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Lindsay was born in Dubuque, Iowa, the eldest of six children of a pharmacist father who died in 1930. According to Tom Longden of the Des Moines Register, "Peg" was "a tomboy who liked to climb pear trees" and was a "roller-skating fiend". She graduated in 1930 from Visitation Academy in Dubuque. [3]
The body was removed by a local funeral home. Feguer's death certificate listed "Execution. Fracture Cervical Spinal Column" as the cause of death. [5] Feguer was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Madison City Cemetery in Iowa wearing a second new suit that was provided for his burial.
Eddie Anderson, head football coach at Columbia College in Dubuque (1922–1924), DePaul University (1925–1931), the College of the Holy Cross (1933–1938, 1950–1964), and the University of Iowa (1939–1942, 1946–1949); played professional football in the NFL for the Rochester Jeffersons in 1922 and the Chicago Cardinals 1922–1925; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a ...
Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri [2] or in Dubuque, Iowa. [3] As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. He lost part of his right hand in a mining accident during this time. Eventually he was able to join a touring company, and worked steadily in show business for several years.
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 ...
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] John S. Murphy was the editor and publisher of the Telegraph at the time of its merger until his death in March 1902. [3]
From the time she married Prince Charles in 1981, Princess Diana was a beloved figure in Britain, but few could have imagined the outpouring of grief that followed her death at age 36.As news ...
Though a newspaper article from 1901 indicates that the board of 11 trustees planned to relocate graves from the Third Street Cemetery, adjacent to St. Raphael's Cathedral (Dubuque, Iowa), to Mt. Olivet, there is no record that these disinterments ever took place. At least 11 graves encountered during development of the Third Street property in ...