The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 19

THE PANTAGRAPH, Monday, June 12, 1989 C5 DEATHS Students need host families Kai Krutzmann, 18, a German exchange student, needs a host family for a four-week stay July 3 through 31 through Nacel Cultural Exchange stu MEWSW Helen Dean McGraw Helen Dean McGraw, 74, R.R. 13, Bloomington, died at 5:25 a.m. yesterday (June 11, 1989) at Brokaw Hospital. 2 Thomas W. Slagel FAIRBURY The.

funeral of Thomas W. Slagel, 29, of Falrbury will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Christian Apostolic Church, Forrest. Ministers of the church will officiate. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery, Fairbury.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and- 6 to 9 p.m. today at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Fair-bury and for one hour before the service Tuesday. Mr. Slagel died at 10:15 a.m.

Saturday (June 10, 1989) after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Livingston County roads 1200 North and 2500 East. He was born June 12, 1959, in Fairbury, a son of Raymond J. Sr. and Caroline P. Zimmerman Slagel.

He married Tamra S. Mur ray on June 12, 1982 in Fairbury. She survives. Other survivors include one son, Luke two daughters, Leanne C. and Natasha all at home; his parents; six brothers, Raymond Chenoa; Ronald, James and Alfred, all of Fairbury; Timothy, Washington; and Lynn, Pontiac; seven sisters, Judith Slagel, Fairbury; Kathleen Young, Cissna Park; Loretta Slagel, Martha Fehr, Norma Fehr and Rita Bahler, all of Fairbury; and Suzanne Folk, Forrest.

Mr. Slagel attended Christian Apostolic Church and lived all his life in the Fairbury area. He was a farmer and worked part time for Knapp Industrial Forrest. Memorials may be made to Thomas Slagel Children Memorial Fund. Man dies after stunning revival JOPLIN, Mo.

A man who stunned doctors when he began breathing again 40 minutes after being declared dead from electrocution died last night without ever regaining consciousness, hospital officials said. Jerry Middleswart, who had been listed in critical condition since Friday at St. John's Regional Medical Center, was declared dead a second time about 6:30 p.m., a nursing supervisor said. Middleswart, 47, was first declared dead Friday after the antenna he and six other men were attempting to put up at his Oswego, veterinary clinic came in contact with a power line. "He was a friend of mine," said Dr.

Phillip Bortmes, the doctor who worked for 45 minutes Friday trying to revive Middleswart before two monitors indicated the man was dead. "I made damn sure I tried everything before I stopped working on him." At 10:45 a.m. Friday, last rites were administered on Middleswart. Forty minutes later, "a nurse hollered for me to come down," Bortmes said. "I thought maybe somebody passed out.

"We had a steady pulse. He was unconscious, but his pupils were functioning. He was alive." Ann Richards running for governor AUSTIN, Texas Texas Treasurer Ann Richards, displaying the biting wit that enlivened her keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention last summer, announced Saturday she will run for governor. The Texas economy needs new leadership after a long downslide fueled by oil and real estate busts, Ms. Richards told about 1,000 supporters at the state Capitol.

"You know, Sam Rayburn used to say that any jackass' can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one," Ms. Richards said, quoting the powerful former House Speaker from Texas. Gadhafi praises U.S. leaders ROME Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi yesterday praised the Bush administration as "wise and mature" and said he expected "balanced relations" with both superpowers, the official Libyan news agency JANA reported. Gadhafi's comments in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, appeared to be part of an effort in recent months to improve relations with the United States, which were sour under former President Ronald Reagan.

"The Bush administration is a wise and mature administration and understands international politics and it is not possible that it will repeat the ignorance of Reagan, and it is not possible that it will inflict new damages to American interests and foreign policy," he told a JANA reporter. Rivals for Iranian power training BAGHDAD, Iraq Iranian opposition forces, hoping to take advantage of the disarray in Iran following the death of Ayatol-lah Ruhollah Khomeini, have reopened camps in Iraq to train thousands of recruits, according to diplomats. They said Iranians living in exile in Europe and the United States have flocked to Iraq to join the National Liberation Army of Iran since Khomeini's death June 3. From Pantagraph wire service Central Illinois Barbara Meyer MINONK The funeral of Barbara Meyer, 54, of Minonk will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Minonk Baptist Church.

Rev. Harry Sanders will officiate. Burial will be in Minonk Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. today at Folkers-Froelich Memorial Home, Minonk, and one hour before the service at the church.

Mrs. Meyer died at 4:25 a.m. Saturday (June 10, 1989) at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke Medical Center, Chicago. She had been ill.

She was born Oct. 26, 1934, in daughter of Robert and Eileen E. Hawk. She married Jim Meyer on Aug. 28, 1955.

He survives. Other surviors include one daughter, Kimberly S. Audi, Minonk; three sons, Jeffrey Brown Deer, Eric Cedar-burg, and Craig Minonk; her father; one sister, Sue L. Burns, Rockford; and two granddaughters. She was preceded in death by her mother.

Mrs. Meyer was a member of Minonk Woman's Bowling League and Chapter B.P. of PEO, where she was past president. She was also a member of Minonk Baptist Church where she sang in the church choir and was assistant Sunday school secretary. She was a charter member and sang in every Village Aires concerts for the past 22 years and was active in Streator Community Players at the William C.

Schiff-bauer Center for the Performing Arts at Engle Lane, Streator. Memorials may be made to Minonk Baptist Church or American Liver Foundation. Grover 'Buck' Boyle TREMONT The funeral of Grover J. "Buck" Boyle, 69, of Tucson, formerly of Tremont, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Davis Mortuary, Tremont.

Walter Meyer and Ray Pflederer will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Tremont. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the mortuary. Mr.

Boyle was killed Friday (June 9, 1989) in a construction site accident while working in Kent, Wash. He was born Aug. 27, 1919 in Mackinaw to Hugh and Myra Wilson Boyle. He married Ruth Gerstner on March 7, 1942, in Tremont. She died Feb.

2, 1955. He then married Wilma Bolliger on Jan. 12, 1957, in Tremont. She survives. Also surviving are one son, William.

Orlando, one sister, Dorothy Neathery, Tucson; and two brothers, Robert, Mackinaw, and Charles, Tremont. Before moving to Tucson four years ago, Mr. Boyle had been a partner in Hugh Boyle and Sons Tremont, a partner in Illinois Bridge and Iron Peoria, and superintendent at R.A. Cullinan and Son Tremont. At the time of his death, he was project manager for P.

Hendley and Associates, Kent, Wash. Mr. Boyle was a member of St. Mark's United Methodist Church, Tucson. Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society or American Heart Fund.

Iva A. Cowles CLINTON Iva Arrilla Cowles, 90, of Clinton, died at 8:35 a.m. yesterday (June 11, 1989) at Dr. John Warner Hospital, Clinton. 4 Her funeral will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at Herington-Calvert Funeral Home, Clinton, the Rev. Paul N. Milliken officiating. Burial will be in Weldon Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m.

until the service at the funeral home. Mrs. Cowles was born Oct 24, 1898, in Creek Township, DeWitt County, a daughter of Ira and Elma Harrold Emery. She married Irvin "Jack" Cowles on Sept 8, 1923 in Urbana. He died Feb.

16, 1980. Survivors include two daughters, Imogene Blue, Clinton, and Margie Allison, Mobile, two sons, Donald and Ronald, both of Clinton; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. One son preceded her in death. She was a member of Lane Christian Church, Lane. Memorials may be made to Lane Christian Church.

dents. He likes movies, photography and swimming. He will be among 250 exchange students who will arrive at O'Hare International Airport coming to Illinois with Nacel. All will have studied English. They come to the United States to practice their English and to live as a member of an American family.

There is no charge to the host families. All they provide is a separate bed for the student. Families willing to share their home with Kai, or one of the other students needing a home for four weeks, should contact Tom and Sylvia Swegle, Box 307, Sherrard, 61281, (309) 593-2192, or Pat Shef tick, Nacel area representative, (217) 787-2516. Bloomington woman receives law degree Pamela Edwards, daughter of David and Kay Edwards, 4 Wil-shire Court, Bloomington, received her law degree May 6 from the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, Iowa. Ms.

Edwards is a 1983 graduate of Bloomington High School and a 1986 graduate of Illinois We-sleyan University, Bloomington. She is pres Pamela Edwards ently employed as an attorney in the Corporate Law Department for State Farm Insurance Cos. in Bloomington. Tri-County panel gets extra grant MORTON The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission has received an additional $166,173 for its weatherization program in Tazewell and Woodford counties. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs made the presentation because the commission had the fourth best weatherization program in the state.

Thirty-six agencies adminis ter programs in Illinois. The money will be used to make 60 homes more energy efficient. The commission was already allotted $373,276 to weatherize 149 homes. It is the fifth consecutive year that the commission has received a superior rating and additional funding. Evenglow names new administrator PONTIAC A Moline man has been named administrator for Evenglow Lodge retirement center, Pontiac.

Tyler Schoenherr will begin his new job in July. The appointment was made by the agency's board of trustees. The center is affiliated with the Central Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church. Schoenherr has a master's degree in hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa. He was administrator at Moline Public Hospital and is licensed nursing home administrator.

Frank Deninger, current administrator, will become executive director of development and public relations. CUB slates B-N strategy session An emergency legislative strategy session to discuss how consumers in the Bloomington area can help pass consumer reforms pending in the General Assembly has been planned June 13 by the Citizens Utility Board. Joe DiLillo, CUB representative from the 15th Congressional District, will host the meeting at 7 p.m. at Bloomington Public Library. CUB is a non-profit consumer group that challenges utility rate hikes.

The meeting will focus on two key proposals a bill that would cap monthly utility service charges and a proposal that would guarantee full consumer refunds of utility overcharges. If approved, the plan to cap monthly service charges could lower Illinois Power's monthly service fee from $12 a month to about $4 a month. The proposal has been approved by the House and is pending in the Senate. Kai Krutzmann Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tues-d a at Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home, Bloomington, and at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at Holy Trinity Church, Bloomington. The Rev. John J. Dietzen will officiate. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Helen McGraw Normal.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home with a rosary recited at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. McGraw was born Aug. 10, Armington, the daughter of H.

Ross and Hazel DeLong Hayes. She married Thomas F. McGraw on Dec. 27, 1937, in Bloomington. He survives.

Also surviving are one son, Thomas F. McGraw II, Fairfax, a daughter, Kathleen M. Diesel, Coldwater, five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. She retired in 1980 after 30 years as a bookkeepersecretary of the Masonic Supply Company in Bloomington.

She attended Illinois State University in Normal. She was a member of Holy Trinity Church and its Altar and Rosary Society. She was a member of the Blooming Grove Ladies Aid Society, and the charter chapter of the American Business Woman's Association in Bloomington where she served as president in 1976 and 1977. The group named her Woman of the Year for 1978-79. Memorials may be made to the Holy Trinity Church.

Harold F. Gerth The funeral of Harold Frederick Gerth, 75, of Mobile, formerly of Bloomington, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kibler-Smith Memorial Home, Bloomington. The Rev. Ernest L.

Gerike will officiate. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery, Bloomington. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the memorial home. Mr.

Gerth died at 5:45 p.m. Friday (June 9, 1989) at Mobile Infirmary, Mobile. He was born July 21, 1913, a son of Carl and Martha Seeger Gerth. He married Helen Kettwich on April 3, 1937, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Bloomington. She survives.

Other survivors include one son, Roger, Lanstuhl, West Germany; two sisters, Helen Sieg, Shirley, and Evelyn Taylor, 1024 E. Lafayette Bloomington; and three grandchildren. Mr. Gerth was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Mobile, and Trinity Lutheran Church. Memorials may be made to Holy Cross Lutheran Church Building Fund' or Trinity Lutheran Church.

Carol Weisbach Carol A. Weisbach, 33, of 1113 W. Olive Bloomington, died at 10 a.m. yesterday (June 11, 1989) at her home. The McLean County coroner is conducting an inquiry.

Arrangements are incomplete at Beck Memorial Home, Blooming-, ton. Handbell workshop to be offered at ISU Introductory and advanced workshops in handbells and choirchimes will be available for the sixth summer at Illinois State University's music department. The workshops, directed by Paul E. Rosene, professor of Music at ISU, will be "Introduction to Handbells" from July 17 to 20, and "Advanced Handbell Ringing and Directing," July 24 to 27. The introductory workshop gives students daily hands-on experience and is open to people interested in beginning and development of handbells and choirchimes for their schools or churches.

It deals with maintenance and care of instruments, as well as basic playing instruction and how to organize a handbell ensemble. The advanced workshop addresses the needs of people, involved in the use of handbells in schools, churches and other organizations. Subject matter includes use of mallets and special handbell effects to finding musical materials and conducting techniques. Each workshop is $75. Registration is available through ISU's College of Continuing Education and Public Service at ISU.

Charles F. Hallam ODELL Charles F. Hallam, 81, formerly of Odell, died yesterday (June 11, 1989) at 12:30 a.m. at Livingston Manor Nursing Home in Pontiac. He had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill the past week.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Odell, the Rev. Francis J. Ryan officiating.

Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Odell. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Watson Funeral Home, Odell, with the rosary recited at 7 p.m. Mr.

Hallam was born Aug. 6, 1907, in Charlotte, the son of Pearl and Mary J. Finnegan Hallam. He went to St. Peter and Paul School in Chatsworth.

He married Catherine A. Foley in Loretto Oct. 9, 1940. She survives. Also surviving are one daughter Rena A.

Morton, Pueblo, one sister, Mary A. Galovich, Bridgeport, and one granddaughter. He was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister. He was employed as a laborer for 25 years at A.O. Smith Manufacturing Co.

in Kankakee. He was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Odell. Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice or to the St. Paul's music department.

Bloomington-Normal Louise Riffle Funeral services for Louise Riffle, 59, of 143 Willow Creek Village, Bloomington, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Beck Memorial Home. Bloomington, with Ed Krueger offici- ating. Interment will' be at Funk's Grove Cemetery, Funk's Grove. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m.

today at the memorial home. Mrs. Riffle died at 12:10 Louise Riffle p.m. Saturday (June 10, 1989) at her home. She had been under the care of a physician.

She was born Jan. 6, 1930, in McLean County, the daughter of Henry and Ethel McCowan Jordan. She married Wallace S. Riffle in Bloomington. He survives.

Other survivors are her father, of Heyworth; one son, William Miller, 816 W. Mill Bloomington; one daughter, Lisa Tosh, Bourbonnais; one brother, Roger Jordon of California; one sister, Barbara Lishka, Pomona, and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother. She was a member of the Eagles Auxiliary in Bloomington and worked as a parking attendant for the city of Bloomington the past nine years. Memorials may be made' to the American Heart Fund or the National Arthritis Foundation.

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