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Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 4

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Death Notices DAVENPORT Mueller Rites Are Saturday Miss Anna T. Mueller, 79, formerly of 1715 Iowa Davenport, died Thursday in the MISS MUELLER Kahl Home, Davenport, after a brief illness. Services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport. Burial will be in Mt.

Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be after noon today in the Halligan-McCabe Funeral Home, where the Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. She was born in Davenport. There are no immediate survivors. Miss Mueller had been employed by the Scott County Board of Social Welfare from 1939 to 1966.

Joseph Prachar Is Dead At 86 Joseph Prachar, 86, of 1528 Sturdevant Davenport, died Thursday afternoon in Mercy Hospital after a brief illness. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Runge Chapel, with burial in Oakdale Cemetery. Visitation will be after 1 p.m. today at the mortuary.

Mr. Prachar, born in Iowa City, married Minnie Nass there in 1905. She died in 1922. He married Della Ayres in Davenport in 1930. She died in 1957.

He was employed by the former Gordon Van Tine Davenport, until his retirement. Survivors include daughters, Mrs. C. E. Ragan and Mrs.

Emory Smull, both of Davenport; sons, Thomas Davenport, and Alfred G. Columbus, Ohio; a step-daughter, Mrs. Al Shaw, Davenport; 12 grandchildren; 22 great- HOW SAFE IS THE PILL? Can any woman take it? Does it work for everyone who does? How real -and how serious-are the dangers? Here are the facts on who can -and cannot -take oral contraceptives. One of 41 articles and features in the January Reader's Digest, including: What Makes The Perfect Husband? How To Avoid Regret What The Cigarette Commer. cials Don't Show Pick up your copy today.

READER'S DIGEST Friday, Jan. 5, 1968 Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa Notices grandchildren, and sisters, Mrs. T. Jenkins, Cedar Rapids, lowa, and Mrs. Mamie Fowler, Iowa City.

Container Firm Employe Dies Services for Mrs. Thomas (Mary Johnston, 56, of 2806 W. 68th Davenport, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hill Fredericks Chapel, Davenport, with burial in a local cemetery. Visitation will be after 7, p.m.

today at the mortuary. She was born in Canton, Ill. She married Mr. Johnston in 1930 in Cambridge, Ill. Mrs.

Johnston was employed 23 years at the Container Corporation of America. Rock Island. Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Gene Davis, Bettendorf; sons, Richard Milan; Darrell La Grange, Thomas California, and Larry North Hollywood, 13 grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Kate Fortune, Geneseo, and a brother, William Fanastoch.

FRED PETERSON Fred G. Peterson, 75, of 2281 E. 3rd Davenport, died Thursday afternoon at Mercy Hospital. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the Runge Chapel, with burial in Greenville Fairfield Union Cemetery, New Bedford, Ill.

Visitation will be after 6 p.m. today at the mortuary. Mr. Peterson was born July 18, 1891, in Illinois. He married Jennie Miller in Peoria.

She preceded him in death. On Aug. 17, 1949, he married Leona F. Chapman in Rock Is" land. She died June 5, 1966.

Mr. Peterson was a member of FOE Lodge No. 235, Davenport. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Harriette Blodgett, Cincinnati, Ohio; a grandchild, and two great-grandchildren.

Davenporter Found Dead Louis Roehs, 72, of 1814 Rockingham Road, Davenport, was found dead in his home Thursday. Death was caused by an apparent heart attack, according to Dr. R. M. Perkins, Scott County medical examiner.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Runge Chapel. Burial will be in the Walcott Cemetery. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. Saturday at the mortuary.

Mr. Roehs was born in Walcott. He farmed there most of his life. He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include sisters, Mrs.

Minnie Goebel, Mahaska, and Miss Meta Roehs, Walcott, and brothers, Henry, Fritz, Walter and Arnold, all of Walcott. Kahl Home Rites For Mrs. Cram Mrs. Charles Cram, 89, of the Kahl Home for the Aged, Davenport, a resident of the city since 1940, died Thursday night at the home after a brief illness. Services will be at 9 a.m.

Monday in the Kahl Home for the Aged Chapel, with burial in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Maquoketa. Visitation will be after noon Saturday at the HalliganMcCabe Funeral Home, where PURPLE FUNERAL INFORMATION SHIELD MEMBER PURPLE SHIELD PLAN SATURDAY KATIE E. KARSTENS, 86 Formerly of 2035 West 6th Chapel 9:30 a.m. St. Mary's Catholic Church 10:00 a.m.

Rosary Friday 8:00 p.m. Chapel JOSEPH PRACHAR, 86 1528 Sturdevant Chapel 1:00 p.m. FRED G. PETERSON, 76 East 3rd St. Chapel 11:30 a.m.

MONDAY PAUL WARN WELLS 55 1936 West 48th St. Immanuel Lutheran Church 1:00 p.m. LOUIS ROEHS, 72 Formerly Walcott, Iowa Chapel 1:00 p.m. the RUNGE MORTUARY 824 West 3rd Street Dial 322-6249 the Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Ida F. Graves was born Jan. 7, 1878, in Baldwin, Iowa. She married Mr. Cram in Lost Nation Sept.

18, 1899. He died in 1955. Mrs. Cram is survived by sons, Donald Marshalltown, Iowa, and W. Ivan, Davenport; daughters, Miss Mildred Cram, and Mrs.

Dan Tubbs, both Davenport; Mrs. Howard Crowley, Des Moines, and Mrs. Arnold Holtz, Maquoketa; 17 grandchildren, and 30 great-grandchildren. BETTENDORF Private Rites Harry Pettit. 62.

who had been living with his sister, Mrs. Stephen Hoover, Devils Glen Park. Bettendorf, died there today after an extended illness. Private graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, in Pine Hill Cemetery, with the McGinnis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Pettit was born June 5, 1906, in Washington, Pa. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Hoover. WILTON JUNCTION HENRY GRUNDER Henry Grunder, 88, Wilton Junction, died at 3:30 a.m.

today in his residence. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Zion Lutheran Church, Wilton Junetion. Burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery. Visitation is Saturday at the Griffith Funeral Home.

He was born In Muscatine County. He married Lula Walter Feb. 16, 1910. Mr. Grunder was retired farmer.

Surviving are the wife; a daughter, Mrs. Leslie Kruse, Hampton, Iowa; two sons, Harold and Leo both of Wilton Junction; two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Walker, Wilton Junetion, Mrs. Walter Marolf, Davenport; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. ROCK ISLAND MRS.

DAVID MOORE Services for Mrs. David Emory Moore, 90, of 741 23rd Rock Island, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Wheelan Chapel and at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Garrett Cemetery, Delta, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Mrs. Moore, a resident of the city 52 years, died Wednesday night in a local hospital after an extended illness. EAST MOLINE Rites Pending Mrs. Robert J.

Walters, 57, of R. R. No. 2, East Moline, died Thursday night in Moline Public Hospital after an extended illness. Visitation will be after noon Sunday at the DeRoo Funeral Home.

Dorothy M. Elliott was born in Rock Island. She was married there to Mr. Walters Jan. 25, 1929.

Mrs. Walters is survived by her husband; daughters, Mrs. Frank Squeo and Mrs. Robert VandeVoort, both of Moline; Mrs. Dale Buller, Costa Mesa, and Mrs.

Richard Spangler, Bridgeton, 11 grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Harold Martin, Glenwood, Ill. Deaths Elsewhere BENJAMIN SNIVELY Services for Benjamin Snively, 83, Montrose, Iowa, who died Wednesday, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Barn Funeral Home, Fort Madison. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Fort Madison.

A daughter, Mrs. Harvey Klindt, resides in Davenport. Also surviving are his wife, the former Bertha Cale. Elie Young; Ex-Moliner Elie Young, 75, of Mountain Home, formerly of Moline, died Thursday night in Baxter County Hospital, Mountain Home. Services and burial will be Families Pay For GI Burials WASHINGTON (A P) Many grieving American families have been forced to help pay for burying sons and husbands killed in Vietnam because government funeral al- Mrs.

Everson Dies At 75 809 Harrison venport, who had operated the MRS. EVERSON former Everson-Anderson Funeral Home with her husband at the same Harrison Street address, died today at her home after a brief illness. She retired about four years ago. Eva Frances Anderson was born in Moline. She been a life resident of the Quad ies.

She married Mr. Everson Jan. 3, 1917, in Moline. He died in 1951. Mrs.

Everson was active in St. Paul's Lutheran Church. She was a member of the King's Daughters and Vasa Lodge. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Lyle (Rose Marie) Weber, Davenport; a son, Jack Chillicothe, Ohio; nine grandchildren and a brother, Harold Anderson, Moline.

The body was taken to the McGinnis Funeral Home, Davenport, where visitation will be after 7 p.m. Saturday. RI Woman Dies Mrs. John A. Winterbottom, 44, of 2425 10th Rock Island, died at 6:05 p.m.

Thursday in Moline Public Hospital after an extended illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Wheelan Funeral Home, and burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, Rock Island. Visitation at the funeral home is from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 9 p.m.

Sunday. Dorothy June Parrish, born Sept. 28, 1923, in Rock Island, was married there to Mr. Winterbottom, March 1, 1946. Survivors include the husband; two daughters, Mrs.

Linda Wells of Moline and Miss Kay Ellen Winterbottom, at home; a son, John at home; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Tollenaer and Mrs. Evar Swanson, both of Rock Island; three brothers, Charles R. Parrish, Rock Island, Robert W. Parrish, Moline, and John R.

Parrish, East Moline. at 2 p.m. Saturday in Mountain Home. Mr. Young retired in 1956 after 35 years at John Deere Harvester Works.

He is survived by his wife, Ethel. MRS. DALE EDMUND Mrs. Dale Edmund, 43, of Carlyle, formerly of Moline, died Thursday in St. Joseph's Hospital, Breese, after an extended illness.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Centralia, with burial in Carlyle Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Saturday at the ZierenDay Funeral Home, Carlyle. Phyllis Bennell was born in Moline.

She was married to Mr. Edmund Oct. 29, 1942 in Cambridge. Survivors include her husband; her father, Bert Bennell, San Diego, daughters, Maribeth, at home, and Mrs. Barbara Links, Carlyle; sons, Dale and Gregory, both at home; sisters, Mrs.

Adeline Meyer and Mrs. Charlotte Schaab, both of Geneseo, and brothers, Bert Brown and Bill Brown, both of Moline, and Roy Brown, Andalusia. FOR FLORAL TRIBUTES Call KIMBERLY BARN 324-1955 BE year 77th Our Funeral Home WM. L. McCABE JOHN J.

McCABE PURPLE SHIELD MEMBER PURPLE SHIELD PLAN 614 Main 322-4430 lowances fall short of covering costs, a survey shows. Families interviewed by The Associated Press reported the funerals cost them from $300 to $700 more than the government provided. Lance Cpl. Robert M. Carlozzi of Wheaton, died in Vietnam in November.

He was buried the same month at Arlington National Cemetery. "I'd say I paid out three Bettendorfer Dies At Age 74 Mrs. Harry White, 74, of 4017 Elm Bettendorf, formerly of Quincy, died Thursday night at St. Luke's Hospital after a three-day illness. Tracy Stalf was born in Quincy.

She married Mr. White in Maywood, in 1936. He died in 1964. Mrs. White is survived by daughters, Mrs.

Melvin (Thelma) Marxen, Bettendorf; Mrs. Evelyn Dunshee, Denver, and Mrs. Robert (Lucille) Enlow and Mrs. Walter (Esther) Zengel, both of Quincy; sons, Robert Petaluma, and Ted, Bettendorf; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Sophie Allensworth, Quincy, and a brother, Andrew Stalf, Moline.

The body will be taken from the McGinnis Funeral Home, Bettendorf, to the Duker Funeral Home, Quincy, for services and burial Monday. Rites In Keokuk Mrs. John W. Sammons, 91, formerly of Keokuk, died Thursday night at Davenport Osteopathic Hospital after an extended illness. She had been living with her daughter, Mrs.

Myrtle Koeber, Princeton, the past five years. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the McGinnis Funeral Home, Bettendorf. The body will be taken to the Schmidt Funeral Home, Keokuk, for services and burial Monday. Wilhelmina Greenly was born in Pennsylvania Dec.

20, 1876. She married Mr. Sammons in Carthage, in 1890. He died in 1956. Mrs.

Sammons is survived by her daughter; a grandson, and three great-grandchildren. Father Dies Herbert W. Millard, Rock Island, has received word of the death of his father, Isaac Cleon Millard, 85, of Cedar Rapids. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Turner Chapel East, Cedar Rapids, and burial in Cedar Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.

Mr. Millard, a former employe of the Syndicate Clothing is survived by his wife, Grace; the son; two daughters, Genevieve Arp and Virginia Hepker, both of Cedar Rapids; seven grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren, and a brother, Dr. E. V. Millard of Sarasota, Fla.

times what I got from the government," said Carlozzi's father, Salvatore. "And I don't think I did anything special or expensive for my boy." A Virginia woman who asked not to be identified said she had to take $650 "from our daughter's college fund to pay for my husband's funeral. It cost us almost $1,000 but all the government was willing to pay for a man who gave his life for his country was $300." Some funeral home officials said in a cost sampling taken in more than a dozen areas across the nation that they voluntarily cut their charges on services for the Vietnam dead to keep the cost to the soldiers' families within the government allowance limits. When a serviceman dies in Vietnam, his body is embalmed, placed in a flag- Fireplace Flue Gets Fire Blame Silvis firemen were called at 1:32 a.m. today to the frame residence of Mabel Rushman on Friendship Farm Road.

They reported that a defective flue was responsible for a blaze which damaged the area around the fireplace. Firemen were at the scene for nearly two East Moline were hourenen called at 2:21 p.m. Thursday to Lot 181, Mississippi View Trailer Park, where an extension cord running under the trailer had overheated. The trailer is occupied by Truman Jones. Firemen said there was no damage.

Arsenal Gets Safety Award The U.S. Army Materiel Command's Award of Merit for Safety for 1967 was presented to Rock Island Arsenal at a meeting of the Arsenal Safety Board this morning. Brig. General W.J. Durrenberger, commanding general of the Army Weapons Command, made the presentation.

Accepting the award was Col. H.A. Snyder, Rock Island Arsenal commanding officer. The award is for superior achievement in the prevention of accidents by establishment and maintenance of a comprehensive and effective safety program during the past year. This is the second consecutive year that the Arsenal has received the award.

Is there a cure for piles? Many leading authorities say there is no cure for piles short of surgery. But in some cases there is a product that may relieve pile pain. Its name is M.P.O- Mentholatum Pile Ointment. M.P.O, contains Benzocaine, a topical anesthetic hospitals use to soothe burns and skin rash. It can give relief for hours.

Get M.P.O. at your drug counter, ointment or suppositories. draped aluminum coffin and flown to his home town at government expense. His family is given an allowance for his burial. The amount of the allowance is prescribed by military regulation based on surveys of average prices for "essential" funeral and burial services throughout the country, government sources said.

A family gets $75 if it agrees to have the military transport the body in its military coffin to a military post or national cemetery 1 for military services and a military burial. In such a ceremony, the family must pay only for its own transportation to and from the cemetery. The allowance is $150 if the body is transported to a civilian funeral home or church with a military burial later and $300 if both funeral and burial are to be civilian. Officials at several military posts and national cemeteries, including Arlington National Cemetery, the national cemetery at Marietta, West Infant Dies Julie Ann Stutz, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Glenn Stutz, 3431 3rd St. East Moline, was dead at birth this morning in Moline Public Hospital. 3 The body was taken to the DeRoo Funeral Home. DEATH TIME Of all the accidental deaths in the United States about 70 per cent occur in the victim's non-working hours. Point and Ft.

Riley, said $75 is sufficient to cover costs as long as burial is in the military casket in a plain grave with a cemetery supplied marker. Burial in a new coffin, erection of a monument or burial in a vault all would run considerably over the allowance. First Choice PYRAMID $575 ALSO $300 TO 1975 REGISTERED DIAMOND RINGS Famous for quality the world over, Keepsake is America's most A wanted diamond QUARANTEES Good Housekeeping: OR REFUND 10 ring. Use Your Credit Flicks JEWELERS 222 Brady St. (3 or minutes) New, low weekend long distance day Saturday and Sunday! New maximum rate for a 3-minute, out-ofstate station call to any place In the continental U.S., except Alaska.

Same rate from 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. every night, too! Northwestern Bell Announcing Whitlow's Outfitters to Ladies and Gentlemen Winter Clearance Sale LADIES' SHOP CUSTOM SHOP MEN'S SHOP A selection of Values Reduced to: Reduced Reduced Dresses $107.00 Now 79.50 Suits Slacks $117.50 Now 91.50 Sport Coats Skirts $125.00 Now 104.50 Sweaters $145.00 Shirts Now 114.50 Shirts Blouses $155.00 Now 116.50 Top Coats Coats $185.00 Now 125.00 A Selection of Shoes other Items A Custom Tailored Suit, Sport Coat Save to on or Hats and Ties Trousers designed from your Price ments and styled to your taste. ALL SWEATERS PRICE ma. 214 Main Street NO CASH REFUNDS Davenport Outfitters to Ladies and Gentlemen All Sales Final.

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