flood victims in the Omaha area after a national- HQ request. A Red Cross vehicle will stay in the region as about 4,000 families have been evacuated.
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Grant Wood
American Red Cross
Omaha
George Chitty
Raymond Reff
Manchester
Red Cross
Chitty
Five charged with drunk driving in city incidents
Five persons were charged with drunk driving on Thursday and today. Russell C. Steiner, 32, of 521 18th St. NE, was arrested at 1:55 a.m. in the 1400 block of Third Avenue SE after his car hit two parked cars. Daniel L. Dutton, 42, of 1026 Ellis Blvd. NW, was arrested at 8 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of Third Street SW. Michael J. Meeks, 23, of 1261 First Ave. SE, arrested at 10 p.m. Thursday in the 2900 block of Center Point Road NE. also charged with speeding. Jeffrey Tabor, 18, of 415 12th St. SE, arrested at 11:45 p.m. Thursday in the 100 block of 20th Street NE. also charged with driving while license suspended. Steven M. Scovel, 20, of 809 Second St. SW, arrested at 1:05 a.m. today on Highway 13, three miles south of Central City.
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Russell C. Steiner
18Th St
Third Avenue
Daniel L. Dutton
Ellis Blvd
Third Street
Michael J. Meeks
First Ave
Iowa Audit Reveals $18 Million in Sick Leave and Vacation Costs
Iowa Auditor Lloyd Smith reports 23,594 centralized payroll and DOT employees used 214,236 sick leave days costing 7.68 million and 248,596 vacation days costing 10.47 million for 1976-77. A new law cuts annual sick leave to 18 days with a 90 day bank for payout upon retirement, aiming to curb unnecessary absences.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lloyd Smith
Smith
Department of Transportation
Board of Regents
Coal strike stalemate looms as contract vote nears
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports uncertainty as UMW and BCOA face another contract rejection. If rejected, unions may seek separate deals with locals. Past refusals defied federal orders under Taft-Hartley. White House note: non union coal shipments rise while layoffs stay near 23,000. public polls show Carter rated fair to poor for handling the strike and disapproval of defying the back-to-work order remains high.
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BCOA
Carter
UMW
White House
Jody Powell
Labor Department
Senator Louis Culver Hospitalized After Mild Stroke
DES MOINES AP State Sen Louis Culver D Dunlap was reported resting comfortably in Iowa Lutheran Hospital Thursday after suffering what was believed to be a mild stroke.
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Des Moines
Louis Culver
D-Dunlap
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Begin pushes hard line as U S backs peace efforts
In Washington and New York Premier Begin defended Israel against peace opposition while White House officials denied any plan to derail Begin. He urged moral support from Americans and asserted settlements are legal, linking them to Israel’s security. In Lebanon a French U N force moved into Tyre as ceasefire holds with 500 troops arriving.
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Begin
White House
U.S
Washington
New York
Carter
National Press Club
Conference of Presidents
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
Judean
West Bank
Lebanon
U.N
Tyre
Jury finds GM liable for Cedar Rapids house fire
A Linn District Court jury ruled that a 1974 Chevrolet Nova caused a Cedar Rapids couple's home fire and that General Motors Corp. is responsible for the damages. Damages were agreed at 27050.17 for repairs to the Christles’ residence at 112 26th Ave. SW after the Oct. 3, 1974 blaze following a noon shopping trip.
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Linn District Court
Cedar Rapids
General Motors Corp
Harry
Lydia Christle
General Motors
Christle
26Th Ave
Christles
Phillip Saunders
High Court orders flags back to top
Concord New Hampshire UPI The Supreme Court told Gov Mel Thomson he could not lower U S and New Hampshire flags for Good Friday He would seek permission from Boston federal court to lower flags for non religious reasons If granted before sunset flags would drop to half staff otherwise on Saturday Flags in the capital rose and fell as a midmorning stay or temporary order shifted the status The move was opposed by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union and five religious leaders
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Concord
N.H
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
Meldrim Thomson
U.S
New Hampshire
Thomson
U.S. District Court
Boston
Supreme Court
William Brennan
New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union
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Loretta Mae Shelton
George D. Shelton
Guttenberg
Shelton
Loretta Brain
Bloomer
Wis
Armstrong's
First Lutheran Church
Bert Calson
Longview
Wash
Louis Kizer
Gilmore City
Beatty-Bearle- Murdoch
Carl H. Berhenke
Linwood Cemetery
Pearl Veronica Weiler
James A. Weiler
Ryan and
Aurora
Colo
Ryan
Weiler
Stewart Funeral
Calvary Cemetery
Matthew Beemer
Anna Hlavacek
12Th Ave
Rudolph Hlavacek
Johnson County
Hlavacek
Bascombe
James William
Turner Chapel West
Clifford C. Kephart
McCloud Springs
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Turner West
Justice Rees
U of Museum
George V of
Britain
Mary
John E. Lapes
Nebraska
The
Fri
Taft-Hartley
NBC News
Mideast
Sinai Desert
Golan Heights
Jordan River
Anwar Sadat
Roland Krekeler
Gazette Courthouse
Leo C. Peters
Iowa State University
Christie
Peters
Raymond Reske
Reske
Robert Ford
Dorothy M. Mulholland
Jill K. Robbins
Eileen L. Elderkin
Mahlon W. Borseth
Catherine A. Jackson
Dennis R. Lytle
Cedar Memorial Park
Wm. R. Nelson
DIAL
High Court
N.W
16Th Avenue
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