Deaths and Obituaries Aboard Cedar Rapids Area
Death notices for Henry Ernest Schilling 83 of 3111 Emerald Ave SE and several others including Eleanor Sterenchuk aged 1022 16th Ave SE Genevieve Mitchell Lena Stephenson Daryl Jane Robinson Lisa Marie Wilson Sophie Countryman list burial and service details. Surviving relatives span Illinois New York Arizona Iowa and Washington with church affiliations and memorial fund notes. Services set in Cedar Rapids Marion Ames and Mount Prospect with multiple funeral homes and cemeteries named.
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Henry Ernest Schilling
Emerald Ave
Cedar Rapids
Homestead
Marie E. Detlefs
Newhall
Schilling
Iowa Manufacturing Co
First Lutheran Church
Hanford Post
American Legion
Jack Abshire
Skokie
Ill
Richard Rumsey
Rochester
N.Y
Glenn F
Phoenix
Ariz
Everett W
Marion
Robert H
Glendale
Turner Chapel East
George W. Carlson
Shiloh Cemetery
Genevieve Mitchell
Cedar Rapids Care Center
Fifth Ave
Stewart Funeral Home
Lena E. Stephenson
Baxter’s
Daryl Jane Robinson
Sherbrook Drive
Mount Prospect
Chicago
B. Donald Robinson
Elwood Park
St. Stephen Lutheran Church
St. Luke’s Hospital
Camp Courageous
ALCW
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
Patricia Robinson
Ames
Susan Buzby
Pullman
Wash
Gary
Thomas
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Landis Olson
St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
American Heart Association
St. Stephen’s Church Building Fund
Cedar Rapids Library Board Advances Energy Efficient Site Plan
The Cedar Rapids Public Library Board approved 15 site suggestions for a new main branch focused on energy efficiency and public transit access. They set a site selection timeline and aim for a late February bond referendum, while addressing a structural issue at the current Fifth Street building.
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Cedar Rapids
Tom Carney
Carney
Varley Named to Commerce Commission Post in Iowa
The legislature should handle lifeline and minimum service rates, not the commission. The Commerce Commission held hearings statewide on setting rates. Varley, praised as an excellent choice by Mary Holstad, will join the commission with a $31,100 salary and must resign his state Energy Policy Council post.
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Commission
The
Commerce Commission
Mary Holstad
Varley
Excel
Iowa State
North Carolina State
Holstad
State Energy Policy Council
Ray
Trains Collide Near Harvey Injuring Dozens in Amtrak Freight Crash
A head on crash between Amtrak No 392 and a 40 car ICG piggyback freight near Harvey left four Amtrak coaches derailed and many passengers injured. Two dead were identified as the engineer and brakeman aboard the freight train. motive undetermined. Dozens of students aboard Amtrak were en route to Chicago via southern Illinois stops.
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Jacobs
Amtrak
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Chicago
Illinois
Champaign-Urbana
University of Illinois
New Orleans
Renie Einbinder
ICG
Harvey Police Department
Castro Speech at UN Prompts Global Stand in New York
Fidel Castro addressed the General Assembly as chair of the non aligned movement delivering a two hour show of anti U S rhetoric. He denounced the blockade, backed Puerto Rican independence and urged a new international order amid applause and a 90 second standing ovation. Four Puerto Rican nationalists freed in the 1950s were due to meet him in New York.
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Castro
General Assembly
U.S
Cuba
Caribbean
Camp David
Israel
Assembly
Fidel
New York
House votes to end gas price controls and ensure emergency supplies
The House approved decontrol of gasoline prices by 191 to 188 while keeping emergency powers to safeguard agricultural and essential-service fuel. The separate 257 to 119 vote aimed to prevent shortages, amid reports Iran cut oil exports and a tenuous global supply balance.
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Washington
House
Iowa
Berkeley Bedell
U.S
Iran
Ali Agah
London
James Schlesinger
Carter
Energy Department
John Dingell
D-Mich
James Courtier
R-N.j
Births and incidents reported across Mercy and St Luke's
Birth announcements list several families from Mercy and St Luke's hospitals with newborns. Names include Prochymczuk Sev cik Doyle Herren Novak Rohwedder Kness Madden Swenson Berndsen Merrill Ketelsen. multiple Cedar Rapids residents named. Times reference incidents at 100 First Ave NE and 4444 First Ave NE including smoke odor engine compartment dash and faulty smoke detector and a gas spill at 602 Third Ave SW.
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Kelvin W. Boyens
Cindy S. Hook
Gary L. Nortmann
Cynthia A. Hartman
Robert E. Bayles
Eleanor A. Rosina
Russell S. Reinhold
Jody L. Floetchinger
Loren E. Becker
Julie K. Jordan
Cedar Rapids
Fred R. Kness
Janet M. Madden
Ely
Carl M. Swenson
Hiawatha
Catherine A. Berndsen
Alan V. Merrill
Nancy K. Ke
First Ave
14Th Avenue
Third Ave
Jefferson Eagles Beat Kennedy NK 14 7 In Stadium Brawl Night
At Kingston Stadium Jefferson High School edged Kennedy High 14 to 7 after two fights and multiple arrests among six juveniles. Police reported injuries to a 19 year old Hiawatha man treated at St Luke's Hospital and released.
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Jefferson
Kennedy High School
Kingston Stadium
Hiawatha
Steven Linnabary
Gazette
Linnabary
St. Luke’s Hospital
Metro High School
Jefferson High
Roosevelt
Police Department
Weather Report for C.R. Area
Cloudy with northwest wind at 12 mph. Sunrise 7 18, sunset 6 27. Yesterday’s high 52, low 37 with no precipitation. Extended outlook shows warming through Wednesday with a chance of showers. Highs 55 to 65 Monday, into 70s by Wednesday. Lows in 30s Monday rising to the 40s by Wednesday.
Cedar Rapids Gazette Subscription Rates and Info
The Cedar Rapids Gazette establishes its long running pricing for carrier and mail deliveries. It lists Afternoon Editions and Sunday subscriptions at seven issues for six dollars and eighty-two cents per four weeks, or seventy-two dollars eighty per year, with regional rates for other states and territories at one hundred ten dollars per year. The paper notes exclusive AP republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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The
Gazette Company
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U. S
Gazette
Associated Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eleanor ‘‘Majewski
Sterenchuk
16Th Ave
St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
Visitation Sun
Teahen Funeral Home
Wilson
Lisa Marie
Noelridge Baptist Church
Roy Tindal
Linwood Cemetery
Wyoming
Sophie Countryman
Hayden's
Ruary
Fifth Street
Third Avenue SE
Brown, Healy and Bock
Fred Moore
Moore
John Lewis
Iowa Utility Association
Harvey
House of Representatives
Blair House
Truman
Linn
Mar Queen
Cathy Wohlleben
Linn-Mar-Benton
Gilda Vinzulis
Linn-Mar
Donald Prochymczuk
Harold Drive
Edwin Sevcik
Stratford Lane
St. Luke's
Kevin Doyle
Rainier Court
Billy Herren
Springville
Allan Novak Sr
Reynolds Ave
Robert Rohwedder
Anna A. and
Arthur F. Johnson
Abby
Weather Report
C.R. Weather
Classified
John B. Turner & Son
Turner’s
Second Ave
Turner’s West
John E. Lapes
Pierson
Ee Greenhouses. Inc
Ellis Blvd
W.W
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