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January 4, 2024: London, England: COPD [3] Larry Collins Country guitarist and singer-songwriter: 79: January 5, 2024: Santa Clarita, California, US: Natural causes [4] Gene Deer Blues guitarist and singer: 59: January 5, 2024: Fairland, Indiana, US: Unknown [5] Del Palmer Bass guitarist and audio engineer: 71: January 5, 2024: Undisclosed [6 ...
5711 SW 9th St, Des Moines Founded in 1939 and current church dedicated the same year [8] Holy Trinity 2926 Beaver Ave, Des Moines Founded in 1920, current church started construction in 1957 [9] Our Lady of the Americas 1271 E. 9th St, Des Moines [10] St. Ambrose Cathedral: 607 High St, Des Moines: Parish of St. Ambrose founded in 1856.
Bergan's replacement in Des Moines was Edward Daly, named by the pope that same year. Daly died in 1964. Auxiliary Bishop George Biskup of the Archdiocese of Dubuque was named by Pope Paul VI as the fifth bishop of Des Moines in 1965. In 1966, he purchased 55 acres (220,000 m 2) from the Des Moines Golf and Country Club in West Des Moines to ...
Woodland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, having been established in 1848, before Des Moines was the state capital. [1] It is a municipal cemetery owned and operated by the Des Moines Parks and Recreation Department. It covers 69 acres (28 ha) at the corner of 20th Street and Woodland Ave [2] and is the site of over 80,000 ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The first newspaper in Des Moines was the Iowa Star. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. [3] In 1854, The Star became the Iowa Statesman which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, The Statesman became the Iowa State Journal, which published three times per ...
The first Italian immigrants arrived in Des Moines in the 1870s, with most arriving between 1880 and 1915. [2] They followed the streetcar lines to areas south of the Raccoon River. Davenport Bishop Henry Cosgrove appointed the Rev. Francis Leonard to found St. Anthony's parish in 1898, but difficulties arose and the project came to an end. In ...