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PAGE 12 THE MUNCIE STAR, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1986 Earl F. Landgrebe, 70 Deaths and Funerals Ex-Hoosier Congressman Dies Paul R. Jeffries, 73 Paul R. Jeffries, 73, died Sunday in the family residence, 6226 N. Wheeling Ave.

He was born in Mitchell, attended schools in that area and came to Muncie several years ago. VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) Former Indiana 2nd District Congressman Earl F. Landgrebe, a staunch supporter of President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate era, died Sunday night after suffering an apparent heart attack at his home.

He was 70. Landgrebe was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, after serving 10 years in the Indiana Senate. He was reelected in 1970 and 1972, but was defeated in the 1974 general election. When politicians were abandoning Nixon after the Watergate incident, Landgrebe stood firm.

Mr. Jeffries was employed more than 40 years with Indiana Steel and Wire Co. before retiring a few years ago. Surviving are his wife, Aline, to whom he was married more than 52 years; four daughters, Norma (Mrs. Kenneth) Harris, Orleans, Janet (Mrs.

Gary) Cooper and Patty (Mrs. Wayne) McCormick, both of Muncie, and Marilyn (Mrs. J- "It was the low point because this dumb truck driver realized an era had ended," Landgrebe said. His support for Nixon, against the advice of Republican leaders, may have cost him re-election. He lost the general election by 35,000 votes to Floyd Fithian, the first Democrat to win the 2nd District in more than 40 years.

Landgrebe returned to Valparaiso, where he was president of Landgrebe Motor Transport Inc. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Our Shepherd Lutheran Church in Crown Point, with burial in Blachly Cemetery near Valparaiso. Survivors include his wife, Helen Field Landgrebe; two sons; two brothers; a sister and several grandchildren. Father Dies in Arkansas George B.

Fisher, 70, father of Muncie resident James E. Fisher, died Sunday in Conway Regional Hospital, Conway, Ark. A native of Neoga, 111., Mr. Fisher was living in Greenbrier, at the time of his death. He was an Army veteran of World War II.

He was a member of 47th Street Baptist Church, North Little Rock, Ark. He also was a member of American Legion Post 99. He was employed by North Little Rock Street Department. Survivors include his wife, Lois Sanders Fisher; another son, George M. Fisher, Paragould, a daughter, Doris Howell, Greenbrier, three brothers, James A.

Fisher, Seattle, Wiley Fisher, Boise, Idaho, and Jessie E. Fisher, Maumelle, five sisters, Esther Lavoy and Alice Frazier, Seattle, Harriette Brown, Beebe, Laura Rafferty, Pasadena, Texas, and Frances Frazier, Little Rock, and three grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Owens Funeral Home Chapel in North Little Rock, with Rev. Tom Hart presiding.

Burial will be in North Hills Memorial Gardens, North Little Rock. Bicycle Rider Hit, Killed By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Charles A. Brafford, 16, Marysville, was struck and killed by a truck as he rode a bicycle on Ind. 3, about 6 miles north of Charleston, police said. The death on Sunday pushed Indiana's highway fatality count for the year to 439, compared with 449 on July 1 last year.

State police spokesman Lorraine Henry said Brafford "looked behind him and began a left-hand turn to his driveway at the same time and was struck by the truck." Dan) Kitchen, Gas City; two sisters, Lela Arnold, Bedford, and Jessie Slaughter, Muncie; a brother, Ray Jeffries, Indianapolis; 14 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Meeks Mortuary. Burial will be in Gardens of Memory. Calling hours at the mortuary are 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.

today or before services Wednesday. Ronald D. Moore, 33 NEW CASTLE, Ind. Ronald (Ron) D. Moore, 33, R.R.

2, died Sunday in Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, after an extended illness. Mr. Moore was born in Henry County. He was a farmer, an ordained minister and member of New Testament Church of Christ, Hagerstown. He was a graduate of New Castle Chrysler High School, Purdue University, where he received a degree in Animal Science, and Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, where he recieved a degree in Youth Ministry.

He is survived by his parents, Byron and Evelyn Swearingen Moore; two brothers, Michael and Philip, both of New Castle; a sister, Karen (Mrs. Thomas) Gorman, Pittsburgh, his maternal grandmother, Grace Swearingen, New Castle; a nephew; two nieces, and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hostetler Funeral Home, with Rev. Larry T.

McAdams officiating. Burial will be in South Mound Cemetery. Calling will be at the funeral home 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today. Memorials may be sent to Ronald D.

Moore, Bible College Memorial Fund. McCullaugh Rites Thursday Services for Lyle M. McCul In early August 1974, when Nixon admitted he had tried to thwart the Watergate investigation, Landgrebe said, "What if he did lie?" Landgrebe added that he didn't want to listen to the fateful tapes or read transcripts of them, adding, "Don't bother me with the facts. I've got a closed mind." In a 1979 interview, Landgrebe said, "I struggled with Nixon on the Watergate issue for a year. I studied.

I delved into it. I searched my soul." He decided to stand by Nixon because "he had not committed a treasonable offense." Landgrebe was one of the 42 men who gathered in the White House with Nixon before he told the nation on television his decision to resign in August 1974. Robert U. Giddings, 64 NEW CASTLE, Ind. Robert U.

Giddings, 64, R.R. 5, died Sunday in Henry County Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Giddings was born in Westport and had resided in the New Castle area since 1937. He was a farmer most of his life, drove a school bus for 13 years for Blue River Valley School Corp.

and had been a route salesman for Producers Dairy, Muncie. He was a member of Henry County Farm Bureau Inc. Survivors include his wife, Bernice; four sons, Robert Ned, David N. and Jon, all of New Castle; a stepson, Carl Brophy, Tipton; two stepdaughters, Para Lee Scott and Dawn Hopkins, both of Sharpsville; a brother, Phillip, Albany, nine grandchildren; five step-grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr.

Giddings's first wife, Dorothy, died in 1982. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Macer-Hall-Pasco Funeral Home, with Revs. Charles McDonald and Albert Wilson officiating. Burial will be in South Mound Cemetery.

Calling hours are 3-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Deaths Elsewhere Verna H. Waterman, 94; Former Burris Teacher Verna H. Waterman, one of the first faculty members at Burris Laboratory School, Ball State University, died June 20 in Grand Junction, Colo.

Miss Waterman, who began teaching at the laboratory school when it opened in 1929, retired from the university in 1953 as associate professor emeritus of elementary education. Born Feb. 12, 1892, in Ohio, Miss Waterman first taught grades one through eight in rural district schools in Colorado at a salary of $60 per month. There were 20 children in her first school. A 1910 graduate of Delta (Colo.) High School, Miss Waterman received her bachelor's degree in 1921 from Colorado State College, Greeley, and her master's degree in 1928 from Teachers College at Columbia University.

She also studied at the University of Colorado, Western State College at Gunnison, and Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. Miss Waterman was a primary teacher in Gunnison, 1912-17. She served as Gunnison County superintendent of schools 1917-21. She taught in Lewistown (Mont.) High School from 1921-22 and in Brainerd (Minn.) High School from 1922-26. She was grade supervisor and assistant superintendent of Norfolk (Neb.) schools 1926-29.

During the summer of 1929, Miss Waterman taught in Hays (Kan.) Teachers College. Among her survivors is a nephew. Services were in Grand Junction. Joseph L. Brown, 33 GASTON Former Gaston resident Joseph L.

Brown, 33, died Thursday in Sherman Oaks (Calif.) Community Hospital. He was born in Muncie and graduated from Wes-Del High School in 1970. He was a veteran of the Marine Corps and had lived in Inglewood, for several years. He was a flight attendant for United Airlines. Survivors include his parents, Herschel and Helen (Chrystle) Brown, Gaston; two sisters, Connie M.

Jones and Marsha S. Miller, both of Muncie, and two brothers, David R. and Ricky both of Muncie. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in High Street United Methodist Church in Muncie.

Rev. Sheldon Duecker will officiate. Services and cremation were in Sherman Oaks. Memorials should be sent to the American Cancer Society. Dorothy Valandingham, 65 Former Muncie resident Dorothy Valandingham, 65, Okeechobee, died Sunday in Lauenwood Medical Center, Fort Pierce, Fla.

She was a native of Fort Wayne and moved to Muncie as a child, where she attended Muncie schools. She and her husband, Jack, moved to Florida in 1983. She worked as a retail clerk for Kroger and Big stores. Surviving are her husband; a daughter, Phyllis Vest, Okeechobee, her father, Harold Manet, Hollywood, two brothers, Robert Manet, Hollywood, and Richard Manet, Fort Pierce, four grandsons, Bobby Kevin Hurst, Columbus, Ohio, Jack Wesley Hurst, Denver, Richard Douglas Vest and Jeff Dean Vest, both of Okeechobee, and three great-grandchildren. Services are pending at Parson Mortuary-Adams Chapel.

Smith Services Wednesday Services for Sallie Kramer Smith, 61, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Meeks Mortuary, with interment in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Calling hours at the mortuary are 5-8 p.m. today or before services Wednesday. Mrs.

Smith died Sunday in Gary. FROM THE WIRE SERVICES laugh, 68, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Meeks Mortuary, with Rev. Dean Orr officiating. Burial will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery.

Calling hours at the mortuary are 1-9 p.m. Wednesday or before services Thursday. Elks Lodge 245 will conduct memorial services at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the mortuary. First Female Bishop Dies GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

Marjorie Matthews, the first woman elected as a bishop of the United Methodist Church, died Monday in a nursing home. She was 69. Rev. Matthews served as bishop for the Wisconsin area of the church from 1980 until her retirement in 1984, said June Semeyn, assistant treasurer of the Grand Rapids-based West Michigan Conference of the UMC. She lived in the Tallahassee, area until late June, when she entered the M.J.

Clark Memorial Home, a Grand Rapids retirement home operated by the conference, Semeyn said. Matthews was pastor of churches in several Michigan communities before being named superintendent of the Grand Traverse District in 1976, a post she held until her election as Wisconsin bishop, said her son, William Matthews of Riverdale. She is survived by her son. Services are scheduled for Thursday. Mr.

MuCullaugh died Saturday in Florida. Hazel M. Conrad, 94 SELMA Hazel M. Conrad, 94, 104 N. Union died Monday in Chateau Convalescent Center, Muncie.

Mrs. Conrad was a native of Delaware County and lived many years in the Smithfield area. Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Helen Conrad Lynn, Selma, and two granddaughters, Mary Lou Merkner, Crown Point, and Dorothy Lee Gould, Hagerstown; seven great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great grandchildren. She was the widow of Earl Conrad. Services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Parson Mortuary-Adams Chapel, Muncie, with Rev. Paul Hill officiating. Burial will be in Mount Tabor Cemetery. Calling hours are 3-8 p.m. today at the mortuary.

while playing basketball and lost consciousness. Doctors found the tumor had reappeared. The boy wrote Reagan telling him of his illness and requested a meeting with the president. "I sympathize with you because I have been fighting cancer too," wrote Alexander, referring to Reagan's bout with the disease. Alexander was invited to the White House and met with the Reagans and Vice President George Bush during a family holiday in the capital last winter.

The boy graduated in the spring from the Dedham Country Day School in 8th grade exercises held in the yard of his home because he was too ill to attend at school. A week ago, Gov. Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, visited Alexander. Last winter, Alexander helped raise more than $6,000 for the American Cancer Society's Ta-Kum-Ta Camp in Colchester, a facility for young cancer patients and their families. Alexander is survived by his parents, a sister, and his grandparents.

Services will be today. Longtime Legislator Dies PORT ST. JOE, Fla. George Geraud Tapper, a former Florida state legislator, died of cancer Saturday. He was 69.

Tapper, a Democrat, was a state representative from 1947 to 1953 and a state senator from 1953-1957 and from 1965-1969. Under President Jimmy Carter, he was on the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. He was Carter's representative to the installation in Rome of Pope John Paul II. 1976, when Pope Paul VI named him archbishop of Esztergom and primate of the Hungarian church. He was made a cardinal in May 1976.

Lekai succeeded Cardinal Jozsef Min-dszenty, who died in 1975. Mindszenty, an uncompromising opponent of Hungary's Communist government, was convicted in a Hungarian court of treason and illegal monetary transactions. He lived in asylum at the American Embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971, and spent the last five years of his life in Vienna. Mindszenty defied the Vatican by publishing memoirs in which he described himself as an obstacle to detente between the Vatican and Hungary. Federal Judge Succumbs PHOENIX, Ariz.

Walter E. Craig, a U.S. district judge who served on the federal bench for more than 20 years, died Sunday at age 77. Craig was appointed to the federal bench in Phoenix by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and later served as a special counsel to the presidential commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination.

He also served as president of the American Bar Association in the mid-1960s. Young Cancer Victim Dies DEDHAM, Mass. A boy who wrote President Reagan last November telling him of his cancer, and later met with the president and First Lady Nancy Reagan, has died at the age of 14. His brain tumor was discovered when he was 6'i. After treatment, it went into remission until last year, when he fell Indiana Deaths from wire and other reports Hungarian Primate Dies BUDAPEST, Hungary Cardinal Laszlo Lekai, primate of Hungary's Roman Catholic Church, died Monday of a heart attack, Hungarian radio said.

He was 76. Lekai, who worked successfully to reconcile differences between the Vatican and Hungary's Communist government, died at his archiepiscopal see of Eszter-gom. Lekai was born in Zalalova on March 2, 1910, and studied theology in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1934 and worked as theological teacher and bishop's secretary before being sent to three successive parishes in western Hungary. He was consecrated a bishop in 1972, and was apostolic delegate to the sees of Veszprem and Esztergom until February casting and handmade fabrics.

Her husband, two daughters, mother, two brothers and five grandchildren survive. Ex-Sisterhood Head Dies INDIANAPOLIS Services will be at 10 a.m. today in Aaron-Ruben-Nelson Meridian Hills Mortuary for Lena Cohen, 92. She was a former president of Knesses Israel Sisterhood and was active in several religious organizations. Two sons, a daughter, eight grandchildren and 15 grea-grandchildren survive, originbalk Ex-State Official Dies MIAMI, Fla.

Services will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Palmetto Presbyterian Church for Robert F. Wirsching, 80, former director of the Indiana Division of I State Parks, Lands and Waters. Wirsching, formerly of Indianapolis, died Friday in a Miami hospital. He headed the state parks 1945-49 and formerly owned Wirsching Realty 1 Construction Co.

of Indianapolis. A Purdue University graduate, Wirsching was a major in the Army during World War II and served in the Corps of Engineers. His mother, three sons and four grandchildren survive. Speedway VP's Wife Dies INDIANAPOLIS Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St.

Matthew ANNIVERSARY SALE Catholic Church for Kathleen Cain Blo-emker, 73, wife of Albert W. Bloemker, a vice president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Mrs. Bloemker died Sunday in South Bend, where she had been visiting friends. She was a member and former president of the Newman Club, a former president of St.

Joan of Arc Women's Club and was a member and officer of St. Augustine Guild. Also surviving are two sons, three daughters and 17 grandchildren. Former Teacher Dead INDIANAPOLIS Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Trinity Episcopal Church for Wanda Jensen Harris, 82.

She taught for many years in Washington Township (Marion County) schools and later in St. Luke Catholic School. She was a former social worker and had been active in numerous professional and civic organizations. A son, a daughter, three brothers, a sister and two grandsons survive. Conner Worker Dies INDIANAPOLIS Services will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday in Flanner Buchanan Zionsville Mortuary for Phyllis P. Vonder-saar Stewart, 60. She was a longtime supporter of the Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement near Noblesville and served from its kitchen the first authentic pioneer meal to Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly, now deceased, original supporters of Conner Prairie.

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