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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 2015
Page
10
A list of death notices and memorials from Cedar Rapids and area towns including Joseph Auchus Kyle Oglee Joseph Beachy James Irwin Raymond Senner Mary Kathleen Albright and others. Services details are provided for several, with funeral homes locations and dates. Online condolence options are noted.
Karen Joyce Conrad 70 of Rudy Arkansas formerly of Cedar Rapids died October 20 2015 at home Private cremation followed by return of her body Survivors include her husband Dean S Conrad children Kim Moyston Kevin Conrad and Kelly Vulysteke sister Beatrice Artz five grandchildren Nichole Vogt Jennifer Vanourney Tyler Giese Jessica Giese and Nathan Moyston and four great grandchildren Austin Ashley Schuttloffel and Dahli Jack Cloven She was born January 1 1945 in Pocahontas Iowa married July 23 1960 and owned Clayts Auto Service Karen loved family outdoors and her dogs Zip and Boots she will be greatly missed.
Marja-Leena Ollila-Kacere 59 of Cedar Rapids died October 21 2015 at home. A Celebration of Life service is set for October 26 at First Lutheran Church with a Sunday visitation at Brush Chapel. She is survived by her father Imo and sister Tiina. She formerly supervised 26 kitchen staff at a veterans hospital and later moved to the United States with Kim Kacere marrying in 2000. Online condolences at www.broshchapel.com.
Duane A Miller of Blairstown died at Hallmark Care Center Mount Vernon on October 20 2015 after an extended illness. A Mass of Christian Burial was held October 24 at St John Catholic Church Blairstown with interment at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He owned Smokeys Pizza and worked for several feed companies before becoming a truck driver in 1972 retiring in 2012. He was active in St John parish and a Knight of Columbus. He is survived by his wife Julie two sons seven grandchildren and several siblings and in laws. A memorial fund supports Knights of Columbus and the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.
Russell E Fritz 62 of Marengo Iowa died October 22 2015 at Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids Services held October 27 2015 visitation October 26 burial October 27 in Bishop Cemetery Marengo Survived by wife Kathleen and children Brian and Jamie six grandchildren. Mary Kathleen Albright 73 of Pembroke Pines Florida died October 19 2015 Funeral services October 25 2015 at Mitchell Family Funeral Home Marshalltown Iowa Memorials to family. Mary Jo Lessmeier of Mount Vernon died at St Luke s Hospital Cedar Rapids Funeral Mass October 31 2015 Visitation October 30 Stewart Baxter Funeral Mount Vernon.
Obituary notices detail the deaths of James Leroy Laughridge 64 of Iowa City following cancer on Oct 21 2015 and Janice Marie Hazelett 74 of Washington Iowa from pancreatic cancer Oct 22 2015. Services for Laughridge include a 2 p.m. funeral Oct 26 at Van Steenhouse Russell Funeral Home Vinton with American Legion and Navy honors and a later graveside. Hazelett's services include a visitation Oct 27 and funeral Oct 28 at Beatty Peterseim Funeral Home Washington with cremation and a later graveside at West Branch Cemetery. memorials go to American Legion Riders or American Cancer Society. He is survived by fiancee Carol Berger two sons five grandchildren and several siblings. she by multiple spouses children stepchildren and grandchildren.
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