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Journey Home

Tales from the pilgrimage.

obituary

  • We’re Going Home — Faith Wilmot

    Faith Wilmot died on Jan. 10, 2026 in Coralville, and her Celebration of Life was on Saturday, May 25, at the Unitarian Universalist Society. Faith was one of our small gang of locals who did politics. We met during the 2004 John Kerry campaign for president. Faith was for Howard Dean. She was a lot… Read more

  • We’re Going Home – Larry Pippins

    We were at home talking about some of my Army buddies and turned to my friend Larry Pippins. I Googled him and found he died on Dec. 2, 2017, after an 18-month battle with ALS. I hadn’t known. May he rest in peace. Larry was born three days before me in 1951. I picked this… Read more

  • Bill Anders Died As He Lived

    Early Saturday morning news media reported Bill Anders died at age 90 while a plane he was piloting crashed into the sea off Washington State. He was a pilot at the beginning of his career and that’s how it ended. Anders was widely known for his unplanned photograph Earthrise. He was a lunar module pilot… Read more

  • Ball Cap Obituaries

    However people want to portray their loved ones in a newspaper obituary is fine by me. It is great people continue to use obituaries as a form of expression. I understand the cult followings people have: for a sports team, a political party, a brand of consumer products, and the like. Want your recently deceased… Read more

  • We’re Going Home – Katie Tritt

    Katie Tritt went to sleep on Sunday and didn’t wake up. Yesterday the family announced her remains were donated to the University of Iowa College of Medicine. There will be a gathering in late February. On Saturday she attended a sports event and was living her best life. Now, she’s gone. I didn’t know Katie… Read more

  • We’re Going Home — Jim Schmidt

    When Jim Schmidt had a stroke 15 years ago, he was never the same. He almost died. Jim was one of a small number of people in this community of 7,000 with whom we could engage more deeply about intellectual matters. The stroke took that away from us. It hurt no less when he died… Read more

  • We’re Going Home — Mike Tandy

    Timbers are falling too frequently in the forest of life. Mike Tandy died on March 31 in Davenport. Our roots together were in high school stage crew. When we formed the band in 1973, Mike would sit in, playing bass from time to time. He was a good guy and always dependable. I missed Mike… Read more

  • We’re Going Home — Char Hawks

    Charlene Mae Vorwald Hawks, 93, died on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. During high school, after Father died, I got to know her son Tim and was a frequent visitor to their home on Grand Avenue in Davenport. I don’t remember when we started calling her Char. I have two strong memories of her. The first… Read more

  • We’re Going Home — Joe Garrity

    Tracking down remaining folks from our cohort in the old neighborhood was possible. Joe Garrity died Wednesday night and his grade school classmates at Saint Vincent’s deserved to hear the news. That neighborhood no longer exists in the real world, yet I found most of them. Joe was born the day before I was on… Read more

  • Lorraine Anne Deaton

    Mother died at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15. I wrote this obituary for the newspaper with input from my sister. Here is a link to the funeral home site with details about the service. Lorraine Anne (Jabus) Deaton, 90, died Thursday, Aug. 15, at Genesis Medical Center in Davenport. Born at home on July… Read more