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THE SITE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE MAY THEY LIVE FOREVER IN OUR MEMORIES AND ON CYBER SPACE;

"Aunt" Doretta was a great cook too!! She was one of my inspirations to great cooking!!

Doretta will be remembered and missed as a good friend and part of my extended family.

Floyd was a neighbor north of my parents and was an avid ham operator. we will miss him!!

Carroll W. Wittman, 90, of 4325 Council Street N.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Saturday, May 26, 2007, in St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, from congestive heart failure. Services: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids, by the Rev. Linda Livingston. The family will greet friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, May 28, 2007, at the funeral home. Burial: Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Survivors include his wife, Mable; daughters, Corrine “Kay” Sutton of Marion, Iowa and Phyllis (Roger) Wright of Keota, Iowa; grandchildren, Brad Wright, Brian Wright, Paula Wright, Scott Sutton and Sheryl Sutton; and great grandchildren, Erica Wright, Leah Wright, Taylor Wright, Erin Wright, Ellen Wright, Justin Dolley, Alizabeth Sutton and Alex Sutton.
He was preceded in death by his parents; Clara and John Wittman; brothers, Leroy Wittman and Julius Wittman; son-in-law, Ron Sutton; and great grandchild, Julian Vernon Sutton Dolley.
Carroll was born November 17, 1916, in Elkport, Iowa, the son of John and Clara (Bahr) Wittman. On September 15, 1939, he married Mable Y. Sprague in Elkader, Iowa. He worked for Bob Rush, Skogman and St. Luke’s Hospital as a carpenter for 16 years, retiring in 1982.
Carroll was a sportsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was a member of the Carpenters Union and enjoyed working on cars.
Memorials may be made in Carroll’s memory to Ascention Lutheran Church, 2210 Grand Avenue, Marion, Iowa 52302 or St. Luke’s Hospice, 1026 A Avenue N.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402.

Born in Greeley, IA on Apr. 18, 1915
Departed on Jul. 28, 2005 and resided in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Lewis C. “Lewie” Fry, 90, of 202 35th Street Dr. SE, formerly of Robins, died Thursday, July 28, 2005, in St. Luke’s Hospital following a short illness. Services at 2 PM Monday in First Baptist Church-Church of the Brethren. Burial in Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home from 4 to 8 PM on Sunday and at the church after 1 PM on Monday.
Survivors include a daughter Beverly Klima and husband Delbert of Fremont, Iowa, two sons Lewis A. Fry Jr. and wife Rita of Robins, and Dwight “Jim” Fry and wife Vicky of Gardnerville, Nevada, 8 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, 3 brothers Harry, Elmer, and Roy, and a sister Viola.
Lewis was born April 18, 1915 in Greeley, Iowa to Lewis W. and Mary Smith Fry. He married Bernice Sprague on August 13, 1934 in Edgewood, Iowa. She died January 13, 2005. Lewie farmed until 1950 and then was a machinist for Collins Radio for 27 years.
He was a member of First Baptist Church-Church of the Brethren, and a former member of the Robins City Council and Volunteer Fire Department. He enjoyed fishing, playing cards, and traveling.
Instead of flowers a memorial fund has been established

OTTUMWA - LaVerne T. "Bernie" Ferguson, 56, of 583 Crestview, died at 7:45 p.m. May 14, 2000, at the Ottumwa Regional Health Center.

He was born April 4, 1944 in Ottumwa to Russell Lawrence and Hazel Samantha Ferguson.

The service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Reece Funeral Home, the Revs. Jerry Caughron and John Spiegel officiating. Cremation will follow the service.

Memorials may be made to the Ottumwa Regional Health Foundation for the Palliative Care Unit.

"UNCLE BILLY" AS WE KNEW HIM PASSED THIS AM IN HIS CHAIR AT HOME IN MARSHALLTOWN.

Billy D. Cunningham, 69, died May 19, 2003. Funeral services and a celebration of Billy's life will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home in Marshalltown, with Rev. Jeffrey R. Frese of the Grace United Methodist Church officiating. He will be laid to rest in the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens in Marshalltown.

Billy retired from Fisher Controls after 27 years of faithful service. He was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church, the men's breakfast group of the church and the UAW Local #893 Retirees.

Left to mourn his loss are his loving wife of 44 years, Doretta; two beloved daughters, Cindy Cunningham of Marshalltown and Chellie (Matt) Harvey of Marshalltown; five treasured grandsons, Ryan, Trevor, Cory, and Seth Harvey and Tim Cunningham, all of Marshalltown; his sister, Marie (Rick) Benda of Gladbrook and brother, Ron Cunningham of San Antonio, TX; brother-in-law, Norm (Joan) Legg of Marshalltown; his dog, Blaze and cat, Sammy; as well as nieces, nephews, aunt, uncles, cousins and a host of friends. In death, he has rejoined his parents and stepfather, Clarence Schulz and sisters, Retta Legg and Lydia Cunningham.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday with family present 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A memorial video tribute will be presented during those hours.

Billy D. Cunningham, 69, of 1208 South 2nd Street, Marshalltown, died suddenly Monday morning, May 19th, 2003 at his home.
Funeral services and a celebration of Billy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 22nd, at the Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home in Marshalltown with Rev. Jeffrey R. Frese of the Grace United Methodist Church officiating. He will be laid to rest in the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens in Marshalltown. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3-9:00 p.m. on Wednesday with family present 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A memorial video tribute will be presented during those hours. Friends near or far may leave condolences at www.mem.com (Making Everlasting Memories). The Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home (641-753-3344) has been entrusted by the Cunningham family with his final arrangements.
Born on October 29th, 1933, in Honey Grove, Texas, he was the son of Winnifred and Dorothy (Owen) Cunningham. He began schooling in Texas and later in Gladbrook, Iowa when his mother married Clarence Schulz. Billy was a farm-hand for Clarence and later worked for the Marshalltown Hospital for about five years. Billy retired from Fisher Controls after 27 years of faithful service.
On February 25th, 1958, he was united in marriage to Doretta Bruna in Marshalltown at the Presbyterian Church. They made Beaman, Iowa, Texas and Marshalltown their home where he was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church, the men's breakfast group of the church and the UAW Local #893 Retirees. Billy will be fondly remembered as a loving family man who loved his wife and treasured his girls and grandsons. He will be greatly missed by family and friends alike.
Left to mourn his loss are his loving wife of 44 years, Doretta, two beloved daughters: Cindy Cunningham of Marshalltown and Chellie (Matt) Harvey of Marshalltown, five treaured grandsons: Ryan, Trevor, Cory and Seth Harvey and Tim Cunningham all of Marshalltown, his sister Marie (Rick) Benda of Gladbrook and brother Ron Cunningham of San Antonio, Texas, brother-in-law Norm (Joan) Legg of Marshalltown, his dog Blaze and cat Sammy, as well as nieces, nephews, aunt, uncles, cousins and a host of friends.
In death he has rejoined his parents and sisters Retta Legg and Lydia Cunningham.

Billy D. Cunningham, 69, of 1208 South 2nd Street, Marshalltown, died suddenly Monday morning, May 19th, at his home.
Funeral services and a celebration of Billy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 22nd, at the Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home in Marshalltown with Rev. Jeffrey R. Frese of the Grace United Methodist Church officiating. He will be laid to rest in the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens in Marshalltown. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3-9:00 p.m. on Wednesday with family present 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A memorial video tribute will be presented during those hours. Friends near or far may leave condolences at www.mem.com (Making Everlasting Memories). The Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home (641-753-3344) has been entrusted by the Cunningham family with his final arrangements.
Born on October 29th, 1933, in Honey Grove, Texas, he was the son of Winnifred and Dorothy (Owen) Cunningham. He began schooling in Texas and later in Gladbrook, Iowa when his mother married Clarence Schulz. Billy was a farm-hand for Clarence and later worked for the Marshalltown Hospital for about five years. Billy retired from Fisher Controls after 27 years of faithful service.
On February 25th, 1958, he was united in marriage to Doretta Bruna in Marshalltown at the Presbyterian Church. They made Beaman, Iowa, Texas and Marshalltown their home where he was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church, the men's breakfast group of the church and the UAW Local #893 Retirees. Billy will be fondly remembered as a loving family man who loved his wife and treasured his girls and grandsons. He will be greatly missed by family and friends alike.
Left to mourn his loss are his loving wife of 44 years, Doretta, two beloved daughters: Cindy Cunningham of Marshalltown and Chellie (Matt) Harvey of Marshalltown, five treaured grandsons: Ryan, Trevor, Cory and Seth Harvey and Tim Cunningham all of Marshalltown, his sister Marie (Rick) Benda of Gladbrook and brother Ron Cunningham of San Antonio, Texas, brother-in-law Norm (Joan) Legg of Marshalltown, his dog Blaze and cat Sammy, as well as nieces, nephews, aunt, uncles, cousins and a host of friends.
In death he has rejoined his parents and sisters Retta Legg and Lydia Cunningham

below are the plot maps for Rose Hill cemetery Gethsemane for Uncle Billy Aunt Doretta Cunningham and Bev and Del Klima

HEDRICK - Terry Clinton Robertson, 52, of Hedrick died April 22, 2000, at Ottumwa Regional Health Center.

He was born Aug. 25, 1947, in Washington to Cloyce Clinton and Frankie Mills Robertson.

The service will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fremont Funeral Chapel, the Rev. Howard Reitz of Glen Echo Christian Church in Des Moines officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery, southeast of Keota.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with family present from 6 to 8 p.m.

HEDRICK – Wanda Robertson, 66, of Hedrick passed away March 13, 2008 at Hospice House in Ottumwa.

Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 17, 2008 at the Fremont Funeral Chapel with Pastor Carla Nelson officiating. Interment will follow at New Haven Cemetery near Keota.

Visitation will be held from 2:00-6:00 p.m. at the Fremont Funeral Chapel Sunday.

Last name: JUDGE
First name: DARWIN LEE
Home of Record (official): MARSHALLTOWN
State (official): IA
Date of Birth: Thursday, February 16, 1956
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Marital Status: Single

Branch: Marine Corps
Rank: LCPL
Serial Number: 479708999
Component: Regular
Pay grade: E3
MOS (Military Occupational Specialty code): 0341

Start of Tour: Tuesday, April 29, 1975
Date of Casualty: Tuesday, April 29, 1975
Age at time of loss: 19
Casualty type: (A1) Hostile, died
Reason: Artillery, rocket, mortar (Ground casualty)
Country: South VietNam
Province: Bien Hoa
Comments: BODY 03/01/76
The Wall: Panel 01W - Row 124

Darwin was a personal friend... we were in Boy scouts together. he made eagle scout. and I made life... 2 merit badges from eagle, just before he was shipped out...... his death was so shocking I left the scouts shortly after his death..... as the memory of the loss was too strong.... It was not till fall of 1998 that I found some closure and found the data above.

Darwin was one of the last ones there during the evac. and was one of the last causality's

The last two Americans KIA in the Vietnam War were Corporal Charles McMahon, Jr., and Lance Corporal Darwin Lee Judge. Source: U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Bitter End, 1973-1975, by George Dunham and David Quinlan. The same book discusses unit identities, scattered in various places. This is the final volume of the USMC official history of the Vietnam War.

LCpl Darwin Judge along with Cpl Charles McMahon was the last Killed In Action serviceman in the Vietnam War. LCpl Judge was born and raised in Marshalltown Iowa. He was an Eagle Scout and a fine young man of the community. He completed Marine Corps Boot Camp and Marine Security Guard School before shipping to Saigon, R. Vietnam as a Marine Security Guard to the American Embassy. He and Cpl Charles McMahon were killed together within the first two weeks of joining the detachment. LCpl Judge and Cpl McMahon was killed by a rocket attack from Five NVA Divisions defending the Defense Attaché Building on Tan Son Nhut airbase. On April 29-30 2000 we honored LCpl Judge with a Memorial Services from 24th Marines and his fellow Saigon Marines.

Today 29 April 2001 LCpl Judge was honored at his Park in Marshalltown, Iowa with a Flag Pole, the American and Marine Corps Flag and free lighting from the citizens of Marshalltown. Earlier in April 2000 we planted two new trees in the Judge park to honor LCpl Judge and Cpl McMahon.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, April 28 — Young Americans were paying the ultimate price in Vietnam right up until the final days — and what added to the tragedy is that some were virtually lost in the chaos and the eagerness of America to put Vietnam behind it. But one young hero is finally getting the recognition he deserves DARWIN JUDGE was already a hero. There’s a park named after him and a place of honor at his high school. “He was rock stable,” said one of his former schoolteachers. “He was the kind of guy America was built around.” An Eagle Scout, he was one of the last Marines to die in combat in Vietnam, killed in action when he was just 19 as enemy shells slammed into Than Son Nhut Airbase 25 years ago tomorrow, “If he’d stayed at the embassy like he was supposed to, be on the lookout, he would have been alright,” said his mother Ira. In the chaos of those final days, his body wasn’t found and returned home until a year later. In the bureaucratic confusion, he never got the purple heart nor burial with honors he deserved. “I love my country but I’m not so sure we have done what we should do to say thank you” said Ken Locke, Judge’s boyhood pal.

Below is Ken Locke's memorial web page to Darwin Judge
http://members.tripod.com/~kclocke/judge.html

For nearly 25 years Locke has wanted to pay proper tribute to Darwin Judge. “He was my hero; I wanted to be like him,” Locke said. A COMMON HERO He was a hero for others, too. As Saigon fell and thousands tried to flee, Marine Doug Potratz tried frantically to evacuate his three-year-old daughter Becky, but could not until Judge intervened. “He picked her up, put her on his back, piggyback style, and quick as a bunny ran, ran out to the plane and put her on the plane,” Potratz said. Almost 25 years later, on a website dedicated to the fall of Saigon, Potratz , now in California, wrote about what Judge had done. Two thousand miles away in Indiana, Ken Locke read the account and contacted Potratz. Realizing they had a hero in common, the men, after countless phone calls and letters, persuaded the Marines to give Judge a service, Saturday, with full military honors. It will bring some measure of comfort to Judge’s parents.

When you see so many young people take drugs and do terrible things, it makes you a little proud to have somebody like Darwin,” his father Henry said. Others are still thanking Darwin Judge 25 years later. Remember that small child he rescued? She went on to graduate, with honors, from the University of Southern California. “If it wasn’t for him, I’d probably still be their instead of here doing what I’m doing now and being who I am,” Becky said. And for anyone who might argue that it’s too late now to offer thanks, Darwin Judge’s mother has an answer: “It’s not too late to thank them and show your appreciation that they was over there to do what they was supposed to do.” Twenty-five years later, Darwin Judge will get what he deserved and those he touched will get what they need.