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SWlJ' w. inmaimg 2A Sioux Falls Argus -Leader 19, 1977 Howard D. Nicholson VERMILLION. S.D.-Services for retired machinist Howard D. Nicholson, 77, will be at 2 Saturday at the Wagner-Jverson Funeral Home.

Military graveside services for Mr. Nicholson, who died Wednesday in a Sioux Falls hospital, will follow at Bluff View Cemetery, conducted by Clay Post 3061, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Nicholson was born July 14, 1900, at Vermillion. A World War I Army veteran and World War II Navy veteran, he was employed by the Greyhound Co.

in Florida. He had lived in Vermillion since retiring in 1962. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Richard Larson, Streamwood, 111., and Mrs. Richard Chapman, Annandale, a son, Thomas Denver; 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs.

Harold Marrow, Huntsville, Ala. VX 1 fa 1 Sioux Falls Harold A. Thomas Services for Harold A. Thomas, Monrovia, former Sioux Falls city employe, will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the Augus-tana Lutheran Church.

Mr. Thomas died at his home Wednesday. Mr. Thomas was bom Sept. 15, 1913, at Dell Rapids.

He married Vada Dee Hawkins in Las Vegas. He was employed by. the city before moving to California in 1974. Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Vada Dee Thomas II, Phoenix, and Harriet Ann Ley, Sioux Falls; three sons, Eugene, Eugene, and Harold and Clarence, both of Sioux Falls; his mother, Hettie Gilbertson, Sioux Falls; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Harriet Kolsrud, Hills, and six brothers, Lester Thomas, Keystone; Homer Thomas, Memphis, Albert and Fred Gilbertson, both of Monrovia; Grover Gilbertson, Covina, and Walter Gilbertson, Weston, W.

Va. (Miller) Mrs. Richard DeRuyter Mrs. Richard DeRuyter, 37, Ruthton, died Friday morning in a Sioux Falls hospital. (Lindquist, Pipestone) Hannah Pierson Lifelong resident Hannah Pier-son, 69, of 1901 Holly died Thursday evening in a local hospital.

Services will be Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Miller Funeral Home. Hannah Odson was born July 17, 1908, at Sioux Falls. She married Frank Pierson here July 15, 1945. Mr.

Pierson died in 1974. Survivors include two sons, Kenneth, Los Angeles, and Leon, Sioux Falls, and two sisters and a brother. Willard R. Huwe BROOKINGS Funeral services for Willard R. Huwe, 80, who died Wednesday in a Sioux Falls hospital, will be at 11 a.m.

Saturday at the First Lutheran Church. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Bristol Cemetery. Mr. Huwe was born March 30, 1897, at Bristol.

He grew up in the area and married Eleanor Kjosa Dec. 22, 1935, at Lily. They farmed in the Bristol area until moving to Webster in 1936. From 1941 to 1973, he served as Day County clerk of courts and register of deeds. They moved to Brookings in 1973.

Survivors include his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Dennis Koenders, Brookings; a son, Ronald, Brookings; four grandchildren; two brothers, Arthur, Omaha, and Gustav, Pacific, and two sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Fad-ness, Bristol, and Mrs. Glen Vanatta, Bothell, Wash. (Eids-ness) Herman W.

Zimmerman ROCK VALLEY, Iowa-Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Peace Lutheran Church, Sioux Center, for Herman W. Zimmerman, 76, who died Tuesday in a Monroe, auto accident. Burial will be in the Valley View Cemetery. Mr.

Zimmerman was born May 22, 1901, at Monroe. He married Emma Muehlenthaler Nov. 29, 1932, at Sioux Center. Mrs. Zimmerman died Oct.

23, 1974. The Rock Valley area farmer served in the Navy from Oct. 6, 1920, to Dec. 24, 1923. Survivors include two brothers, Otto, Forestburg, S.D., and Carl, Janesville, an adopted brother, Arthur Discher, Carey, a half brother, Fred Brechbuhal, Beloit, and two sisters, Mrs.

Carl Galos, Beloit, and Mrs. Ed Boxel, Chicago. (Porter) was taking Presley to his final resting place in a nearby cemetery. (AP Laserphoto) A long line of vehicles, one a hearse carrying the body of singer Elvis Presley, moves down Elvis Presley in Memphis. The procession Final homage paid Arnold Brusven Arnold Brusven, 82, Cottonwood, died Thursdays in a Sioux Falls hospital.

(George Boom) Mrs. Dora Frank Mrs. Dora Frank, 68, Mitchell, died Thursday in a Sioux Falls hospital. (Will) Area Mrs. Jim, Harmon CENTERVILLE, S.D.

Mrs. Jim Harmon, 95, died Thursday in a Viborg hospital. Services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the United Church of Christ (Federated). Annie Slater was born March 7, 1882, at Ralston, Iowa.

She came with her family to Center-ville in 1907, and worked at various occupations. On Feb. 1, 1921, she married Jim Harmon. They lived in Sioux Falls for three years before farming east of Centerville. They retired in 1956 and moved into Centerville.

Mr. Harmon died in 1961. She had been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center in Centerville the past few years. Survivors include nieces and nephews. (Wass) Sioux Falls Argus-Leader Published datly and Sunday by Sioux Falls Newspapers, inc 700 Minnesota Ave Siour Falls.

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Dr. Ronald Force ESTELLINE. S.D. Retired dentist Dr. Ronald Warren Force, 67, died Thursday in a local hospital.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. Parish rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at the Giese Funeral Chapel.

Dr. Force was born Aug. 27, 1909, at Clear Lake, and he grew up in that area. He received his doctor of dental surgery degree in 1935 from the University of Minnesota, and moved to Estel-line the next year. On Dec.

26, 1936, he married Gladys Artz at Denver. He practiced dentistry in Estelline until retiring in 1972. He served as captain in the Army Dental Corps in World War II from 1942 to 1946; was a past president of the South Dakota Dental Association and served as its treasurer for 17 years; was a past president and secretary of the Third District Dental Society, and a past president of the Watertown Dental Society. He was a Fellow in the International College of Dentists. Dr.

Force served on the Estelline City Council, as president of the school board, and as president of the hospital board for 15 years. He was also a commander of American Legion Post 184. Survivors include his widow; three sons. Jack, Estelline; Phillip, Little Falls, and James, Madison, a daughter, Mrs. Robert Magee, Kansas City, six grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs.

Julian Solem, Madison, and Mrs. Howard Hanson, Redwood Falls, Minn. to Presley Appeal, Miss Alden was quoted as saying: "I said, and he didn't answer, so I opened his bathroom door and that's when I saw him in there. I slapped him a few times and it was like he breathed once when I turned his head. I raised one of his eyes and it was just blood red, but-1 couldn't move him." She said she summoned Esposito, bodyguard Al Strada and Presley's doctor, George Nichopoulos.

Miss Alden, as well as Presley's ex-wife, Priscilla, and their 9-year-old daughter, Lisa Marie, were at the funeral. Celebrities who attended the service were singer Ann-Margret, Presley's co-star in the movie "Viva Las her husband, Roger Srnith; actor George Hamilton; guitarist Chet Atkins; singer Jayne Morgan, and her husband Jerry Weintraub, who is manager of singer John Denver. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the slain president, and singer James Brown were at the Presley mansion Wednesday night but did not stay for the funeral. Ronald Zamora Television violence blamed for MIAMI (AP) A teen-ager charged with killing his elderly neighbor had gone mad from' seeing too much violence in' television crime shows, his at-; torney said Thursday. "His explanation of the crime was exactly what I had seen on a 'Kojak' episode a year Miami attorney Ellis Rubin said in an interview.

"Ronney became intoxicated with the TV dramas and lived them as if they were his own life." Rubin, in a pretrial brief filed in circuit court, characterized his-client, Ronald Zamora, 15, as an ardent television fan whose! constant viewing led to insanity. Rubin said Zamora had been: disciplined by his parents for; watching too many crime shows on television "but defied them." "When his parents would come home from work, they would find him on the floor watching TV," Rubin said. "He would even skip school occasionally to go home and watch afternoon television shows. His mother would hear a noise in the middle of the night and find it was her son watching television." Zamora's parents, alarmed at his behavior, sent him to a psychologist a week before the murder, Rubin said. 1 I f' i VR I tini fttiiiii In view of the curious crowd, all was serene.

Floral tributes in front of the mausoleum hid the lawn under a spectacular quilt of color as some 50 members of the Presley family and 150 invited guests arrived for the entombment. Eight official pallbearers carried the coffin inside for five minutes of ceremony. The mourners had first attended an hour-long private service in the piano room at Graceland. There they had the opportunity for a last, personal farewell in front of the open coffin. "The emotion was very sad all during the ceremony," said Esposito, a business associate of Presley's since their Army days in Germany in 1959.

It had been reported that Esposito found Presley unconscious on the floor of his bathroom Tuesday, but in a new interview Presley's girlfriend, Ginger Alden, claimed she made the discovery. In the copyrighted interview in today's Memphis Commercial Ocean quake measures 8.9 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) A major earthquake was reported in the Indian Ocean today between Australia and Indonesia. Tremors forced hundreds of workers to flee tall buildings in western Australia' nearly 1,000 miles away but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The Vienna Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamirs said the quake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale, the highest reading ever recorded. Other seismological stations reported readings between 7 and 8.3 on the Richter, indicating a major quake capable of widespread damage.

The Indonesian Department of Meteorology said the quake occurred at 1:11 p.m. Jakarta time 2:11 a.m. EDT and tremors and aftershocks lasted for more than an hour. The quake was centered 931 miles southeast of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and more than 1,000 miles north of Perth, Australia. There were no immediate reports of damage from Indonesia or islands near the quake's epicenter.

There also was no indication that the quake had raised a tsunami, or tidal wave. Tremors shook the length of western Australia, a distance of about 2,400 miles. In Perth, windows and Venetian blinds rattled, chairs slid across floors and frightened workers ran from buildings. Some refused to return even after tremors halted. The biggest impact was in Port Hedland where parked cars were bounced up and down by the quake and buildings rocked and swayed for four minutes.

The closest major land area to the quake's epicenter was the Indonesian island of Sumba, about 200 miles away. About 25,000 people live on the farming island, famous for its horses. The quake's center was-also about 300 miles southeast of the tourist island of Bali, where an earthquake last year resulted in more than 1,000 deaths. Clarence G. Johnson ABERDEEN Services for Clarence Gerhardt Johnson, 74, formerly of the Flandreau-Col-man area, Egan and Sioux Falls, will be Saturday at 10 a.m.

at the Huebl Funeral Chapel. Committal services for Mr. Johnson, who died Wednesday evening in a local hospital, will follow at 3 p.m. at the Colman Cemetery. Mr.

Johnson was born June 11, 1903, near Colman, and he grew up in that area. He farmed with his father and later worked for the railroad. On Jan. 19, 1929, he married Helen A. Chase at Egan.

They lived at Egan, where he did construction work, and they moved to Sioux Falls in 1950. Mr. Johnson worked for Manchester Biscuit Co. there as a warehouse foreman, retiring in 1966. In 1975, they moved to Aberdeen.

Survivors include his widow; three sons. Jack, Coon Rapids, Richard, Pine City, and Ensign Clifford, with the Navy at Bremerton, a daughter, Mrs. Ordean Bier-man, Mansfield; 17 grandchildren; a brother, Oscar "Jack," Goodland, and a sister, Mrs. George Beekman, Flan-dreau. Ruth Irene Harestad CANTON, S.D.-Ruth Irene Harestad, 82, died Thursday in a local hospital.

Services for Mrs. Harestad will be Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Canton Lutheran Church. Ruth Irene Brewick was born Sept. 3, 1894, at Newark, 111.

She married Lyle Harestad Feb. 11, 1915. Survivors include her widower; three daughters, Mrs. Sheldon Tower, Indianapolis; Mrs. Herd Cleavland, Prescott, and Mrs.

Gerrit Kock, Lennox; six grandchildren, three greatgrandchildren and a sister, Ivy Brewick, Morris, 111. (Anderson) Herman Brouwer ROCK VALLEY, Iowa Services for Herman Brouwer, 67, who died Wednesday evening at his home, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Calvin Christian Reformed Church. Mr. Brouwer was born July 22, 1910, at Le Mars.

On Aug. 1, 1935, he married Janet Scholten at Hudson, S.D. He farmed and later worked as a feed grinder. Survivors include his widow; a son. Jay, Milwaukee, a daughter, Mrs.

Al Brunsting, Sheldon, seven grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. John VanOtterloo, Lakewood, and Mrs. Sam VanVoorst, Spencer. (Porter) Edgar C. Loiseau DELL RAPIDS, S.D.

Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Colman Lutheran Church for Edgar C. Loiseau, 84, a retired Dell Rapids area farmer. Mr. Loiseau died Thursday at home.

Mr. Loiseau was born March 21, 1893. in Moody County. He farmed until retiring in February 1956, and he moved to Dell Rapids. He lived with his sister.

Survivors include a sister, Lil-lie Loiseau, Dell Rapids. (Her-manson-Kahler) Elsewhere Mrs. Roberto Bribiesca Mrs. Roberto Bribiesca, Alexandria. the former Eldora Olson of Sioux Falls, died Aug.

13 at Alexandria. Memorial services were held there. Vaccine still working ATLANTA (AP) The swine flu vaccine which more than 46 million persons received last year apparently was so potent that it still provides protection, according to researchers at the national Center for Disease Control. A recent survey showed that 73 per cent of those between the ages of 25 and 51 still had a sufficient level of the antibody to protect them against the disease, the CDC said. Getting Married? Moke it perfect with flowers from ANDERSON FLOWER SHOP 30th Minn.

Ave. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) A white cross of flowers from his former wife and his daughter stood by the crypt of Elvis Presley today, as outside the mausoleum hundreds of people paid a final homage. They came in a steady stream from the time the cemetery gates opened to weep and to kneel and to take pictures of the building where the rock 'n' roll superstar was laid to final rest Thursday. Florists stood behind ropes to give the mourners flowers from the 3,116 displays that lay like a colorful quilt across the lawn of the mausoleum.

None of the visitors was allowed inside the building, but they seemed content just to be outside. Presley's coffin was sealed behind a slab of concrete and marble in a small chamber near the front of the building. Near a window was a three-foot-high cross of white carnations, decorated with red roses. A silken streamer said it was from Lisa Marie and Priscilla. Lisa Marie is 9 years old and Presley's only child.

Priscilla, her mother, and Presley were divorced. Some persons waited all night outside the cemetery gates, sleeping on the sidewalks, and when they were admitted, shortly after 8 a.m., some ran the entire half-mile distance to the mausoleum to be the first. Mourners had waited patiently for hours in the broiling sun Thursday outside the Presley mansion, along the four-mile funeral route on Elvis Presley Boulevard and in front of the The white funeral that Presley had wanted was carried out: a white hearse bore Presley's copper coffin, covered by 500 red rosebuds, and 16 shining white Cadillacs led a creeping procession of about 50 cars from the mansion to the cemetery. But a commercial atmosphere also crept into the sad occasion. Hawkers sold Elvis T-shirts for $10.

Forty-cent picture postcards of Graceland went quickly for $1.50. A small bottle of cola, also $1.50. Radio stations blared "Love Me Tender" and other Presley ballads over portable radios held by many fans along the processional route. Sometimes the crowd surged toward the motorcade and slowed its progress. At least once a policeman had to wrestle a grieving girl away from the moving hearse.

But at the mausoleum, deep inside the cemetery and out of the Having a blast OSLO, Norway (AP) They should have known it was going too well. When three burglars broke into the office of the Ryfoss concrete company's office in Vang last weekend, they found the company safe right away. They put together a small dynamite charge to blow it open, lit the fuse and confidently rushed into the next room. The explosion which followed did not just open the vault, it brought down the walls of the factory. As it turned out, the safe was loaded with dynamite rather than cash.

According to the Oslo daily newspaper Verdens Gang, one burglar was severely injured and was brought to a hospital by his comrades. A second was arrested soon after for driving while intoxicated. The third was being sought. Bridge collapse kills 10 PUSHKINO. U.S.S.R.

At least 10 people were killed when a 30-foot-high iron footbridge colapsed at the railroad station of this town 20 miles northeast of Moscow, sources said. RENT I. Rolloway beds High chairs Porl-a-cribs Etc. BECKERS RENT-IT CENTER 2609 E. 10th E.

10th 1 1-229 flfv Since 101 hXJb MR. RALPH KELLEY Hartford Rev. Jack Berg will officiate at the service 2 P.M. Saturday in the Hartford United Methodist Church. Interment will be in the Hartford cemetery.

There will be a prayer service 7:30 P.M. Friday in our chapel. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. MRS. HANNAH PIERSON 1901 S.

Holly Ave. The funeral service will be 4 P.M. Saturday in Millers chapel with Rev. Maynard Hansen of Benton Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in the Hills of Rest.

MRS. OSCAR (FERN) ZIRZOW 406 S. Minnesota Ave. The funeral service will be 1:30 P.M. Monday in Millers chapel with Rev.

Earl Lewis of Wesley United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. MR. HAROLD THOMAS Monrovia, Calif.

Formerly of Sioux Falls Services 2 P.M. Monday in the Augustana Lutheran Church 7th Prairie with Rev. Duane Addison officiating. Interment will be in the Hills of Rest. DENNIS BELL 5513W.

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