wife Sioux City Journal, Friday, Feb. 20, 2004-D1 OBITUARIES William W. Whipple, 65, of Sioux City, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004, at his residence. Services will be 10 a.m.
Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with Bishop Jeff Hemmingsen officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Mr.
Whipple was born Nov. 1, 1938, in Spirit Lake, lowa, the son of Wilford and Marian (Schoen) Whipple. Shortly after his birth, he moved to Sioux City. He attended Sioux City Schools, graduating from Central High School in 1958. He joined the U.S.
Navy in 1958 and was activated during the Cuban crises. He was discharged in 1960. He lived in several places as an adult, including Moncks Corner, S.C., Mesa, and Lockwood, Mo. He returned to live in Sioux City in July 1998. He graduated from Missouri State College in 1988.
He married Irene L. Gatton on July 26, 1961, in Moncks Corner. She died Oct. 1,1989, in Lockwood. He married Vida Moos on July 18, 1998, in Sioux City.
He worked as a machinist and was a quality control inspector for Lockwood Air Plane Parts until his retirement. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where he was an elder. He is survived by his wife, Vida: his mother, Marian E. Gatton of Sioux City; two daughters, Jennifer Wilson of Lockwood, and Debra Mix of Sioux City; six stepsons, James Moos and his wife, Vivian of Vermillion, S.D., William Moos and his wife, Kelly, Joseph Moos and his wife, Ruth Ann, Samuel Moos and his wife, Hope, Benjamin Moos and his wife, Renee, and John Moos, all of Sioux City; seven stepdaughters, Virginia Nighbert and her husband, Mathew, and Pauline Moose, all of Albuquerque, N.M.. Melinda Melcher and her husband, Andrew of Provo, Utah, Vida Lee Schwab and her husband, Carl, La Velle Moos.
Victoria Moos and Kimberly Moos, all of Sioux City; a brother and sister-in-law, Donald and Barbara Whipple of Mesa; a stepbrother and his wife, Harold and Carle Gatton of Mesa; two stepsisters, Patricia 1 Clark of Lockwood, and Lura Pitt of Belfry, 18 grandchildren; and a special niece, Jennifer Moos of Sioux City. He was preceded in death by his father; his stepfather, Robert Levy Gatton; a brother, James; and two half sisters, Sherry Wheat and Linda Cobb. William W. Whipple Gladys Irene Attrill, Sioux City died Feb. 18, 2004, at tage.
Services will be 3 day at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Al Weiss of First Assembly of God Church officiating. Visitation with the family present will be one hour Attrill 87, of Wednesday, Bickford Cot- Gladys Irene Attrill p.m. p.m. Satur- prior to the service Saturday.
Private family graveside services will be at a later date. Mrs. Attrill was born March 14. 1916, in Merrill, Iowa, the daughter of Seth and Clara (Lonek) Rozell. She married Alvin Attrill on June 14, 1938, in Lake Nebagamon, Wis.
She was a member of First Assembly of God Church. She enjoyed her garden, flowers, sewing, crocheting and 50 years on their farm in Merrill. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Wayne Haijsman of Orange Park, a son and daughter-in-law, David and Judy Attrill of Hinton, Iowa; six grandchildren, Lori Saulsbury and her husband, Bob of Franklin, Michael Haijsman and his wife, Sherry of Suffolk, Joy Dailey and her husband, Roger of Jacksonville, Aric Attrill and his wife, Jennifer of Merrill, Amy Kimbell and her husband, Ryan of Sioux City, and Alisa Attrill of Hinton; four greatgrandchildren, Lee Ann Saulsbury, Christopher and Matthew Haijsman and Jackson Kimbell; and two brothers and sisters-inlaw, Floyd and Vee Rozell of Ocala, and Melvin and Delores Rozell of Lake Nebagamon. She was preceded in death by her husband. Alvin, and a Raymond H.
'Ray' Speckmann Raymond H. "Ray" Speckmann, 84, of Sioux City died Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004, at a Sioux City hospital. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church.
Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the family present 5 to 8 p.m. and a vigil service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Wilma A. Sponder Wilma A.
Sponder, 72, of Sioux City, died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at a Sioux City hospital. Arrangements are pending with Meyer Brothers Colonial Area Dorothy J. Reuter LE MARS, Iowa Dorothy Reuter, 90, of Le Mars, died unexpectedly Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Le Mars, with the Rev. James Tigges officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Le Mars.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with a combined rosary by the Christian Mothers and Catholic Daughters at 4 p.m. and a Scriptural wake service at 7 p.m., all at the church. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Saturday at the church. Feuerstein Funeral Home in Le Mars is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Reuter was born June 26, 1913, in Earlville, Iowa, the daughter of Charles and Ella (Holscher) Luense. She married Ralph Reuter on May 23, 1931. They farmed near Earlville and Oyens, Iowa, before moving to Le Mars in 1948. He died Nov.
10, 1968. She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Christian Mothers Society and Catholic Daughters of the Americas. Her family was extremely important to her and she was very proud of and dearly loved all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She is survived by five sons and their wives, Anthony "Tony" and Carol Reuter of Bella Vista, Ralph "Jack" and Alyce Reuter of Le Mars, Bill and Yvonne Reuter of Lakewood, Tom and Judy Reuter of Le Mars, and Stanley "Pete" and Bev Reuter of Wilton, Iowa; 21 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to husband. she was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, John Reuter; and two sisters, Arlie Rieger and Marjorie Moser. Pallbearers are her six grandsons, Jeff, Scott, Mark, Paul, Ray and Michael Reuter. Burdette Lowell Burrell REMBRANDT. Iowa Burdette Lowell Burrell, 77, of Rembrandt died Wednesday, Feb.
18, 2004, at Hovenden Memorial Good Samaritan Center in Laurens, Iowa. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Sliefert-Asmus Funeral Home in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, with the Rev. Durwood Clauson fOur Savior's Lutheran Church Rembrandt officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Saturday at the funeral home.
Graveside services and burial will be at a later date at Elk Point, S.D., with military rites provided by American Legion Post 394 of Sioux Rapids. Mr. Burrell was born Nov. 7, 1926. in Elk Point, the son of Charles and Mary (Scott) Burrell.
He attended school at Elk Point and later joined the U.S. a Navy. He was united in marriage to Betty Goodroad in 1949 in Elk Point. The marriage ended in divorce. He was united in marriage to Muriel Kline in 1960 in Sioux City.
They moved to Rembrandt where he farmed and worked at Wilson's Food in Cherokee, Iowa. Muriel died in 1995. Mr. Burrell enjoyed gardening and traveling. He is survived by his special friend, Lois Haroldson of Linn Grove, Iowa; two daughters, Kathy Morris of Sioux City, and Julie Keith of Rembrandt; a stepdaughter, Tonja Gordon and her husband.
Chuck of Carlisle, Iowa; five grandchildren, Andrea McPeek, Misty, Duncan, Shannon Morris Justin and Brittany Keith; three stepgrandchildren, Bob Shannon, Tracy Treglia and Shane Weier; nine great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Melvin, George and Ralph Burrell; and a stepson, Mike Treglia. LAWTON, Iowa Millard K. Allman, 92, of Lawton died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at Char-Mac Assisted Living in Lawton.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. today at United Methodist Church in Anthon, Iowa. with the Rev. Karl Harman officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Sioux City.
Armstrong Funeral Home of Anthon is handing arrangements. Allman was born July 11, 1911, in Grant Township, rural Oto, lowa, the son of Christopher and Mary (Maughan) Allman. He graduated from Oto High School with the class of 1929. He was united in marriage to Mildred Jackson on Feb. 23, 1935, in Sioux City.
The couple lived and farmed near Oto their entire lives until moving to Lawton in November 2001. Mr. Allman was the owner of the first rubber-tired tractor and the first combine in the area. Mrs. Allman died March 30, 2002.
He was a member of United Methodist Church in Anthon. He was an active member of the community and served on the board of the Farmers Home Administration for nine years and several years on the Woodbury. County REC Board. His favorite pastime was fishing, and he made many trips to Minnesota and Canada with family and friends. He was a devoted father and grandfather.
Survivors include a son, Keith Allman and his special friend, Nancy Vanderham of Oto; a daughter, Mary Jane Shanahan and her husband, Leo of Sioux City; 10 grandchildren, Kevin Allman and his wife, Becky, Chris Allman and his wife, Sherri, Kim Rose and her husband, Todd, Steve Bumsted and his wife, Sheila, Dan Bumsted, Mark Bumsted and his wife, Diane, Scott Bumsted, Marcy Peterson and her husband, Erik, Joan Holmes and her husband, Kevin, and Jean Lillie; 28 greatgrandchildren; five great-greatgrandchildren; and other relatives, neighbors and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife of 67 years; a daughter, Alice (Allman) Lillie; a sister, lone (Allman) Moore; a daughter-in-law, Pat (Stodden) Allman; a grandson, Gregory Bumsted; and a granddaughter, Cynthia Bumsted. Millard K. Allman Jessie Kourkulas MADISON, S.D. Jessie Kourkulas, 91, of Madison died Tuesday, Feb.
17, 2004, at Beverly Health Care Center in Madison. Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Weiland Funeral Chapel in Madison, with the Rev. Verlyn Hanson officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery in Madison.
Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. today at the funeral chapel. Mrs. Kourkulas was born Aug. 16, 1912, in Akron, Iowa, to Allen and Carrie (Billings) Semple.
She grew up in Madiand graduated from Madison High School in 1931. She married Peter Kourkulas on Oct. 14, 1936, in Madison. He died in 1986. She worked as a waitress prior to her marriage, and then operated Pete's Grill in Madison with her husband.
She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and a member of First Baptist Church since 1929. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. She also was preceded in death by five brothers and four sisters. Raphael DeSales Weinandt FORDYCE, Neb. Raphael DeSales Weinandt, 71, of West Hills, formerly of Fordyce, died Tuesday, Feb.
17, 2004, at her residence. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John the Baptist Church in Fordyce. Burial will be in St.
John the Baptist Cemetery, Fordyce. Visitation will be one hour prior to services Monday at the church. Wintz Funeral Home in Hartington, is handling arrangements. Florence A. Sand MARCUS, lowa Florence A.
Sand, 97, of Marcus died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at Heartland Care Center in Marcus. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus, with the Rev. Eugene Murray officiating.
Burial will be in Holy Name Catholic Cemetery in Marcus. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to p.m. and a Scriptural prayer 7 service at 7 p.m., at EarnestRohde Funeral Home in Marcus. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the services Saturday at the church.
Ms. Sand was born Oct. 26, 1906, in Marcus, the daughter of Frank and Anna (Greff) Sand. She attended Loretta Academy in Marcus, and later Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa. Following her education she moved to Los Angeles.
She worked for many years with Cook Tours. She also worked as a secretary at the Jewish Community Center and at her local church. She returned to Marcus in 1984 to be closer to her family. She moved to Heartland Care Center on Jan. 31, 2003.
She was a member of Holy Name Catholic Church and St. Ann's Guild. She enjoyed traveling, crocheting, reading, playing cards, visiting with family and friends, eating and countryside drives. She will be lovingly remembered by her many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Verna Sand, Angeline Sand and Mabel Mathern; three brothers, John, Clarence and Roy Sand; two nieces, Susie Redburn and Evelyn Krause; and five nephews, Ray Sand, Bob Sand, Paul Sand, Don Mathern and Merle Sand.
Leonard H. Lamar MARCO ISLAND, Fla. 1962. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Leonard H. Lamar, 68, of Marco Island, formerly of Sioux City and Palatine, died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, following a battle with lung cancer. Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at San Marco Catholic Church in Marco Island.
Funeral services will be at noon Saturday, Feb. 28, at Holy Family Parish in Inverness, Ill. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at Ahlgrim and Sons Funeral Home in Palatine.
Mr. Lamar was born in Sioux City on Oct. 7, 1935. He graduated from Sioux City Central High School in 1954. He received a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Iowa in 1960, and an MSIC degree from Loyola University in A 38-year employee of Western he worked in the telecommunications industry until his retirement in 1995.
During his retirement, he volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and enjoyed fishing, golfing and gardening. He is survived by his wife, Roberta; three daughters and their spouses, Elizabeth Lamar and Robert Cleary, Kelly and Christian Loeffelholz and Jeanne Lamar and Patrick Walsh; five sons, John Lamar and his wife Sharon, David Lamar and his wife Maureen, Chris Lamar and his wife Molly, Eric Lamar and Gregory Lamar; a stepson and his wife, Jeff and Beth Kramer; and 15 grandchildren. The family welcomes remembrances and stories about Mr. Lamar. Send them to the family at In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to Angel Flight Southeast, 8864 Airport Leesburg, FL, 34788, www.angelflightse.org, or Hospice Nurse of Naples, 1095 Whippoorwill Lane, Naples, FL, 34105, www.hospiceofnaples.org.
Arlo Snider HARTLEY, Iowa Arlo Snider, 83, of Hartley died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at a Sioux City hospital. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity United Church of Christ in Hartley. Burial will be in Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley.
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at Charles County Nursing and Rehab Center in LaPlata. Services will be 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in LaPlata, with the Rev. George Wilkinson officiating. Burial will be at a later date in her home state of Nebraska.
Arrangements are under the direction of Raymond Funeral Service in LaPlata. Mrs. Kemper was bom Nov. 9, 1908, in Homer, the daughter of Timothy and Mary (Dillon) O'Conner. She was an administrative assistant with Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas.
Survivors include her daughters, Catherine Jensen of LaPlata. a and Patricia Ann Rodriquez and her husband, of Mexico City; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Congressman Vincent Harrington; her second husband, Laurence Kemper; her parents; and a grandson, Charles Jensen. Memorials may be made to Mt. Carmel Monastery, 5678 Mt.
Carmel Road, LaPlata, MD, 20646. Dorothy M. Stanley SLOAN, Iowa Dorothy M. Stanley, 89, of Sloan died unexpectedly Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004, in Sloan.
Arrangements are pending with Wood Funeral Chapel of Sloan. Officials use e-mail to help stop spread of STDs ATLANTA (AP) Fighting fire with fire, public health officials are using e- mail to try to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among people who meet through Internet chat rooms and Web sites. In a pilot program in Los Angeles County, health officials use e-mail and the Internet to notify the sex partners of people who had been diagnosed with STDs. San Francisco's Health Department is believed to be the only other agency to use e- mail in this way, said Dr. Pragna Patel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released a case study Thursday on the Los Angeles County project.
"Using e-mail has been a helpful and good alternative when you have otherwise anonymous sex partners," Patel said. "More and more the Internet is serving as a place to meet sex partners and engage in risky behavior." Tracking STD cases among people who have met in chat rooms is difficult because people often take part anonymously. Health officials often do not have names, addresses or other information to work with. In other parts of the country, health officials post prevention messages on Web sites used by gay and bisexual men to meet each other. But e-mail is not used.
Instead, health officials use regular mail or contact people in person to tell them that they may have been exposed. "I think when we are in a war to save life then we have to use any means necessary to get the means out." said Sandra Singleton McDonald, who runs an Atlanta AIDS program and is on the President's Advisory Committee on HIV and AIDS. In Los Angeles, the need to curb STDs and promote prevention is crucial: The county recently reported its first increase in new AIDS cases in a decade. The number of cases rose a half-percent from 1.555 to 1.562 between 2001 and 2002, according to preliminary figures from the county Department of Health Services. The increase was entirely among men, whose cases jumped by 1.6 percent.
The number of new cases reported among women declined. Study: Simply expecting relief from pain helps WASHINGTON (AP) Just thinking a medicine will make you feel better actually may even if it's fake, according to new research examining the placebo effect. One region of the brain is activated by the expectation of pain relief, researchers said. This, in turn, leads to a reduction of activity in the portion of the brain that senses pain. In a second study, researchers showed that some of the brain regions involved in feeling physical pain become activated when someone empathizes with another's pain.
"Very likely the same part of the brain which is affected by empathy for pain, and therefore suffering, is the area that also our mind or our expectation has to deal with if we're going to get control of that pain," said Dr. Jon Levine, a pain specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, who reviewed the research. Both studies were published in today's edition of the journal Science. In the placebo study, volunteers put inside MRI machines had either electric shocks or heat applied to the arm. The pain activated all the expected neural pathways, researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University reported.
Then, researchers smeared on a cream they said would block the pain. In fact, it was a regular skin lotion. When the volunteers were zapped again, they reported significantly less pain and pain circuits in the brain showed they really felt better. Those were the same brain regions that respond to painkilling medication. Then researchers spread on cream again, this time telling the volunteers it was a placebo and they hurt all over again.
Doctors long have known the placebo effect is real. It is one reason that they talk up the benefits of a drug as they write the prescription. But previously, the effect had been assumed to be psychological, I Levine said. Dr. Kenneth Casey, one of the researchers for the placebo study, said the results should send a message to physicians.
"If you're providing a treatment to a patient, it's important that your realistically provide them with the expectation that i it would work, so you enhance the effect," said Casey, a professor at the University of Michigan. "If you gave them a drug or any kind of treatment with the attitude, either explicit or implicit, that this might not be effective, it would be much less likely to be In the empathy study, British researchers recruited 16 couples. One at a time, the women were put into MRI machines; the men sat nearby. The women could see only their loved one's hand and a computer screen. The women and men got brief electric shocks to the hand.
The computer screen flashed who would get the next shock and whether it would be mild or very sharp. When the women got shocked, the MRI showed how their brain's entire pain network activated, researchers reported. They registered feeling the jolt and how much it stung, from sensory brain regions, as well as how much it made them suffer the "affective" or emotional regions. But when the men got shocked, part of the women's pain network sprang into action, too not sensory regions but emotional ones. They knew when the men were being shocked only by watching the computer screen.
The lead researcher, Dr. Tania Singer of University College of London, likened it to a vivid feeling when imminent pain is imagined and the heart speeds up before the actual sensation arrives. Men were not studied for their reaction to how women responded to a shock. Singer did not tell the couples that she was studying empathy so as not to rig the results. But she later asked the women to describe how they felt when their partner was zapped.
"They indicated it was as unpleasant" when the man got zapped as when they did, Singer said. "What they say matched what I saw in the brain activity." For Every Life There is a Story. NELSON-BERGER Northside Chapel 822 JENNINGS STREET Offering a Varicty of Pre-Arranged Funeral Plans a MEYER BROTHERS funeral home.
