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Saturday, April 08, 2017She is survived by her brother, Bill (Laurie) Furrow of Medford, OR and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister, Betty (Russ) Beving of Ackley, Iowa. Anne is also survived by her long-time friend and honorary sister, Bonnie Morrison along with the entire Morrison and McCommon families. Visitation will be Friday, March 31, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. at ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, Avalon Chapel, 8090 N. Northern Ave. Funeral Mass will be on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, 5150 N. Valley View Rd.
Monday, February 27, 2017Trinity American Lutheran Church.WATERLOO -- Charles J. Nelson, 90, of Waterloo, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital of natural causes; Locke Funeral Home, 233-6138.ACKLEY -- Edna Jean Voy, 91, of Ackley, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at Rehabilitation Center of Hampton; Sietsema Funeral Home, Ackley, (641) 648-9554.DECORAH -- Irene K. McConnell, 96, of Decorah, died Monday, Feb. 6, at Aase Haugen Senior Services, Decorah; Fjelstul Funeral Home, Decorah, (563) 382-5210.DIKE -- Dallas L. Wildeboer, 69, of Dike, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at Sartori Memorial Hospital, Cedar Falls; Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 266-7525.DYSART -- Mark Ewoldt, 54, of Dysart, died Monday, Feb. 20, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Overton Funeral Home, Dysart, 476-7355.ELGIN -- Richard Allen "Dick" Schultz, 68, of Elgin, died at home Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 at home; Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elgin, (563) 426-5321. Get tips on free stuff and fun ideas delivered weekly to your inbox .whatcounts-form-container.well { padding-bottom: 5px; } .whatcounts-form-container .left-col, .whatcounts-form-container .right-col{ float: left; width: 100%; max-width: 345px; } .whatcounts-form-container .left-col{ margin-right: 20px; } .whatcounts-form-container .whatcounts-min .left-col{ max-width: none; margin: 0; } .whatcounts-form-container .disclaimer { font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom:10px; clear:both; } .whatcounts-form-container .input-group-addon.wc-addon-captcha{ padding: 4px 10px; border-left: 0; } ELGIN -- Donald R. Hanson, 63, of Elgin, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elgin, (563) 426-5321.IOWA FALLS -- Mary Jane Mulford, 84, of Iowa Falls, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Hansen Family Hospital; Woodley Funeral Home, LLC of Iowa Falls, (641) 648-7700.OELWEIN -- Shirley M. Jensen, 85, of rural Oelwein, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Oelwein Health Care Center; Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home, Oelwein.TAMA -- Lawrence William Hagerty, 87 of Tama, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Central Iowa Healthcare Hospital in Marshall...
Monday, January 30, 2017Calling hours 4-6 p.m. today. ROBENSKI-WORDEN — Jana Robenski-Worden, 50, of Remsen, on Jan. 22, 2017.Services 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Leo’s Church, Holland Patent. Calling hours 3-8 p.m. Friday at Ackley-Mills Funeral Home, 9597 Main St., Remsen.ROTENBERRY — Cecil Rotenberry, 81, of Clinton, formerly of Ava, on Jan. 20, 2017.Service 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St., followed by military honors.Spring burial St. Mary’s Cemetery, West Leyden.Calling hours 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. prior to the service.Contributions to Feed the Vets, 195-205 Genesee St., Utica, NY 13502.SIMIELE — Francis C. Simiele Sr., 81, of Blossvale, on Jan. 19, 2017.Service at a later date in Rome.THAYER — Rita Anna Thayer, 96, of Rome, on Jan. 24, 2017.Services 2 p.m. Friday at the Barry Funeral Home, 807 W. Chestnut St. Spring burial Rathbunville Cemetery, Vienna. Calling hours 1-2 p.m. Friday.WILSON — Daryl V. Wilson, 63, of Rome, Jan 23, 2017. Services 3 p.m. Sunday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St. Calling hours 1-3 p.m. Sunday. YOUNG — Daniel J. Young, 63, of Rome, on Jan. 23, 2017.Services 7 p.m. Thursday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St. Spring burial Evergreen Cemetery. Calling hours 4-7 p.m. Thursday.Contributions to the First Baptist Church of Rome Tower Fund. ...
Monday, January 16, 2017Phyllis Kutis 142, Gwen Monteleone 144-145.Mr. Ventry's Pizza — Scott Edwards 234-603, Dave Edwards 232-646, Roger Zimmerman 211-610, Ted Shively 221, Ryan Nagelhout 222-232, Frank Fabiano 222, Ted Ackley 213-214, Tom Saunders 212.Dick Dembeck Memorial — Carm Marinello 203-612, Jack Faiola 226-206-627, Bob MacNaughton 228-221-621, Jim Thorpe 227-204-620, Ed Ross 224-575, Paul Luick 205-589, Bob Bedore 218-208-587, John Smith 517, Julius Schapel 547, Harry Chapman 518, Del Schmahl 528, Ken Pawlukovich 202-514, Paul Wozniak 510, Tony Kraneyk 588, Frank Robins 201-544, Frank Renda 213-580, Walt Kendzia 223-585.Business & Professionals — Jim Anthony 212-202-204-618, Gene Cantlon 215-202-614, Jim Snopkowski 202-210, Bob Henschel 202, Nick Vilardo 202, Bob Lojacano 214-215.Zajac Funeral Home Wednesday — DJ Chapman 248-286-300-834, Kelly Utnik 258-268-279-805, Bill Rodgers 268-258-730, Norm McKenna 268-245-723, Tom Tedesco 236-246-710, Doug Potter 259-267-736, Ryan Wilcox 237-279-733, Chris Mattice 245-657, Mike Terrana 243-661, Jerry Casero Jr. 233-246-691, Tyler Miller 644, Frank Pati 236, Bill Steinjan 662, Steven Conklin 676, Brendan Donovan 257-672, Kyle Donovan 242-258-683, Jeff Conklin 248, Kevin Klinger 235-663, Steve Healey 265-687, Rob Klinger 259-688, Dave Spacone 234, Bob Scipione 246, Scott Chambers 257-234-682, Dave Gruarin 235, Norm Spurback 288-640, Savannah Auzina 653, Joe Luna 234, Bob Yamonaco 247, Shawn Reed 276, James Wilson 256, Rich Maslen 245-254-658, John Smith 258-641.Adam Mulholland Memorial — John Horab 223-245-652, Kevin Parker 203-233-235-671, Mike Bright 205-203-225-633, Rob McCrae 204, Kim Hatton 289-210-571, Tristan Puffer 214, Amanda Hodson 181-187-515, Mike Mulholland 214-213-619, Matt Anderson 200, Rob Page 213, Buddy Boss Jr. 226.Friday Retirees — Paul Luick 255-614, John Gabriele 248-236-680, Jim Thorpe 221-207-621, Ken Pawlukovich 226-585, Bill Sterner 214-554, Frank Robins 551, Bob Bedore 540, Paul Wozniak 534, Gene Cantlon 203-531, Jack Faiola 213-547, Frank Renda 200-567, Julius Schapel 510, Tony Kraneyk 524, Ed Ross 211-572, Tony Girardo 531, Bob MacNaughton 508.Zajac Funeral ...
Monday, December 26, 2016Breaking NewsObits for Dec. 13, 2016— Michelle Mueller-Ackley, 46, Antigo, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Bradley Funeral Home and Thursday from 10 a.m. until the time of services at the church. On Friday, a visitation will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Zimmer Westview Funeral Home in Howard Grove, followed by graveside services at the Wildwood Cemetery in Sheboygan.— Bethany (Young) Chase, 70, died on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. A memorial service was held on Nov. 12, 2016 at Congregational Presbyterian Church in Lewiston.— Dennis Kelly, 68, Elcho, died Sunday, Dec. 11. 2016. In accordance with his wishes, no services will be held. The Strasser-Roller Funeral Home is assisting the family.— Pamela (Marsh) Godsey, 69, Antigo, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. The family will be holding a special gathering on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. Please contact George at 715-679-3333 or Mary at 715-2...
Monday, November 14, 2016Who’d have time to look at a view for hours and hours, or even days?” she said. “It’s wonderful to be out in nature.”Tower’s gallery ownership and management included co-founding and directing the Hackley Gallery in Winchester from 1995 to ’98. She said that helped her develop an expertise in folk art, and she then ran the Tower Cerlan Gallery with Gayle Cerlan.But her highest-profile venture was her own gallery, which opened in 2002 at the Downtown Arts Center. On several occasions, Tower said that she assumed there would be tough competition for the then-two-level Main Street space. But it turned out she was the only bidder for the spot. In a 2002 story, she said opening the gallery was her biggest success.When management of the Downtown Arts Center was transferred from LexArts to the cultural arts division of Lexington Parks and Recreation, the city elected to make the lower level of the gallery a public gallery, but Tower retained the second-floor space. She closed out 2014 with a retrospective show for the last Gallery Hop with the two-level gallery.Nan Plummer, president and CEO of LexArts, said Tower “will be terribly missed.”“We’re a city that’s in love with the arts, but there are relatively few commercial galleries, because it’s a very hard business,” she said. “Ann brought such grace” to a competitive business. She was never anything but lovely.”In 2015, she and her family celebrated Robert Tharsing’s first solo exhibit in New York City, just a few months before his death in December after a long battle with cancer.In his obituary, Tower said, “We’ve had such a wonderful life.”“Their lives were just all about the art they were making and the art they wanted to make,” said Lexington photographer Guy Mendes, a friend of Tower since they were students at UK. She later represented his work.“Ann did a lot for a lot of artists,” Mendes said. “She’s been an advocate.”Lina Tharsing said she hopes to continue the gallery downtown, but its future will depend on the artists Tower represented and whether they wish to continue.She described her mother as “an extremely exuberant woman” who was unusually accepting and understanding of others.“She was just an incredible optimist in that way,” she said. “She saw the best in everyone, and that just made her a pleasure to be around.”Lina Tharsing and Tower had been working with the Lexington Art League on a retrospective of Robert Tharsing’s work, and she hopes to proceed with those plans.Tharsing said, “It can be, in a lot of ways, a celebration of both of them.”Memorial services are pending.Arts writer and editor Rich Copley contributed to this story.
Monday, October 24, 2016Hoyland, of Iowa City, Iowa; step-daughters Terri (Guy) Wendler, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Donna Hoyland, of Wimberley, Texas, Susan Hoyland, of Austin, Texas; step-sons-in-law David Phillips, of Ackley, and Craig Sandberg, of Apple Valley, Minn.; many step-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; brothers-in-law, Denby Risenhoover, W. Wayne Keefe, Donald E. Keefe and Robert Michalicek; sister-in-law, Donna Keefe Ellison and step-daughters, Virginia Phillips and Mary Sandberg.Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Reece Funeral Home in Ottumwa with Pastor Charles Daugherty officiating. Graveside services and burial will be 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Hampton Cemetery in Hampton. Visitation with the family present will be 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.Memorials may be made to the family to provide a memorial for those who helped provide for her care in the past few months.
Charles L. Schultze, economist in two Democratic administrations, dies at 91 - Washington Post
Monday, October 10, 2016Pentagon spending was increasing rapidly as the number of troops in Vietnam rose. Dr. Schultze and H. Gardner Ackley, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, advised Johnson to raise taxes.The president resisted for two years, fearing a tax increase would hamper his Great Society anti-poverty programs.As Johnson gradually stepped up further involvement in Southeast Asia — and with federal deficit forecasts approaching tens of billions of dollars — the president proposed and Congress enacted in 1968 a two-year, 10-percent surtax on individual and corporate income taxes.During the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Schultze helped start a Brookings series of annual reports called “Setting National Priorities.” It came to be regarded during Republican administrations as an opposition budget.A few years later, Dr. Schultze’s service as CEA chairman coincided with what came to be known as “stagflation,” the coincidence of rising price levels (inflation) and significant unemployment. It was spurred in part by the run-up in the cost of oil and other supply “shocks.”Dr. Schultze had taken an early academic and professional interest in this question of the government’s role in causing and combating inflation.He was cool to raising the minimum wage because he saw wage pressures as driving inflation. This led to friction between him and the more liberal — and more political — members of the Carter administration, notably Vice President Walter Mondale, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Stuart E. Eizenstat, chief of the White House domestic staff.At times, he was able to defeat what he regarded as profoundly bad policy. Dr. Schultze successfully fought proposed language in the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 to make the government an employer of last resort.Late in 1979, Dr. Schultze did not oppose the Federal Reserve’s aggressive raising of interest rates under its new chairman, Paul Volcker, for two reasons: He believed that Volcker had the support of Carter, who had just appointed him, and he recognized that the government had no other effective way to roll back double-digit inflation. The administration’s exhortations to business and labor to practice restraint — the “jawboning” urged by the Schultze council — had been ineffective.High interest rates threw the economy into recession in the early 1980s, unemployment shot up, inflation started to abate and the Fed began to ease up.Dr. Schultze’s longest-lasting impact may have been on moving the government away from what he called “command-and-control” regulation, such as the old quotas on oil imports.Dr. Schultze explained his approach in “The Public Use of Private Interest,” an essay derived from the Godkin Lectures that he delivered at Harvard University in 1976. He was particularly concerned with applying market pricing to energy policy and environmental protection, both new fields in the 1970s.“Our political system almost always chooses the command-and-control response,” he wrote, “regardless of whether that response fits the problem.”For example, Nordhaus recounted, some environmentalists wanted to impose absolute limits on the emissions from each of a firm’s smokestacks. The Schultze council favored a combined cap for all of them, which would let the firm elect to shut down its least efficient units.Charles Louis Schultze was born in Alexandria, Va., on Dec. 12, 1924. He graduated in 1942 from Gonzaga College High School in the District.After Army service in World War II, he enrolled at Georgetown University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1948 and a master’s degree in economics in 1950. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland in 1960.In 1947, he married Rita Hertzog. She died in 2014. Survivors include six children, Karen Hoffman of Raleigh, N.C., Kevin Schultze of Jackson, Wyo., Lynn Jones of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Kathleen Schultze of W...
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Saturday, April 08, 2017She is survived by her brother, Bill (Laurie) Furrow of Medford, OR and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister, Betty (Russ) Beving of Ackley, Iowa. Anne is also survived by her long-time friend and honorary sister, Bonnie Morrison along with the entire Morrison and McCommon families. Visitation will be Friday, March 31, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. at ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, Avalon Chapel, 8090 N. Northern Ave. Funeral Mass will be on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, 5150 N. Valley View Rd.
Monday, February 27, 2017Trinity American Lutheran Church.WATERLOO -- Charles J. Nelson, 90, of Waterloo, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital of natural causes; Locke Funeral Home, 233-6138.ACKLEY -- Edna Jean Voy, 91, of Ackley, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at Rehabilitation Center of Hampton; Sietsema Funeral Home, Ackley, (641) 648-9554.DECORAH -- Irene K. McConnell, 96, of Decorah, died Monday, Feb. 6, at Aase Haugen Senior Services, Decorah; Fjelstul Funeral Home, Decorah, (563) 382-5210.DIKE -- Dallas L. Wildeboer, 69, of Dike, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at Sartori Memorial Hospital, Cedar Falls; Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 266-7525.DYSART -- Mark Ewoldt, 54, of Dysart, died Monday, Feb. 20, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Overton Funeral Home, Dysart, 476-7355.ELGIN -- Richard Allen "Dick" Schultz, 68, of Elgin, died at home Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 at home; Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elgin, (563) 426-5321. Get tips on free stuff and fun ideas delivered weekly to your inbox .whatcounts-form-container.well { padding-bottom: 5px; } .whatcounts-form-container .left-col, .whatcounts-form-container .right-col{ float: left; width: 100%; max-width: 345px; } .whatcounts-form-container .left-col{ margin-right: 20px; } .whatcounts-form-container .whatcounts-min .left-col{ max-width: none; margin: 0; } .whatcounts-form-container .disclaimer { font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom:10px; clear:both; } .whatcounts-form-container .input-group-addon.wc-addon-captcha{ padding: 4px 10px; border-left: 0; } ELGIN -- Donald R. Hanson, 63, of Elgin, died Sunday, Feb. 19, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elgin, (563) 426-5321.IOWA FALLS -- Mary Jane Mulford, 84, of Iowa Falls, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Hansen Family Hospital; Woodley Funeral Home, LLC of Iowa Falls, (641) 648-7700.OELWEIN -- Shirley M. Jensen, 85, of rural Oelwein, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Oelwein Health Care Center; Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home, Oelwein.TAMA -- Lawrence William Hagerty, 87 of Tama, died Saturday, Feb. 18, at Central Iowa Healthcare Hospital in Marshall...
Monday, January 30, 2017Calling hours 4-6 p.m. today. ROBENSKI-WORDEN — Jana Robenski-Worden, 50, of Remsen, on Jan. 22, 2017.Services 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Leo’s Church, Holland Patent. Calling hours 3-8 p.m. Friday at Ackley-Mills Funeral Home, 9597 Main St., Remsen.ROTENBERRY — Cecil Rotenberry, 81, of Clinton, formerly of Ava, on Jan. 20, 2017.Service 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St., followed by military honors.Spring burial St. Mary’s Cemetery, West Leyden.Calling hours 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. prior to the service.Contributions to Feed the Vets, 195-205 Genesee St., Utica, NY 13502.SIMIELE — Francis C. Simiele Sr., 81, of Blossvale, on Jan. 19, 2017.Service at a later date in Rome.THAYER — Rita Anna Thayer, 96, of Rome, on Jan. 24, 2017.Services 2 p.m. Friday at the Barry Funeral Home, 807 W. Chestnut St. Spring burial Rathbunville Cemetery, Vienna. Calling hours 1-2 p.m. Friday.WILSON — Daryl V. Wilson, 63, of Rome, Jan 23, 2017. Services 3 p.m. Sunday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St. Calling hours 1-3 p.m. Sunday. YOUNG — Daniel J. Young, 63, of Rome, on Jan. 23, 2017.Services 7 p.m. Thursday at Nunn and Harper Funeral Home, 418 N. George St. Spring burial Evergreen Cemetery. Calling hours 4-7 p.m. Thursday.Contributions to the First Baptist Church of Rome Tower Fund. ...
Monday, January 16, 2017Phyllis Kutis 142, Gwen Monteleone 144-145.Mr. Ventry's Pizza — Scott Edwards 234-603, Dave Edwards 232-646, Roger Zimmerman 211-610, Ted Shively 221, Ryan Nagelhout 222-232, Frank Fabiano 222, Ted Ackley 213-214, Tom Saunders 212.Dick Dembeck Memorial — Carm Marinello 203-612, Jack Faiola 226-206-627, Bob MacNaughton 228-221-621, Jim Thorpe 227-204-620, Ed Ross 224-575, Paul Luick 205-589, Bob Bedore 218-208-587, John Smith 517, Julius Schapel 547, Harry Chapman 518, Del Schmahl 528, Ken Pawlukovich 202-514, Paul Wozniak 510, Tony Kraneyk 588, Frank Robins 201-544, Frank Renda 213-580, Walt Kendzia 223-585.Business & Professionals — Jim Anthony 212-202-204-618, Gene Cantlon 215-202-614, Jim Snopkowski 202-210, Bob Henschel 202, Nick Vilardo 202, Bob Lojacano 214-215.Zajac Funeral Home Wednesday — DJ Chapman 248-286-300-834, Kelly Utnik 258-268-279-805, Bill Rodgers 268-258-730, Norm McKenna 268-245-723, Tom Tedesco 236-246-710, Doug Potter 259-267-736, Ryan Wilcox 237-279-733, Chris Mattice 245-657, Mike Terrana 243-661, Jerry Casero Jr. 233-246-691, Tyler Miller 644, Frank Pati 236, Bill Steinjan 662, Steven Conklin 676, Brendan Donovan 257-672, Kyle Donovan 242-258-683, Jeff Conklin 248, Kevin Klinger 235-663, Steve Healey 265-687, Rob Klinger 259-688, Dave Spacone 234, Bob Scipione 246, Scott Chambers 257-234-682, Dave Gruarin 235, Norm Spurback 288-640, Savannah Auzina 653, Joe Luna 234, Bob Yamonaco 247, Shawn Reed 276, James Wilson 256, Rich Maslen 245-254-658, John Smith 258-641.Adam Mulholland Memorial — John Horab 223-245-652, Kevin Parker 203-233-235-671, Mike Bright 205-203-225-633, Rob McCrae 204, Kim Hatton 289-210-571, Tristan Puffer 214, Amanda Hodson 181-187-515, Mike Mulholland 214-213-619, Matt Anderson 200, Rob Page 213, Buddy Boss Jr. 226.Friday Retirees — Paul Luick 255-614, John Gabriele 248-236-680, Jim Thorpe 221-207-621, Ken Pawlukovich 226-585, Bill Sterner 214-554, Frank Robins 551, Bob Bedore 540, Paul Wozniak 534, Gene Cantlon 203-531, Jack Faiola 213-547, Frank Renda 200-567, Julius Schapel 510, Tony Kraneyk 524, Ed Ross 211-572, Tony Girardo 531, Bob MacNaughton 508.Zajac Funeral ...
Monday, December 26, 2016Breaking NewsObits for Dec. 13, 2016— Michelle Mueller-Ackley, 46, Antigo, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Bradley Funeral Home and Thursday from 10 a.m. until the time of services at the church. On Friday, a visitation will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Zimmer Westview Funeral Home in Howard Grove, followed by graveside services at the Wildwood Cemetery in Sheboygan.— Bethany (Young) Chase, 70, died on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. A memorial service was held on Nov. 12, 2016 at Congregational Presbyterian Church in Lewiston.— Dennis Kelly, 68, Elcho, died Sunday, Dec. 11. 2016. In accordance with his wishes, no services will be held. The Strasser-Roller Funeral Home is assisting the family.— Pamela (Marsh) Godsey, 69, Antigo, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. The family will be holding a special gathering on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. Please contact George at 715-679-3333 or Mary at 715-2...
Monday, November 14, 2016Who’d have time to look at a view for hours and hours, or even days?” she said. “It’s wonderful to be out in nature.”Tower’s gallery ownership and management included co-founding and directing the Hackley Gallery in Winchester from 1995 to ’98. She said that helped her develop an expertise in folk art, and she then ran the Tower Cerlan Gallery with Gayle Cerlan.But her highest-profile venture was her own gallery, which opened in 2002 at the Downtown Arts Center. On several occasions, Tower said that she assumed there would be tough competition for the then-two-level Main Street space. But it turned out she was the only bidder for the spot. In a 2002 story, she said opening the gallery was her biggest success.When management of the Downtown Arts Center was transferred from LexArts to the cultural arts division of Lexington Parks and Recreation, the city elected to make the lower level of the gallery a public gallery, but Tower retained the second-floor space. She closed out 2014 with a retrospective show for the last Gallery Hop with the two-level gallery.Nan Plummer, president and CEO of LexArts, said Tower “will be terribly missed.”“We’re a city that’s in love with the arts, but there are relatively few commercial galleries, because it’s a very hard business,” she said. “Ann brought such grace” to a competitive business. She was never anything but lovely.”In 2015, she and her family celebrated Robert Tharsing’s first solo exhibit in New York City, just a few months before his death in December after a long battle with cancer.In his obituary, Tower said, “We’ve had such a wonderful life.”“Their lives were just all about the art they were making and the art they wanted to make,” said Lexington photographer Guy Mendes, a friend of Tower since they were students at UK. She later represented his work.“Ann did a lot for a lot of artists,” Mendes said. “She’s been an advocate.”Lina Tharsing said she hopes to continue the gallery downtown, but its future will depend on the artists Tower represented and whether they wish to continue.She described her mother as “an extremely exuberant woman” who was unusually accepting and understanding of others.“She was just an incredible optimist in that way,” she said. “She saw the best in everyone, and that just made her a pleasure to be around.”Lina Tharsing and Tower had been working with the Lexington Art League on a retrospective of Robert Tharsing’s work, and she hopes to proceed with those plans.Tharsing said, “It can be, in a lot of ways, a celebration of both of them.”Memorial services are pending.Arts writer and editor Rich Copley contributed to this story.
Monday, October 24, 2016Hoyland, of Iowa City, Iowa; step-daughters Terri (Guy) Wendler, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Donna Hoyland, of Wimberley, Texas, Susan Hoyland, of Austin, Texas; step-sons-in-law David Phillips, of Ackley, and Craig Sandberg, of Apple Valley, Minn.; many step-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; brothers-in-law, Denby Risenhoover, W. Wayne Keefe, Donald E. Keefe and Robert Michalicek; sister-in-law, Donna Keefe Ellison and step-daughters, Virginia Phillips and Mary Sandberg.Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Reece Funeral Home in Ottumwa with Pastor Charles Daugherty officiating. Graveside services and burial will be 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Hampton Cemetery in Hampton. Visitation with the family present will be 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.Memorials may be made to the family to provide a memorial for those who helped provide for her care in the past few months.
Charles L. Schultze, economist in two Democratic administrations, dies at 91 - Washington Post
Monday, October 10, 2016Pentagon spending was increasing rapidly as the number of troops in Vietnam rose. Dr. Schultze and H. Gardner Ackley, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, advised Johnson to raise taxes.The president resisted for two years, fearing a tax increase would hamper his Great Society anti-poverty programs.As Johnson gradually stepped up further involvement in Southeast Asia — and with federal deficit forecasts approaching tens of billions of dollars — the president proposed and Congress enacted in 1968 a two-year, 10-percent surtax on individual and corporate income taxes.During the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Schultze helped start a Brookings series of annual reports called “Setting National Priorities.” It came to be regarded during Republican administrations as an opposition budget.A few years later, Dr. Schultze’s service as CEA chairman coincided with what came to be known as “stagflation,” the coincidence of rising price levels (inflation) and significant unemployment. It was spurred in part by the run-up in the cost of oil and other supply “shocks.”Dr. Schultze had taken an early academic and professional interest in this question of the government’s role in causing and combating inflation.He was cool to raising the minimum wage because he saw wage pressures as driving inflation. This led to friction between him and the more liberal — and more political — members of the Carter administration, notably Vice President Walter Mondale, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Stuart E. Eizenstat, chief of the White House domestic staff.At times, he was able to defeat what he regarded as profoundly bad policy. Dr. Schultze successfully fought proposed language in the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 to make the government an employer of last resort.Late in 1979, Dr. Schultze did not oppose the Federal Reserve’s aggressive raising of interest rates under its new chairman, Paul Volcker, for two reasons: He believed that Volcker had the support of Carter, who had just appointed him, and he recognized that the government had no other effective way to roll back double-digit inflation. The administration’s exhortations to business and labor to practice restraint — the “jawboning” urged by the Schultze council — had been ineffective.High interest rates threw the economy into recession in the early 1980s, unemployment shot up, inflation started to abate and the Fed began to ease up.Dr. Schultze’s longest-lasting impact may have been on moving the government away from what he called “command-and-control” regulation, such as the old quotas on oil imports.Dr. Schultze explained his approach in “The Public Use of Private Interest,” an essay derived from the Godkin Lectures that he delivered at Harvard University in 1976. He was particularly concerned with applying market pricing to energy policy and environmental protection, both new fields in the 1970s.“Our political system almost always chooses the command-and-control response,” he wrote, “regardless of whether that response fits the problem.”For example, Nordhaus recounted, some environmentalists wanted to impose absolute limits on the emissions from each of a firm’s smokestacks. The Schultze council favored a combined cap for all of them, which would let the firm elect to shut down its least efficient units.Charles Louis Schultze was born in Alexandria, Va., on Dec. 12, 1924. He graduated in 1942 from Gonzaga College High School in the District.After Army service in World War II, he enrolled at Georgetown University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1948 and a master’s degree in economics in 1950. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland in 1960.In 1947, he married Rita Hertzog. She died in 2014. Survivors include six children, Karen Hoffman of Raleigh, N.C., Kevin Schultze of Jackson, Wyo., Lynn Jones of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Kathleen Schultze of W...
