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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1971
Page
4
Oklahoma City funeral services are set for Thomas L. Gibson 80 with rites at Rolfe Funeral Home following his death Friday. Survivors include his widow three sons daughters and siblings. Gibson was born August 2 1925 in Lawrence addressing early schooling before moving to Topeka area in 1945.
Memorial services for Neal Maxwell Wherry aged 74 of 1620 West 20th are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church with Rev Harold M Mallett officiating. The family requests memorials to the Neal M Wherry Scholarship Fund at Sterling College in care of First Presbyterian Church. Wherry, a retired Lawrence High School principal, died Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Glenn Earl McCoy 69 of 511 La died early today at Lawrence Memorial Hospital born June 23 1902 in Norfolk Nebraska resident of Lawrence since 1948 survived by widow Mildred five daughters Barbara Hammett Patsy Pugh Frankie Watkins Shirley Hoover Norma Pickens four sons James Arthur Donald Wayne Billy Gene Larry Michael two sisters Daisy Ford Pearl Reichenecker 32 grandchildren four great grandchildren funeral 10 a.m. Thursday Rumsey Funeral Home Chapel burial 3 p.m. Green Lawn Cemetery Pastor Harold Hamilton officiating
Funeral services for Eileen Love Gish 46 Tecumseh and Lawrence native who died Monday in St. Francis Hospital Topeka will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Assumption Church Topeka with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery Hoyt.
About 50 host families are needed for new Kansas University foreign students arriving in Lawrence this weekend. Mrs. R. H. Beemer of the Host Family Program explains hosts offer friendship and welcome without providing room or board. Interested volunteers may call 843-1889.
Funeral services for Priscilla Jackson 89 of 439 TIL will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of God in Christ 842 N.J. Burial follows at Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Friday at home. Visitation is 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and until noon Thursday at Bowser Lee Mortuary or at her home.
Kathryn I Hoekstra 66 of Perry found dead Monday morning in her home. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Perry United Methodist Church with burial in Underwood Cemetery. Ramona Chapter 431 of the Order of the Eastern Star to conduct a 7 30 p.m. service at Hampton Funeral Home in Oskaloosa. She was born April 10 1905 in Williamstown and lived there and in Perry all her life.
Traffic death totals for Kansas up to 9 a.m. Tuesday show 1 additional fatality, with August at 28 and the 1971 figure at 404 compared to 377 in the prior year. The summary notes a revision to include a previously unreported fatality.
County idle funds for the second quarter of 1971 earned 9 375 dollars as Darlene Hill reports. One million dollars remained in six area banks, invested quarterly at the bank state investment rate of 3 75 percent. Since December 1968 the fund grew from 500 000 to 1 000 000 dollars and total interest collected reached 104 577 89 dollars. Interest goes to the general fund.
Lawrence police logged two thefts with divergent highlights. At Seven Eleven F-7, 1910 Haskell, $1 154.96 in cash vanished from a safe between 1 15 and 7 am with no sign of forced entry. manager Ken Cowher reported the loss. In a weekend theft at the Jim Clark building in Auto Plaza, 2121 W 29th Ter, air conditioning and furnace equipment valued at about $822 disappeared from a construction site, reported Monday by Carl W Schroeder of Huxtable & Associates.
Hammerschmidt Specialties announces partnership to provide Hallmark franchise services and E Z Clor pool supplies through its Hammerschmidt supply network. The deal expands distribution for pool chlorine and Hallmark products.
Gary Hauser, a Kansas City sophomore in civil engineering at Kansas University, is the 1971 72 recipient of the Howard A Fitch Scholarship funded by the Kansas City Structural Steel Co in memory of its former president. The award supports Kansas students studying civil engineering at KU.
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