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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1973
Page
5
Funeral services and burials for John Barney Blessent Judith Ness Amos Edmunds Allen Mayes Sr. listed with locations St Lawrence Catholic Church West Lisbon Lutheran Church and West Lisbon Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery Elmwood Cemetery in Gardner Yorkville Joliet and surrounding towns. Survivors and service details noted including dates locations and funeral homes.
Lauretta Diss 80 lifelong Seneca resident died Saturday at Community Hospital Ottawa funeral services held today at Osborne Pfeffer Seneca to St Patrick s Church Mass of the Resurrection with Rev Edmond Blough officiating pallbearers listed burial Calvary Cemetery She was born July 16 1893 in Seneca daughter of John and Catherine Diss never married member of St Patrick s Church survived by nephew Jerome Diss of Ransom Two cars were broken into on Grand Ridge Rd across from Grady s Place vent window forced on Pablo Sanchez car clothes and a suitcase worth about 15 stolen stereo tape player and two tapes taken from Cesar Chevez car deputy reported incident 9 55 a m Sunday
Tauseef Taliwala aged 33 of Missouri was treated and released from St James Hospital Pontiac after losing control of his Volkswagen on Interstate 66 two miles north of Illinois 47. Police say a left rear tire went flat causing the veer into the median and rollover at 7 40 a m Saturday.
In Joliet Illinois US Agriculture data shows hogs 800 head up 2 dollars. Prices range 54 to 56 for various weight classes. Cattle 3900 head with steers steady and heifers down a dollar. High grade slaughter figures listed, plus a note on yield grades. A separate paragraph discusses the origins of the phrase knock on wood and primitive worship ties to trees.
Joliet relatives Lulu Jones of Lockport and Lilly Jones of Joliet attend funeral details for a drowned person. Mary Jane Boykins of Birmingham, the maternal grandmother, is named. Service set for 11 a.m. Friday at St. Pauls Baptist Church Joliet with Rev. Willis Wright officiating. Burial in Elmhurst Cemetery. Visitation Thursday at Minor Funeral Home Joliet 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Circuit Judge Robert Malmquist set bail for James E. Sykes 31 and Tommy L. Spiller 28 both of Gary Indiana charged with theft of services. The two were accused of stealing $7.60 worth of gas from a Pontiac Illinois station on U S 66. They were arrested on U S 66 near Pontiac and held in Grundy County Jail in lieu of $1 000 bail.
Blasius notes a four to one incline instead of two to one, with sodding and erosion protection after graves were found. It won’t affect highway alignment or safety, but mowing will be harder. Deputy Leach heard workers say one grave was struck by a pole and another uncovered by equipment. origin of bones uncertain.
Morris Fire Department received a call for a resuscitator for Miss Kathy Greenley of 1221 Grant Street at 12 42 a m. She was taken to Morris Hospital by Reeves Ambulance where she was treated and released.
Three 15 year old girls and a 16 year old boy were found along the tow road off Cemetery camping for six days. They were released to their parents pending possible juvenile proceedings after detectives linked the pair to two stolen Sears 3 speed bicycles reported by Paul Riegle. Claire Wilkson 16 was taken to Ottawa Detention Home before being picked up by his father.
President Nixon acknowledged for the first time that he ordered secret air raids in Cambodia in 1969 after taking office. He defended the actions as necessary to save American lives and said he would do the same again, noting Cambodia’s border chaos and later inviting a state visit. The raids were kept secret to avoid exposing soldiers to danger.
William Small of Illinois 47 north of Braceville called Grundy County Sheriff at 8 50 a m Sunday to report a 300 pound holstein calf slain at his barn dragged about 200 feet to the highway and left at the fence. The last sighting was 4 30 p m Saturday.
Mrs Pearl Krug 30 of 404 Liberty St faces disorderly conduct charges after police say she threw an object at a car on the 400 block of Liberty St hitting a passenger and using profanity toward the driver’s daughter Lorraine. Arraignment scheduled for Aug 28 before Grundy County Circuit Judge Robert Malmquist. released on $25 bond. Investigating officers were Patrolmen Syd Reeve Paul Erdman and S Douglas Francois.
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