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Are you looking for a female relative? Joan Marie Edmonds, 90, of Coggon, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at St. Luke’s Hospital inCedarRapids, Iowa. The family will greet friends from 5 - 7 p.m.

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on Monday, May 11, 2026, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Central City, Iowa. The way we track our local history in Eastern Iowa has shifted. It’s digital, it’s archived, and sometimes, it’s tucked away behind a paywall that can feel like a maze. The Gazette has been the heartbeat of CedarRapids since 1883. It’s seen everything from the 2008 floods to the 2020 derecho.

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On the foggy, overcast morning of Sunday, June 22, 1997, Jodi Lynn Jackson found her 22-year-old sister Traci Ann Evenson dead in the second-floor apartment at 438 1/2 Ninth Avenue SW inCedarRapids where Traci had lived for only a month. Latest Obituaries news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice. For more than 50 years, customers could find him at the Billy Goat Tavern, tending bar or manning the small kitchen in back.