Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 06, 1980

Word was received Tuesday of the death of Clinton "Whitey" RICE, 60, a fomer Mount Ayr resident who still has business interests in Ringgold County. RICE was killed Tuesday in a traffic accident near his home in East Pine, British Columbia, Canada. RICE was driving a pickup truck when it collided with a transport truck. Services will be held in Mount Ayr and were pending at press time.

Kevin PULLIAM, a Mount Ayr Community high school junior, will be part of the 34th annual Iowa all-state music festival the weekend of Nov. 14-15. This is his second year of participation. He was one of 6,399 of Iowa's finest high school musicians who were present at the audition held at six different sites Oct. 25. He auditioned at Audubon.

Ringgold County Sheriff Elbert STRANGE arrived back in Mount Ayr Friday afternoon with Charles Lloyd TYLER, 34, a suspect in the murder of Alberta MICKAEL of Mount Ayr. Bond for TYLER was set at $1 million and he was taken to the Union County jail in Creston to await trial. As of press time, no attorney had been named for TYLER who faces a charge of first degree murder.

An accident injured Keith SACKETT while he was working on a grain auger at his farm seven miles south of Mount Ayr Oct. 25. The auger was believed to have collapsed on him, pinning him underneath.

Mrs. Murray SHAHA suffered a broken vertebrae in a fall onto a cement floor at her Mount Ayr home Oct. 25. She was on a ladder when she fell flat on her back. She was taken to Ringgold County Hospital for examination and then transferred by LifeFlight helicopter to Des Moines.

October 29, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry CLARK, Diagonal

OBITUARIES in November 06, 1980 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Donald Burton THOMAS   Theodore L. DILLENBURG   Jay Parkinson SKINNER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012

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