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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1994
Page
8
The notices report the deaths of Helen E. Kriz Tedford 75 of 1545 Fourth Ave SE and Col John V Armitage 79 of Manor Care with services planned in Cedar Rapids and Lake Wales Florida. Survivors, burial details, and memorials are listed. additional pending arrangements include Don Cabell Grace E Dixon and others.
The Gazette lists submission hours for death notices and obituaries and states immediate survivors and a photo are published as a news item. Additional material such as survivals beyond immediate family, education, military and hobbies costs 35 cents per word. out of town notices also 35 cents per word.
Geraldine Graves Powell 83 died Oct 23 1994 after a long illness at home. Kenneth A. Kimm 87 died Oct 22 1994 in Cedar Rapids after a short illness. H Donald Schell 76 died Oct 23 1994 in Decorah after a short illness. Joseph M. Houg 95 died Oct 23 1994 in Elkader after a long illness. Rosella Manning 87 formerly Elkader Cedar Rapids died Oct 22 1994 in Riverside California. H Duane Bockholt 69 died Oct 23 1994 at home after a long illness. Burial details and survivors listed. memorials to local libraries or hospice proposed.
Edna M. Wehrspann 79 of Independence dies after a stroke at Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo. Services Wednesday 11 a.m. Reiff Funeral Home Independence with visitation Tuesday 2 to 8 p.m. and a memorial service at 4 p.m. Burial Wilson Cemetery Independence. Survivors include husband Harold daughter Patricia Albert and husband Kenneth of Manchester two granddaughters Jennifer and Tara Albert of Manchester three nieces. Edward H. Vorwald 87 dies at Lutheran Home Strawberry Point after lingering illness. Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday St Joseph Catholic Church Garnaville Burial St Marys Cemetery Guttenberg. Visitation 2 to 9 p.m. today at Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home with 7 p.m. wake. Survivors wife Gwendlyn brother Ted of Marion sisters Eliza Weber Ruby Peterson Alice Stence. Nicholas J. Peet 91 dies Mercy Hospital. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday Callahan Funeral Home visitation 4 to 8 p.m. today and 4 to 6 p.m. tonight. Entombment Memory Gardens Mausoleum. Survivors wife Iris daughter M Joan Smith grandson Dean Smith and wife Mary two great granddaughters Amy and Jessica Smith extended family Betty Becky Baker. Arthur Goodken 77 dies Oct. 22 1994. Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday St Marys Catholic Church with burial St Alberts Cemetery Lamont. Visitation after 3 p.m. today at Fawcett Funeral Home Lamont Scripture 7:30 p.m. tonight. Survivors five daughters Teresa Petersen Agatha Olson Mary Hansel Jane McCubbin Karen Myrton eight sons Roger Dean Daniel Jerry Ralph Leon Jeff Frank and three brothers Lester Merlin Norbert.
Orval W. Huebner 67 died Oct 22 1994 at St. Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids after a brief illness. Services set for Oct 25 at St Pauls Lutheran Stanwood with graveside at Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery Klinger. Survivors include wife Velma and siblings Wilbert Readlyn Elda Noltensmeier Waterloo Norma Otto Readlyn. He taught in Denver IA and was a longtime guidance counselor at Olin Consolidated and Midland Wyoming. He served in US Army 1953 1955 and was active in several professional and civic groups.
Orval A. Potratz 64 died Oct 22 1994 in Sumner after a sudden illness. service 11 a.m. Oct 27 at First Baptist Church with burial at Wilson Grove Cemetery. survivors include wife Variena and multiple children. Ellen Kilcoin 88 died Oct 22 1994 in Toledo. arrangements pending. Melroy Werner 75 died Oct 23 1994 in Iowa City. arrangements pending. Kenneth R. Schnoebelen 66 died Oct 23 1994 in Iowa City. service Oct 26 at Donohue-Leasing Funeral Home with burial at St Vincent's Cemetery. survivors listed.
Firefighters investigate an arson that destroyed a vacant Waterloo residence at 198 Greenwood Ave starting about 1 35 a.m. The west addition was set, the home was a total loss, no injuries reported. A Cedar Rapids man faces drunken driving charges after a solo crash into a utility pole on 15th Avenue SW at 2 a.m.. Odilon Vargas, 30, also charged with failure to maintain control. The Iowa Economic Development Department will hold public meetings on a new consolidated housing and community development planning process including CDBG HOME and Emergency Shelter Grants programs. a Cedar Falls meeting is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hearst Center for the Arts. for more information call Lane Palmer or Rose Wazney.
A compiled list invites volunteers for many groups including Care Review Advocates Heritage Area Agency on Aging and HACAP Food Reservoir. Calls for volunteers specify roles from nursing home advocates to data entry and crisis counselors with contact numbers and availability.
Louis Russo 35 was tracked to West Lake Park in Scott County Iowa after a county officer spotted his BMW with stolen Wyoming plates. He is wanted for allegedly killing his ex wife Virginia Sakala Russo and critically wounding her live in partner Paul Eckerman in Evergreen Colorado. Eckerman survived after fleeing the home and seeking help. Russo faces extradition to Colorado to face charges.
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