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6A Friday, June 7, 2013
OBITUARIES
Death Notices:
Evelyn Marie Carmichael, 83
Maisie Lilian Finney, 79
Shirley A. Gillman, 90
William D. Lundstad, Jr., 71
Darlene E. Reese, 86
Jane M. Rogers, 75
Death Notices
with no obituary:
Judy A. Bruce, 58
Shirley A.
Gillman
Shirley A. Gillman, age 90,
of Council Bluffs, passed
away June 4, 2013, at Jennie
Edmundson Hospital.
Shirley was born January
25, 1923, in Lewis, Iowa, to
the late Joseph and Gladys
(Upson) Caton. She married
William Gillman in 1938.
They were blessed with eight
children.
Shirley was a homemaker
and a member of Southside
Christian Church and the
Lewis Central High School
Booster Club. She was a foster mom for 24 years and
loved to work puzzle books
and watch T.V.
In addition to her parents,
Shirley was preceded in
death by her husband, William in 1999; daughters, Gloria
Ragland,
Shary
Maliszewski and daughterin-law, Janice Gillman.
Shirley is survived by her
daughter, Joanne (Larry)
Buckles, of Council Bluffs;
sons, Lary Gillman, of Morse
Bluff, Neb., Gary (Karen)
Gillman, of Council Bluffs,
Gerald
“Slug”
(Kathie)
Gillman, of Omaha, Melvin
“Butch” (Debra) Gillman, Bill
(Stacy) Gillman, Jr., all of
Council Bluffs; 16 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren;
and 2 great great grandchildren.
Visitation with the family
Friday, 5 to 7 p.m., at CutlerO ’ N e i l l - M e y e r- Wo o d r i n g
Bayliss Park Chapel. Graveside service and burial Saturday, 11:30 a.m., in Cedar
Lawn Cemetery. Larry Buckles, son-in-law will officiate.
A lunch will follow at the
Walnut Hill Reception Center, 1350 E. Pierce St. The
family will direct memorials.
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William D.
Lundstad, Jr.
William
D.
Lundstad, Jr., age 71, of
Council Bluffs, passed away
at his home on June 4, 2013.
Bill was born November
12, 1941, in Milwaukee, Wis.,
to the late William D. and
June (Steocker) Lundstad, Sr.
He served his country in the
U.S.
Air
Force
from
1959-1963. On June 22, 1963,
Bill married Jo Ann Miller in
Council Bluffs. They were
blessed with two children.
Bill worked for Allied Systems for 28 years, retiring in
2000. In 2001, Bill began
driving school buses for the
Lewis Central School System.
Bill was a member of First
Christian Church.
In addition to his parents,
Bill was preceded in death by
granddaughter,
Makayla
Lundstad; and father-in-law,
Tom Miller.
Bill is survived by his wife
of 49 years, Jo Ann Lundstad,
of Council Bluffs; daughter,
Julie Ann (Eric Wallace) Cox,
of Omaha, Neb.; son, William
D. (Michelle) Lundstad, III, of
Council Bluffs; grandchildren, Mersaydes (Skyler
Clark) Lundstad, Trent Gardner and Billy Lundstad; great
grandchildren, Aubree and
Kamille
Clark;
brother,
Ronald Lundstad; sister,
Pamela (John) Lusis, all of
Milwaukee, Wis.; nieces and
nephews.
Visitation with the family
Friday, 6 to 8 p.m., at CutlerO ’ N e i l l - M e y e r- Wo o d r i n g
Bayliss Park Chapel. Funeral
service Saturday, 11 a.m., at
the funeral home with Pastor
David Erickson officiating.
Interment Garner Township
Cemetery with military rites
tendered by the Offutt AFB
Honor Guard. Memorials are
suggested to Hospice with
Heart.
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Esther Williams dies at age 91
Maisie Lilian
Finney
Maisie Lilian Finney, 79,
of Council Bluffs, passed
away June 4, 2013.
Maisie was born May 20,
1934, in London, England to
Victor and Lilian (Buchan)
Wiles.
She is survived by her husband, Bill; children, Craig,
Mark, Jody and husband,
Mark Grow; six grandchildren;
four
great
grandchildren with one on
the way; sisters, Joyce and
husband, Bob Koehn, Peggy
Ridpath; nephew, John and
wife, Jane Ridpath.
It was Maisie’s wish to be
cremated so there will be no
viewing or visitation. Memorial services will be held Monday, June 10, 2013, at 2 p.m.,
at Maher-Livingston Funeral
Home. Memorials are directed to the family.
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Evelyn Marie
Carmichael
Evelyn Marie Carmichael,
age 83, passed away Thursday June 6, 2013, at the Rose
Vista Home in Woodbine,
Iowa.
Evelyn was born February
23, 1930, in St. Louis, Mo.;
and was united in marriage
to James C. Carmichael on
December 5, 1964. They were
married for 45 years before
his passing in 2009.
Evelyn was a longtime
Seamstress at Style Select
Uniform Company in Council
Bluffs and also worked at
Pendletons and Landons.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; husband; sisters, Doris Hutton, Catherine
Collins and Rosemary Blackwell.
Survivors include daughter, Beth Valdez and husband, Ruben and their children, Thanen, Hunter and
Ryleigh, all of Underwood,
Iowa; siblings, Shirley Morgan, of Troy, Mo.; Martin
Treese Jr. and wife, Lita, of
Las Vegas, Nev., Judy
Mitchum, of Oklahoma, and
Richard Treese, of Forsyth,
Mo.; many nieces and nephews.
Visitation with the family
Sunday, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., followed by funeral service at 2
p.m., all at St Paul Lutheran
Church (Boomer Township),
22163 Sumac Road, Neola,
luncheon and fellowship to
follow immediately at church.
Interment Monday, 10 a.m.,
Memorial Park Cemetery.
Family and friends to meet at
Memorial Park. Family will
direct memorials.
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Jane M. Rogers
Jane M. Rogers, age 75,
passed away Tuesday, June
4th, 2013.
Jane was born April 16,
1938, in Adair, Iowa, to
Homer and Eva Noland
Olsen. She worked in customer service at First Data
and was a longtime member
of
Emanuel
Lutheran
Church. Jane was a true
American believing in equality for all and loved her Republican Party.
She is preceded in death
by her parents, husband,
Richard, in 1993; son, Marcus
Rogers;
grandchildren,
Jessyca Rogers, Jake, Shelby
and Grace Hansen; and
daughter-in-law,
Kimberly
Rogers.
Jane leaves to mourn her
children and spouses, Ellen
Hansen (John), David Rogers
(Denise), John Rogers (Jean),
Dwight
Rogers
(Sarah
Wohlt), all of Council Bluffs,
September
McCollum
(Lewis), of California; 12
grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren; sisters, Lois
Stump (Dean), of Altoona,
Iowa, Alyce Hassey, Council
Bluffs; and brother, Harry
Olsen (Marge), of Omaha,
Neb.; nieces and nephews.
Visitation Friday, 6 p.m. to
8 p.m. Celebration of Life
Luncheon, Saturday, 12 noon,
all at Cutler-O’Neill-MeyerWoodring
Bayliss
Park
Chapel. Opening remarks by
Pastor Judy Wozniak. Interment Garner Township Cemetery at a later date. Memorials to Emanuel Lutheran
Church and American Cancer
Society.
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Darlene E. Reese
Darlene E. Reese, age 86,
of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
passed away June 5, 2013, at
Mercy Hospital in Council
Bluffs.
Darlene was born December 9, 1926, in Council Bluffs
to the late Walter J. and
Thelma
M.
(Lawrence)
Furler, Sr. She graduated
Thomas
Jefferson
High
School in 1944 and from
Mercy School of Nursing in
1948.
Darlene worked at Mercy
Hospital off and on until
1969. She married James E.
Reese in 1946 and they lived
in Council Bluffs until moving to Walker, Minn., in
1970, where they owned and
operated Loe’s Resort on
Leech Lake. Darlene returned to Council Bluffs in
1999.
In addition to her parents,
Darlene was preceded in
death by her husband, James
E. Reese in 1991; grandson,
Jeff Colyer in 2002; and
brother, Walter J. Furler, Jr.
in 2005.
Darlene is survived by her
daughter, Judy A. (Norm)
Colyer, of Council Bluffs;
sons, James D. (Rochelle)
Reese, of Wadena, Minn., Ron
E. (Joan) Reese, of Bemidji,
Minn., Richard A. (Wendy)
Reese, of Washburn, Wisc.,
David S. Reese, of Brainerd,
Minn; grandchildren, Kristin
(Kent)
Cooper,
Dustin
(Heather) Reese, Sheena,
Amanda, Kelley, and Ashley
Reese, Jessica (Jason) Reese,
Evan (Kay) Reese, Mitch
(Casey)
Kiehne,
Natalie
Kiehne;
9
great
grandchildren; 1 niece and
many nephews.
Visitation with the family,
Monday, 2 to 3 p.m., at
Cutler-O’Neill-Meyer-Woodring Bayliss Park Chapel.
Graveside service and burial
will follow in Ridgewood
Cemetery with Rev. Dr. Eberhard A. Hering officiating.
The family will direct memorials.
LOS ANGELES (AP) –
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress
who starred in glittering and
aquatic Technicolor musicals
of the 1940s and 1950s, has
died. She was 91.
Williams died early Thursday in her sleep, according to
her longtime publicist Harlan
Boll.
Following in the footsteps
of Sonja Henie, who went from
skating champion to movie
star, Williams became one of
Hollywood’s biggest moneymakers, appearing in spectacular swimsuit numbers that
capitalized on her wholesome
beauty and perfect figure.
Such films as “Easy to
Wed,” ‘‘Neptune’s Daughter“
and ”Dangerous When Wet”
followed the same formula:
romance, music, a bit of comedy and a flimsy plot that
provided excuses to get Esther
into the water.
The extravaganzas dazzled
a second generation via television and the compilation films
“That’s Entertainment.” Williams’ co-stars included the
pick of the MGM contract list,
including Gene Kelly, Frank
Sinatra, Red Skelton, Ricardo
Montalban and Howard Keel.
When hard times signaled
the end of big studios and
costly musicals in the mid’50s, Williams tried non-swimming roles with little success.
After her 1962 marriage to
Fernando Lamas, her co-star
in “Dangerous When Wet,”
she retired from public life.
She explained in a 1984
interview: “A really terrific
guy comes along and says, ‘I
wish you’d stay home and be
my wife,’ and that’s the most
logical thing in the world for
a Latin. And I loved being a
Latin wife – you get treated
very well. There’s a lot of
attention in return for that
sacrifice.”
She came to films after
winning 100-meter freestyle
and other races at the 1939
national championships and
appearing at the San Francisco World’s Fair’s swimming
exhibition.
As with Judy Garland,
Donna Reed and other stars,
Williams was introduced in
one of Mickey Rooney’s Andy
Hardy films, “Andy Hardy’s
Double Life” (1942).
She also played a small role
in “A Guy Named Joe” before
“Bathing Beauty” in 1944
began the string of immensely
popular musical spectaculars.
Among them: “Thrill of
a Romance,” ‘‘Fiesta,“ ‘‘This
Time for Keeps,” ‘‘On an
Island with You,“ ‘‘Take Me
out to the Ballgame,” ‘‘Duchess of Idaho,“ ‘‘Pagan Love
Song,” ‘‘Texas Carnival,“
‘‘Skirts Ahoy,” ‘‘Million Dollar
Mermaid“ (as Annette Kellerman, an earlier swimming
champion turned entertainer),
”Dangerous When Wet,“ ‘‘Easy
to Love” and “Jupiter’s Darling.”
Williams in a bathing suit
became a favorite pinup of
GI’s in World War II, and her
popularity continued afterward. She was a refreshing
presence among MGM’s stellar gallery – warm, breezy,
with a frankness and self-deprecating humor that delighted
interviewers.
She laughed as much as
anyone over an assessment
by Fanny Brice, the original
“Funny Girl”: “Esther Williams? Wet, she’s a star. Dry,
she ain’t.”
After leaving MGM, she
starred in two Universal dramatic films, “The Unguarded
Moment” and “Raw Wind in
Eden.” Neither was successful.
In 1961 Lamas directed her
last film, “The Magic Fountain,” in Spain. It was never
released in America.
When she published her
autobiography in 1999, she
titled it “The Million Dollar
Mermaid.”
Esther Jane Williams grew
up destined for a career in
athletics. She was born Aug. 8,
1921, in Inglewood, a suburb
southwest of Los Angeles, one
of five children.
(Some references give a
birth year of 1922 or 1923, but
she told The Associated Press
in 2004 that the correct date
was 1921. “I think we ought
to just count our blessings,”
she said at the time. “You get
old. It happens, but oh, what
life we had when we were
young.”)
A public pool was not far
from the modest home where
Williams was raised, and it
was there that an older sis-
Iowa police agency: psychics aren’t on payroll
IOWA CITY (AP) – The
Iowa Department of Public
Safety wants to make it clear:
it does not pay psychics to
help solve cases.
Spokesman Rob Hansen
said Thursday that new Commissioner K. Brian London
did ask investigators whether
they’d received any tips from
psychics related to the kidnapping and slaying of two
cousins, and whether they followed up on them.
Hansen said London made
the inquiry in December, the
day the bodies of Lyric Cook
and Elizabeth Collins were
found in a wooded area in
northeast Iowa. The girls
were 10 and 8 when they vanished last July while riding
bikes in Evansdale, and no
arrests have been made in
their deaths.
The commissioner, who
started in October after
being appointed by Gov.
Terry Branstad, believes his
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Williams
ter taught her to swim. They
saved the 10-cent admission
price by counting 100 towels.
When she was in her teens,
the Los Angeles Athletic Club
offered to train her four hours
a day, aiming for the 1940
Olympic Games at Helsinki.
In 1939, she won the Women’s Outdoor Nationals title
in the 100-meter freestyle,
set a record in the 100-meter
breaststroke and was a part of
several winning relay teams.
But the outbreak of war in
Europe that year canceled the
1940 Olympics, and Esther
dropped out of competition to
earn a living.
She was selling clothes in
a Wilshire Boulevard department store when showman
Billy Rose tapped her for a
bathing beauty job at the
World’s Fair in San Francisco.
While there, she was spotted by an MGM producer and
an agent. She laughed at the
suggestion she do films that
would popularize swimming,
as Henie had done with ice
skating.
“Frankly I didn’t get it,”
she recalled. “If they had
asked me to do some swimming scenes for a star, that
would have made sense to me.
But to ask me to act was sheer
insanity.” She finally agreed
to visit MGM boss Louis B.
Mayer, and recalled that she
took the job after her mother
told her: “No one can avoid
a challenge in life without
breeding regret, and regret is
the arsenic of life.”
Lamas was Williams’ third
husband. Before her fame she
was married briefly to a medical student. In 1945 she wed
Ben Gage, a radio announcer,
and they had three children, Benjamin, Kimball and
Susan. They divorced in 1958.
After Lamas’ death in
1982, Williams regained the
spotlight. Having popularized
synchronized swimming with
her movies, she was co-host
of the event on television at
the 1984 Olympic Games in
Los Angeles. She issued a
video teaching children how
to swim and sponsored her
own line of swimsuits.
“I’ve been a lucky lady,” she
said in a 1984 interview with
The Associated Press. “I’ve had
three exciting careers. Before
films I had the experience of
competitive swimming, with
the incredible fun of winning.
... I had a movie career with all
the glamor that goes with it.
That was ego-fulfilling, but it
was like the meringue on the
pie. My marriage with Fernando – that was the filling,
that was the apple in the pie.”
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routine inquiry has been mischaracterized, Hansen said.
He said London faced questions from an officer at one
recent meeting about whether
the department pays for
psychics and “corrected the
record” that it does not.
Hansen said that London
believes investigators should
follow every lead, including
those from psychics, particularly when other investigative
leads dry up. But he said the
department isn’t using psychics “as some sort of philosophy” under London. Numerous psychics had, in fact,
offered their services in the
Evansdale case.
“The commissioner’s view-
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point is, to the person or the
family or the parents, put
yourself in their position,” he
said. “Would you want us following every piece of information that has been provided
to us? We didn’t seek any of
those things out. But things
were brought to us. And did
we run those things down?
His belief is we should do
everything we can do with
information that is provided
to us.”
Responding to an open
records request by The Associated Press, the department
said Thursday it had no correspondence to and from London related to psychics or any
invoices for their services.
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