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DEATHS / LINN COUNTY
'MarjOrie J . Cook, 93, of Living Center West,
died there Thursday, July 21, 1994, after a long
illness. Graveside services: 2 p.m. Monday, Cedar
Memorial Cemetery. There will be no visitation.
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Surviving is a sister, Miriam Norrgard of Cedar Rapids.
Also surviving are a niece,
Cindy McDonald and husband
Mike of Cedar Rapids; and
their children, J.P. and his
wife Sue, and Katie and Josh
McDonald.
Marjorie was born Jan. 25,
1901, in Anamosa, the daughter of Chester and Marian
Joslin Hungerford. She married Don C. Cook in Cedar
Rapids. He died in 1955. She
managed the music shop at
Hiltbrunner's and later at Sanford's for many years.
Marjorie was an organist at Westminster Presbyterian Church where she was also a 50-year member.
She also played organ at St. Paul's United Methodist
Church and most recently at the Christian Science
Church. She was a member and past matron of Malta
Chapter OES, DAR, PEO and a founding member of
the Beethoven Club of Cedar Rapids.
Instead of flowers, memorial donations may be
given to Westminster Presbyterian Church.
illness with brain cancer. Memorial services: 2 p.m.
Monday, main lodge, Palisades-Kepler State Park,
Mount Vernon. His body has
been donated to the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
Survivors include his wife,
Eileen; two sons, Derek of
Atlanta and Dustin of Lisbon;
a daughter, Dawn of Sheldon;
a stepdaughter, Marey Stone
of Lisbon; his parents, Clark
and Anna Belle of Monticello;
and two brothers, Doug of
Cedar Rapids and Brad of
Sheldon.
Also surviving is a granddaughter, Felicia Marie.
Roy was born March 2, 1948, in Monticello. He
was an Army veteran, stationed in Germany, and
most recently employed with Transport America for
the last nine years.
He will be remembered as a kind and generous
man.
Mabel C. Banke Fulton, 87, of 3001 sixth st.
SW, died Thursday, July 21, 1994, at St. Luke's
Hospital after a short illness. Services: 1 p.m.
Monday, Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories. Burial: Cedar Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home from 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday and at the chapel after noon on Monday.
Survivors include two sons, Henry Banke Jr. of
Cedar Rapids and Larry Banke of Camarillo, Calif.
Also surviving are three grandchildren and seven
Roy "R.G." Glenn DightOn, 46, of Lisbon, died
Wednesday, July 20, 1994, in his home after a lengthy
great-grandchildren.
Mabel was born Dec. 11, 1906, in Chippewa Falls,
Wis., the daughter of Ephriam and Ida Jane Moyer
Hoover. She married Henry Banke Sr. Nov. 14, 1925,
in Stillwater, Minn. He died in 1954. She then
married Bruce Fulton July 29, 1959, in Cedar Rapids.
He died in 1974. Mabel worked at Armstrong's in
sales and as a seamstress, and as a seamstress in
Armstrong's Fur Shop for many years. She was a
member of Asbury United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund is established.
455, Monticello, Iowa 52310.
Military services will be performed by American
Legion Hanford Post 5.
ARRANGEMENTS PENDING
Betty A n n Frey, 68, of 4400 Fairlane Dr. NE, died
Friday, July 22, 1994, at St. Luke's Hospital following
a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Cedar
Memorial Funeral Home.
Robert G. Sadlon, 74, of 1665 29th st. N E , died SERVICES
Thursday morning, July 21, 1994, at his home
Jessie A . Clark: 10 a.m. today, Murdoch-Linwood
following a lengthy illness. Graveside services: 2 p.m. Funeral Home. Burial: Linwood Cemetery.
Monday, Cedar Memorial Cemetery, by the Rev.
William Harnish, with military rites. Friends may
call at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home from 2 to 6 DEATH NOTICES & OBITUARIES""
p.m. Sunday and after 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Death notices and obituaries can be submitted at The
Survivors include his wife, Olive; two sisters, Gazette between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday,
Louise Johnson of Independence and Lucille Hatfield 12:30 to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday and
of Shellsburg; and a brother, Ed of Masonville.
holidays.
Also surviving is an aunt, Emma Zach of GuttenArrangements pending and death notices, including imberg, and close family friends Marlin Berg and his mediate survivors, and a photo of the deceased are pubchildren, Bruce and Maily Berg, all of Cedar Rapids. lished as a news item on this page.
Robert was born Jan. 1, 1920, in Cedar Rapids and
Other obituary material, including additional survivors,
married Olive L. Shughart May 11, 1946, in Shells- employment, education, military service, civic and social
burg. He worked for 36 years at Farmstead, retiring activities, accomplishments, special interests and hobbies,
in 1984. Robert "Bob" was extremely devoted to the friends, pets, memorials and eulogies will be published for
management, production and appearance of his farm 35 cents per word.
in Benton County. He served in the Army during
Second-day funeral notices and other deaths (formerly
World War II.
out-of-town) will be published at 35 cents per word.
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DEATHS / EASTERN IOWA
COLESBURG
INDEPENDENCE
Howard "Leroy" Hansel, 49, died Thursday,
Taylor Rathbun, 4-day-old infant ofjTeresa and
July 21, 1994, at his home after a brief illness.
Services: 1 p.m. Sunday, Tuecke-Allyn Funeral
Home, Guttenberg, by the Rev. L. R. Lechner. Burial:
Bethel Cemetery, Osterdock. Friends may call from 2
to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Survivors include four daughters, Deborah Deppe
of Petersburg, and Kim Hansel, Julie Bolsinger and
Michelle Hansel, all of Colesburg; and a sister,
Angela Thein, and two brothers, Gene and Wesley,
all of Colesburg.
DEEP RIVER
Dean A. Demmel, 44, died Friday, July 22,
1994, at Marengo Memorial Hospital, Marengo, of a
heart attack. Services: 3 p.m. Sunday, St. John's
Lutheran Church, rural Victor. Burial: church cemetery, south of Victor. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to
9 j).m, today at McAninch-Fremming Funeral Home,
Victor, where the family will receive friends from 7
to. 9 p.m.
Survivors include his mother and stepfather,
Adella and Charles Hewitt of Deep River; a sister,
Cheryl Hiner of Conroy; and a brother, James of
Marengo.
GARNAVILLO
Floyd "Bob" LaU, 74, of Dallas, Texas,
formerly of Garnavillo, died Friday, July 22, 1994, at
the Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas, after a
short illness. Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Tuecke-Allyn
Funeral Home, by the Rev. Wayne Hagen. Burial:
Garnavillo City Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to
8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
•Survivors include a son, Gary of Dallas, Texas;
and a brother, Richard of West Des Moines.
GRINNELL
Eva Pring, 92, of the Mayflower Home, died
Monday, July 18, 1994, at the Mayflower Home
Health Care Center. Memorial services: 2 p.m.
Saturday, July 30, in Denison Chapel of the Mayflower Home. Burial: Huntsville, Ind. There will be no
visitation. Smith Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
There are no immediate family survivors.
Neal Rathbun, died Friday, July 22, 1994, at St.
Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, after a brief illness.
Services: 11 a.m. today, White Funeral Home. Burial:
Wilson Cemetery.
Survivors include her parents and a sister, Lauren at home.
IOWA CITY
Ellard "Jerry" Krueger, 78, of Chatham Oaks,
rural Iowa City, died there Friday, July 22, 1994,
after a lengthy illness. Graveside services: 1 p.m.
today, Lone Tree Cemetery, by the Rev. Ann Rouse.
There will be no visitation. Sorden Funeral Home,
Lone Tree, is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include two brothers, Delbert of Lone
Tree
and Merrill of West Branch.
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Lucille P. Arensdorf, 79, died Thursday, July
21, 1994, at Jackson County Public Hospital after a
sudden illness. Services are pending at HaylockO'Hara and Lahey Funeral Home, where friends may
call from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Julia Jeanne McCausland, 73, died Friday,
July 22, 1994, at Maquoketa Care Center following a
lengthy illness. Services are pending at HaylockO'Hara and Lahey Funeral Home, where friends may
call from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday.
MARENGO
Jason Lee Darling, 4, died Wednesday, July
20, 1994, in a house fire at a relative's home near
Wellman. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Powell Funeral Home, by the Rev. Larry Brown. Burial: Wellman
Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 7^ p.m. Sunday
at the funeral home.
Survivors include his parents, Gary McNabb and
Nancy Darling; and a brother, Thomas McNabb, and
sister, Lisa McNabb, both at home.
MONTICELLO
Margaret A. Huggins, 71, died Friday, July 22,
1994, at the Senior Home following a lengthy illness.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Sacred Heart Catholic
Church. Burial: church cemetery. Friends may call
from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Goettsch Funeral Home,
where there will be a 7:30 p.m. Scripture service.
Survivors include two daughters, Audry Lambert
and Sheila Prull, both of Monticello; and two sisters,
Dorothy Corcoran and Irene Egger, both of Cedar
Rapids.
Also surviving are 12 grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
ST. LUCAS
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Julia F. Schmitt, 86, of Stone Hill Care Center,
Dubuque, formerly of St. Lucas, died at the care
center Thursday, July 21, 1994, after a long illness.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday, St. Luke's Catholic
Church. Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday at
St. Luke's School Chapel, where a rosary will be
recited at 4 and a prayer service held at 8. Burial:
church cemetery. Chekal Funeral Home, Fort Atkinson, is in charge of arrangements.
Surviving is a sister, Verna Schmitt of St. Rose
Convent of La Crosse, Wis.
URBANA
Donald E. Smith, 69, died Thursday, July 21,
1994, in Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, of
heart failure. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, St. Mary's
Catholic Church. Burial: church cemetery, with
military rites. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m.
Sunday at Murdoch Funeral Home, Center Point,
where a rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. and a wake
service held at 7 p.m.
Survivors include his wife,
Doris; three daughters, Connie
' Miller of Walker, Linda Burke
of Center Point and Mary
Zogg of Cedar Rapids; two
sons, Gary and Donald, both
of Urbana; three brothers; and
five sisters.
Also surviving are 17
grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by a son, Dennis Joseph, and
his parents.
Born Nov. 8, 1924, in Urbana, Iowa, to John and Christina Kramer Smith, he married Doris Sheeley June 7, 1949, in Masonvjlle, Iowa.
Donald farmed for 27 years, and worked as\ a
custodian and bus driver for the Urbana School. He
was an active member of St. Mary's Catholic Church,
St Mary's Men's Club, the\Urbana Lions Club, the
Urbana American Legion Post 264 and served on the
Senior Citizen Housing Board of Directors.
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He will be dearly missed by his family and
friends.
A memorial fund is established.
WASHINGTON
Beatrice V. Neuhart, 78, died Thursday, July
21, 1994, at Washington Care Center after a short
illness. Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Eden Funeral
Home, by the Rev. Richard Boyd. Burial: Elm Grove
Cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m. today at the
funeral home, where the family will receive friends
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Survivors include three sons, H. Craig from
Molokai, Hawaii, Rex of Cedar Rapids and Laird of.
Antioch, Calif.; and a sister, Gladys Bartholow of
Washington.
WELLMAN
Robert John BehrenS, 8, died Wednesday,
July 20, 1994, in a house fire near Wellman. Services:
10:30 a.m. Monday, Powell Funeral Home, by the Rev.
Larry Brown. Burial: Wellman Cemetery. Friends
may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral
home.
Survivors include his father, Kevin Whetstine of
Springdale, Ark.; and his mother and stepfather,
Robin and Robert Darling.
Linda Ann BehrenS, 12, died Wednesday, July
20, 1994, in a house fire near Wellman. Services: 10:30
a.m. Monday, Powell Funeral Home, by the Rev.
Larry Brown. Burial: Wellman Cemetery. Friends
may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral,
home.
Survivors include her father, Richard Behrens of
Williamsburg; and her mother and stepfather, Robin
and Robert Darling.
Ezra James Darling, 5, died Wednesday, July
20,1994, in a house fire near Wellman. Services: 10:30i
a.m. Monday, Powell Funeral Home, by the Rev.
Larry Brown. Burial: 'Wellman Cemetery. Friends
may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeralhome.
Survivors include his parents, Robert and Robin.
Darling.
WORTHINGTON
Irene M. Hillebrand, 66, died Friday, July 22,1994, at University Hospitals, Iowa City, after a short,
illness. Services are pending at Reiff Funeral Home,
Cascade.
Michigan man sentenced in killing of lover's spouse
Wife, victim are
ex-C.R. residents
By Kym Schuetz
Special to the Gazette
.'ALLEGAN, Mich. — Fifty-one
weeks after he played a role in
snooting and killing his lover's
husband, a 19-year-old man was
sentenced Friday to 25 to 50
years in prison.
Before sentencing Dennis Lee
Leonard, 19, for the killing of
James Lundgren, Allegan County Circuit Judge George Corsiglia asked Leonard why he would
have anything to do with Kimberly Lundgren, his ex-girlfriend
whom he agreed to testify
against.
"I loved this lady, but I can't
say why, your Honor," said
Leonard, who showed no emotion during his sentencing Friday. "I don't know why myself."
Lundgren, formerly of Cedar
Rapids, will be sentenced next
week in connection with the Dennis L.
slaying.
Leonard
Leonard and Lundgren were
Given up
charged with the shooting death to 50 years
of h e r 42-year-old husband,
James Lundgren, as he slept
July 30, 1993, at the couple's
Fillmore Township home.
Leonard, who, according to
court records, has the maturity
of a 12-year-old, originally admitted shooting Lundgren. Later to second-degree murder, will be
he said it was actually Kimberly sentenced July 28 by Circuit
Lundgren who fired the shot Judge Harry Beach following a
after he refused. He pleaded hearing on her pre-sentencing
guilty to second-degree murder. report. She claims Leonard was
Kimberly Landenberger Lund- the shooter.
gren, 33, who also pleaded guilty
The Lundgrens moved to
C.R. man who County board
gave baby snuff rules out thong
gets probation
bikinis at beach
By Dick Hogan
Gazette courts reporter
Dwane Lightfoot of Cedar Rapids has received a
deferred judgment after pleading guilty to aggravated misdemeanor child endangerment.
Associate District Judge Michael Newmeister
placed Lightfoot on probation until July 11, 1996.
Lightfoot had faced trial on a felony child
endangerment charge of giving a harmful substance, tobacco snuff, to an infant but was allowed
to plead guilty to the lesser offense.
Lightfoot, 30, of 4032 Wilson Ave. SW, was
charged Feb. 3. He told police he meant no harm
to the 6-month-old baby he was watching for a
friend.
Lightfoot's attorney contended his client was
incompetent to stand trial. At a competency
hearing, Jack Baker, a psychologist, testified
Lightfoot has an IQ of 60 and is illiterate. An IQ of
100 is considered average.
Judge August Honsel ruled in March that
Lightfoot was competent to stand trial, but it was
unnecessary after the plea bargain was reached.
DAVENPORT (AP) — Park officials say
bikini-clad bathers need more than just a
Band-Aid fix.
"It's just gone too far," Dan Nagle, director of the Scott County Conservation Board,
said about the popularity of thong bathing
suits.
The board unanimously adopted a resolution requiring swimmers at county pools
and beaches to wear attire that covers "the
crack of the buttock."
Nagle said he consulted with the Scott
County Attorney's Office on the wording of
the resolution. "With some people, you just
have to spell it out," he said.
Park employees are making signs warning
swimmers about the new rule and will
install them within the next few days at the
Scott County Park Pool and West Lake Park
beach. Anyone wearing a suit that doesn't
cover enough will be asked to leave.
Kimberly
Lundgren
•Sentencing
next week
Michigan from the Cedar Rapids
area about eight years ago.
Judge Corsiglia said he believed Leonard was manipulated
by the older, more experienced
Lundgren, but quickly added,
"That doesn't excuse what you
did. You had an opportunity to
walk away. You didn't do it."
Following the sentencing,
Ruth Swick of Marion, James
Lundgren's sister, spoke on behalf of the victim's family.
"We're pleased, maybe even a
little shocked he got that long.
All we hope is that Kim gets
what she deserves, life (in prison) and nothing less."
During the court appearance,
Swick told the judge that while
Leonard was "in the clutches"
of Kimberly Lundgren, he failed
to stop the crime which claimed
the life of her 42-year-old brother and robbed the Lundgrens'
two young children of both parents.
Nevertheless, Swick said she
can accept Leonard's apology
because he apparently did not
play the lead in planning or
carrying out the shooting.
The shooting took place on the
eve of what would have been the
Lundgren's 12th wedding anniversary.
The shooting came as a surprise to family members, whowere not aware of any significant marital problems, said Jamie Lundgren, James Lund-gren's 17-year-old daughter, who',
lives in Toddville.
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Kimberly Lundgren's attorney;
and family members have a r gued she was a battered wife!
who chose homicide as her only;
escape. But police and prosecutors allege the slaying was a:
clumsy lovers' scheme to get;
Lundgren out of the way and
collect on his $100,000 life insur-:
ance policy.
BRIEFS
• the suspect but declined to release his name.
The suspect was stopped about 9:15 a.m. Friday
• CHELSEA — More than $3,000 raised in the
on Highway 218 near Waterloo by Trooper David
Chelsea area over the last 10 days should be
delivered to flood-stricken Montezuma, Ga., today. Nedrow, the State Patrol said. Nedrow believed
the suspect gave false information and arrested
The money is a way for people in Chelsea, which
him.
The suspect was handcuffed and placed in
was ravaged by floods last year, to repay Georgia,
the patrol car. Nedrow went to interview two
which is suffering from flooding this year.
passengers in the suspect's vehicle when the
Montezuma, Ga., is a community of 4,830
suspect, whose hands were handcuffed behind his
residents in east-central Georgia. It is on the Flint back, somehow managed to get behind the wheel
River, which flooded along its entire length.
and drive away. The car was found later with
Chelsea, which is along the Iowa River,
$1,500 in damage, the patrol said.
received drinking water last year from Rome, Ga.,
The suspect was described as a white male,
when floodwaters cut off Chelsea's water system.
6-foot-3, weighing 180 pounds and wearing a
Originally, Chelsea was raising money to buy
T-shirt and blue jeans.
drinking water to deliver to Montezuma. But
when the city's water system was repaired
Autopsy shows toddler drowned
Chelsea residents decided to donate money to buy
• MASON CITY (AP) — Preliminary autopsy
the cleaning supplies. As of Friday, $3,240 had
results
cite drowning as the cause of death of
been raised.
20-month-old John Snyder Jr., who was found in a
A group planned to leave Chelsea for
creek near downtown Mason City Thursday. An
Montezuma at 4 p.m. Friday and deliver a check
official report will not be available until next
today.
week, the State Medical Examiner's Office said. It
was ruled Friday that the boy drowned, but it h a s ,
Suspect sought in patrol car theft
not been determined if there were contributing
• Law enforcement officers continued last night
factors. The boy was reported missing Wednesday to seek a man accused of stealing a State Patrol
morning by his father, who told police he last sawcar. Authorities believe they know the identity of • his son Tuesday night when he put him to bed.
Flood donations taken to Georgia
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