Death notices from Linn County area obituaries
Death notices list Bobbie Jean Steinke Northrup 46 of Houston Missouri formerly Cedar Rapids died Sept 2 in Chula Vista California after brief illness memorial services at Salvation Army Chapel Cedar Rapids body cremated survivors include husband Jim two sons Mike and Greg mother Betty Burger father Wayne Steinke sister Sandy Skinner brother Richard Steinke many loving family members and friends also noted are Robert S Campbell 74 Marshalltown formerly Cedar Rapids died Sept in Davenport services at Murdoch Linwood Funeral Home burial Linwood Cemetery survivors include daughter Julie and son in law Brian Champ two sisters three brothers grandchildren and other relatives born 1917 Campbell served in World War II and was self employed later Vivian L Kemp 84 Hills formerly Marion died Tuesday in Hills after sudden illness services at Marion Christian Church burial Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery survivors include three daughters and one sister plus seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren notes Kemp worked at St Luke's Hospital and farmed Marion area and belonged to multiple clubs and auxiliaries memorial fund established for Marion Christian Church
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Bobbie Jean Steinke Northrup
Houston
Cedar Rapids
Chula Vista
Calif
Salvation Army
1000
C Ave
Jim
Mike
Greg
Betty Burger
Wayne Steinke
Sandy Skinner
Richard __ Steinke
Marshalltown
Bobbie
Robert S. Campbell
St. Luke’s Hospital
Davenport
Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home
Linwood Cemetery
Julie
Brian Champ
Opal McSpadden
Pearl Ross
Lucille Webb
Quasqueton
Mount Vernon
Stanton
Lydia Mann Campbell
Jean Esther Monson
England
Harry Horten
VFW Post
Moose Lodge
Jack Hooten
Vivian L. Kemp
Hills
Marion
Atrium Village
Marion Christian Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Murdoch Funeral Home
Martha Triebel
Fairfax
Betty Lou Palmer
Corydon
Joyce Oberman
Iowa City
Eda Hayes
Talent
Ore
Homer
Bertie Craig Little
Nokomis
Ill
Irvin E. Kemp
Vivian
Rural Book Club of
Iowa
Angus
St. Luke’s Auxiliary
Marion Federated Women’s Club
Linn County Farm Bureau
James Warren
JoAnn
Leo
Hilda Greiner
Earlville
Larry
Jack
Robert
Lancaster
Hemet
Rick
Bill
Canoga Park
Pat Hilton
Jeanne Philipp
Jolene Rehcklau
Betty Willenberg
Dyersville
Ethel Sperfslage
Winthrop
Gertrude
Mae” Davis
St. Francis Manor
Smith Funeral Home
Hazelwood Cemetery
van Jr
John
Grinnell
James
Pineville
Kent
Wash
Steven
Bloomington, Ill
Mildred Ryan
Frances Dickson
Woodland Hills
Bernard S. Grothe
Sycamore St SE
Lone Tree
St Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Joseph Cemetery
George L. Gay Funeral Home
Leona
Thomas
Bel Air
Janet McLachlan
Coralville
Pauline Hirt
Eunice Abel
Rocky River
Ohio
Margie D. Hintgen
Jackson County Public Hospital
Carson Funeral Home
St. John’s Catholic
Andrew
Gary
Blue Grass
Betty Neumann
South Sioux City
Neb
Harry Huebbe Jr
Baldwin
Elmer Huebbe
Maquoketa
Alice Eberly
Michel
Mike’” J. Thiel
Frankville
Cresco
Ossian Senior Hospice
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Calvary Cemetery
Schmitz Funeral Home
Ossian
Conway Funeral Home
Anne Kobiiger
Oklahoma City
Okla
Jean Singleton
Margaret Barness
Germany
Obituaries and funeral notices from Cedar Memorial and area churches
Obituaries list service times burial locations and calling hours for William Abernathy Clover Kloubec Wesley Rabik Georgie Stransky and Donald Whitenack. Services are at Cedar Memorial Brush Chapel First Lutheran Church Czech National Cemetery St Patrick Catholic Church and First Christian Church center point with details on calling hours and arrangements by local funeral homes. Memorial gifts suggested to Shriners Crippled Children's Transportation Fund or First Baptist Church in Marion.
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William T. Abernathy
Cedar Memorial Chapel of
Trojan Lodge
Cedar Memorial Park
VFW Post
Robert Nelson
Shriners Crippled Children’s Transportation Fund
First Baptist Church
Marion
Clover Kloubec
Brush
Czech National Cemetery
Wesley F. Rabik
First Lutheran Church
Kuba Funeral Home
Georgie Stransky
St. Patrick Catholic Church
St. John’s Cemetery
Nationa Catholic Society of Foresters and Daughters of Isabella
Teahen Funeral Home
Donald L. Whitenack
First Christian Church
Center Point
Murdoch Funeral Home
Death notices and obituaries guidelines and rates
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the Gazette
Deaths in Eastern Iowa: Reida and Chettinger
Amos E. Reida 85 dies after long illness at Grinnell General Hospital. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Friday Nevenhoven. burial Brooklyn Cemetery. survivors include wife Genna, two sons Wesley and Bruce, two daughters Mary Jane Roudabush and Colleen Lidzka, siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Richard D. Chettinger Sr. 62 of rural Fairfield dies of apparent heart attack at Peoples Memorial Hospital Independence. Services 2 p.m. Friday St. John’s Lutheran Dundee. burial Oakland Cemetery Manchester. survivors include wife Lucille, six daughters, one son, two sisters, and diverse in‑laws.
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Amos E. Reida
Grinnell General Hospital
Nevenhoven Funeral Home
Brooklyn Cemetery
Genna
Wesley
Bruce
Brooklyn
Mary Jane Roudabush
Columbus
Ohio
Colleen Lidzka
Malcom
Truman
Lake View
Lydia Reida
Grinnell
Richard D. Chettinger Sr
Fairbank
Peoples Memorial Hospital
Independence
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Dundee
Oakland Cemetery
Manchester
Shelly Funeral Home
Lucille
Sharon Taylor
Hazleton
Shirley Chettinger
Sandra Gamm
Marion
Bonnie Opitz
Dorothy Holthaus
Aurora
Evelyn Burgin
Strawberry Point
Richard Jr
Lamont
Leona Fitzpatrick
Waterloo
Helen Gienapp
Obituaries Share Passages of Local Lives Across Iowa and California
Lawrence J. Greiner 64 of Lancaster California formerly Earlville dies after heart failure following surgery. Services at St Josephs Church with burial at church cemetery. Gertrude Mae Davis 81 dies of stroke in St Francis Manor. John Louis Donohue 77 and Bernard S Grothe 82 also noted with services and arrangements announced.
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Lawrence J. Greiner
Lancaster
Calif
Earlville
Lancaster Community Hospital
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Church
Clifton Funeral Home
Obituaries for Hintgen Ferguson Thiel in Maquoketa Cresco Ossian area
Multiple obituaries list Margie D Hintgen Olga R Ferguson and Mike Thiel. Details include death in Jackson County and Great River Care Center, funeral arrangements at Carson Thornburg and Schmitz funeral homes, service times and burial locations, survivors and officiants.
Marengo obituary notices for Somermeyer and Eserhaut
Obituaries report Rowland H. Somermeyer Jr. of Solon died at 39 in Marengo with services set for Friday in Solon and burial at Oakland Cemetery. survivors include his mother Donna Middendorf and extended relatives. Also listed are Esther Maria Eserhaut 93 formerly of Tipton who died in Wheatland Manor with services in Fry Funeral Home and burial at St. Paul Cemetery, and brief death notices for Joseph Peiper and Lyman Thompson with cremation and pending arrangements.
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Esther Maria Eserhaut
Tipton
Wheatland Manor
Fry Funeral Home
St. Paul Cemetery
Wheatland
Velma Krueger
London
Lyman Thompson
Hayden Funeral Home
Obituaries for Nellie Snyder and Hazel Stevenson
Nellie M. Snyder aged 94 died Tuesday at Maple Crest Manor Fayette with services set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Hawkeye United Methodist Church and burial in Illyria Cemetery. Hazel M. Stevenson aged 87 died Wednesday at Malone Creek Estates with services at 1 30 p.m. Friday at White Funeral Home and burial in Evergreen Cemetery Vin ton. A Kings Daughters service occurs at 4 p.m. today at the same funeral home. Survivors listed for both include multiple children and siblings.
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Nellie M. Snyder
Maplecrest Manor
Fayette
United Methodist Church
Hawkeye
Illyria
Elkader
Becker-Milnes
Lester
Castalia
Charles Jr
Alpha
Henry
Independence
Edward Howell
Pennsylvania
Hazel M. Stevenson
Malone Creek Estates
White Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Vinton
Kings Daughters
Clarence
LaVonne Weber
Alta Brock
Des Moines
Lois Smith
Harkin Proposal to Shift Defense Funds Fails in Senate
Senate rejected Tom Harkin's plan to move 4 billion dollars from defense to health and education. The 62 to 36 vote included opposition from Sen. Charles Grassley. Key Democrats such as Sen. Robert Byrd and Sen. Sam Nunn opposed the procedural move and defense funds remained intact under the spending bill crafted by the Appropriations subcommittee.
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services
Education
Iowa Counties Report Highest High School Dropout Rates
A U S Department of Education report released Wednesday shows East Iowa Lucas and Mills counties tied for the highest high school dropout rate at 13.7 percent. Ringgold Delaware and Howard Counties posted the lowest at 1.3 percent, while area county rates for 16 through 19 year olds vary with Linn 5.4 percent and Black Hawk 8.7 percent among others.
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Lucas
Mills
Iowa
U.S. Department of Education
Ringgold
Delaware
Howard Counties
Linn
Jones
Johnson
Benton
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Tama
Marshall
Grundy
Poweshiek
Cedar
Vital births listed for Sept at Mercy and St. Luke's
Mercy reports Sept 15 a son for Cindy and Tommy Ray of 461 Wilson Ave SW. Sept 16 a son for Robin and David Nelson of 3806 Vine Ave SE. St. Luke's notes Sept 16 a daughter for Kimberly Osborn of 3212 Castle Dr SW.
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Cindy
Tommy Ray
Wilson Ave
Robin
David Nelson
Vine Ave
ST. Luke's
Kimberly Osborn
Castle Dr
Man Run Over by Semi Dies in Council Bluffs
A transient identified as David Lagemann, 41, was killed when a semi pulled from a truck stop in Council Bluffs before 4 a.m. The driver Dennis Greer, 42, of Corydon, said to have struck him as the man lay under the truck. No charges filed.
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Council Bluffs
David Lagemann
Omaha
Neb
Lagemann
Dennis Greer
Corydon
Family Settles for 25 Million in 1989 United Crash
The Bierlein family of Gary Bierlein, a 39 year old from Saginaw Michigan, settles a wrongful death suit for 25 million against United Air Lines McDonnell-Douglas and General Electric over the 1989 Flight 232 crash in Iowa. The jet cartwheeled from Denver to Chicago and exploded after a fan disk failed. Jurors determined the DC-10 crash was caused by a disintegrated metal fan disk.
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Chicago
Sioux City
United Airlines
Philip Corboy
Gary Bierlein
Cook County
United
McDonnell-Douglas
Ottumwa Man Fatally Shot in Southeast Iowa
Frederick John Lowe, 34, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was identified by the Wapello County Sheriff as the victim of a shooting. The body was found on Tuesday in a rural area near Chillicothe. Investigators are pursuing leads and have not released further details.
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Chillicothe
Iowa
Ottumwa
Wapello County
Frederick John Lowe
Lotto jackpot rises in Iowa with no Wednesday winner
The Iowa Lotto failed to produce a jackpot winner in the $700,000 drawing, sending the prize to an estimated $800,000 for Saturday. An autopsy was planned in Des Moines by the State Medical Examiner’s Office after a shooting reported to 911 at a residence near Ottumwa. Charges have not been filed. Further details were not disclosed.
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Des Moines
State
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Linn County
John Louis Donohue
E. College St
George L. Gay
Amana
Thomas L. Carver
McGregor
Olga R. Ferguson
Great River Care Center
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Thornburg Funeral Home
Jackie Lamb
Marengo
Rowland H. Somermeyer Jr
Solon
Brush Funeral Home
Donna
Robert Middendorf
Verla Russell
Violet Middendorf
Lansing
Rowland
la Crosse
Wis
Donna Russell Somermeyer
Solon High School
Amana Refrigeration
Mid
van Horne
Joseph Peiper
Mercy Medical Center
Phillips Funeral Home
Keystone
Wyoming
Harkin
David Lynch
Ing
Byrd
Bush Administration
East
John Adler
General Electric
Jack Batty
Bierlein
LOTTO
Illinois Lotto
Catherine Booton
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue
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