Archive - May 2011

SOLON– Join the Lady Spartan softball team in their game to help strike out cancer.  The Strikeout Cancer game will be played against West Delaware on Monday, June 20, at 6 p.m. in Solon.
Honor a loved one with the purchase of a pink softball to place on the Wall of Hope. The team will also be selling “Strike Out Cancer” T-shirts.  If you would like to place your order early, contact Jody Turkal at 530-3262 or Tammy Walkner at 573-8389.
All proceeds from this event will go to the American Cancer Society.

Drivers: OTR. Home Weekly! Top Benefits + Bonuses. Pd. Holiday/Vac. CDL-A w/X. Stutsman Transportation, Hills, IA. 319-679-2281. 5/25

Part-time home companion needed for elderly woman in rural Solon area. Light housework, some overnights. Call 521-9192 for more information or to set up an interview. 6/1

Zelma “Nana” Wells, 92, of Cedar Rapids, died Monday, May 16, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids. Services were held May 19 at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids, with the Rev. Dr. T. Edwards Breed officiating. Burial was in Floral Hills Cemetery, Hazleton.
Local survivors include her grandson, Marc Ozmun (Julie) of Swisher; and great-grandchildren Gavin Ozmun and Makayla Ozmun.
Zelma M. Roepke was born April 15, 1919, in Hazleton, the daughter of August and Amelia (Ott) Roepke. On Oct. 2, 1940, she married Verle Wells. Verle died in 1986.

Chelsea Lynn Peterson, 9-month-old daughter of Drew and Jennifer (Gavin) Peterson, of Quantico, Va., died April 28, 2011, in Quantico.
Surviving locally are her uncle and aunt, Anthony and Sarah (Gavin) Moeller of Solon.

Delores R. Mullinnix, 63, died peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Thursday, May 12, 2011. Funeral Mass was celebrated May 17 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, with the Very Rev. Rudolph Juarez officiating. Burial at Stumptown Cemetery in River Junction followed a luncheon at the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to St. Patrick Catholic Church or Iowa City Hospice.