1 The Kansas City Times Friday, February 9, 1990 The weather Portions of U.S. basking The temperature hovered near a record-breaking mark over Kansas City on Thursday as unseasonably warm weather prevailed in south central and eastern portions of the nation. In St. Louis, the mercury rose to 70 degrees, surpassing a record of 69 set in 1943. From Oklahoma to New York, 22 cities reported record highs for the date.
In contrast, colder air invaded the northwestern United States. A storm crossing the Northwest and another approaching the northern Pacific coast brought snow to the mountains in Washington and Oregon. Parts of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado had snow and high winds. Gusts reached 55 mph at Sheridan, and 65 mph around Wheatland. Elsewhere, rain showers developed north of a warm front from the Rio Grande Valley to Mississippi.
Laredo, Texas, captured the high for the contiguous 48 states with 89 degrees. Ely, had the low, 22 below. Compiled by Clayborn R. Jones Thursday's log Kansas City TEMPERATURES (Degrees Fahrenheit) Station Noon 61 59 8 p.m. 45 47 2 p.m.
62 63 60 p.m. 41 4 p.m. 60 64 38 35 34 6 p.m. 50 52 46 D-Downtown R-Richards-Gebaur K-KCI Kansas City International. 61 46 Downtown Airport.
63 50 Richards-Gebaur. 66 47 A year ago (Downtown). 21 Normal range. 42 23 Records (Downtown). 68 ('38) -13 ('33) 6 p.m.
PRECIPITATION (inches) Kansas City International. None Total this month. .60 Normal for month to date. .27 Total this year. 1.8 Normal for year to date.
1.3 Last year to date. 1.1 A year ago. None Downtown Airport. None Richards-Gebaur. None Record rainfall (Downtown).
.84 (1900) Record snowfall (Downtown). 4.0 (1982) RELATIVE HUMIDITY Kansas City International Noon, 6 p.m., Almeta Townsend Almeta Townsend, 70, former president of Economic Opportunity Foundation died Feb. 7, 1990, in Providence Place, 8909 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, where she lived. Mrs. Townsend was president of the agency in 1984 and also worked in the Kansas City, Office of Community Development before she retired.
She was a member of the League of Women Voters, former treasurer of the Rebecca Vinscon Democratic Club and former treasurer of the Kansas State Democratic Club. She was a member of the National Community Consumers Association, the National Community Development Association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was a member of the Mount Carmel Church of God in Christ and was former pianist there. She was born in a Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to this area in 1930. Survivors include her husband, Elijah Townsend, and a foster daughter, Libby Dantzler, both of Kansas City, and a half brother, Guss Johnson Denver.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the church; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the church.
FRANKLIN A. LeBAR Franklin A. LeBar, 81, midtown Kansas City, died Feb. 7, 1990, at St. Luke's Hospital.
He was born in Hildreth, and moved to Kansas City 17 years ago. Mr. LeBar was voice professor at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, before he retired 17 years ago. Earlier he taught at the College of Emporia, and the University of Dubuque, Iowa. He received a bachelor's degree from Hastings (Neb.) College and a master's degree in voice at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
He did postgraduate studies in voice at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He was a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Trinity Lutheran Church. Survivors include his wife, Leola Scheips LeBar of the home; and four brothers, Charles LeBar, Bellevue, Clarence LeBar, Hastings, Richard LeBar, Lincoln, and William LeBar, San Diego. Services will be p.m. Saturday at the Home for Funerals Chapel, Norfolk, burial in New Lutheran Cemetery, Norfolk.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the church. The family suggests contributions to the church. ARTHUR W. KELLEY Arthur W.
Kelley, 79, Shawnee, died Feb. 7, 1990, at a hospital in Leavenworth. He WaS born in Forsyth, and lived in this area for 50 years. Mr. Kelley was a machinist and press operator for the Armco Inc.
for 23 years until he retired in 1970. He was a member of the First' Church of God, Kansas City, and the United Steelworkers union. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II and a member of the Peter Smith post of the American Legion. Survivors include his wife, Carrie H. Kelley of the home, and a brother, Lonnie Kelley, Iberia, Mo.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Amos Family Chapel, Shawnee; graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Leavenworth National Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to the church. HERBERT J.
McCARTNEY Herbert McCartney, 80, southwest Kansas City, died Feb. 5, 1990, at the home. He was born in Winona, and lived in this area for 74 years. Mr. McCartney was a loan officer at the Baltimore Bank for 17 years and earlier worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of NATIONAL 24-HOUR (816) Today's forecasts Mostly Kansas Humidity Shading indicates precipitation sometime in the day.
29. Mostly Fronts and high and low systems are for 7 p.m. Temperature bands indicate forecasted highs. Hi Snow Rain Ice Thunderstorms Fronts: Cold Warm Low Pressure Trough Regional forecast Kirksville Goodland Hays Salina Topeka Columbia Kansas City Chanute Lake of the Dodge Wichita Cape Ozarks Springfield West Plains Forecasts and graphics by WeatherData 1988 WeatherData Inc. RIVER STAGE Kansas The Missouri River stage at 6 p.m.
Thurs- day was 8.6 feet, down. 1 of a foot from 24 Chanute. hours earlier. Concordia. Dodge City.
LAKE LEVELS Garden City. Lake of the Ozarks, 656.5 feet, no change Goodland. .5 of a foot from 24 hours earlier; Pomme de Pittsburg. Terre, 839.8, up. Stockton, 862.4, up Truman, 706.6, no change.
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More deaths, Page D-6 Kansas City and the Commerce Trust Co. He was a graduate of the American Institute of Banking. He was a Lutheran. He was an Army veteran of World War II, retiring as a technical sergeant in 1945, and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include a brother, W.R.
McCartney, Sarasota, and two sisters, H. Johnson, Houston, and Catherine Schmidt, Fort Myers, Fla. Dorothy, Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to the church.
LAURA A. MORGAN Laura A. Courreger Morgan, 68, Independence, died Feb. 7, 1990, in the Independence Manor Care Center, 1600 Kings Highway, Independence. She was a lifelong area resident.
Mrs. Morgan was a member of St. George's Episcopal Church. Survivors include her husband, George W. Morgan, and a daughter.
Sandra A. Morgan, both of the home. Services will be at 002 p.m. Saturday at the Speaks Midtown Chapel; burial in Mound Grove Cemetery, Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel.
The family suggests contributions to the memorial fund of the River Boulevard Baptist Church. FRED O. OLSON Fred Oscar Olson, 99, of the Bowen Health Center, 6124 Raytown Road, Raytown, died Feb. 8, 1990, at Research Medical Center. He was born in Brookville, and moved to this area in 1944.
Mr. Olson was a machine operator for Peterson Machine Tool Inc. and Pratt Whitney before he retired in 1955. He was a member of the Raytown Christian Church. He was a member of the Salina (Kan.) Masonic Lodge and received a 75-year pin from the Raytown Masonic Lodge.
He was a member of the Blue Ridge Gem and Mineral Society and the Raytown Archaeology Society. His wife, Ethyl Olson, died in 1984. Survivors burg, Ohio; a daughter, Margaret Means, Rayinclude a son, Frederick Oscar Olson, Twinstown; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Hinton Chapel; burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, Kansas City.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the church's memorial fund. AUGUSTA M. QUICK Augusta M.
Quick, 90, northeast Kansas City, died Feb. 7, 1990, at Trinity Lutheran Hospital. She was born in Glen Carbon, and moved to this area 71 years ago. Mrs. Quick was a member of the Children's Memorial Lutheran Church and was a former president of the Gold Star Mothers.
Survivors include two nephews, Phillip Biston, Quincy, and David Lee Quick, Kansas City, and a niece, Louise Walker of the home. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the church; burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Friends may call from 10 to 11 a.m. today at the church.
The family suggests contributions to the church's memorial fund. EUGENE J. RUDLOFF JR. Eugene J. Rudloff 72, Shawnee, died Feb.
8, 1990, at the home. He was born in Oakley, and lived in this area most of his life. Mr. Rudloff was brakeman for the Union Pacific Railroad for 38 years, retiring in 1977. He was a member of St.
Joseph's Catholic Church, Shawnee. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Dwight Cowles Post of the American Legion. He was an Eagle Scout and a member of the Union Pacific Old Timers Club. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane Rudloff of the home; two sons, Terry M. Rudioff, Dallas, and Anthony B.
Rudloff, Lenexa; two daughters, Carol J. Tracy and Pamela J. Jones of Shawnee; 14 grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the church; burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Amos Family Chapel, Shawnee, where the rosary will be said at 7 p.m. WEATHER SERVICE RECORDED REPORT 471-4840 City sunny today. High 48. Winds ranging from 35 to 78 percent.
sunny and a little warmer -Stationary St. Louis Girardeau 1 Five-day NATIONAL WEATHER RADIO WEATHER SERVICE Kansas City, Wichita, Joplin, Camdenton 162.550 mhz RADIO FREQUENCIES: St. Joseph, Columbia, Springfield 162.400 mhz Topeka 162.475 mhz City-by-city conditions northwest 10 to 20 mph. Mostly clear tonight. Low Saturday.
High 52. Missouri Mostly clear northwest; chance of showers over the Bootheel today. Highs in the mid-40s northwest to low 60s southeast. Mostly fair tonight. Lows in the 20s to the lower 40s.
Mostly sunny Saturday. Highs in the upper 40s to near 60. Lake of the Ozarks Mostly sunny today. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds northwest 10 to 20 mph.
Fair skies tonight. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. Mostly sunny Saturday. Highs in the low to mid50s. Kansas Sunny skies statewide; some cloudiness to the southeast.
Highs in the 40s to mid-50s. Fair skies tonight. Lows in the low 20s to the low 30s. Fair and warmer Saturday. Highs in the upper 40s to the upper metropolitan outlook FRI SAT SUN MON TUE Mostly Mostly Mostly Partly Chance Sunny Sunny Sunny Cloudy of Rain 48 52 53 56 HIGH 40 47 31 32 LOW 29 34 Almanac Sun Rises 7:17 a.m.
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(H, NH) are high, low and normal high. (W) is weather; key with city-by-city chart. CARL SHERRELL Carl Sherrell 60, Roeland Park, died Feb. 7, 1990, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. He was lifelong area resident.
Mr. Sherrell was a commercial artist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City before he retired in 1988. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War. Survivors include his wife, Carol Sherrell of the home, and two daughters, Lee Sherrell, Overland Park, and Lynn Sherrell, Merriam.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Faith Lutheran Church, Prairie Village. The family requests no flowers and suggests contributions to the Mid chapter of the Leukemia Society of America Inc. DAVID M. SMITH David Michael Smith, 19, south Kansas City, died Feb.
7, 1990, at St. Joseph Health Center. He was a lifelong area resident. David was a May 1989 graduate of Hickman Mills Senior High School. Survivors include his parents, Clarence David Smith and Sandy Smith of the home; a brother, Jerry Shaffer, Independence; his paternal grandmother, Edna B.
Smith, Grandview; and his maternal grandmother, Inez Striegel, Salisbury, Mo. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Park Lawn Chapel; burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, Kansas City. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
LEAN M. TRUNINGER Leah Merle Truninger, 85, Raymore in Cass County, died Feb. 7, 1990, at the home. She was born in Warren County, and lived near Holden, before moving to Raymore in 1984. Mrs.
Truninger was a secretary for the Holden R-3 Board of Education for 17 years before she retired in 1969. She was a member of the Raymore Baptist Church and of Foxwood Springs Bell Choir, Raymore. Survivors include two stepsons, John Truninger and Bill Truninger of Pleasant Hill in Cass County; three stepdaughters, Katherine Corkran and Barbara Henry of Holden and Donna Mitchell, Raytown; brother, John Hodges, Lee's Summit; a sister, Mary Howerton, Knob Noster, 15 stepgrandchildren; and six stepgreat-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ben Cast Son-Wood Chapel, Holden; burial in the Holden Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the chapel. The family suggests contributions to the church's building fund. IDA M. WALLER Ida M.
Waller, 82, Camden in Ray County, died Feb. 7, 1990, in a nursing home in Lexington, Mo. She was born in Dover, and lived in Camden most of her life. Mrs. Waller was a head cook at Ray County Memorial Hospital, Richmond, for 13 years before she retired in 1980.
Earlier she worked at the Duhbrooke Shirt Factory in Lexington for 17 years. She was a member of the Camden Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Vivian Waller, Camden. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Thurman Chapel, Richmond; burial in Cravens Cemetery, Camden.
Friends may call from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the chapel. LAVENA WINDSOR Lavena Werle Windsor, 77, Orrick in Ray County, died Feb. 8, 1990, at the Excelsior Springs Medical Center. She was lifelong area resident.
Mrs. Windsor worked at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant for 15 years, retiring in 1976. She was a member of the Rock Falls Baptist Church, near Orrick. Her husband, J.C. Windsor, died in 1974.
Survivors include daughter, Mrs. Sammy Offutt, and two brothers, Wilbur Werle and Elmer Werle, all of Orrick; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Orrick Baptist Church; burial in South Point Cemetery. Orrick.
Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Gowing Chapel, Orrick. The family suggests contributions to the Orrick Rescue Squad. FORECAST Thu. Today Sat.
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