Obituaries

Mary Jane Lindeen, 77, of Mt. Pleasant, formerly of the Swedesburg community, died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at her home.The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 22, at the Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church with the Rev. Philip Borleske officiating. Interment will be in the Swedesburg Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 21, at the Beatty Funeral Home in Mt.

Emmet Ray Spraker, 81, of 500 South Chestnut in New London, formerly of Mt. Pleasant died at 5:25 p.m. Saturday, March 18, 2000, at his home in New London.The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 22, at Elliott Chapel in New London with the Rev. Tom Henstock officiating. Interment will be in the Burge Cemetery in New London. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until the time of service

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Thelma M. Wilson, 87, of Mt. Pleasant, died Saturday, March 18, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.For more information read Monday's Washington Journal.

Loren E. "Pete" Peterson, 86, of Mt. Pleasant died Friday, March 17, 2000, at 1 a.m. at the Park Place Long Term Care Unit.The funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. today at the Olson-Powell Memorial Chapel in Mt. Pleasant. Burial was in the North Hill Cemetery of Wayland. Memorials have been established to the Park Place Activity Fund and the Oakland Mills Church.Mr. Peterson was born Oct. 6, 1913, in Oakland

Christina A. Rogers Overhulser, 14, of Mt. Pleasant, died Wednesday, March 15, 2000, from injuries in a car/truck accident at W55 and Old Highway 34 west of Mt. Pleasant.The public funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 20, at Cottrell Gym in the old high school with the Rev. Jeffrey Crawford of the Mt. Pleasant Calvary Baptist Church and the Rev. Guy Sammons of the Rome Baptist Church officiating.

William Dunlap Glisan, 65, of Coppock died Wednesday, March 15, 2000, in Williamstown, Mo. from a lengthy illness.The funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the Jones and Eden Funeral Home in Washington with the Rev. Monte Asbury and the Rev. Richard VanBebben officiating. Interment will be in the Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington. Friends may call anytime today at the Jones and Eden Funeral

William C. 'Bill' Widmer, 45, formerly of the Gardner-Edgerton, Kan. area, died Tuesday, March 7, 2000, at his rural home in Barnesville, Minn.Burial was in the Shawnee Cemetery in Shawnee, Kan. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Heart Association or the Salem Lutheran Church in Lenexa, Kan.Mr. Widmer was born Jan. 25, 1955, in Gardner, Kan., the son of Casper and Hester Prewitt Widmer. He married

Loren E. Patterson, 86, of Mt. Pleasant died at 1 a.m. Friday, March 17, 2000, at the Park Place Long Term Care Unit in Mt. Pleasant.The funeral service is pending at the Olson-Powell Memorial Chapel in Mt. Pleasant.

Thelma M. Wilson, 87, of Mt. Pleasant, died at 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, March 18, 2000 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.Mrs. Wilson was born on Dec. 7, 1912 at Osceola to Oren O. and Cornia E. Miller Kerr. On Feb. 10, 1939 at Unionville, Mo., she married John W. Wilson who preceded her in death on May 6, 1992.A 1924 graduate of Osceola High School, she worked for O.T. Wilson Henry Co. Mutual Insurance office in Mt.

Eunice C. Nelson, 77, of Atrium Village in Hills died Tuesday, March 14, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 18, at the First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield with the Rev. David Kennedy officiating. Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield. Friends may call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 17 at the Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield, where