Deaths of Leola Johnson and others noted in obituary page
Leola Johnson 93 of Heritage Acres Care Center died Monday after a brief illness. Surviving children include Louis Earl Darling William H. Johnson and the Rev. Donald K. Scotty Johnson with a daughter Ruth Graham plus many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Services Thursday at Turner Chapel West with burial Cedar Memorial Park. Harold E. Weidlein 58 Swisher died Tuesday after a sudden illness. Survives wife son and four daughters with seven grandchildren. Services Thursday Powell Funeral Home Wellman. Mrs. Jean Kerr 53 Mount Vernon died Monday of cancer in Cedar Rapids. Survives husband two sons and a granddaughter and other relatives. Services Thursday Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. Inez C. Schultz 86 Cedar Rapids died Monday after a long illness. Survives husband and several associations. Services Thursday Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories. Others listed include Biderman Frank L. Kilberger Alvin C. Hargin Harold F. Smoker Robert and Mildred Christensen Elekar with services announced and memorials named for ambulance service and local churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leola Stewart
Atlantic
Iowa
Albert H. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Bethany Congregational Church
Sunshine Mission
Louis Earl Darling
William H. Johnson
Donald K. “Scotty” Johnson
Kinder
Ruth Graham
Turner Chapel West
Clarence Haven
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Harold E. Weidlein
Swisher
Wellman
Doris L. Morrison
Ron Kennel
Wellman Cemetery
Jean Kerr
Mount Vernon
West Branch
West Liberty
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jean Driscoll
Moline
Ill
John H. Kerr
Cookson
Kirkwood Community College
John S
Mark E
Charles Driscoll
Marilyn Hill
Rock Island
Patricia Johns
Barbara Binzant
Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
Wayne Wasta
West Branch Cemetery
Barker Funeral Home
Lisbon-Mount Vernon
American Cancer Society
10Th St. SE
Inez C. Schultz
Mount Vernon Road
Walter O. Schultz
S & W Firestone
First Presbyterian Church
PEO
Kiwanis Ladies
Home Garden Club
Cedar Memorial Chapel
Calvin T. DeVries
Cedar Memorial Mausoleum
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Biderman
Frank L
St. John’s Catholic Church
John Barnes
St. John’s Cemetery
Lisbon
Lisbon- Mount Vernon
Murdoch Funeral Home
Marion
Elekar
Mildred Christensen
J. Richard Ernst
Hillside Wesleyan Church
Cedar Memorial Park
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Linn County Association For
Third Ave
Robert
St. James United Methodist Church
Helen Donaldson
Gordon Packard
Iowa Deaths Deluge of Obituaries Across towns
Multiple Iowa obituaries list names Clarence William Mingst Elizabeth Freymann Beulah Hunt Winifred McGinnis Louise Davis Milton Seydel Ronald Stewart Kathleen Ann Zvacek with services and burial plans in Dyersville Earlville Independence Luana Martelle Morse and Morse area churches cemeteries and funeral homes. A memorial fund is noted for Milton Seydel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence — William Mingst
Chapman’s. Dyersville
Gerald
Elizabeth) Freymann
St. Francis Xavier
Reiff’s
Church Cemetery
Earlville
Iowa City
Milton D. Seydel
George L. Gay
Vogel
St. Joseph
Health Services clients put on waiting list
Linn County health program enrollment has surged due to the economy and wider awareness of aid for low income residents. New applicants face up to six weeks on a waiting list, though emergencies are served immediately. The program lifted its enrollment limit recently from 565 to 585 households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Services
Linn County
Lois Rude
Rude
Vital Statistics Births and enrollments reported across multiple locations
The document lists numerous birth announcements from Sept. 13 to Sept. 14 for families in Springville Tempe Iowa City Billings and other places with parents names and newborn genders. It also covers Health Center enrollment data including a $177 450 budget for the current fiscal year and wait lists totaling 103 households.
Bug’ s night flight tip for bedroom control
When insects disturb sleep try keeping bedroom lights off and open a door to a lit adjacent room. The bugs migrate toward the brighter room so you can close the door and block their entry.
Clear Creek voters reject 1.5 million construction bond
Clear Creek Community School District faces a 36 percent rise in agricultural property tax value as 65 percent of voters reject the 1.5 million bond to expand Oxford elementary and Cosgrove middle schools. Of 710 ballots, 461 opposed and 249 favored, despite projections of a near 30 percent enrollment increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. McCauley Flansburg
Chris Manahan
Clear Creek Community
George Klein
Space Task Force Committee
Dave Elias
Johnson
Oxford
Cosgrove
Iowa
Urbana
Clarence-Lowden
Lowden
North Fayette County Community
West Union
Elledge Set To Testify In Delaware County Obstruction Trial
Bert Elledge Jr former Delaware County sheriff faces obstruction of justice and two perjury counts as trial proceeds in Manchester. Prosecutors allege forged fingerprint evidence while defense calls witnesses including Elledge’s wife and Tim Elledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elledge
Manchester
Bert Elledge Jr
Delaware County
Department of Criminal Investigation Crime Lab
Alice
Duane Barton
DCI Crime Lab
Barton
Darwin Chapman
DCI
Missing Iowa woman linked to Spain plane crash probes
Vern Parry of Davenport spent a day pursuing news about his daughter Jayne Parry 25 who was aboard a Spantax flight that crashed in Spain. Officials could not confirm her fate as conflicting reports emerged and a clinic listed a severely injured woman who may be she.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attorney General’s Office
Barton
Elledge
Chapman
Davenport
Vern Parry
Spain
Parry
Jayne
Spantax (Airlines
Jepsen
Jayne Parry
New York
Phyllis
Wisconsin Approves State Nuclear Freeze Referendum
Wisconsin voters backed the first state wide referendum on a nuclear weapons freeze by about three to one. With 382 of 3,625 precincts reporting the tally was 58,861 yes and 18,640 no. The Reagan administration declined to take a stand citing ambiguity in wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Reagan
Chrysler, UAW Extend Pact 24 Hours
Chrysler Corp and the United Auto Workers failed to reach a new contract but agreed to a 24 hour extension of the current pact stalling a strike threatened for midnight. UAW President Douglas Fraser said there were a variety of problems both economic and non economic and they wanted more time to exhaust every possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Park, Mich
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Douglas Fraser
WACO district again rejects high school construction
Residents of the WACO School District rejected a proposal for a new junior senior high school amid ongoing three year bickering over the project. Local officials and voters remain divided as the issue stalls planning and funding in OLDS, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olds
Iowa
Waco
Levsen Elected Trustee in Olin Area Fire District
Herbert Levsen received 27 votes to win the Olin Benefited Fire District trusteeship. He ran unopposed and the election occurred during the Olin area school election on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin
Herbert Levsen
Levsen
Clarification notices for Gazette corrections
The Gazette notes corrections and clarifications to earlier stories. An educational forum titled An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure will be held October 11 from 7 to 9 30 p m at Washington High School Little Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington High School
Little Theater
Gazette
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Information Note
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscription rates vary by carrier and mail with weekend editions and long-term options listed. The Associated Press retains exclusive republication rights to local news and dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Ave
Iowa
U.S. Territories
Associated Press
Thought for today Ruskin on a rich nation
English writer John Ruskin asserted that a nation’s wealth lies in nourishing the greatest number of noble and happy citizens, a philosophy echoed in reflective daily meditations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ruskin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leola Johnson
Heritage Acres Care Center
Vanessa Shelton
Linn Heath Center Board of Directors
Trend
Linn Handicapped Systems
Seventh St. SE
Melinda
Patrick Hoyt
Springville
Martha
Jewel Smith
10Th St
Dana
Richard Weasel
Cherry Hill Road
Maribeth
Randall Larson
Wilton Court
Linda
Aaron Hein
Fifth Ave
St. Luke’s
Rebecca Lou Grupp
Oakland Road
Denise
George van Fleet
Bowling St
Sherre
Gary Garside
Oxford Junction
Traci
Donald Nelson
F Ave
Kathy
John Thomas
21St Ave
Cynthia
Mark Gossman
Central City
Sheila
Bryan Harger
Meadowdale Drive
Karen Kay
William Mechal
Blairs Ferry
Road
Judy
Mark Norton
Tempe
Ariz
Pamela
Terry Thompson
Addie
Allan Thompson
Memorial Drive
Mike McCue
James McCue
Leonard Terrace
James Seifert
Indianhill Road
Billings, Mont
Connie
Gary Lathrop
Patricia
Russell McArtor
36Th St
Lawrence D. Young
Tracy R. Brown
Robert A. Schutte
Debra K. Schlagel
Reginald J. Prendergast
Deborah K. Snyder
Steve D. Harran
Norway
Lori A. Schulte
Amana
George E. Cantu
Hitchcock
Texas
Lynne S. Melchert
Galveston
Linda Sue
Dennis Keith Needham
Victoria Jean
Kenneth Lloyd Steelman
Darlene K
Andrew J. Connor
Alma Betty
James Richard Null
Pamela Jean
William Darrel Jones
Janet J
Richard F. Crowell
Pamela Ann
Gary Joseph Manhart
Health Center Board
Madge Phillips
Health Center
Phillips
Clear Creek
Garwin School
Jesup
Gaz
By Dave Rasdal Atte
Lanny Lammers
Colesburg
Tim Elledge
Lammers
Sheriff's Department
Bert
Tim
Lowan
Alice Noble
Tad Dre
Tal
Sen
Roger Jepsen
Chrysler
Chris Benner
Hiawatha
Center Pt. Rd
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue
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