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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1983
Page
15
Cedar Rapids residents Clara Mae Watson 75 and Geneva R. Madlock 82 lead a long list of local deaths. The notices include service details at Cedar Memorial Chapel and burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery with family survivors listed. Additional deaths include Violet M Lodge Ernestine L Chyba Evelyn G Trachta and others with burial and service arrangements noted.
Robert Mack age 58 of Cedar Rapids died Friday after a short illness at Independence Care Center. Services are pending at Teahen Funeral Home.
Virginia Kruse 63 formerly Dyersville city clerk and senior center site manager died Friday at Mercy Hospital St Marys Unit. Services Monday Basilica of St Francis Xavier burial St Francis Cemetery. Fred A. Nystrom 72 Ecumenical Towers died Friday Mercy Hospital born Feb 5 1911 New York City president General Machine Parts Co retired 1980 moved to Iowa City 1981. Burial pending at George Gay's.
Martha Jane Stelken 48 of Route 2 Manchester died Friday at Delaware County Memorial Hospital after a sudden illness. Survived by husband Jerome and three daughters Janana M Sandra K and Pamela L two sons James B and Ricky J three brothers Jim Gerald Lawrence Diesburg and a sister Delores Stelken one grandchild. Services 11 a.m. Monday at St. Josephs Catholic Church with burial at Buriak cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at Clifton's with a scripture wake at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Henry J. Martens 83 died Friday at Delaware County Memorial Hospital Manchester. Survivors include his wife Katie three daughters Doris Lamb Cedar Rapids Mrs Raymond Knipper Edgewood and Mrs Keith Harbaugh Strawberry Point a son Carl Edgewood a brother Charles Waterloo 11 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Services Monday 10 am Trinity United Methodist Church Friends may call after 11 am Sunday at Appleton-Vernon’s Burial Hopkinton Cemetery Hopkinton.
Kevin Edward Nicholson Jr. died at birth Tuesday at St Francis Hospital. Survivors include grandparents Edward and Janelle Nicholson of Winterset Iowa and Don Dan of Osceola along with great grandparents Gifford Schnepel of Minden and Vivian Masker of Neola. Services are at 2 p.m. Sunday at White's with burial at Maple Hill Cemetery, Osceola, Monday at 2 p.m.
Claire E. Foraker formerly of 516 S Lucas St Iowa City dies Friday morning at Mercy Hospital. Born November 13 1915 in Malcom she married Philip A Foraker December 11 1936 in Orion Alabama. She worked as legal secretary for L C W Clearman and was co owner of Foraker Oil Co for 33 years.
Emma E. Lueck 81 died Thursday night at Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Survived by four daughters, a son, four sisters, two brothers, 44 grandchildren, and 36 great grandchildren. Services Monday 11 a.m. at St Marys Catholic Church with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 7 tonight at Shellys with rosary at 8 and parish wake at 8 Sunday.
Herman J. Wendt 79 of Mechanicsville died Thursday evening at Anamosa Community Hospital. Survivors include his wife Dorothy, a son Leroy of Mechanicsville, two sisters Alma Boedeker and Esther McCroskey of Tipton, two brothers Ernest of Stanwood and Harry of Davenport, and three grandchildren. Services Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Horner's. friends may call today 2 to 8 p.m. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pearl R. Price 82 died Thursday at Thornton Manor Lansing. Survived by daughter Mrs Duane Miller Waukon brother Clinton Smith Postville sister Ethelyn Smith Manchester five grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Services Monday 2 p m Schutte's friends may call Sunday after 2 30 p.m. Burial Smith Cemetery rural Postville.
Iowa transportation leaders report higher highway deaths through August with 349 lives lost, speed and alcohol driving more crashes. Seat belt use dropped to 10 percent while child restraints rose to 32 percent. Officials urge more public service messages as alcohol related fatalities climb and media focus wanes.
The FCC voted to launch a notice of inquiry to decide if a New York Dial A Porn service linked to High Society magazine is obscene and should be banned. The probe weighs child protection standards, legality of content regulation, and potential civil penalties up to 50 000 dollars daily.
Ricky Shipman, then 16, lost his plastic driver license in 1972 at Sunset Beach, North Carolina. It reappeared last October inside an eight pound Spanish mackerel eight miles north of Ocean Drive Beach, caught by a commercial boat. The license was mailed to Shipman last month.
Ver non Zickuhr, 76, of Dubuque, was found in the Little Maquoketa River near Durango after collapsing likely due to heart disease. Dr. T. T. Edmonds said the death appears noncriminal and tied to his heart condition while he worked as a trail volunteer along the Heritage Trail.
Sept 9 births listed for Danne Bedell Miller Duran Loan Petersen Vandrimmelen Volz. Also births at Brisbane Baldwinsville Des Moines Iowa City and among Cedar Rapids couples. Later entries report medical emergencies nuisance calls gas spills and a car wiring short with times and locations.
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