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Loras Watters was born in Dubuque, Iowa, the son of Martin and Carolyn (Sisler) Watters. [1] He was a sick child at birth and he and his mother spent an extended period of time in the hospital. He received his first name from the sister who baptized him in the hospital, Sr. Loras, "much to his mother's chagrin."
Following his retirement, Byrne remained in the Dubuque area. He died while a resident at the Stonehill Care Center (operated by Franciscan Sisters) in Dubuque on August 2, 1996, and was buried in the mortuary chapel of St. Raphael's Cathedral along with other deceased bishops and archbishops of the archdiocese.
After Menster retired from active ministry, he lived in Dubuque. At the time of his death on April 14, 2007, Menster was the oldest living priest in the Archdiocese of Dubuque. [10] [1] His funeral was at St. Raphael's Cathedral. [11]
Oran Pape - the first member of the Iowa State Patrol to have been murdered in the line of duty, as well as the first State Trooper to die in the line of duty - is also buried at Linwood. Major Stuart Anderson - a member of the U.S. Army Reserve who died in the January 7, 2006 UH-60 Black Hawk near Tal Afar , Iraq was also recently buried at ...
The newspaper is the result of a 1901 merger of the Dubuque Herald and the Dubuque Telegraph. [3] A descendant of the Dubuque Visitor (founded in 1836), the Dubuque Herald ' s first editor was Dennis Mahony. [4] The Telegraph was founded in 1870, and before merging with the Herald had absorbed eight local publications. [3]
George Speaker Mickelson (January 31, 1941 – April 19, 1993) was an American politician and Vietnam War veteran who served as the 28th governor of South Dakota from 1987 until his death in 1993 in a plane crash near Zwingle, Iowa. His father, George T. Mickelson, was also governor of South Dakota, from 1947 to 1951.
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The Articles of Incorporation for the cemetery association were filed for the Dubuque Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church at the Dubuque County Courthouse on September 17, 1864. The signers of the articles were Paul Bredow, Daniel Schmalz, Adam Schnellbacher, John Funk, Frederick Wehland, and Andrew Heinzman.