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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1992
Page
14
Obituaries list John B. Platz 70 Cedar Rapids area. Melissa Lloyd 6 weeks old. Irene Pickard 91. Elizabeth Kloubec 93. Hazel Carruthers 74. Gladys Bencke 91. Rev Landis Gross 57. Scott McMaster 48. Evelyn Callas 73 with services and survivor details. Includes birthdates, marriages, military ties, religious affiliations, memorial funds. Many survivors across Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Anoka, Cresco, Manchester, and beyond.
Le Roy E. Babcock will have a service at 2 p.m. today at Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories with friends welcome after 1 p.m. Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge No. 268 AF and AM will conduct Masonic rites. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. The Rev. Catherine Luck will officiate. Memorials may be given to a charity of the donor’s choice.
The Gazette accepts death notices and obituaries at specific hours for publication as news items. Additional content such as survivors, services, and memorials is charged at 35 cents per word, with second-day notices or out of town notices also at the same rate.
Elizabeth Story 90 of Yucaipa Calif formerly Anamosa died at home. Agnes Corbin 72 died of natural causes at Mercy Hospital Oelwein with services set at Sacred Heart Volga and burial at St Joseph Wadena. Survivors include husband Clair four sons and three daughters with 16 grandchildren and 14 Memorials to Mercy Hospital Foundation Oelwein.
R Earl Cox 83 dies after lengthy illness at home. Memorial service at Christ United Methodist Church. cremains buried later at Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors include wife Kathryn son Tom and daughter-in-law Delaine with two granddaughters Nick and Courtney. Memorials to Hospice of Benton County. Charles J Mausser 88 dies in Dubuque health center. Services at Sacred Heart Church Filmore with burial at church cemetery. Survivors include two sons Albert and Joseph, daughter Ida Francois, seven grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren. Dorothy J Edmunds 76 dies after sudden illness in Bloomfield New Mexico. Arrangements pending. Larry R Frieden 45 dies in La Crosse Wisconsin after long illness. Services at Apostolic Christian Church with burial at church cemetery. Survivors include parents Edwin and Jo Frieden, daughters Terry Gardner Tammy Weatherly, son Hans, two stepsons, one stepdaughter, two sisters and a brother. Lucille E Buchanan 75 dies of apparent heart failure at home in Independence. Arrangements pending.
LeRoy P. Johnson 83 formerly of Delmar died Tuesday in Jackson County Public Hospital. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church with burial at Evergreen Cemetery Delmar. Eva Emily Anderson 89 died Wednesday in Oelwein Care Center with arrangements pending. Milton A. Birdsell 86 died Tuesday in Decorah at Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital from natural causes. Services are 11:30 a.m. Friday at Stavanger Lutheran Church rural Ossian followed by burial. survivors include Viola wife two sons Cletus and Virgil daughter Marlys Amundsen.
Marlene Kay Murphy age 53 died Tuesday night at University Hospitals Iowa City after a short illness. Services set for 10 30 a m Saturday at St Marys Catholic Church with cremation following the service. Friends may call 4 to 8 p m Friday at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel. Survivors include husband Richard two sons Rick and Tom two daughters Jill DeLosh Amy Murphy father Frank Fisher sister Norma Jean Woodford brothers John Fisher Francis Fisher and four grandchildren. Also surviving are a daughter-in-law Paula and son-in-law Ken. She worked as a lab technician at Pediatric Associates Cedar Rapids. The casket will remain closed.
Antionette Taylor-Thomas notes Cedar Rapids hosted a four hour tour sponsored by the Cedar Rapids Convention and Visitors Bureau and Tri-State Tours. The bus stopped at Duffy's Collectible Cars Czech Village Sykora Bakery Brucemore and Ushers Ferry providing a view of industry and culture. The Kurths a California senior group organizer toured with relatives and plan to suggest future sites.
May 20 Ruth and Jonathan Richardson of Marion report a son born at 1194 44th Street. May 19 Michelle and Todd Hines of Hiawatha report a daughter at 434 Amberjack Drive. Deborah Klein Coggan is born to Ann and Dan Parsons of 1628 Park Towne Place NE, a twin son and daughter to Angela Sheriff of 1007 10th Street NW.
A Maquoketa man, Richard Fred Beck 75, died when his van left the road struck a pole and tree. In Cass County two motorcyclists aged 18 and 19, Brian Wright and Todd Tessman, were killed in a collision. passenger Christopher Kluver 19 was transported to a Nebraska hospital. The crashes occurred Tuesday evening.
Degree day totals show 6 409 through May 19 and 6 486 through May 10 with percent of normal at 98 and total normal year 6 531 compiled by Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co.
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