a a Deaths Funerals Monday, The Kansas August 22, City 1994 Star The Star runs death 1 notices of charge as a public service. They are edited for length, clarity and conformity to style. For example, The Star customarily omits names of surviving grandchildren and limits most obituaries to list one job and two church or club memberships. To place a notice, call (816) 234-4300. The items under the "classified funeral notices" heading are paid advertisem*nts; to inquire about them, call (816) 234- 4055.
Cleo J. Craig Cleo J. Craig, 85, Independence, a former barbershop owner, was dead 1994, at the home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Newcomer's Floral Hills Chapel; burial in Floral Hills Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel. The family requests no flowers and suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society. Mr. Craig owned Cleo's Barber Shop in Independence for 40 years, retiring in 1974.
He attended Calvary Presbyterian Church. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Tirey J. Ford post of American Legion and the Fraas-Fain post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was born i in Leeton, and lived in this area most of his life. Survivors include his wife, Margaret L.
Craig of the home; a son, C.J. Craig, Peoria, daughter, Dotty Riley, Leawood; brother, Henry Craig, Independence; and five grandchildren. JAMES C. AUSTIN James Carl Austin, 45, Lincoln, formerly of this area, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the Independence Regional Health Center.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Ben Cast Son-Wood Chapel, Holden, burial in Elm Spring Cemetery, Kingsville, Mo. Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the Independence Regional Health Center Hospice.
Mr. Austin was born in Leavenworth and lived in Lone Jack in Jackson County and Independence before moving to Lincoln in 1993. He was a draftsman for the National Detailing Co. in Lincoln since 1993. Survivors include a son, Jody Crouse, Lee's Summit, and a sister, Peggy Crook, Independence.
HATTIE F. BECKER Hattie F. Becker, 86, Emporia, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the home. Services will be at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia; burial in the church cemnetery. The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. today at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Chapel, Emporia. The family suggests contributions to the church's memorial fund. Mrs.
Becker was born in Munster, Germany, and moved to Emporia 65 years ago. She was a member of the church and its Altar Society. Her husband, Frank X. Becker, died in 1991. Survivors include two sons, Frank J.
Becker, El Dorado, and Robert H. Becker, Wichita; two daughter, Betty L. Timmerman, Albuquerque, N.M., Marge A. Jehle, Lawrence; 12 grandchildren; and 12 great grande TERESA G. CANNON Teresa Grindinger Cannon, 91, Shawnee, died Aug.
20, 1994, in the I Delmar Gardens of Lenexa. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Shawnee; burial in St. Mary's Cemetery, Kansas City.
Friends may call from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the McGilley Hoge Chapel, where the rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Mrs. Cannon was a lifelong area resident. She was a telephone operator for the Kansas City (Mo.) Police Department for 22 years, retiring in 1972.
She was a member of the church altar society and its Keen Agers Club. Survivors include a son, John Cannon, Kansas City; a daughter, Patricia Lutz, Shawnee; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. LOLETA L. CLEMMENS Loleta Lucille Clemmens, 69, Erie, formerly of this area, died Aug. 19, 1994, at a hospital in Parsons, Kan.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Pierce- Chapel, Erie; graveside services in Kansas City will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at White Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
The family suggests contributions to Labette County Home Health Agency, Parsons. Mrs. Clemmens was born in St. Paul, and lived in Erie, before moving to Kansas City in 1945. She moved to Galena, in 1973, before moving to Blue Springs in 1983.
She returned to Erie in 1990. Her first husband, Russell Edward Clemmens, died in 1972. Her second husband, William Otto Woods, died in 1982. Survivors include four daughters, Juanita Schurman and Mary Kean of Blue Springs, Patricia Woods, Pittsburg, and Naomi Davis, Springfield, two stepsons, Richard Woods, Missouri, and David Woods, Pittsburg; four stepdaughters, Barbara Freeman, Grandview, Dorothy Booton, Louisburg, Judy Collins, La Cygne, and Deanna Anderson, Spring Hill in Johnson County; seven brothers, Carl Mattox, Miami, Lee Mattox, Choctaw, George Mattox, Parsons, Dwaine Mattox, Tulsa, James Mattox, Derby, Bob Mattox, Mound Valley, and Don Mattox, Eismore, three sisters, Wanda Yarrington, Parsons, Lela Hutchison, Wichita, and Wilma Wintjen, Erie; 17 grandchildren; stepgrandchildren; a greatgranddaughter; and stepgreat-grandchildren. CAROLYN S.
DAY Carolyn Sue Day, 45, Cleveland in Cass County, died Aug. 20, 1994, at Research Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Runyan Chapel, Louisburg, burial in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
today at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to Gideons International. Mrs. Day was born in Wichita and moved to this area in 1967. She was a checker for Hypermart U.S.A.
She was a member of the Cleveland Baptist Church. Survivors include her' husband, Albert Day, and a son, Donald D. Day, both of the home; her mother, Betty Sue Brown, Olathe; and two brothers, Jimmy L. Brown, Hillsdale, and Melvin D. Brown, Overland Park.
LESTER M. EARP Lester M. Earp, 64, Kansas City, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the home. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at Chapel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Porter Chapel. The family suggests contributions Cancer Action Inc. Mr.
Earp was born in Everest, and lived in this area most of his life. He was a clerk for the Southern Pacific Lines for 42 years, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Transportation Communications Union. Survivors include his wife, Jean Earp of the home; two sons, Lester M. Earp Tacoma, and Ralph Wayne Earp, Kansas City, three Nancy L.
Martin, Fort Worth, Texas, Karen Mitchell and Carla Tibbets of Kansas City, three sisters, Lucille Hobbs, Horton, Betty Lacy, Riverside, and Maxine Thurm, St. Joseph; and eight grandchildren. VIRGINIA R. FENIX Virginia Ruth Fenix, 65, southeast Kansas City, died Aug. 20, 1994, near Warsaw, Mo.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Newcomer's Floral Hills Chapel; burial in Floral Hills Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel. Mrs.
Fenix was born in Pierce City, and lived in this area for 45 years. She was a microfilm and press operator for the General Services Administration for 21 years, retiring in 1990. Survivors include her husband, Oren G. Fenix of the home; two daughters, Peggy Fritz, Belton, and Pamela Miller, Olathe; a sister, Dorothy Dodson, Pierce City; and four grandchildren. REX O.
FOUSHEE Rex Oscar Foushee, 82, Ottawa, formerly of this area, died Aug. 20, 1994, in a nursing home in Wellsville, Kan. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Dengel Son Chapel, Ottawa; burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Ottawa. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ottawa. Mr. Foushce was born in Manhattan, and lived in Ottawa, Kansas City and Independence before returning to Ottawa in' 1984. He was a truck driver for Mid-American Truck Lines, retiring in 1974.
He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of For- eign Wars, Ottawa. He was a member of Local 41 of the Teamsters union. His wife, Marjorie Cruse Foushee, died in 1984. Survivors include a son, Rex L. Foushee, Apple Valley, and two brothers, Dale Foushee and Max Foushee, and a sister, Zola Sand, all of Ottawa.
MARTHA G. FRANCIS Martha Grace Francis, 80, Overland Park, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Newcomer's Overland Park Chapel; burial in the Johnson County Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Friends may call from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel. The family requests no flowers and suggests contributions to Blue Valley Church. Mrs. Francis was a lifelong area resident.
She worked for the Cancer Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center for 15 years, retiring executive secretary in 1979. She was a deacon at the church. She was a member of the Overland Park Trailblazers. Survivors include her husband, D. Francis Sr.
of the home; two sons, Harold D. Francis Fenton, and Robert H. Francis, Olathe; a daughter, Susan Ann Myers, Raytown; and four grandsons. EARL S. HARDY Earl S.
Hardy, 88, south-central Kansas City, died Aug. 19, 1994, at the home. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at the Muehlebach Chapel; burial in Forest Cemetery. Mr.
Hardy was born in Grove, and lived in this area 50 years. He was a service worker for Roach Cadillac and a member of Local 552 of the Teamsters union. He was a member an Elks lodge. He was an Army Veteran of World War Il. Survivors include his wife, Iciphene Hardy of the home; two stepsons, Dr.
Robert, J. Wilkin, Dallas, and Carl E. Wilkin, Madison, a stepdaughter, Teresa N. Tull, Kansas City; and three stepgrandchildren. KENNETH E.
MANSUR Kenneth Eugene Mansur, 54, northeast Kansas City, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the home. Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at New Hope Cemetery, north of Hardin, Mo. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m.
today at the Thurman Chapel, Richmond. The family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society. Mr. Mansur was born in Regal, and lived in Kansas City most of his life. He was a bookkeeper for Phil Jacob's Clothing, retiring in 1986.
He was an Army veteran. Survivors include his mother, Mary Frances Mansur of the home, and a brother, Richard D. Mansur, Independence. LESTER McDOWELL Lester "Skippy" McDowell, 86, Independence, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the home.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Oak Ridge Memory Gardens Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to the Kansas City Hospice. Mr. McDowell was born in Stone County, and moved to this area in 1928.
He was an automobile salesman for Busload of Kansas parolees upsets KC police A Kansas City police sergeant was startled last month when he saw a Kansas prison bus parked near 11th Street and Troost Avenue. A uniformed guard, armed with a shotgun, was standing outside while another guard unloaded people from the back of the bus. The men exiting the bus signed a piece of paper, were handed their property and then walked away; some headed north, some south, some east. Kansas corrections officials say what the police sergeant witnessed was a mistake. The prisoners were supposed to be dropped off at the Kansas City, bus station.
Raymond Roberts, Kansas deputy secretary of facility management, sent a letter of apology last week to Kansas City police attorney Dale Close. "The bus driver headed east and apparently passed the big sign that says 'Welcome to Close said. "It was the bus driver's error. It wasn't intentional." Bill Miskell, public information officer for the Kansas Department of Corrections, said the bus riders were being paroled from the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Ellsworth, Kan. Normally, the parolees are taken to Salina and put 'on buses, he said.
Because a large number of persons were released, it was cheaper to take them to Kansas City; to make their connections. Police were upset because they were not notified about the Six spectators injured at State Fair tractor pull Six people were injured Saturday when a driver plowed into a group of spectators at a Missouri State Fair tractor and truck pull. Five of the injured people, including an 8-year-old boy, were treated and released from a Sedalia hospital. The sixth victim, 27- Pollution The Associated Press By CYNTHIA LOZANO Staff Writer By KAREN BLAKEMAN Staff Writer NEW DELHI, India Indian scientists and conservation groups are urging the United Nations to save the Taj Mahal, the pearlwhite marble tomb built by a 17th-century Muslim emperor for his favorite wife. The Taj Mahal's walls and onion-shaped dome are yellowing, and sulfur gases from nearby factories are corroding its marble, conservationists said at a seminar Saturday attended by pollution experts, U.N.
officials and others. Mahesh Mehta, an attorney seeking to remove 8,000 factories Women hurt in fire in critical condition One person remained in critical condition Sunday and a second person's condition worsened to critical after a fire in Independ- ence. The two Elsie Starnes, 83, and Nola Truex, 52 were in the burn unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Truex had been in serious condition Saturday. They were among eight persons hurt in the 5 a.m.
fire Saturday at the Lexington Apartments, 513 W. Lexington Ave. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries, and two residents, Debra Berry and Chris Shaw, remained in fair condition Sunday at Independence Regional Health Center. Ten oft the 12 units in the complex were occupied when the fire started. Firefighters rescued several people by ladder and found one resident unconscious inside.
Investigators blamed the fire on faulty wiring. The complex, valued at about $150,000, was destroyed. Buy, sell, trade, morning and Sundays with Star Classified Ads. To place your ads dial 334-4000. -Adv.
DEATHS Austin, James C. Mitchell, Ina J. Tope, Mildred A. Becker, Hattie F. Plumberg, Henry E.
Williams, Ruby K. Cannon, Teresa G. Portwood, Wimmer, Charles E. Clemmens, Loleta L. Maynard E.
Craig, Cleo J. Rutherford, Day, Carolyn S. Gladys L. Earp, Lester M. Smithey, Lois Jean Fenix, Virginia R.
Foushee, Rex O. Snell, William R. Francis, Martha G. Stephenson, Hardy, Earl S. Cecelia I.
Mansur, Kenneth Strother, McDowell, Lester Dorothy A. Miller, Hattie A. Sullivan, Opal E. Ketcham Oldsmobile for 25 years, retiring in 1974. He was a member of the National Automobile Dealers Association.
Survivors include his wife, Edith "Peggy" McDowell of the home; a stepson, Tony George, Gladstone; a daughter, Kathy Hoskins, Independence; a brother, James M. McDowell, Overland Park; a sister, Eula Moore, Kansas City; five grandchildren; and five great -grandchildren. (Arrangements: Speaks Suburban) HATTIE A. MILLER great-great-granddaughter. INA J.
MITCHELL Hattie Ann Miller, 87, Clinton, died Aug. 20, 1994, at a nursing home in Clinton. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton; burial in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m.
today at the chapel. Mrs. Miller was born in Gower, and lived in Bell Gardens, and St. Joseph, before moving to Clinton 35 years ago. She was formerly a nurse's aide for General Hospital in Clinton.
She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church, Clinton. Her husband, Walter Miller, died in 1953. Survivors include a daughter, Betty Stromberg, Clinton; brother, Ralph Kerns, Spanish Fork, Utah; 20 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and a Ina Jane Mitchell, 88, Grain Valley in Jackson County, died Aug. 20, 1994, in the Blue Springs Care Center. Services will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at the Royer Chapel, Oak Grove in Jackson County; burial in Greenton Cemetery, north of Odessa, Mo. Friends may call from to 8 p.m. today at the chapel. Mrs. Mitchell was a lifelong Grain Valley resident.
She was clerk at the Frantz Grocery Store in Grain Valley, retiring in 1971. She was a member of the Grain Valley United Methodist Church. Her husband, William Mitchell, died in 1989. Survivors include three daughters, Dorothy Mitchell, Grain Valley, Millie Davis, Odessa, and Mary Jane Amos, Independence; two sisters, Clara Shippy Veneda Smith of Blue Springs; 10 grandchildren; 28 greatgrandchildren; and eight great-greatgrandchildren. HENRY E.
PLUMBERG Henry Edward Plumberg, 81, Topeka, formerly of Rosedale in Kansas City, died Aug. 20, 1994, at a hospital in Topeka. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Topeka; burial Mount Calvary Cemetery, Topeka.
The Nocturnal Adoration Society rosary will be said 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Parish rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and the Third and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Tuesday, followed by Chalice Ceremony at the Brennan-Mathena Chapel, Topeka. The family suggests contributions to the church.
Mr. Plumberg was born in Rosedale, and lived in Topeka most of life. He was a supply clerk for the department of defense at Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka for 22 years, retiring in 1977. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the James W. Gibbons Assembly of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus in Topeka.
Survivors clude his wife, Elizabeth Mary Stattelman Plumberg of the home; five sons, Lawrence Plumberg, Blue Springs, Kenneth F. Plumberg and Timothy J. Plumberg of Topeka, Jacob Plumberg, Osawatomie, and Michael Plumberg, Seneca, four daughters, Patricia A. Brown and Margaret M. Ringelman Topeka, Phyllis J.
Bradford, Tacoma, and Nancy L. Goetting, Leavenworth; a brother, James Plumberg, Berryton, a sister, Helen Peterson, Topeka; 28 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. MAYNARD E. PORTWOOD Maynard E. Portwood, 85, Camdenton, formerly of Kansas City, died Aug.
20, 1994, at a nursing home in Camdenton. Serwill at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the BarryBedene. Chapel, Mulberry, graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Floral Hills Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel, where the Girard (Kan.) Masonic Lodge services will be at 7:30 p.m. The family suggests contributions to the First Presbyterian Church of Mulberry, Mr. Portwood was born in Drywood, and lived in Mulberry, and Kansas City, before returning to Mulberry in 1970. He moved to Camdenton a year ago.
He was a switchman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. retiring in 1970. He was a member of the church. He was a member of the lodge. His wife, Anna May Gross Portwood, died in 1985.
Survivors include a son, James Portwood, Sunrise Beach, two sisters, Annabelle Prettyman, Arcadia, and Frances Gazaway, Mulberry; six grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. GLADYS L. RUTHERFORD Gladys Lorena Rutherford, 84, died Aug. 19, 1994, in the John Knox Village Care Center, in Lee's Summit, where she lived. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday at the Wilson Son Chapel, Paola, burial in the Paola Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel. Mrs.
Rutherford was born in Ocheltree, and lived in Garden City, before moving to Lee's Summit in 1989. She owned Wren Studio in Garden City for 24 years, retiring in 1962. She was past president of the Kansas Professional Photographers Association. Survivors include her husband, Walter "Rudy" Rutherford of the home. LOIS JEAN SMITHEY Lois Jean Smithey, 61, Mexico, died Aug.
19, 1994, at a hospital in Mexico. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Christian Church of Marshall, burial in Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Friends may call from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Arnold Chapel, Mexico. Mrs.
Smithey was born in Marshall, and moved to Mexico in 1986. She was a member of the church. Her husband, James Forrest Smithey, died in 1984. Survivors include two sons, Jimmy Smithey, Hattiesburg, and Johnny Smithey, New Orleans; two daughters, Beverly Meuschke, Mex- ico, and Diane Cornine, Parkville; two brothers, Bud Rader and Charles Rader of Panama City Beach, a sister, Nellie Estil, Marshall; seven grandchildren; and a great- granddaughter. WILLIAM R.
SNELL William R. Snell, 81, Independence, died Aug. 20, 1994, at the Independence Regional Health Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Speaks Midtown Chapel; burial in Mount Washington Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the Calvary Presbyterian Church. Mr. Snell was born in Brookfield, and lived in Independence most of his life.
He was a carpenter for Armco Inc. for 37 years, retiring in 1977. He was Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Tribe of Mic-0-Say He was a member of the church. Survivors include his wife, Lena Snell of the home; a son, Phillip R.
Snell, Gladstone; two brothers, Alfred Snell, Raymore in Cass County, and Orville Snell, Amoret, four sisters, Leota Snell, Santa Monica, June Wine, Pomona, Marjorie Patterson, Climax Springs, and Irene Brown, Blue Springs; and three grandchildren. 7 a in at his in- E. A. of to CECELIA I. STEPHENSON Cecelia I.
Stephenson, 86, Freeman, died Aug. 21, 1994, at the home of her daughter in Overland Park. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Harrisonville; graveside services at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the McCullough Cemetery, Triplett, Mo.
Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the Atkinson Chapel, Harrisonville. The family suggests contributions to the Dolan-West Dolan Fire Rescue in Freeman. Mrs. Stephenson was born in Triplett and had lived in rural Chariton County, before moving to Freeman in 1933.
She was a member of the church. Her husband, Charles Stephenson, died April 4. Survivors include a son, Timothy Stephenson, Alexandria, two daughters, Barbara Evans, Hillsdale, and Beverly Swearingen, Overland Park; two sisters, Mary Lindensmith, Oakland, and Gertrude King, Independence; 11 grandchildren; and nine greatgrandchildren. DOROTHY A. STROTHER dropoff.
"I'm trying to fight the crime on Troost, and it's not good for me to know there are parolees being dumped on 11th and said Capt. George Roberts, who learned about the situation from Sgt. Frank Fears, who witnessed it. Close said police would not take action against the prison system. "We're not going to do anything because they have assured us it won't happen again," he said.
leased the truck and started to drive off the field when his vehicle lurched and he lost control. The other injured spectators: Darryl Starcher, 32, of Tonganoxie, Travis Starcher, 8, of Mclouth, Russell Burton, 42, of Montgomery City Sheryl Martin, 41, of Huntsville, and Tammy Becker of Centralia, Kan. is sought state of Andhra Pradesh. Air samples collected around the Taj Mahal, 75 miles south of New Delhi, exceeded legal pollution limits. Inefficient government monitoring and, in some cases, corruption, allow many factories to flout pollution laws.
Also tarnishing the marble are sulfur dioxide emissions from households that use kerosene or coal stoves for cooking and small, unregistered foundries that use coal furnaces. The government says it cannot afford to provide cleaner natural gas to replace kerosene and coal. Foreign ministers discuss Kurds' growing autonomy DAMASCUS, Syria Foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran and Syria met Sunday to discuss ways to counter Kurdish attempts at greater autonomy. Turkish Foreign Minister Mumtaz Soysal told reporters that he and foreign ministers Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran and Farouk Al-Sharaa of Syria would focus on "the situation in northern Iraq." About 17 million Kurds live in SUPERSTORES SHAWNEE MISSION 1435 EASTWOOD 409 STATE AVENUE AT MEAN TRAFFICWAY 1 Block West of 1 Mile West of 1-35 Just South of Stadiums Indian Springs Center Shawnee, Kansas Kansas City, Missoun Kansas City, Kansas 962-6665 861-6665 Hallo KANSAS CITY the Dorothy A. Strother, 78, south Kansas City, died Aug.
21, 1994, at the George H. Nettleton Home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Moriah Freeman Chapel; burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Friends may call from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
today at the chapel. The family requests no flowers and suggests contributions to charity. Mrs. Strother was born in Jonesboro, and had lived in this area most of her life. She worked in several occupations including the health She was a member of the Community Christian Church and the Country Club Christian Church.
Her husband, Dwight L. Strother, died in 1967. Survivors include two sons, Bart Strother, Kansas City, and Dan D. Strother, Lake Ozark, a sister, Nancy Goppert, Kansas City; and seven grandchildren. OPAL E.
SULLIVAN Opal E. Sullivan, 90, died Aug. 20, 1994, in the Liberty Terrace Care Center, where she lived. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Newcomer's White Chapel; cremation.
Mrs. Sullivan was born in Norborne, and had lived in Chicago and Evanston, before moving to Kansas City in 1982. Her husband, Edmund R. Sullivan, died in 1955. Survivors include nephews and nieces.
year-old Darren Leu of Kansas City, was admitted to Bothwell Medical Center in Sedalia and held overnight for observation. He was released on Sunday. The driver, 44-year-old Johnny L. Houston of Enid, was arrested Saturday suspicion of driving while intoxicated. On Sunday, he was with assault and was being held after fail- threatens Taj in the northern town of Agra where the Taj Mahal is located, said he wants to collect 1 million signatures on a petition urging the United Nations to help save the monument.
His group wants the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to provide technical expertise for its preservation. It also urged international conservation groups to petition- India to preserve the monument. The Taj Mahal, considered the finest example of the late style of Indian Islamic architecture, was built by the Mughal emperor Shah The Associated Press ing to post $30,000 bond, said Pettis County Prosecutor Jeff Middlehauser. Houston was not a competitor in the truck and tractor pull, said Sally Oxenhandler, a State Fair spokeswoman.
He had towed a competing truck into the arena just before the accident. Lt. Vince Ellis of the Missouri Highway Patrol said Houston re- Mahal; U.N. help Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The building was completed between 1632 and 1638.
Many were skeptical about the drive to conserve the tomb. "There are enough pages of signatures already to cover the surface of the Taj. But the government has still not acted," said D.K. Biswas, head of the Central Pollution Control Board. "The Taj has suffered more damage in the 1 last 20 years than in the previous 200 years," said Shivaji Rao, a professor of environmental health in the southern Turkey, Iran and Syria.
The three governments have been wary of the U.N.-backed experiment at Kurdish autonomy in northern Iraq, which followed the 1991 gulf war. The Iraqi Kurdish enclave is protected by U.N. guards and U.S., British and French warplanes based in Turkey. Full statehood for the 3 million Kurds in northern Iraq could encourage their brethren elsewhere to push for greater self-rule or independence. Turkey has fought a AUGUST FUR Alaskan Sale 620 FUR 9029 West COMPANY 649-4000 Metcalf 48th 753-6555 OVERLAND TRADING CO.
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Tope was born in Partridge, and lived in Lake Elsinore, before moving to Overland Park in 1989. Survivors include son, Stephen R. Tope, Overland Park; a daughter, Julia Leonard, Golden Valley, a stepdaughter, Peggy Morse, Bakersfield, five grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three stepgreat-grandchildren. (Arrangements: McGilley Hoge) RUBY K. WILLIAMS Ruby K.
Williams, 47, northeast Kansas City, died Aug. 18, 1994, at Truman Medical Center East Long Term Care Facility. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the SheldonGoodrich Chapel, Osceola, burial in Benton Green Cemetery, near Osceola. Mrs.
Williams was a lifelong area resident. Survivors include her husband, Glen Williams of the home; two sons, Glen Eugene Williams Jr, and Russell Dewayne Williams of Kansas City; three daughters, Wendy Williams, Kansas City, Linda Clemons and Sandra Sutton of Springfield; a brother, Steven Harris, Kansas City; four sisters, Roberta Gibson and Teddy Breedon of Kansas City, and Marjorie Crank and Susan Wallace of Ketchum, and eight grandchildren. CHARLES E. WIMMER Charles Ernest Wimmer, 82, of the Grandview Manor Care Center, died Aug. 21, 1994, at Baptist Medical Center.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the George Grandview Chapel; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the American Diabetes Association.
Mr. Wimmer was born in Yankee, N.M., and lived in Wichita and Fulton, before moving to this area in 1952. He was an aircraft worker at the Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base for 22 years, retiring in 1974. He was a member of the Grandview (Mo.) United Methodist Church. His wife, Mae Frances Wimmer, died in 1988.
Survivors include Howard Wimmer, Overland Park; a daughter, Dorothy Nixon, Grandview; two brothers, Frank Wimmers, Hood River, and Ralph Wimmer, Lawton, three sisters, Mary Ellen 'Carney, Harrisonville, Edna Billingsley, Portland, and Emma Bourda, Fort Worth, Texas; and three grandchildren. 10-year guerrilla war against Kurdish insurgents. At their meeting in February, foreign ministers of the three neighboring nations opposed any division of Iraq. On Sunday, Soysal said all three governments wanted to see a halt to the inter-Kurdish strife that has beset Iraqi Kurds and reportedly left scores dead. Attempts at a cease-fire in recent months have apparently failed.
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