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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1992
Page
12
Merrill H. Hamilton of Sebring and Miriam R. Jackson McKee of Spokane are among several profiles. Also listed are Florence Shipman of Living Center West and Richard Benesh of Cedar Rapids with details on services and survivors. Arrangements are pending for Jerry Kelley Irene Nemecek and related memorials.
The Gazette publishes death notices and obituaries with arrangements pending and survivors as a news item. Additional details such as employment, military service and memorials cost 35 cents per word, with second-day notices also at the same rate.
Frieda C. Schutterle 94 died Monday in St. Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids after a sudden illness. Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Grace Lutheran Blairstown with burial Lenox Cemetery rural Norway. Survivors include two sons LeRoy Watkins and Charles Cedar Rapids a daughter Evelyn Kramer Blairstown a stepdaughter Leona Eckert Blairstown plus in laws eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. A memorial fund is listed. Virgil Wolf Sr 78 died Tuesday in Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo arrangements pending. Eldo F Wilke 85 died Monday night in Central Community Hospital after a long illness services 11 a.m. Thursday Zion Lutheran Clayton Center burial church cemetery. Friends may call today after 2 p.m. at Leonard-Witt Funeral Home and after 10 a.m. Thursday at the church. Survivors include wife Marie two sons Eldean Paul both Elkader three daughters Marlene Chesnut Farmersburg Carol Kruse St Olaf Cynthia Beck Dixon Ill and sister Mabel Ruhser Elkader.
Dorothy E Hinzman 78 died in Guttenberg after a lengthy illness with arrangements pending at Tuecke Allyn Funeral Home. Robert L Stahle 75 of Greenwood Manor died after a sudden illness with services at St Mary's Church and burial at St Joseph's Cemetery. parish vigil tonight at Donohue Lensing Funeral Home. Elmer R Ponsar 75 of Estacada, formerly Maynard Postville Solon died in Portland Hospital with private graveside services at Redland Pioneer Cemetery Oregon City. Holman Hawkins Bowker Waud Funeral Home in charge. survivors listed.
Nona Glick McCammant Biedenbach aged 80 died Monday night at St. Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids. Services are set for Thursday 10 30 a m at St Mary's Catholic Church burial at Olin Cemetery. Visitation today 4 to 8 p m at Horner Morgan Funeral Home with a wake at 7 30 p m. Survivors include husband Albert four daughters Jeanne Ficken Betty Buesing Jana Walcher Rae Keegan three sisters and four brothers. Also nine grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Memorials to Cardiac Care Unit St Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids.
Glen Adams 65 of rural Monticello died from injuries at work and is survived by his wife Betty and children. Paul Black 76 died in the Senior Home with services planned at First Presbyterian Church and burial at Oakwood Cemetery. Mable A. Anderson 90 formerly of Washington died in Minneapolis with graveside rites at Swedesburg Cemetery.
John M. Kreun 49 of Williamsburg dies at University Hospitals Iowa City from complications of a heart attack. Service 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St Paul Lutheran Church burial in church cemetery. Survived by wife Helen two sons Michael and Matthew one grandson Brant and his parents Brant and Julia Kreun, two brothers and a sister. He worked for Holden's Foundation Seeds since 1970 rising to VP of operations and served on the American Seed Trade Association committee. He married Helen Luchtenburg in 1962 in Leota Minnesota. He moved from Minnesota to Williamsburg in 1966 and was active in St Paul Lutheran Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever.
Dr. Kesha Y. Scott of Grinnell College will speak at 6 30 p m Thursday at the Ramada Inn on The Prisms of Mental Illness Awards will go to John Alberts Cathy Keyes Andrys Eadie Fawcett Goodwill Industries and Dan Streitner Linn Mar Novak Elementary bands will give a free concert at 7 45 p m Thursday in the high school gym The Noelridge Park Mother's Day events include Art on the Knoll 9 a m to 5 p m and the Noelridge Park Greenhouses with more than 1700 plant varieties on display Parks officials estimate 38000 plants will be used for Noelridge and city parks displays
Birth notices from Mercy and St. Luke's detail May entries listing multiple new babies. Names include Debra Rogers and Randall Rogers at 332 Monmouth St SW for a son and many couples at St. Luke's with numerous daughters and sons, plus wide range of addresses and paired parents.
Charles Miller aged 89 died of natural causes around April 13 in Mount Pleasant. His wife, suffering senility, lived in the same house with him for two weeks after his death before discovery by a barber sent for a haircut. The couple, married since 1936, had friends who cared for them. Miller had worked as a farmer and for the Henry County Roads Department before retiring.
A series of paired names including Kevin C Gamble and Karen A Valencic from Iowa City and Marion area partners Christopher D Haman and Donna S Blythe among others across Cedar Rapids Center Point Malden and nearby communities are listed in a public notices section. The fragment ends with Francis E Behn as another listed party.
U S Rep Jim Lightfoot of Shenandoah will hire Ed Rollins former Reagan campaign manager to plan strategy and build his campaign organization. Lightfoot, facing Democrat Elaine Baxter for secretary of state this fall, noted Rollins agreed to manage and be affordable despite past criticism over the House banking scandal and 105 bad checks.
UNI in Cedar Falls prepares for spring commencement with a record audience. More than 1 200 graduates finish undergrad and grad programs while about 1 300 attendees are expected. Six former Soviet Union students will receive master of arts degrees for credit toward degrees abroad as Sergei Kazmin offers congratulations.
In Ringgold County, Iowa, five year old Jared Alan Whittington fell from a tractor his brother John Paul Whittington was driving at their grandfather's farm northwest of Mount Ayr. The tractor ran over him and he died Monday afternoon. Jared's parents are John and Cheryl Whittington of rural Diagonal.
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