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Friday, September 18, 1992 A-10 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS fiSc' Staff had misgivings MARION COUNTY on regulator: Paper Clifford Harvey, math professor Russell Ferguson led trucking firm i-hanmin, ma. services tor, Russell Lowell Ferguson, 85, former president of Schaller Trucking will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Kresge Chapel, Indiana Masonic Home. Calling will be until 9 tonight in Wilson-St. Pierre Greenwood Chapel and two hours before services at the Masonic home.

There will be a Masonic service at 7:30 tonight. Mr. Ferguson, formerly of Indianapolis, died Wednesday in St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove. He had been president of the company seven years, retiring in 1976.

Previously he was safety director for Indiana Motor Truck Association and Ellis Trucking He was also traffic manager of Holcomb Hoke Co. He was a member of Olive Branch Christian Church, Southport Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Murat Shrine. Memorial contributions may be made to the Masonic home. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. Survivors wife Jewell C.

Hanna Ferguson; daughters Barbara J. Buchanan, Judith A. Leavitt, Nancy E. Overton; sons Jack Paul Donald E. Ferguson; sister Elsie M.

Robertson; 17 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren. Paul Willour CARMEL, Ind. Graveside services for Paul Willour, 84, were today in Wooster (Ohio) Cemetery. Mr. Willour, who died Wednesday in St.

Vincent Carmel Hospital, was executive vice president and director of Pakco Co. of Hammonton, N.J., from 1962 to 1964. Before that he had been secretary-treasurer and vice president of Hickok Electrical Instrument Cleveland. He also had served as safety service director for the city of Wooster, chief accountant for Akron Brass and Manufacturing and secretary-treasurer of Rubbermaid Inc. He was a graduate of Ohio State University and was a member of The-ta Xi fraternity.

Memorial contributions may be made to the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Survivors wife Anabel Clouse Willour; son David Willour; daughter Myra W. Novak; three grandchildren. L. Imogene Cody NEW WINCHESTER, Ind.

Services for L. Imogene Short Cody, 76, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Weaver Funeral Home at Danville, with calling from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Mrs.

Cody died Thursday. She was a member of Church of Christ Scientist. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hendricks County Senior Center, Danville. Survivors husband Wilfred "Bill" Cody; sons William, Joe, Sean Lynch; daughters Marcia Lynch, Janice Thornburgh, Missie Price; stepdaughters Lois Burnell, Lora Goins; sisters Anne Miller, Elsie Smith; 11 grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren. Paul L.

Martin NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Graveside services for Paul L. Martin, 73, were today in Hinkle Creek Cemetery. Mr. Martin died Tuesday.

He retired in 1974 from Guide Lamp at Anderson. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society in care of Ameritrust Bank. Survivors wife Velma Goodnight Martin; son Ronald L. Martin; daughter Patricia Ann Benson; stepson Robert Lee Goodnight; stepdaughter Karen Fay Smith; two grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; five step-great-grandchildren. Donald O.

Pratt MARTINSVILLE, Ind. Graveside services for Donald 0. Pratt, 83, were today in South Park Cemetery. Mr. Pratt died Wednesday.

Fogleman Funeral Home handled arrangements. He was a member of Eastview Christian Church. Survivors wife Janne Gerholt Pratt; stepson Edward Ger-holt; brothers Archie, Gerald Pratt; two step-grandchildren. Robert H. "Skip" Schaefer, 63.

Indianapolis, co-owner of Schaefer Monument died Thursday in Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Smith Funeral Home, Carmel, with calling from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday. Mr.

Schaefer had worked 40 years for the company, retiring in 1991 as co-owner. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and was a past president of Noblesville Noon Kiwanis Club. He had also been past treasurer of the Indiana Monument Dealers Association and president of the board of trustees of Crownland Cemetery. He was a graduate of Indiana University and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Memorial contributions may be made to The Legacy Fund, 650 E.

Carmel Suite 490, Carmel. Burial will be in Crownland Cemetery, Noblesville. Survivors daughters Nancy S. Allen, Amy J. Kepilino; son James Schaefer; mother Edith J.

Schaefer; four grandchildren. Robert F. Landick Services for Robert F. Landick, 74, Indianapolis, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Flanner Buchanan Shade-land Mortuary, with calling from 9 a.m.

to services. Mr. Landick, who died Wednesday in Community Hospital East, was an Army veteran of World War II. He was the owner of the Driftwood Lounge and retired in 1975. He also had been employed by Bowes Seal Fast several years.

Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors sister Jane E. Wamsley. Wendell S. Williams Services for Wendell Scott Williams, 29, Indianapolis, will be at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at Carmony-Ew-ing Harrison Street Funeral Home at Shelbyville, with calling until 8 tonight. Mr. Williams died Wednesday. He worked as a press operator at Freudenberg NOK in Shelbyville. He was an Army veteran.

Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Survivors father and stepmother Robert D. and Sally Williams; mother and stepfather Leta and Jerry Relkin; brothers Donald Robert D. Williams sister Bobbi J. Williams; stepbrother Brian D.

Smith; stepsisters Sandra K. Posz, Wendy S. Killen. Cleo E. Brittenback MARTINSVILLE, Ind.

Graveside services for Cleo Ellen Brittenback, 84, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in White Lick Cemetery at Mooresville. No calling is scheduled. Carlisle Son Funeral Chapel, Mooresville, is handling arrangements. Mrs.

Brittenback died Thursday. She was the widow of Otto C. Brittenback. Survivors stepdaughter Theresa Kenworthy; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. Clifton Turner Services for Clifton Turner, 40, Indianapolis, will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday in Lavenia's Home for Funerals, with calling two hours before services. Mr. Turner, who died Wednesday, was a self-employed cement mason 10 years. Previously, he had worked for BFI Waste Systems. Burial will be in Washington Park North Cemetery.

Survivors sisters Georgia, Betty, Bobbie Jean Turner, Dorothy Keltz; brothers Rodis, Wilson, Cleo Turner. Richard A. Lynch MOORESVILLE, Ind. Services for Richard Allen Lynch, 64, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Carlisle Son Funeral Chapel, with calling until 9 tonight.

Mr. Lynch died Wednesday. A driver 30 years for Greyhound Bus Lines, he retired in 1986. He was a Korean War Army veteran and member of Mooresville Veterans of Foreign Wars. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Survivors wife Margaret I. Mayfield Lynch; sons Richard A. Lynch Dwayne Miles; daughters Laura L. Jordan, Ellen I. Lynch; brothers Jim, Tom, Don Lynch; sisters Charlotte Lynch, Betty Haggard; five grandchildren.

John W. Wilson John W. Wilson, 90, Indianapolis, died Thursday in St. Vincent Hospital. Mr.

Wilson had worked for Ros-Lang Carpet Co. and United Floor Coverings. He was a member of First Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Gothic Chapel, Crown Hill Cemetery.

There will be no calling. Flanner Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary is handling arrangements. Survivors wife Marian Rose Wilson; daughter Patricia Barrett; one granddaughter; two great-grandsons. Top officials of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management dismissed the staffs concerns about the character of H. Martin Harmless and hired him as assistant commissioner for solid and hazardous waste, according to a copyright story in The Evans-ville Courier.

Federal investigators have questioned Harmless and subpoenaed IDEM records in their ongoing probe into allegations that Eddie Brown offered bribes to secure lucrative contracts for his Lynnville. coal, hauling and landfill operations. The probe has also widened to include Harmless' role as a consultant for the Hammond Sanitary District, The Times of Munster reported In a story published Thursday. Jan Verkaik. manager of the district, told The Times that the Internal Revenue Service has asked the district to turn over records pertaining to its dealings with Rose Disposal Services Inc.

The newspaper had reported that Harmless negotiated a no-bid contract signed in early 1990 in which Hammond paid Brown $18 a ton to haul 60,000 tons of hazardous sewage sludge across the state to two southern Indiana landfills Rose owned. Harmless was a consultant to both the Hammond sewer district and Brown at that time. Months later, he was a key state environmental regulator. The Courier on Wednesday said Harmless' attorney. Kevin McShane of Indianapolis, confirmed that Brown paid Harmless while Harmless was the state regulator approving landfill permits for Brown's landfills in Pike and Spencer counties.

But McShane insisted that the payments were "royalties" Brown owed him for his consulting work in negotiating the Hammond contract and not bribes. Harmless resigned last year after his arrest on child molestation charges. He was convicted and is serving a 28-year sentence in the Indiana Youth Center in Plain-field. Deputy Commissioner Tom Rar-ick said some IDEM staff members who inspected Brown's Spencer County landfill in 1987 thought Harmless was not truthful about whether the Browns were meeting state environmental regulations. Rarick said in an interview Thursday he could not substantiate the staffs comments and decided it was a personality conflict.

He said he knew Harmless had done consulting both for Hammond and Rose, but was unaware he had worked for both simultaneously and negotiated a deal between them. He said the only criticisms he encountered about Harmless in checking his background was one former employer's complaint that Harmless regularly came to work late. "If we'd seen any red flags, we certainly would have investigated them." IDEM commissioner Kathy Prosser said. She has ordered her staff to investigate agency documents that were available to IDEM officials when Harmless was hired. "It's a voluminous search, but so far nothing's turned up that would have alerted us." Woman killed in upstate crash The Indianapolis News A Brookston woman died today of injuries suffered when her car hit a semitrailer truck that was pulling out of a driveway along Ind.

43 in Tippecanoe County. MARGURITA BOWEN, 42, died at 1 :47 a.m. of massive head and internal injuries at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette, state police said. Investigators said her car hit the rear portion of a semi that was pulling out of a driveway.

Tippecanoe County sheriff's deputies said the truck driver. Robert T. Koons, 44, Lumbar, 111., was not injured. The accident occurred at 9:57 p.m. Thursday about nine miles north of Lafayette, police said.

Beech, Peggy 63 Blankenstein, Edward 96 Hermerding, Norma 72 Imhausen, Dollie 75 Landick, Robert 74 Mesker, Daniel 30 Pedigo, Daniel 57 Schaefer, Robert 63 Seidle, Delbert 80 Smith, Leo 96 Turner, Clifton, 40 Walker, Thelma 84 Williams, Wendell 29 Wilson, John 90 Wyant, Barnard 53 Young, Rosalie, 66 HAMILTON COUNTY Martin, Paul 73 Willour, Paul, 84 HENDRICKS COUNTY Brandes, Wilfred 70 Cody, L. Imogene, 76 JOHNSON COUNTY Ferguson, Russell 85 MORGAN COUNTY Brittenback, Cleo 84 Lynch, Richard 64 Pratt, Donald 83 FORMER RESIDENTS Newman, Gladys 91 September 18, 1992 Edward E. Blankenstein Services for Edward E. Blankenstein, 96, Indianapolis, will be 1 p.m. Saturday in Flanner Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary with calling until 7 tonight.

Mr. Blankenstein, who died Thursday at his home, was an engineer at Western Electric Co. 38 years, retiring in 1961. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he also received a doctorate and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi fraternity. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.

Entombment will be in Crown Hill Cemetery Mausoleum. Survivor wife Gladys C. Herrmann Blankenstein. Thelma D. Walker Memorial services for Thelma D.

Ferguson Walker, 84, Indianapolis, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Westminster Village North Retirement Home. Mrs. Walker, who died Wednesday, was a member of Royal Heights United Methodist Church, Joplin, Mo. She was the widow of Vernon C.

Walker. Memorial contributions may be made to the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. Survivors sons Ramon Gary R. Walker; daughter Katheryn R. Huelster; sisters Nelda Howard, Eunice Walker; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.

Delbert A. Seidle Graveside services for Delbert A. Seidle, 80, Indianapolis, were today in Anderson Cemetery. Harry W. Moore Appleget Northeast Chapel handled arrangements.

Mr. Seidle, who died Thursday, was a carpenter retiring in 1962. Previously he had worked for Geupel Construction Co. He was the widower of Wilda Cape Seidle. Survivor son Delbert A.

Seidle II; daughters Sharon S. Seidle, Martha K. Thompson; sister llene Moore; nine grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren. Paul Willour CARMEL, Ind. Graveside services for Paul Willour, 84, were today in Wooster (Ohio) Cemetery.

Mr. Willour, who died Wednesday in St. Vincent Carmel Hospital, was executive vice president and director of Parco Co. of Hammonton, N.J., from 1962 to 1964. Before that he had been secretary-treasurer and vice president of Hickok Electrical Instrument Cleveland, Ohio.

He also had served as safety service director for the city of Wooster, chief accountant for Akron Brass and Manufacturing and secretary-treasurer of Rubbermaid Inc. He was a graduate of Ohio State University and was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. Memorial contri butions may be made to the college of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Survivors wife Anabel Clouse Willour; son David Willour; daughter Myra W. Novak; three grandchildren.

Barnard L. Wyant Services for Barnard L. Wyant, 53, Indianapolis, were today in New Crown Cemetery. Flanner Buchanan Farley Morris Street Mortuary handled arrengements. Mr.

Wyant, who died Wednesday in Wishard Hospital, worked for Redi Foods. Survivors daughters Lavone, Birdie Wyant; sons Mike, Barnard, Richard Wyant; brothers William, Leonard Willoug'hby, Russ Wyant; six grandchildren. Dollie E. Imhausen Services for Dollie Elizabeth Gree-son Imhausen, 75, Indianapolis, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, with calling until 9 tonight.

Mrs. Imhausen, who died Thursday in Wildwood Healthcare, was a member of Fairfield Friends Church and the widower of Paul Imhausen. Burial will be in Lincoln Memory Gardens, Zionsville. Survivors sisters Ethel P. Zink, Martha D.

Huffman, Elva Thompson; brother Glenn Greeson. Wilfred P. Brandes PLAINFIELD, Ind. Services for Wilfred P. Brandes, 70, will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday at St. Susanna Catholic Church, Plainfield. There will be no calling. Hampton Gentry Funeral Home, Plainfield, is handling arrangements. Mr.

Brandis died Thursday. He worked for Kraft Chemical Co. in Chicago 42 years before reitiring in 1990 as vice president and general manager. He also was an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors wife Nora Connolly Brandes; daughters Cynthia A.

LaSalle, Maureen A. Morrison; brothers Robert, Arthur Brandes; sister Rosemary Johnson; three grandchildren. The Associated Press EVANSVILLE. Ind. State environmental agency staff members say their superiors ignored their warnings and hired a man recently accused of taking money from a company whose landfill permits he approved, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Frat members get antibiotics The Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. About 50 members of an Indiana University fraternity have been given antibiotics because they were in close contact with a student diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis. Sophomore Manish Jain was transferred from the critical care unit of Bloomington Hospital to a private room on Wednesday afternoon. He was in stable condition Thursday. No further cases of meningitis have been detected in Blooming-ton since Jain was diagnosed Monday, said Dr.

Frank Hrisoma-los of Bloomington Hospital. "That's what everyone's going to be watching for in the next couple of weeks to make sure there aren't a cluster of cases," he said. Plane crash kills 2 Hoosiers, pilot from Ohio The Associated Press MANLIUS, 111. A small private plane flying to Iowa on a business trip crashed in a Bureau County farm field Thursday, killing three men and critically injuring another, authorities said. Alfred Jay Norris, 55, and his son Alan, 29, both of Poneto, and pilot Ralph Swartz, 25, of Celina, Ohio, died in the crash of the single-engine, four-seat Cessna plane, Coroner Janice Wamhoff said.

Poneto is located in Wells County south of Bluffton. Jack Ramseyer, 35, of Montpe-lier, survived and was listed in critical condition at St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria with head, abdominal, leg and ankle Injuries, Wamhoff said. Montpelier is south of Poneto in Blackford County. The Norrises owned a grain elevator in Poneto and were flying to Carroll, Iowa, to investigate buying another, Wamhoff said.

Ramseyer worked for the Norrises as a millwright and was going to check the elevator's equipment, she said. The craft was registered to Grand Lake Air of Celina, Ohio, said John Thompson, chief deputy for the Bureau County Sheriffs Department. Swartz worked for that company, officials said. The plane took off from Lake-field Airport In Celina, Ohio, then picked up its passengers in Huntington, Huntington County Airport manager Philip Bos said. Daniel D.

Pedigo Daniel D. Pedigo, 57, Indianapolis, died Thursday in St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove. Mr. Pedigo was a quality control supervisor for Ford Motor Co.

34 years, retiring in 1991. He was a member of Englewood Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Glasgow (Ky.) Baptist Church. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday in G.H.

Herrmann Madison Avenue Funeral Home, with calling from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenwood. Survivors wife Bobbie Sue McWhirter Pedigo; son Scott Pedigo; daughter Kim Trent; mother Nola Elmore Pedigo; brothers William, Charles Pedigo; two grandchildren.

1921 and Wagner became the organist at St. Ambrose Church in West Hollywood at age 12. He returned to France in 1932, received a degree in music at the College of Montmorency and served in the French army. In 1937, he returned to the United States, joined the MGM chorus and became music director of St. Joseph's Church in downtown Los Angeles.

In 1946, he formed the 32-member Roger Wagner Chorale, which performed on radio and television and on motion picture soundtracks. The choir's album "Virtuoso" won a Grammy. Among its singers was Marilyn Home. Wagner became director laureate of the Master Chorale in 1985 because of a mandatory retirement policy. In 1987, he collapsed onstage during a performance and underwent surgery for a brain hemorrhage.

He also served as guest conductor with orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the farmer Soviet Union. BATH, Ind. Services for Clifford E. Harvey, 85, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Showalter-Blackwell, Bak-er-Fosdick Chapel at Liberty, with calling from 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday. Mr. Harvey died Wedneday. He was a math professor at Miami (Ohio) University 42 years before retiring in 1973. He also farmed.

Memorial contributions may be made at Bath United Methodist Church of Arthritis Foundation. Mr. Harvey was the widower of Mary Jeanette Otto Harvey. Survivors son Don L. Harvey; daughters Joy S.

Myers, Jane K. Wel-born; stepsister Lucille Lovins; 13 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren. Gladys F. Newman FREDRICKSBURG, Va. Services for Gladys F.

Newman, 91, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Matthews Mortuary at Brownsburg. No calling is scheduled. Mrs. Newman, formerly of Brownsburg, died Tuesday.

She was a member of Brownsburg American Legion Auxiliary and Calvary United Methodist Church. She was the widow of John William Newman. Survivors son John Newman; sisters Olive Alexander, Helen Wilson two grandchildren; six great-grandchildren. Daniel L. Mesker Services for Daniel Lee Mesker, 30, Indianapolis, will be at 2 p.m.

Sunday in T.W. Crowe Funeral Home, Scottsville, Ky. Calling will be until 9 tonight in Jordan-Gray Funeral Home and from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday in the Scottsville home. Mr.

Mesker, who died Wednesday in Wishard Hospital, was a service truck driver 2'2 years for Michel Tire Co. of Indiana Inc. Survivors daughter Danielle Nicole Mesker; mother Sue Kinslow; brother Tracy Glenn Mesker; sisters Gayla Lynn Cline, Nancy Grant; grandmother Masie Lewis; grandfather Garland Lewis. Peggy J. Beech Services for Peggy J.

Reynolds Beech, 63, Indianapolis, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Jordan-Gray Funeral Home, with calling until 9 tonight. Ms. Beech, who died Wednesday in Westview Hospital, worked 32 years in the shipping and packing department of Lane Bryant-Brylane retiring in 1991. She was a member of the Baptist church.

Burial will be in Washington Park North Cemetery. Survivors daughters Judy K. Purvis, Susan Ann Bailey; son Michael Wayne Smith; mother Meredith Reynolds Nelson; brothers Robert Louis Kenneth Richard E. Reynolds; sisters Mary Louise Hammil, Betty Taylor, Patricia A. Lutz, Janet M.

Lewis; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Norma J. Hermerding Services for Norman Jean Zimmerman Hermerding, 72, Speedway, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, with calling until 9 tonight. Ms.

Hermerding, who died Thursday, was a bookkeeper 25 years at First Bank Trust retiring in 1985. She was a member of the St. Andrew Lutheran Church and was a past worthy matron in Eastern Star. Survivors sons Kurt, Eric, Paul, Mark Hermerding; daughter Ann Hartley; eight grandchildren. Leo Smith Sr.

Services for Leo "Smitty" Smith 96, Indianapolis, will be at noon 'Saturday in Boatright Funeral Home, calling from 10 a.m. to services. Mr. Smith, who died Monday, was a truck driver for Pickman Cleaners, Chicago, 20 years, retiring in 1957. He was the widower of Loreen Mosley Smith.

Survivors sons Leo Michael Elvin, Richard Calvin Smith; daughter Alice Harris; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. at any of our chapels phone: 9606 3 The Packard Bell 300x computer advertised on page 5 of our preprinted insert in today's newspaper Sept 18) does wi come with a monitor as indicated. The monitor is sold separately. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. JfifYggl Roger Wagner, 78, was chorale leader From Our Family 10 Yours A Commitment To Provide The Finest In Funeral Services From The Family That Has Served The Needs Of Indianapolis Families For Nearly A Century.

Shirley Brothers Your Family Mortuaries Needs Help. Rosalie J. Young Services for Rosalie Jones Young, 66, Indianapolis, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Flanner Buchanan Shadeland Mortuary, with calling until 8 tonight. Mrs.

Young, who died Thursday in Community Hospital East, was an accountant in the correspondence department for Railroadmen's Federal Savings and Loan Association from 1972 to 1987. She was a member of Broadway Baptist Church. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association. Burial will be in Washington Park East Cemetery. Survivors husband Harold W.

Young; sons Harold W. Donald, Daniel Young; daughters Geneva Roembke, Kerri Schwomeyer; brother Stewart Jones; sisters Betty Tarkington, Phyllis Copeland; one grandchild. No fee charged The News does not charge a fee to run obituaries or pictures on its news pages. The Associated Press DIJON, France Grammy-winning conductor Roger Wagner, 78, who founded the Roger Wagner Chorale in 1946 and the Los Angeles Master-Chorale in 1964, died Thursday in his native land. "Roger was a giant in the field of chorale music and created one of the greatest professional choirs in the country," said Marshall Rutter, chairman of the Los Angeles chorale's board of directors.

Wagner's last public performance was June 14, when he conducted the Choir of St. Cyril of Jerusalem in a Los Angeles performance of his "Mass in Honor of St. Francis." "He had scheduled a concert tour of Japan in June, and he was not able to do it," said his daughter, Jeannine Wagner. "It was a real disappointment. This trip to France really meant a lot to him, because it was a going back to his roots." Wagner was born in 1914 in Le Puy, France, the son of the organist at the cathedral in Dijon.

His family emigrated to the United States in For information on services 897.