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NameCityFuneralHomeNameCityFuneralHome The Des Moines Page 19A GeneC. Edgington, awayMonday, October12, 2015inIowa City.Services willbeheld2p.m., IowaVeteransCemeteryat VanMeter. Geneissurvivedbyhis ingtonandSarinaEdging- andRobertaEdgington. Hewasprecededindeath LillianEdgington.Visita- tionwillbeheld1to4 p.m.,Sunday,October18at OvertonFuneralHomein Indianolawherefamilywill bepresentfrom2to4p.m. Memorialcontributions canbemadetothefamily.

Onlinecondolencesmay bemadetowww.overton- funerals.com. GENEC.EDGINGTON Indianola Judith KayGriffin, journeyhome tobewith herheavenly fatheron JudywasborninDes Moinesandresidedin grandmother. Judyissurvivedbyher 54years.Her5children, Jim(Michelle)Griffin, Raymond(Vicki)Griffin, Donald(Nanci)Griffin, MichaelGriffinand Delores(Eric)Buckner; andJerryGlenn. Shewasprecededin deathbyherparents, JamesandLavinaGlenn; twodaugthersPeggy DelaneyandLoriStevens aswellas8siblings. Nopublicservicewill beheld.Contactfamilyfor information.

JUDITHGRIFFIN Ankney 605LyonStreet243-5221 AnnaBainter Cemetery HighlandMemoryGardens 121NW60thAvenue289-2442 PaulKlingensmith 11AMThursdayatFaith TabernacleChurchofGodin Christ Information 243-5221 EdwardGrodt RonaldKochheiser TuanLam CoyPatterson RachelAnnPray TheodoreRobertson PattySandin JuanaSantoyo JanetStillman GertrudeTutt Onlinecondolencesmaybemade www.hamiltonsfuneralhome.com Theodore Robertson, inDesMoines andpassed October11, 2015. TedretiredfromFires- toneandwasamemberof HighlandParkChristian Church.HewasaMason andShriner. Tedissurvivedbyhis Serviceswillbeheld NW60thAvenueinDes hourprior.Burialwillbeat HighlandMemoryGardens Cemetery. morialsmaybedirectedto theTampaBayComputer org. Onlinecondolencesmay beexpressedatwww.Ham- iltonsFuneralHome.com.

THEODOREARTHUR ROBERTSON formerlyofDesMoines FrancesBradleyYoung.Attheageoffour,BradmovedtoCentervilletolivewithhis grandfatherJ.A.Bradleyandhismother’ssisterOliveBradley.Twoyearslater,his parentsmovedbacktojoinhim. BradattendedpublicschoolsinCentervillethroughthe8thgrade.DuringWWII,he attendedfouryearsofhighschoolandROTCtrainingatSt.John’sMilitaryAcademyin cadet. withspecializedtraining.HethenenteredNorthwesternUniversitywherehereceived aBachelorofSciencedegreeinbusinessadministration.Duringcollegehebecamea memberandeventualpresidentofBetaThetaPi.Inhisjunioryearhewasvotedby NorthwesternWildcats. ownedbythefamily.TheplanincludedamergerofbothbanksintotheIowaTrustandSavingsBank,andamodern bankingfacilitywithampleparkinganddrivethroughbankinglocatedoneblockwestoftheCentervillesquare. co-founderofan18holegolfclubandgatedcommunitynamedBentPinewhereheservedaspresidentoftheclub thatwashonoredbyLinksgolfmagazineasoneofthebestprivateclubsinAmerica.

continuedbettermentofthecommunity.HeservedtwotermsontheCentervilleCityCouncilandwasaco-founder anewSt.Joseph’sMercyHospitallocatednorthoftown.Throughouthislife,thebankplayedaleadingroleinalmost IowawithRev.DaleO’Connellofficiating.BurialwillfollowattheOaklandCemeteryinCenterville.Visitationwill 7pm. MemorialscanbemadetotheYMCAinCentervilleandleftormailedtothefuneralhome.TheSchmidtFamily schmidtfamilyfuneralhome.com Diane RenaeJessen passedaway onTuesday, October13, 2015atthe TaylorHouse Visitationwillbeheld LutheranChurchinDes Moines.Funeralservice willbeheldat11A.M. 2015atGraceLutheran ChurchinDesMoines. Burialwillbeat2P.M. atRoseHillCemeteryin Menlo.Memorialcontribu- tionsmaybedirectedto theDianeJessenMemorial Fundandmaybesentin careofJohnsonFamily Onlinecondolencesmay beleftatwww.johnsonfa- milyfuneralhome.com.

DIANEJESSEN DesMoines GreatRiverMedicalCenter FridayOctober16atthe PowersFuneralHome junctionofhighway34and 25inCreston.Memorials maybegiventoeitherthe PlatteCenterChurchor theMurraySaddleClub. Onlinecondolencesmay begivenatwww.powersfh. com. Survivorsinherson, Jim(wifeLesa)Conard Cindy(husbandChris) MehaffyofBurlington; sevengrandchildren; 17great-grandchildren; nephewsandotherfamily. MARILYNNCONARD Creston SUBMIT AN OBITUARY AND EARCH A DATABASE OF RECENT OBITUARIES AT ESMOINES REGISTER.COM/ OBITUARIES OBITUARIES nist David Yepsen explains in the latest installment of The Des Moines podcast of Iowa cau- uses history.

This pisode focuses on how he Iowa caucuses grew into the political jugger- aut they are today. McGovern, a senator from neighboring South The one-sentence history of the Iowa caucuses goes like this: all Jimmy fault. he unknown Southern overnor came to Iowa, ver-performed in the 1 976 caucuses, garnered national attention and went on to win the presidency, thereby cementing place at the front of the nominating process. not wrong, but not the full story. really have to credit George McGovern a nd his campaign man- a ger, Gary Hart, for de- iding that they would come to Iowa and make a tand in the 1972 former Des Moines Register political colum- Dakota, campaigned for just three days in Iowa ahead of the contest, but his finish on caucus night was unexpectedly close to erceived front-runner Muskie.

he results surprised political observers and ucked conventional wisdom about the state of the race and they were vali- dated when McGovern ultimately clinched the nomination. went on, he won the nomination and while he lost the election, when we look back see that what hap- ened in Iowa was import Yepsen said. told he political community something: that Muskie was a weak candidate, that the anti-war movement was And that brings us to Jimmy Carter. Like McGovern, Carter seized on Iowa as a springboard to the nomi- ation a place to raise is profile and prove his iability. And when he not only ecame the Democratic nominee but also won the presidency, Iowa again looked prescient.

often overlooked, though, that Carter even win the 1976 caucuses. He took second, by a wide margin, to which means ore Iowa Democrats ere undecided on their residential preference than were committed to candidacy. In fact, much of his Iowa campaign was focused on simply introducing himself to Iowans. Former Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro was one of the earliest volun- eers on camp aign. I got a call one day that a presidential candid ate was going to be coming to Des Moines and they needed some peo- Mauro says in literally needed some people there because they were afraid nobody was going to show Mauro and a group of 1 0 or 15 Polk County Demo crats heard Carter speak i August 1975, and after- ard Mauro was drafted into driving Carter to the Iowa State Fair.

went over to the Varied Industries Building, where we thought find some friends at the Democratic booth, and introduced Mauro recalled. He just began shaking ands and during his andshaking routine he would tell everybody, Jimmy Carter and running for president of the United Podcast tells how Iowa caucuses came to be JASON NOBLE DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST To hear these and more Iowa caucuses stories from the people who lived them, check out Three Tickets, the Des Moines new podcast on the history and culture of the aucuses. Three Tickets is available at Des Moines Register.com/ThreeTickets and on iTunes and Stitcher. The econd episode, telling how the caucuses came to be and haring stories from the first competitive Democratic and epublican caucuses, is available now. New episodes exploring he various facets of first-in-the-nation presidential contest will be released every Thursday through December.

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