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The Daily Nonpareil
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
OBITUARIES
Death Notices:
Marvin Homer
Beezley
Marvin Homer Beezley, 80
Leland Read Elwell, 72
Ernest W. “Joe” Hansen, 69
Gene Arthur Sanders, 88
Ann Evelyn Sealock, 88
Randall R. Williams, 64
Gene Arthur
Sanders
Ann Evelyn
Sealock
Ann Evelyn Sealock peacefully passed from this life on
February 25, 2013, at the age
of 88 in Houston, Texas.
Ann was born June 20,
1925, in Honey Creek, Iowa,
to Adolph Leitzke and Frances “Peg” McGinty Leitzke.
The family then moved to
Neola, Iowa, where she graduated from Neola High
School in 1942. Ann married
Leo Sealock October 12, 1946.
They were happily married
for 53 years.
Ann chose a career in
insurance and worked at The
Western Insurance Company
in Omaha until her retirement. While in Iowa she, and
her husband socialized at the
American Legion and VFW.
As part of these activities,
Ann served as a member of
the VFW Women’s Auxiliary.
Ann spent most of her life
in Council Bluffs, moving to
Houston, Texas in 2007 to
live with her daughter,
Adena. She was a wonderful
person, mother, and grandmother. She enjoyed spending time with her family and
friends. She loved sports and
particularly liked watching
baseball and basketball. She
was an avid card player
spending many hours playing
Skipbo whenever she had the
opportunity.
Ann was preceded in death
by her parents, Adolph and
Peg Leitzke; husband, Leo
Sealock; grandson, Jacen
Sealock; and
son-in-law,
Gene Comer.
Ann is survived by her two
children, Adena Sealock, of
Houston and John Sealock, of
West
Richland,
Wash.;
daughter-in-law,
Carol
Sealock, of West Richland;
granddaughter,
Jaime
Sealock Olsen and her husband, Shane of Argyle, Texas;
granddaughter-in-law, Anitra
Sealock; and great grandchildren, Kristin and Dustin
Sealock, all of West Richland.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at MaherLivingston Funeral Home,
at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 20,
2013. The family will be
greeting friends and relatives
one hour prior. Burial will
follow at the Neola Township
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers
the family requests memorial
donations be made to the
Charity of their choice.
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Joe Hansen
Ernest W. “Joe” Hansen,
age 69, of Winterset, Iowa,
died Sunday, June 16, 2013,
at Iowa Methodist Medical
Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
A memorial will be held at
11 a.m., Wednesday, June 19,
2013, at St. Paul Lutheran
Church in Winterset. A visitation will be held from 5 to 8
p.m., Tuesday, June 18, 2013,
at Ochiltree Funeral Service
& Aftercare, with family present to receive friends from 6
to 8 p.m. A second memorial
service will be held 11 a.m.,
Friday, June 21, 2013, at the
Emanuel Lutheran Church in
Council Bluffs, with burial in
St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery
in
Boomer
Township,
Pottawattamie County. Memorials may be directed to
the St. Paul Lutheran Church
in Winterset. Online condolences may be directed to the
family at www.ochiltree.com.
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Gene
Arthur
Sanders, age 88, of Council
Bluffs, passed away peacefully on Father’s Day, June
16, 2013, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.
A lifelong educator in
Southwest Iowa and Eastern
Nebraska, Gene began his
teaching career in the Promise City, Iowa School District,
moving thereafter to Elk
Horn-Kimballton Community
Schools as a teacher and
coach; later serving as the
Principal and Superintendent. In 1960, Gene became
the first Principal of the
newly formed Lewis-Central
Junior-Senior High School in
Council Bluffs. After leaving
Lewis-Central, Gene advanced through the administrative
ranks
of
the
Pottawattamie
County
Schools and served on the
Area Education Agency 13
Administrative Staff until he
retired in 1986.
From 1973 to 1980, Gene
was one of ten select educators who, along with Dr. Harold Gifford of Omaha, developed and implemented the
Metropolitan Education Program Agency in Bellevue,
Neb. Gene was a charter
member of the Southwest
Iowa Education Foundation,
a past Board Member of the
Lewis-Central
Education
Foundation and was active as
an officer and board member
of the Vocational Development Center in Council
Bluffs for nearly 20 years. In
2011, Gene was honored for
his lifelong commitment to
educational excellence and
career achievement and was
inducted to the Lewis Central
Hall of Fame.
Gene served in the United
States Navy during World
War II, seeing action at several of the most strategically
significant locations in the
South Pacific theatre including Saipan, Guam, Peleliu
and Tinian. Gene spoke most
often of his time at the airfields of Ulithi Atoll, the “best
kept secret of the War.”
He was born in Grand Island, Neb., on August 12,
1924, to Arthur W. and Violet
Reed Sanders.
Gene was preceded in
death by his parents and
step-mother, Mary BohartSanders; his son, Gene Edward Sanders; three sisters,
Shirley Waskowiak, Ramona
Cox and Sharon Hanssen;
brother, Jack Reed Sanders;
brother-in-law,
Richard
Waskowiak; step-sister, Delores Bohart; step-brothers,
C.E. (Jim) Bohart and
Charles Bohart; and his close
friends, Jim Ziolkowski and
Gary (Butch) Rogers, both of
Council Bluffs.
Gene is survived by his
wife, Florence (Betty) Sanders, of Council Bluffs;
daughters, Jerome (Jerre)
and her husband, Mark
Hunter, of Carter Lake, Iowa,
Sherry
Davis,
of
Port
Townsend, Wash., Susanne
and her husband, Roy Bohn,
of Milano, Texas and Leslie
and her husband, Kevin
Burr, of Carter Lake, Iowa.
Gene has eleven grandchildren
and
seven
great
grandchildren. Also surviving
are Gene’s sisters, Colleen
and her husband, Jim Cummings, of Grand Island, Neb.,
Carolyn and her husband,
Jerry Henke, of Grand Island; brothers-in-law, Bud
Cox and John Hanssen, of
Grand Island; sisters-in-law,
Charlene Sanders, of Denver,
Colo. and Marcella (Bohart)
Wills, of Lincoln, Neb.;
friends, Carmen Ziolkowski
and Terry Rogers, both of
Council Bluffs; and many
nieces, nephews and other
relatives and friends. All are
grateful for having shared
Gene’s life.
Visitation with the family
Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Memorial service Thursday,
11
a.m.,
all
at
the
Cutler-O’Neill-Meyer-Woodring Bayliss Park Chapel,
Rev. Will Reger presiding.
Private interment at a later
date. In lieu of flowers, the
family requests memorials be
directed to the Elk Horn Kimballton Community School
Education Foundation or the
Lewis-Central Community
Schools Education Foundation.
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Leland Read
Elwell
Randall R.
Williams
Leland Read Elwell, age
72, on Friday, June 14th
2013, Leland Read Elwell departed this earth and joined
our Heavenly Father.
Read was born to the late
Hazel Rebecca Read and Leland Leroy Elwell on February 23, 1941, in Warrensburg, Mo. He grew up in
Neola, Iowa and graduated
from Carlisle Military Academy in Bamberg, S.C. He was
Captain of Company B and
on the Honor Council his senior year. Read served as a
Medic in the United States
Air Force from 1962 to 1966.
Two years were served at
Tachikawa Air Force Base in
Japan. He was awarded the
Air Force Commendation
Medal for saving a baby’s life.
Read embraced the Japanese
culture learning the language
and taking in the scenery
mountain climbing. He studied under a Japanese Master,
earning his Black Belt in
Shotokan Karate.
He finished his military
career at Whiteman Air Force
Base in Warrensburg where
he met his future wife Betty
Jane Andersen. They married
on March 13, 1966 in St
Paul’s Lutheran Church in
Atlantic, Iowa. During their
47 year marriage, 3 children
were born into this union.
Read graduated from Wesley
Medical Center in Wichita,
Kan., as a Registered X-Ray
and Nuclear Medicine Technologist. In 1971, he set up
the Nuclear Medicine Department at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City, Kan.
During his off-time, Read volunteered for six years as a
Deputy Sheriff for the Finney
County Sheriff’s Department
and became a licensed pilot
and flew prisoner transports.
When living in Kansas City
and Oklahoma City, Read
worked as a Capital Equipment salesman for Greb
X-Ray Company. In 1992, he
added an MBA, from California Coast University, to his
list of accomplishments. His
love for motorcycles took him
to Strugis, S.D., several times
to the yearly Biker Rally on
his “Big Dog” motorcycle.
Read also belonged to the
Scottish Rite and achieved
the level of 32nd Degree Mason. In his pursuit to living
life to the fullest, he carried
out his life long dream of
learning to play the Bagpipes. He played at McConnel
Air Force Base for 9/11 Tributes, played at weddings, funerals, family functions and
holiday parades. He was a
member of a Bagpipe band in
Wichita. Read was also a
member of the Methodist
church and the Ardmore Masonic Lodge.
Read was preceded in
death by his parents, 1 sister,
Peg Mitchell; 2 sister-in-laws,
Ruth and husband, Dale
West and Anna and husband,
Bill Roberg.
He is survived by wife,
Betty Elwell, of Ardmore,
Okla.; children, Ethan Elwell,
of Ardmore, Angela Sanders,
of Fort Worth, Texas, Jeremy
Elwell, of Tucson, Ariz.;
grandchildren, Amber and
Bret Elwell, of Ardmore, Brittany and Ross Sanders, of
Fort Worth; brothers, Roger
Elwell and wife, Judy, of
Naches, Wash. and James
Elwell and wife, Cindy, of
Council Bluffs; nieces, Beth
Blasé, of Housing Springs,
Mo., Shelly Murphy, of
Council Bluffs, Rebekah
Elwell, of Naches; nephews,
William Mitchell and wife,
Shelia, of Banhart, Mo., Matt
Mitchell and wife, Emily, of
Bridgeton,
Mo.,
James
Elwell, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa; brother-in-law, Henry
Mitchell, of High Ridge, Mo.;
sister in-law, Dorothy Cade
and husband, John, of Simi,
Calif.
Visitation will be Monday,
at Watts Funeral Home, Madill from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
with a family hour from 7
p.m. to 8 p.m. Services will be
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 10
a.m., at the Mannsville Methodist Church, in Mannsville,
Okla. Frank Simpson will officiate the services. Music arranged by Gayle Avery. Interment will be at Mannsville
Cemetery, Mannsville. Condolences may be sent to
wattsfuneralhome.com.
Randall “Randy” R. Williams, age 64, who died on
Thursday, May 30, 2013, in
Avoca, Iowa.
Services were held at 1
p.m. on Monday, June 3,
2013, at the Trinity Lutheran
Church in Avoca, Iowa. Honorary casket bearers were his
grandchildren. Serving as
casket bearers were: Ron
Mikels, Wayne Mikels, Brent
Mikels, Chad Williams, Galen Mikels, Craig Williams,
Zachary Williams and Bryan
Berndt. Military Rites were
conducted at the Graceland
Cemetery in Avoca, Iowa by
the Avoca American Legion Fred Funston Post No. 227.
He is survived by his wife,
Judy Williams, of Avoca; his
children, Michael Williams,
of Avoca, Tena and her husband, Aaron Massie, of Underwood, Iowa and Jessica
Williams, of Des Moines,
Iowa; his four grandchildren,
Colin, Aubrie, Quinn and
Delanie; his father, Laverne
Williams, of Woodbine, Iowa;
his brothers, Rick Williams
and his wife, Pat, of Missouri
Valley, and Bruce Williams
and his wife, Vivian, of Woodbine; nieces and nephews;
other relatives and many
friends.
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Marvin Homer Beezley,
age 80, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, died Friday, June 14,
2013, at West Ridge Care
Center, Cedar Rapids following a long illness.
Marvin was born on November 22, 1932, in Council
Bluffs, the son of Homer and
Edna (Timm) Beezley. He
married Norma Jean Pope on
September 18, 1954 at Grace
Methodist Church in Des
Moines. Norma Jean died in
1972. Marvin retired in 1977
from the Air Force as a Lt.
Colonel, as a navigator on
B-52’s. He faithfully served in
Vietnam and during his time
in service was able to travel
the world and be stationed in
many states.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Norma Jean; his
brother, Gerald Beezley in
2008; and son, Michael in
2011.
Marvin is survived his
daughter, Lori (William)
Meyer, of Cedar Rapids; five
grandchildren,
Rebekah
Meyer, of Roseville, Minn.,
John (Megan) Meyer, of Manchester, N.H., Jeremy Meyer,
of Cedar Rapids and Amy
(Eddie) Sinkevich, Jacob
Beezley, and Adam (Jenee)
Mann, all of Omaha, Neb.;
one brother, Richard (Marcia)
Beezley, of Burnsville, Minn.;
many nieces and nephews; a
special friend, Jean Borders,
of Cedar Rapids; and the
large body of caregivers at
West Ridge Care Center.
Services 1 p.m., Saturday, at
New Covenant Bible Church,
Cedar Rapids, by Chaplain
Jeremy Hudson. Burial 1
p.m., Monday, June 24, 2013,
at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in
Council Bluffs, with military
honors. Friends may visit
with the family Friday, from
3 to 6 p.m., at Teahen Funeral Home, Cedar Rapids
and after 12 p.m., on Saturday at the church. Instead of
flowers the family requests
that donations be made in his
name to the Wounded Warrior
Project.
Wounded
Warrior Project, P.O. Box
758517, Topeka, Kan., 66675,
or
online
at:
got@woundedwarriorproject.
org. Online condolences may
be left for the family at www.
teahenfuneralhome.com.
The family would like to give
special recognition to all the
caregivers at West Ridge
Care Center who over the
years became like family to
Marvin.
COUNCIL BLUFFS
POLICE DEPARTMENT
ARRESTS
Saturday, 1:54 a.m. – 52 mile
marker Interstate 29; Patrick Ashcraft,
51, 1435 S. 15th St., Omaha, arrested
on suspicion of operating while intoxicated.
Saturday, 1:54 a.m. – 52 mile
marker Interstate 29; David Driggers, 54, 802 Wood Ave., Carter Lake,
arrested on suspicion of public intoxication.
Saturday, 9:16 a.m. – Harrier Hollow and Navajo Street; Juan Aranda,
30, 3416 Gertrude St., Bellevue, Neb.,
arrested on suspicion of public intoxication.
Saturday, 9:41 p.m. – 1503 Ave.
J; Sean Jeffries, 28, 3224 N. 105th
Plaza, Omaha, arrested on suspicion
of domestic abuse-simple assault.
Saturday, 11:25 p.m. – 1316 N.
20th St.; Jessica Augustine, 19, 1316
N. 20th St., arrested on suspicion of
domestic abuse-simple assault and
unlawful possession of prescription
medication and fifth-degree theft warrants.
Saturday, 11:41 p.m. – 1316 N.
20th St.; Thomas Trautman Jr., 18,
1307 N. 20th St., arrested on suspicion of simple assault.
Sunday, 12:32 a.m. – 3209
Renner Drive; Jeffrey Hytreck, 28, 804
Hickory St., Omaha, arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree
harassment, public intoxication and
disorderly conduct.
Sunday, 1:07 a.m. – 500 S. 18th
St.; Steven Roberts, 28, 7165 N. 28th
St., Omaha, arrested on suspicion of
possession of marijuana, possession
of drug paraphernalia, interference
with official acts and disobedience to
a peace officer.
Sunday, 3:30 a.m. – Avenue L
and 26th Street; Ricky Boner, 23, 2614
Ave. B, arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated, driving while
revoked, eluding, interference with
official acts, leaving the scene of an
accident and failure to maintain an
assured clear distance.
Sunday, 12:42 p.m. – 102 S. Seventh St.; Darrell Stogdill, 56, 102 S.
Seventh St., arrested on suspicion of
domestic abuse-aggravated assault.
Sunday, 2:50 p.m. – 1751 Madison Ave.; Ambrosia Evans, 25, 4702
N. 47th St., Omaha, arrested on suspicion of third-degree theft, disobedience to a peace officer and interference with official acts.
Sunday, 2:50 p.m. – 1751 Madison Ave.; Tanika Gibbs, 21, 4014
Curtis Ave., Omaha, arrested on suspicion of third-degree theft and disobedience to a peace officer.
Sunday, 2:54 p.m. – 805 N. 36th
St.; Kenneth Pierce, 21, 805 N. 36th
St., arrested on suspicion of domestic
abuse-serious assault.
Sunday, 9:36 p.m. – 400 block
of Oakland Avenue; Trent Wichert,
50, 613 Linden, Oakland, arrested on
suspicion of public intoxication.
Monday, 5:03 a.m. – 800 block of
South 21st Street; Jack Osborne Jr.,
36, 2118 Sixth Ave., arrested on suspicion of possession of a concealed
weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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THEFTS
Saturday, 4:27 a.m. – Danny Bey
of Council Bluffs reported a 2003 Ford
Windstar, valued at $3,000, stolen
from his residence between 12:01 and
2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Sunday, 1:31 p.m. – Raymond
Ruppe of Council Bluffs reported a
1991 Chevy truck and topper, all valued at $7,000, stolen from his residence between midnight and 7 a.m.
Sunday.
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Hitchhiking cat heading home to Oregon
HELENA, Mont. (AP) – A
well-traveled cat named “Mata
Hairi” will soon be reunited
with her owner after spending nearly 10 months traveling thousands of miles with
a hitchhiker who rescued her
from the rain.
The feline adventure started
in Portland, Ore., when the
cat’s owner, Ron Buss, let
her out of the house on Sept.
1, 2012. The cat, white with
patches of dark gray, usually
left for no more than a couple
of hours at a time, but this time
she didn’t return.
When Michael King, who
has been homeless since 2003,
spotted Mata Hairi, she was
crouched under a table at a
cafe, trying to stay out of the
pouring rain.
“Something told me to grab
her. I don’t know,” King told
the Independent Record.
He named the cat Tabor and
she traveled with King on top of
his backpack as he hitchhiked
to California, back to Portland
and out to Montana, where
King’s foster father lives.
A recent scan found a microchip, and the vet was able to
contact Buss, who is planning
a party marking Mata’s return.
“My pack will be 20 pounds
lighter,” King said, “but a big
hole, a big hole.”
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