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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1983
Page
12
Multiple death notices from Mercy Hospital and Cedar Rapids area churches confirm the passing of residents including John C. Miller of Fairfax Vera Held Stookey Florence Loeffers Mable Irene Hopker Grimm Amy Schneider Diane Hallman and others. Services are announced with burial details and surviving relatives.
Memorial services today for Elma Rice at Stewart Funeral Home led by Rev. Alfred Brosius with burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Robert J. Stramer to be honored at Turner Chapel West with military rites by American Legion Post 234 and grave at SS Patrick and Paul Cemetery. Gede E Suchomel’s service is scheduled Friday at Janeba Kuba Funeral Home West with burial at Cedar Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call before service times.
Anna Kovac 76 of Fourth Avenue Care Center died Wednesday after a long illness. Services are pending at Stewart Funeral Home. Elmer Mentzer 67 of Cedar Rapids also died. services pending at Baxter's Memorial Chapel in Marion.
Obituary notices for Stanley Bright aged 89 a retired Iowa State Men's Reformatory captain who died at home. his survivors include wife Eva son George and daughters Doris and Zenobia. numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. services Friday at Goettsch's with burial at Oakwood Cemetery and military rites. Also included are notices for Robert K. Ruffridge 50 a painter who died in Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital with wife Gloria two daughters and parents. services Friday at Steine's and burial at Russell Cemetery. and Carl A Tilp 88 a retired mechanic who died in Bellevue with services pending at Appleton Vernon’s.
Lillian H Parker 96 of Hawkeye died Tuesday at Hillcrest Home Sumner. Survived by two sons two daughters ten grandchildren fifteen great grandchildren four great great grandchildren. Services Friday 2 pm United Methodist Church burial Oak Lawn Cemetery Hawkeye. Hecker Milnes may be contacted for viewing after 4 pm today. Mable E Kesselring 88 of Iowa City died Tuesday night in Solon care center after long illness. Born July 4 1895 in Maize Kansas she moved to Iowa as a child. She married Emery Deal 1915. he died 1926. She married Frank Oliva 1927. he died 1948. She married Henry Kesselring 1949. he died 1960. Retired from Quadrangle Dormitory University of Iowa housekeeping. Survived by four daughters two sisters two brothers a step daughter and two step-sons seventeen grandchildren and many great grandchildren. Services 10 am Friday Beckenman Callahan's with viewing after 1 pm today. Burial Windham Cemetery Windham. Memorial established.
Milo E Lease 83 retired Pennington Supply Co owner died early Tuesday at Sumner hospital Survived by wife Frances son Wayne Arlington Texas two daughters Gladys Rechkemmer Davenport Lois Thompson Elk Grove Village Ill eight grandchildren two great grandchildren a stepson Norman Zobel Sumner a stepdaughter Doris Miller Readlyn Iowa Services Friday 1030 am United Methodist Church Burial Wilson Grove Cemetery rural Sumner Alvin J Hoth 82 retired farmer died Tuesday morning at Hillcrest Homes Sumner Survived by two sons Ralph Sumner Larry Euless Texas a daughter Ruth Weber Bettendorf two grandchildren one great grandchild Services Friday 2 pm St John American Lutheran Church Friends may call after 2 pm today at Becker Milnes Burial church cemetery Elmer F Brendes 79 retired implement dealer died Wednesday afternoon at Cedar Manor Nursing Home Surviving wife Norma a daughter Shirley Edler Tipton one grandchild two great grandchildren two sisters Martha Busching Amanda Goldsmith both Clarence Services Saturday 1030 am First United Church of Christ Friends may call 2 8 pm Friday Sheets and Son and Saturday 9 am funeral time at church Burial St John Cemetery Clarence
An 80 year old woman died in a Massey home fire on Wednesday afternoon near Dubuque. A neighbor reported smoke around 4 30 p m as the Key West and Dubuque County deputies responded. Rescue workers found the woman seated in a chair.
Mark Bell 22 of La Crosse charged in Grant County with armed burglary armed robbery false imprisonment car theft and weapon theft for a Bagley Wisconsin incident earlier the same day as the Monona hostage event. Bell faces up to 20 years on burglary and robbery and set bond at 200000 with a Sept 27 preliminary hearing. He and Leonard Specht Jr both prison escapees are linked to the Monona hostage and Bagley attack, though Bell not yet charged in Monona. Specht faces kidnapping and other felonies in Clayton County Jail with 250000 bond.
Vice President George Bush said the United States will extend greater political and economic support to East European nations like Hungary and Romania seeking independence from the Soviet Union. He warned against rewarding closed Soviet Bloc allies and urged reforms to open channels to the West while rejecting a divided Europe. He cited freedom, prosperity and peace as core goals and stressed differentiation based on each country’s autonomy from Moscow.
Patrick Allen Jones, a 26 year old from Waterloo, is identified as the suspect in a break in at Hazleton and an assault case involving a Waterloo woman. Jones previously claimed the name Mark Pokorny. He faces first degree robbery charges in Buchanan County and possible assault and stealing a vehicle charges in Fayette County. He is jailed on a 50000 dollar bond.
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa Commerce Commission will let telephone companies charge a $2 monthly fee for intrastate long distance access starting Jan 1, matching a $2 interstate fee. The move follows the AT&T breakup and ends subsidies that kept local rates low.
Sept 20 Jerilyn and Edward Frontress welcome a son at 6613 Boulder Drive NW. Sept 21 Amy and Galen Sproston have a daughter at 1315 Oakland Road NE. Also Sept 20 Stephanie Tillman bearing a son, Sept 21 Kathryn and Michael Seeman have a daughter, plus two more births at 2314 Bever Ave SE and 2305 Wilson Ave SW. Out-of-town births include Judy and Roger Geers in Arlington Texas and Ruth and Sgt Henry Martin in Tacoma Washington. Police and emergency notes list false alarms, medical emergencies, a wires arcing, smoke odors, an overheated iron, and a spontaneous ignition across local addresses through Wednesday.
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