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The jyouxCltyurnal, Sunday, November 11 1 990 1 Civil War commander honored Jehovah's Witnesses. Col. Frederick E. Brown Col. Frederick E.

Brown, 70, 2205 Pierce died Friday, Nov. 9, 1990, at his residence, after a short illness. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Mon day at tne hirst W9 1 Church of the Nazarene, with the Rev. Eugene Smith officiating.

Burial Survivors include four granddaughters, Kathy Oehlerking of Akron, Kim Toller of San Jose, Jill Parker of Milford, and Audrey Peterson of Denver; and six great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Ruben, four brothers and a sister. Eileen R. Sokolowski Eileen R. Sokolowski, 71, Sunrise Manor, formerly of 2627 S.

Rustin died Friday, Nov. 9, 1990, at Sunrise Manor. She had suffered from cancer. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Nativity Catholic Church, with Monsignorf Roger J.

Augustine officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visita-1 will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with full military rites by the 185th T.F.G. Iowa Air National Guard. Visitation will be 1 r-' -r 1 w- 1' 1 for services to be held Thursday.

Burial will be in Mechanicsburg Cemetery in Middletown. Mr. Hill was bom Dec. 7, 1927, in Anderson, Ind. He was an Army vet-eran of both World War II and the Korean conflict.

He married Diana K. Wilson Dec. 26, 1973, in Daleville, Ind. He had worked for General Motors for 30 years, retiring in 1981 and moving to South Sioux City from Chesterfield, Ind. He was a member Cownie-Church Post 307 and the "40 ami 8" of the American Legion.

Survivors include his wife, of South Sioux City; a son and daughter-in-law, Curtis and Sonya Hill of Lafayette, a daughter and son-in-law, Teresa and Dale Whippo of Fishers, a stepson and his wife, Thomas and Rhonda Alfrey of Sioux City; a stepdaughter and her husband, Tamara and James Austin of Oklahoma City; two brothers, Charles of Anderson and Donald of Destin, and eight grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Phillip. Georgia V. Clemensen Georgia V. Clemensen, 79, 5405 Hamilton died unexpectedly Saturday at her home.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 WASHINGTON (AP) Cannon fire crashed and echoed across a hillside cemetery Saturday as prayers were said for Henry Wirz, 125 years after he was hanged as commander of the Civil War's notorious Ander-sonville prison camp. "Grant that our brother may sleep in peace until you awaken him to glory," prayed the Rev.

Ed Raffetto while two-dozen onlookers stood under a canopy in a steady downpour to honor a man they claim was gravely wronged. By all accounts, Andersonville, in south Georgia, was a nightmare, ridden with disease and starvation and bulging with three times as many Union prisoners of war as it was meant to hold. Suffering and death were everywhere. As camp commander, the 41-year-old Maj. Henry Wirz, a physician and Swiss immigrant, was arrested and brought to Washington.

He was condemned to die for murdering prisoners, hanged and buried without ceremony in the old Capitol Prison on the site now occupied by the Supreme Court. His remains were reburied in 1869 in Mount Olivet Cemetery, two miles from Capitol Hill in northeast Washington. Confederate remembrance groups call him a scapegoat who was railroaded to the gallows as hysteria swept Washington following the murder of Abraham Lincoln. They say he was a martyr who died "for God and Dixie." Wiips of incense twisted over the grave and the Stars and Bars stood tion will be from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

today, with a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., at Swiss Army Col. Heinrich Wirz, great-grandson of Confederate Maj. Henry Wirz, attends a service for the Civil War camp commander in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. (AP Laserphoto) the cannons at numerous Civil War ceremonies. According to a biography supplied by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Heinrick Hartmann Wirz was born Nov.

25, 1823. He was educated in Zurich as well the ceremony. "He didn't get any ceremony when he was buried here, and this time we're going to see that he does get one." Wreaths of red and white carnations and a wreath of tobacco leaves were laid at the grave. Raffetto, an Pnicpnnal nnVct onH Vian1ain rtf tViA pan. to 9 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home. beside the Stars and Stripes at Satur- Sons of Confederate Veterans, said and Paris and immigrated to day's ceremony. Fifty yards away, the tobacco was a western Maryland the United States in 1849 settling in He later moved tradition. from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

today, with family present from 6 p.m., at the Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel. Mr. Brown was born Aug. 23, 1920, in LaCrosse, Wis. He attended Winona, schools and North Dakota State College in Fargo.

He entered the Army Air Corps Aug. 23, 1942. He took Air Cadet training and was graduated as a pilot, receiving his commission as a second lieutenant Dec. 23, 1944. He flew as a radar navigator instructor in B-25s, P-16s, B-24s, and other training aircraft.

After his 1945 discharge, he entered the Army Air Corps Reserves and was promoted to first lieutenant. He married Geraldine "Jerry" Tuttle Sept. 14, 1946, in Pender, Neb. He was a 1949 graduate of the Central Radio and Television Schools in Kansas City, Mo. He was appointed to the Iowa Air National Guard July 21, 1956, and became a captain April 19, 1958, and a major Nov.

26, 1962. He was activated during the Vietnam War ard became a lieutenant colonel July 1, 1970. He was a Sioux City resident for 37 years, and retired in 1985 after 32 years as an engineer with KCAU TV. He was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene, where he was a former board member. Survivors include his wife; two daughters and sons-in-law, Sue and Gary Wikstrom of Dakota City, and Jeannie and Brian Patterson of Olathe, four grandchildren, Laurie Zimmerman, Greg Wikstrom, and Michael and Elizabeth Patterson, and a greatgrandchild, Taylor Mark Zimmerman.

Hill SOUTH SIOUX CITY Ewen J. "Bud" Hill, 62, of South Sioux City, died Friday, Nov. 9, 1990, at a Sioux City hospital after an extended illness. Local visitation will be from noon to 9 p.m. Monday, with family present from 2 p.m.

to 7 p.m., at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home. The body will be sent to Ballard and Sons Funeral Home in Middletown, Cadiz, Ky. to Louisiana, married a widow and adopted her two daughters. They had another child. In 1861, he enlisted in Company 4th Battalion.

Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. He suffered a severe Swiss Army Col. Heinrich Wirz laid a wreath with the colors of Switzerland, the City of Zurich and the Wirz family crest at the grave of "my unfortunate great-granduncle." Christy Morn-ingside Funeral Home. Mrs. Sokolowski, the former Eileen Sevening, was born Feb.

4, 1919, in Danbury, and attended rural Dandury and Anthon schools. She married John C. Sokolowski Feb. 16, 1943, in Anthon. They farmed near Danbury for eight years and lived in Anthon for 10 years.

They moved to Sioux City in 1962. John died Sept. 18, 1978, in Sioux City. She was a cook at Bishops Cafeteria and the Morningside College Commons for many years, retiring in 1979 due to her health. She was a member of Nativity Catholic Church and of the Nativity Guild Confraternity of Christian Mothers.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Roger and Karen Sokolowski of Omaha; two daughters and a son-in-law, Marilyn Sokolowski of Sioux City and Marsha and Jim Skalisky of Sioux City; four grandchildren, Justin and Kristin Sokolowski and Amy and Kari Skalisky; a sister, Dorothy Can of Lake Havasu City, and a brother, Albert Sevening of Anthon. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, John. Pallbearers will be William Lourens, Patrick Callaghan, Bryan Hill, Tom Lewis, Allan Pithan and Phillip Sevening. Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Siouxland or the gray-clad figures with water dripping from their caps packed powder into a 3-inch "mountain howitzer" and fireda21-gun salute. The first earth-jarring roar echoed off buildings 200 yards away and sent acrid smoke billowing down the hillside and rising off the headstones.

"Get used to it there are going to be a lot of those," said Charles Goolsby, commander of Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305, Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sponsored Since boyhood, my father con- fronted me with the destiny of Henry wound and earned a battlefield Wirz," he said. He shook hands vig- commission in 1862 near Richmond, orously with Tommy Bowers, com- The following year, he was sent to mander of Chew's Battery, Stout's Europe on a diplomatic mission. In Horse Artillery, who are professional 1864, he was placed in command of "reenacters" who don gray and fire Andersonville. Donald Mahoney Donald Mahoney, 75, of Emmer-son, and formerly of Sioux City, died Saturday at a Sioux City hospital after a brief illness.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, with a parish vigil service at 7 p.m.

Monday, at the Larkin Northside Funeral Home. Anne Peterson Anne- Peterson, 82, 2211 Dewey died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1990, at the Akron Convalescent Care Center after a short illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, with Cliff Mehrer officiating.

Burial will be at Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon to 9 p.m. today, with family present from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Christy Westside Funeral Home. Mrs.

Peterson, the former Anne Bratholt, was born Jan. 15, 1908, at Galesburg, N.D., and attended rural Galesburg schools. She married Carl I. Peterson Aug. 28, 1928.

They moved to Sioux City in 1943. Mr. Peterson died here in 1968. She was a very active member of Space shuttle ready for flight previous Defense Department shuttle Columbia's leaks also have been flights. sealed and it is scheduled to make a Pentagon officials say this should flight in early December, be the last classified shuttle flight The successful mission of space because of the expense of maintain- shuttle Discovery last month with a ing secure operations.

Two military sun probe was NASA's first shuttle missions planned for next year have trip in nearly six months. That suc- unclassified cargoes. cess lifted spirits throughout the Atlantis upcoming mission is four space agency, Nagel said, adding that months late. successful flights for Atlantis and American Cancer Society. Olive M.

Smith, 93, 1919 Sherman, died Friday; Christy Morningside Funeral Home. Fred J. Wilde, 54, 210 Ross died Saturday; Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. In June, a month after Columbia sprang hydrogen leaks, NASA discovered Atlantis also had holes Columbia will move everybody "up one notch on the morale ladder." John Pike, director of the Federation of American Scientists' space and its July mission was put on hold. Atlantis' military cargo reportedly policy project, said launching Atlan was modified for gathering informa- tis and Columbia by the end of the tion in the Persian Gulf while the CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) After months of struggling with dangerous fuel leaks on two of its three spaceships, NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis this week with a spy satellite. It will be Atlantis' first flight since March, when it placed another spy satellite in orbit. It will also be the 37th flight of a shuttle and the fifth flight this year. "We've been through a lot of interesting times over the past few months to say the least," said Conrad Nagel, a NASA official in charge of Atlantis' pre-launch operations. "Now that it's here, it's real exciting." Atlantis is scheduled to blast off Thursday evening, sometime between 7:30 p.m.

and 11:30 p.m. CST. The exact time will be kept secret until nine minutes before liftoff because the Pentagon mission is classified. The flight is expected to last about four days, during which Atlantis' five astronauts will release a satellite that reportedly will spy on Iraq. Ex-perts believe it is either a photographic imaging or an eavesdropping spacecraft.

Information about the mission will be kept secret as with the six year will help boost NASA's sagging image. llLi ship was repaired. Atlantis' external tank, fuel lines and valve seals were replaced by late September. NASA had scheduled the mission for Nov. 9 after Atlantis' fuel tanks were tested, but the Air Force delayed the flight because of satellite problems that were corrected last week.

mmHHmmmmmmmmiMmmmmjiMmmUi Ethel E. Gunderson VERMILLION, S.D. Ethel E. Gunderson, 84, of Vermillion, died Thursday at Dakota Hospital in Vermillion. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Luken "Since 1883" Memorials 204 East 13th South Sioux City 402494-6948 ATTENTION: Retirees With Washington National Insurance Vermillion. Burial will be in Bluff View Cemetery in Vermillion. Visitation will be from 7p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Iver-son-Siecke Funeral Home in Vermillion.

Mrs. O.S. (Marie) Nelson AURELIA, Iowa Mrs. O.S. (Marie) Nelson, 94, of Aurelia, died Friday, Nov.

9, 1990, at the Sioux Valley Hospital in Cherokee. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church in Aurelia, led by-the Rev. Robert Stemme, and with the Rev. Karl Rydholm of Faith Lutheran Church in Marcus also officiating.

Burial will be in Aurelia' Pleasant Hill Cemetery, under direction of the Wharton Funeral Home in Aurelia. Visitation will be from noon until 9 Cherokee; 20 grandchildren; 34 one great-great-grandchild. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a grandchild, a great-grandchild, a son-in-law, two brothers and three sisters. LorenzA. Petersen SCHLESWIG, Iowa Lorenz A.

Petersen, 77, of Schleswig, died Friday at the hospital in Denison. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig, with burial in Morgan Cemetery, Schleswig. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today at the Huebner Funeral Home in Schleswig.

Virgil Glen Putman PONCA, Neb. Virgil Glen Putman, 80, of Ponca, died Friday, Nov. 9, 1990, in a Sioux City hospital following a heart attack. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Salem Lutheran Church in Ponca, with the Rev.

John Plowman officiating. Burial will be in the Ponca Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca.

The body will then be taken to the church, where a prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Putman was born Aug. 23, 1910, at Ponca, the son of Carl and Erma Bell (Heaton) Putman. He was graduated from Ponca High School in 1928.

He married Lucille Miille June 5, 1935, at Ponca. Tney farmed in the Ponca area until 1958. He then became Dixon County assessor, and held that position until his retirement in 1977. He was a member of the Salem Lutheran Church, and served on the church council. He also served on the Ponca school board and the Ponca cemetery board.

He was a charter member of the Ponca Historical sons and their wives, Carl and Patricia of Madison, and John and Mickie of Arlington, Texas; a daughter and her husband, Connie and Lowell Fincher of Southaven, and seven grandchildren, Jana and Jay Putman of Omaha, 1st Lt. Jerry Putman, in the Army, serving in Saudi Arabia, Brad Putman of Denton, Texas, Jennifer Putman of Arlington and Elizabeth and Rebecca Fincher of Southaven. Kenneth R. Schnier PENDER, Neb. Kenneth R.

Schnier, 66, of Pender, died suddenly Friday at the Pender hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Pender, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m.

to 9 p.m. today at the Munderloh Funeral Home in Pender. Otto H. Sudbeck BOW VALLEY, Neb. Otto H.

Sudbeck, 84, of Bow Valley, died Saturday at the Harrington Nursing Center following a lengthy illness. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Bow Valley. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Visitation will be from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, with a rosary at 2 p.m., at the Wintz Funeral Home in Harrington. There will also be a vigil service at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the church, and visitation from 9:30 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the church.

Mamie Sundell WAKEFIELD, Neb. Mamie Sundell, 95, of Wakefield, died Friday at Wakefield Care Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Salem Lutheran Church in Wakefield. Burial will be in the Wakefield Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, with the family present from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Bressler-Humlicek Funeral Home of Wakefield. Army National Guard Pvt.

Aaron S. DeVos, son of Arlin W. DeVos of Sheldon, Iowa, and Karen E. DeVos of Storm Lake, Iowa, has completed an administrative specialist course at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Army National Guard Pvt.

Curtis J. Svendsen, son of Bruce A. Svendsen of Ua Grove, Iowa, and Cathy A. Trampe of Dunn Center, S.D., has completed training at the Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. Airman Brian J.

O'Donnell, son of Thomas E. O'Donnell of Sergeant Bluff and Theresa A. O'Donnell, 1309 S. Royce has graduated from the communications-computer systems operations specialist course at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. Pvt.

Calvin D. Jackson, son of Willie H. and Doris A. Jackson, 715 W. Eighth has completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

Air National Guard Airman Michelle L. Kron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kron of Sioux City, has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Daniel P.

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Survivors include a son, Kenneth, of Aurelia; six daughters, Mrs. Don (Arlene) Stohrer of Homosassa, Mrs. Blair (Doris) Wheson of Sioux City, Mrs. Orville (Delores) Tapper of Marcus, Iowa, Mrs. William (Norma) Fox and Mrs.

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