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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1998
Page
8
Multiple death notices from Cedar Rapids report Mildred A. Butler 82, Pearl V. Link 86, Robert L. Smith Jr. 70 and Marie Ebsen infant, with services at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Grace Episcopal Church and St. Francis Xavier Basilica. Memorials to church or American Lung Association. Survivors listed include relatives in Iowa City Dyersville Denver and Cedar Rapids.
Margaret E Wede 82 died Saturday Oct 3 1998 at Good Samaritan Center after a brief illness. Services 11 am Wednesday at Community Presbyterian Church Rev Gary Catterson burial Postville Cemetery. Calling hours 3 8 pm today at Schutte Funeral Home Postville and one hour prior to service. Survivors include three sons Lavern and Robert both of Postville Louis of Waukon five brothers and two sisters.
A compiled roster listing residents by town across Cedar Rapids Dundee Dyersville Elgin Gladbrook Iowa City Keota Monticello Oelwein Postville Ryan Solon Traer Vining Wellman West Union. The excerpt names numerous individuals including Mildred A Butler John F Karas Jr George Miller and Arve Wolford among others.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Richard L Reeder 74 of Cedar Rapids died Oct 3 1998 after a long illness. Services are planned at First Presbyterian Church with Cedar Memorial handling arrangements. Other notices announce Beatrice E Ament Mintle 80 Englewood Florida died Sept 24 1998 of cardiac arrest with services Sept 30 and Karla Jackson Wright 32 of Camarillo California died Oct 3 1998 in Los Angeles countered by pending Cedar Memorial Funeral Home arrangements.
Evelyn Graves 389 died Monday October 5 1998 at home in Dyersville. Arrangements are pending at Kramer Funeral Home. Arvel Woward 80 died Monday October 5 1998 at Parkview Manor after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Powell Funeral Home Wellman.
Gloria Ahrens Kraus 50 of Oxnard California formerly Dundee died Oct 1 1998 at St John’s Hospital Oxnard after a sudden illness Memorial service 1 pm Saturday at St John’s Lutheran Dundee Rev Ron Spears Burial Calvary Cemetery Ryan body cremated Survivors include husband John mother Martha Ahrens Manchester brother Dennis Ahrens Dundee two sisters Ellen Becher Peoria AZ and Deanna McDermott Clear Lake
Veronica Woltering, 103, died Monday October 5 1998 at the Washington Care Center in Washington after a long illness. Services by Ar Funeral Home in Keota.
Wayne Mulinix 77 died of cancer Monday Oct 5 1998 at his home in Gladbrook. Services 11 a m Wednesday Peace United Church of Christ Rev Mike Campbell. Visitation after 4 p m today at Goettsch Perrin Funeral Home Gladbrook with a Masonic service at 7 p m. Survivors include two sons Marshal of Jupiter Florida and Marlin of Cedar Falls a brother Bill Williamsburg and two sisters Cora Price Colfax and Fern Kuhnle Marengo.
Gary Ray Kurdelimeier 62 of Pensacola Beach Florida formerly of Iowa City died after a short illness. Services 11 am Wednesday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Navarre Florida. Cremation. Survived by wife Barbara son Steven and two daughters Kathy and Sharon plus four grandchildren. Also Tony Maier 93 formerly of Iowa City died at Pleasantview Home Kalona after long illness. Gertrude Rexroat 73 formerly of Chatham Oaks died at Williamsburg Care Center after brief illness. Joan Bontrager 77 of Iowa City died at Mercy Iowa City Homes & Crematorium. Arrangements pending for two others.
Ruth L. Erickson 69 died Sunday October 4 1998 after a long illness at Samaritan North Hospital Clinton. Arrangements are pending at Carson and Son Funeral Home Maquoketa with calling hours 4 to 8 p m Wednesday.
Robert Matthew Cain aged 12 died October 4 1998 at home in Buffalo Illinois formerly of Maquoketa Arrangements are pending at Haylock O Hara and Lahey Funeral Home Maquoketa Illinois
Lois P. Kalm 96 died Sunday October 4 1998 at her home after a sudden illness in Oelwein Iowa. Funeral services 11 a m Wednesday Zion Lutheran Church Oelwein with Rev LaVerne Streich. Burial Hazleton Cemetery Hazleton. Visitation 2 to 8 p m today at Jamison Schmitz Funeral Home Oelwein and after 10 a m Wednesday at the church. Survivors include two daughters Elizabeth May Parker Oelwein and Roberta Ann Olsen Nevada Iowa two sisters Donna Burgess Kissimmee Florida Dorothy Stone Strawberry Point seven grandchildren 12 great grandchildren four stepgrandchildren seven stepgreatgrandchildren.
John F. Karas Jr. 69 died Monday Oct 5 1998 at St Luke’s Hospital Cedar Rapids after an auto accident. No service or visitation. Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Cedar Rapids in charge. Survived by brothers Robert Pittsburg CA and Daniel San Jose CA.
George Burrichter 92 of Monticello Iowa died Monday Oct 5 1998 at Monticello Care and Rehabilitation Center after a long illness. Services 11 am Wednesday at Peace United Church of Christ with Rev Peter Wenzel burial Oakwood Cemetery calling hours 4 to 8 pm today at Etna Funeral Home Monticello He was born Nov 6 1905 in Monticello son of William and Elizabeth Burrichter and married Frieda Krause Aug 17 1932 in Alleman Iowa They farmed in Richland Township and near Alleman later purchasing the Burrichter farm He also worked as an agent for German Mutual Insurance for over 40 years He retired from farming in 1976 and from insurance in 1987 Active in Peace United Church of Christ the Older Iowans Legislature the Monticello Lions Club and the Monticello Men’s Chorus He founded the Burrichter Quartet and served on the Senior Housing Board at his death He is survived by Frieda three children Arthur Verna Burrichter Betty Peter Hasler Ronald Brenda Burrichter six grandchildren and five great grandchildren Memorials may go to Peace United Church of Christ Lions Club Monticello Men’s Chorus or Camp Courageous.
Elgin Marion Gehring aged 94 died Sunday October 4 1998 at Good Shepherd Health Center Mason City after a long illness. Services are set for 11 a m Wednesday at St Pauls United Methodist Church Elgin with Rev Arley Ellingson. Burial will be at Ilyria Cemetery rural Elgin. Friends may call 3 to 8 p m today at Leonard Funeral Home Elgin and after 10 a m Wednesday at the Robert Gehring residence in Marengo and Ray Herwig Jr of Cedar Rapids. Six survivors listed including four daughters Virginia Lammert Orange City Marjorie Kohler Sarasota Pat Schultz Mason City Shirley Deverell Las Vegas.
Solon Miller will be honored with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Solon. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the church with a prayer service at 7 p.m.
Joseph A Podhajsky 3 3 died Saturday Oct 3 1998 at Sunnyrise Hill Care Center after an extended illness. Services 10 30 a m today at St Pauls Catholic Church with burial in church cemetery. Overton Funeral Home Traer in charge. Survived by Maxine three sons Gary Mark Darrel a daughter Jo leen Sell and a brother Albert.
Thelma Rupp aged 92 died Sunday October 4 1998 in the Good Samaritan Home after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Burnham Wood Funeral Home West Union.
Harold S. Vesely, 88, formerly of Vining, died Sunday October 4, 1998, at Grandview Acres Nursing Home in Toledo after a long illness. Prayer services are at 7 tonight at Harrison Funeral Home in Tama, with visitation after 4 p.m. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at National Cemetery in Vining. Survivors include daughter Jeannette Young and Joanne Yuska, both of Toledo, and two sons Ed of Toledo and Anthony of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Obituaries note James Monroe McArthur to be buried with military rites by the American Legion Hanford Post at Linwood Cemetery after a service at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m. The Christine Walton service is at St Wenceslaus Catholic Church at 10 a.m. with burial at St John’s Cemetery. Papich-Kuba Funeral Home East is handling arrangements.
Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg announced immediate layoffs of 78 production workers amid a sagging agricultural market. Ned Miller cited low prices for Kinze row crop planters cultivators and grain wagons sold across the United States Canada and over 30 other countries. Separately a Ryan resident died from injuries in a two vehicle crash near Manchester Iowa, John F. Karas Jr. 69, died at St. Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids. Also Coe College hosts two lectures by Jay Parson on alternative medicine with free public talks at 11 am and 7:30 pm in Cherry Auditorium. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia celebrates its 100th birthday with a campus performance on Stewart Memorial Library steps. Secretary of State Paul Pate launches a first vote drive to register 10,000 young voters ahead of next month’s election.
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