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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1996
Page
16
Dwight G. Bode 68 of 2338 Blake Blvd SE died Wednesday November 20 1996 at home after a long illness. Arrangements are pending with Cedar Memorial Funeral Home.
Richard W. Flynn 62 of 3508 Elm Ave SE Cedar Rapids died Saturday November 16 1996 at home after a sudden illness Arrangements are pending with Cedar Memorial Funeral Home.
Multiple obituaries note Annette E. Healy age 34 of Cedar Rapids IA died November 20 1996 in University Hospitals Iowa City after leukemia services at First Christian Church Cedar Rapids. Laura Dorothea Lohman Hickey age 88 died November 19 1996 Solon Nursing Care Center burial Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Lucille K Lansing age 70 died November 20 1996 Cedar Rapids Mass at St Wenceslaus Church burial St John Cemetery. Anton Tony Vk 82 former Cedar Rapids shoe repair owner died November 14 1996 in Flagstaff AZ. Kathryn Janss Lebeda 68 died November 20 1996 Belle Plaine with arrangements pending.
Dolores A Zamastil, 84, of Fairfax, died Nov 19 1996 after a long illness. Services at St Patrick Catholic Church Fairfax with burial in St Patrick Cemetery. Visitation at Teahen Funeral Home Cedar Rapids includes a rosary and prayer vigil. Survivors: sons John and Raymond Zamastil and spouses, sister Luella Frimm, brothers John Raymond George Stallman, and five grandchildren. Born May 10 1912 in Fairfax. She was active in St Patrick Church school lunch program and multiple church societies.
John Samuel Osborn Jr. 79 died of heart failure Tuesday November 19 1996 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Memorial service 1:30 p.m. Friday at Smith Funeral Home Grinnell with calling hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Burial at Jackson Township Cemetery Montezuma. Survived by three sisters Mamie McKee Montezuma Edith Osborn Grinnell Lavina Osborn Grinnell and two brothers Glenn Montezuma Lester Grinnell.
Kalona er died Tuesday November 19 1996 at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after a brief illness. Memorial and committal services planned at Wellman Mennonite Church and Cemetery with minister Rev. Herb Yoder. Visitation after 2 PM at Yoder Powell Funeral Home Kalona. Survived by spouse two sons two stepsons two stepdaughters a brother and three sisters with ties to Iowa Indiana California Kansas Bahrain and Muscatine Hills Inman and Crawfordsville.
L K Lorne Bronemann age 75 died Wednesday morning November 20 1996 at his Monticello home after a sudden illness. Services 1:30 p m Friday at Peace United Church of Christ burial at Oakwood Cemetery. He built the Monticello Sale Barn in 1962 and was an auctioneer there until May 1990.
William G. Schulte, 77, of New Vienna, Iowa, died November 20, 1996, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City after a short illness. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St Marys Church with burial at St Boniface Cemetery New Vienna, military rites. He was a WWII Army veteran, farmer, and former Hendersons worker. He is survived by wife Anna, two brothers Leo and James, five grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Violet M Wolfe died of cancer at 89 in her North English home on Monday November 18 1996 Memorial services are set for 1030 am Friday at Powell Funeral Home with Keith Mason officiating The body was cremated Survivors include four daughters Lorraine Schoenthaler East Brunswick NJ Phyllis Ries Carmichael CA Karolyn Kay Ramnani Iowa City Donna Thurman New York City two sons Dennis Thurman Silver Spring MD Thomas Thurman St Augustine FL a brother Irwin Booth Chappell NE
Marylyn L. Porter died of cancer at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday November 19 1996. Services planned for 2 p.m. Friday at Wallace Pence Funeral Home in Newton with burial at Newton Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will greet friends after 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Survivors include John her mother and stepfather Leona and Clifford Daubenmire two brothers Richard and Kenneth Funk and a sister Judith Leavens, all of Newton.
Adeline Kacher Batchelder 88 of New Hampton died Tuesday November 19 1996. Services 1030 a.m. Saturday at Assumption Church Little Turkey Visitation Friday at Conway Funeral Home New Hampton Survived by DeVere Kacher and Arlene of Cedar Rapids Dennis Kacher and Colleen of Waterloo.
The Gazette accepts death notices and obituaries at specific hours daily and weekend. Immediate survivors and a photo are published as a news item with additional material at 35 cents per word. Out of town notices and second day notices priced per word.
Notices describe memorial guidelines for In Memory Of tributes. It states writing submissions by 4 p.m. weekdays, requests publication date, and lists pricing twenty word min 40 cents per word plus photos at ten dollars each. A contact phone number 368-8873 is provided.
In Clinton a 39 year old man, Charles Kostka, armed with a knife, was contained after police used high pressure water hoses in a Salvation Army parking lot standoff that began about 3 p.m. Kostka threatened an officer. deadly force was authorized but not used. He was taken into custody before 5 p.m. No injuries were reported.
Marilyn Woodin donated at least 30 quilts dating 1840 to 1950 plus textiles and books to Kalona Historical Society for a new museum attached to Wahl Museum. The society will add climate control and security, hire unpaid curator Woodin, and plan a project target completion by December 31 1998.
The Governors Traffic Safety Bureau will launch the fifth wave of its STE Program next week to curb drunken driving and boost seat belt use during peak travel. Lt. Bob Greenlee notes winter storms often begin then, raising crash risk. last year seven died over the four day Thanksgiving weekend. During the prior fourth wave 12,533 motorist contacts yielded 247 drunken driving arrests and 3,500 seat belt violations across a 200 mile stretch of U.S. Highway 34 with all agencies involved.
Police conclude a Marion investigation into a mushroom incident after an 18 year old became ill from ingesting psilocybin mushrooms. The man, who purchased a growing kit, was not charged due to cooperation and testing limits, with authorities emphasizing the dangers of the substance.
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