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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
Ringgold County
Sheriff's office took part in the investigation of the death of Levi BOOTHE, 11, of Midwest Opportunities of Creston last
week. The boy's body was found Tuesday evening at 9:24 p.m. on Interstate 70 in Leavenworth county, MO before Raymond
BOOTHE, Levi's father, allegedly tried to kill himself and Levi's three siblings by crashing his vehicle.
Tuesday morning
astronaut Peggy WHITSON and the crew on the International Space Station were traveling a third of the way around the Earth
in the time an audio link was made with the space station through NASA for an exclusive interview. Mount Ayr Record-News
publisher H. Alan SMITH visited with WHITSON for almost a half hour about her recent space walk and other details of her
space adventure.
A ribbon cutting ceremony took place on Saturday morning at Hazel's Place southwest of Mount Ayr. The
business is an expansion of the web site business, muddika.com, of Marie and Tim STEPHENS and offers dried flowers,
houseplants, pottery and a variety of other gardening and plant arranging products.
The Missouri woman convicted in the
murder of a former Mount Ayr resident was sentenced to life imprisonment last week in a Saint Joseph, MO courtroom.
Pamela S. FOLEY, 41, of Ridgeway, MO was sentenced following pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the
death of her estranged husband, Larry WHITE, 39. The body of WHITE was found in a well near Eagleville, MO in December
2000.
Effective Monday, Sept. 9, Breadeaux Pizza in Mount Ayr will have a new ownership. Khaled (Kimo) and Rhonda ABDALLAH
of Mount Ayr have purchased the pizza franchise from Bill and Janet READ of Lenox. The ABDALLAHS also own the Mount Ayr
Diner, which will continue to operate as it has in the past. The restaurant will operate separately in the locations they
presently have.
OBITUARIES in September 5, 2002 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Susan Athalie HENDERSON PERRY
Raymond Carlyle WHITE
Raymond Levi BOOTHE
Arla Maude JACKSON McDOWELL
George Daniel PARMAN
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2012
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