Belle Plaine double murder suicide shocks mobile home park
Nine year old girl escapes unharmed as Roberta Dunning Abernathey 21 and Jerry Williams 25 are found slain at the Co op Trailer Court off Highway 21. Authorities say the ex girlfriend and her current companion were killed by the same man who shot himself. Neighbors identified the victims and noted a prior divorce.
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Mobile Home Park
Roberta Dunning Abernathey
Jerry “Boomer” Williams
Co-op
Highway 21
Memorial Day Volunteering by Nonveterans in Cedar Rapids
Gary Griffith Mike Anderson and Brown Montague three area men with no military experience volunteered to place flags at veterans graves on Memorial Day. The effort supports the aging World War II veteran population and the Sons of the American Legion chapter they helped start at Hanford Post 5 Cedar Rapids to aid the Legion as its ranks thin.
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Iowa City
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Cedar Rapids
Hanford American Legion
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Cedar Memorial Cemetery
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American Legion
At Iowa City rally veterans press for better health care
Disabled military veterans gathered in Iowa City to demand improved health care services and expanded access. Organizers highlighted long wait times and gaps in care, urging policymakers to fund comprehensive reform and veteran support programs.
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Iowa City
Iowa CEO helps design Everest oxygen mask in 1963
A St. Louis doctor and an Iowa Maytag executive collaborated to create a reusable defrostable oxygen mask for the first American Everest expedition in 1963. Tom Smith of Maytag, with Dr. Tom Hornbein, tested and refined the flexible mask used by Jim Whittaker and others on the summit bid.
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Newton
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Iowa
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Iowa City
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Charlotte Smith
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Jim Whittaker
Richard Emerson
Tom Horbein
Mount Adams
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