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242 Obituaries Funerals Rahm Marvin age 83, of Prior Lake on January 1, 2000. Shriner and past master of Masonic Lodge Survived by daughter, Sandra (Butch) Notermann of Shakopee; son, Ronald (Patty) Rahm of Prior Lake; grandchildren, Randy (Julie) Notermann, Jeannie (Mike) Morrissette, Kelly (Dan) Jirik, Renee (Greg) Pass: 11 great-grandchildren and relatives and friends. Preceded in death by wife, Inez Rahm; parents, Nels and Ida Rahm; sister, Alice Olson. Visitation Tuesday, 5-8 pm at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake. Service Wednesday, 11 am at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church, 15033 Hwy 13 Prior Lake.

Interment Spring Lake Cemetery, Prior Lake. Ballard-Sunder Prior Lake 612-447-2633 Rapp Stewart age 79 of Brooklyn Center. Full notice was Sunday. Evans-Nordby 612-533-3000 Rech Phyllis age 69, of New Brighton. Full notice Tues.

Miller-Brighton 651-644-9821 Ricke (Thorson) Toni Ann, age 53, of Edina. Preceded in death by her parents, Ann Rolland Thorson, and son, Michael. Survived by former husband, Michael L. Ricke; son, Steven wife Christine; daughter, Michelle; son, Kyle; grandchildren, Reese, Ashley, AnneMarie, Andrew James: other relatives and many friends. Funeral Service Weds 11 am, Shepherd Of The Hills Lutheran Church, 500 S.

Blake Rd, Edina. Interment Lakewood Cemetery. Visitation Tues 5-8 pm at the Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, W. 50th St. Vernon Ave at Hwy 100, Edina, and 1 hour before service at church.

Memorials preferred to the M.S. Society. Washburn Edina Chapel 612-920-3996 Ridler Catherine age 61. of Mpls, on Dec. 31, 1999.

Survived by husband, David; sons, John (Kris), Charlie; beloved granddaughter, Katie; brother, John Kuhn; aunt, Gertrude Weiss. Memorial services Tuesday 1 pm, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, 50th Knox. Private interment. Memorials preferred to Methodist Hospital Hospice. GILL BROTHERS 612-861-6088 Rothstein Donald age 58, of Mpls, died Funeral notice later.

Peterson-Stohiberg Hillside Memorium (612) 781-3391 Sarjeant Charles age 81, of Robbinsdale, died former news writer for WCCO Radio. Funeral service 2 pm at St. George's Espicopal Church, 5224 Mtka. St. Louis Park, MN.

Visitation Monday 6-8 pm at Washburn-McReavy DuSchane Chapel, 4239 W. Robbinsdale, MN. Private interment. Washburn-McReavy Welander Quist DuSchane 612-537-2333 Scheele Inez age 81, Rush City. Survived by son, Larry; 4 grandchildren; 5 greatgrandchildren.

Service 11 am Tuesday St. John's Lutheran Church, Rush City. Visitation 5-8 pm Monday Olson Funeral Chapel, Rush City and 1 hour before service Tuesday at church. Snyder Rita age 72 of Edina. Member James Ballantine VFW Auxiliary.

Survived by children, Richard, April, Paul, Michael, and JoAnn; 15 grandchildren; 5 greatgrandchildren; brothers, Alfred, Harold, and Richard; sisters, Josephine and Evelyn. Funeral service Tuesday 11 am, Gill Brothers Southwest Chapel, 5801 Lyndale Ave S. Private interment. Visitation Monday 5-7 pm. GILL BROTHERS 612-861-6088 Stowers Duane 55 years, of Mpls.

Memorial service Wednesday 2 pm at the Kapala-Glodek Northeast Chapel, 230 13th Ave NE, Mpls. Visitation one hour prior to service. Kapala-Glodek NE Chapel 612-378-1331 242 Obituaries Funerals Strom Strom Earl W. Strom, age 88, of Columbia Heights. Born Sept.

15, 1911, Osceola, WI, died Dec. 30, 1999 at Trevilla of New Brighton. Longtime resident of Lauderdale. MN, and was employed by the University of MN St. Paul Campus.

Served with the U.S. Army, April 1941 October 1945. Preceded in death by father mother, Lars Emma Strom; 3 sisters, Lila, Elsie and Margaret Strom; 4 brothers, Lawrence, Carl, Emil (Ted) and Harold Strom. Survived by wife, Jane Ethel Strom; sons, William Earl (Ramona) and Peter James; sister, Amy Bird. Funeral service Tuesday, 11 am at the Washburn-McReavy Northeast Chapel, 29th Johnson St.

NE. Private interment Ft. Snelling National Cemetery. Visitation one hour prior to service at chapel. We wish to thank all the staff at Trevilla of New Brighton for their kindness and compassion.

We also wish to thank the residents at Trevilla for the friendship they I had with Earl. Washbu Northeast Chapel 612-781-6828 Thompson Julian Thamer, age 93, of S. Mpls. Visitation Monday (TODAY), 5-8 pm at Henry W. Anderson Mortuary, 3640 23rd Ave Mpis, 1 hour before service.

Service 11 am, Our Redeemer Lutheran Church 4000 28th Ave Mpls. Interment Lakewood. Memorials preferred. Henry W. Anderson 612-729-2331 Tice Isabell age 88 of Brooklyn Park.

Preceded in death by husband Leslie, brothers and sisters John Aschburger, Marie Morrison, Edward Aschburger, Loretta Scheer, Marcella Jay, Joseph Aschburger, and Helen Norris. Survived by daughter son-in-law, Jo Ann Bud Helvig; grandchildren, Scott Helvig wife Debbie, Sandra Pramann husband Chuck, Steven Helvig; greatgrandchildren, Brandon, Charlene, Michael, Michele, Stephanie, Steven and Samantha; 2 sisters-in-law; nieces nephews. Funeral service 11 am Wednesday at Gearty-Delmore Robbinsdale Chapel, 39th West Broadway. Interment Fort Snelling. Visitation Tuesday 5-8 pm at the funeral home.

Memorials preferred to donor's favorite charity. Gearty-Delmore 612-537-4511 Van Ravenhorst Delbert, age 52 of Minneapolis, formerly of Hollandale, MN. Preceded in death by parents, George Hazel and sister, Effie J. Rich. Survived by daughter, Dannielle Nicole; sister, Henrietta G.

Umberger; brother. brother, James; sister, Everna Worthen of AK; several nieces and nephews. Funeral service Tuesday 3:00 PM at the Malone Funeral Home, Lowry and Fremont Avenue North, Mpls. Private interment. Visitation one hour prior to service.

Memorials preferred. Kapala-Glodek Malone Chapel 522-3622 Weickert Mildred age 81, of New Hope, died on Jan. 1, 2000. Preceded in death by husband, Arthur son, Joseph and granddaughter, Rita Jo Rance. Survived by daughters, Nancy Dooley Rita Capron (Charlie), Cookie Schultz, Gail Erickson (Terry), Mildred Day (Geoffrey); daughter-in-law, Weickert; grandchildren, Joseph Jr.

and John Weickert, Jennifer Baker, Tim and Kelly Dooley, Gena Capron, Pam LeBlanc, Susi Hollenbeck, Travis Rance, Geoffrey, David, Daniel, Justin and Angela Day; 13 great-grandchildren; brother, John Zian (Shirley); sisters, Martha Brandt, Marie Affeldt (Bob); many nieces and nephews. Mass of Christian Burial 10:30 AM Jan. 5 at St Raphael Catholic Church, 7301 Bass Lake Crystal. Reviewal 1 hour prior to service at church. Memorials preferred.

Twin Cities Cremation 612-866-6711 If my parting has left a void, Then fill it with remembered joy. A friendship shared, a hug, a kiss, Ah yes, these things I too will miss. Be not burdened with times of sorrow, wish you sunshine of tomorrow. Author Unknown Obituaries Funerals White Fred C. White.

age 91 of New Brighton. Preceded in death by wife, Laura. Survived by sons, Robert, Mpls, William wife, Noel, Stillwater, grandsons, Eric, Nathan Nicholas; sister, Margaret Alwood; sistersin-law. Gertrude Simer Florence Horner. Member of First Baptist Church (Mpis) attended Casas Adobes Baptist Church (Tucson, AZ).

Retired employee GraCo, member of Grafil Club, Mpls Athletic Club past Pres. Wally Byum Caravan Club. Service 10 AM Lakewood Cemetery Chapel, 3600 Hennepin Av. with reviewal 30 minutes prior. Visitation Tues.

5-8 PM Albin Chapel, 2200 Nicollet Av. S. Interment Lakewood Cemetery. Memorials pref. to First Baptist Church.

Albin Chapel Minneapolis Ralph, Jim Dan Albinson 914-9410 Williams Mark age 50, Hopkins. Former president of Williams Instrument Service. Completed 2 years of college at St. Olaf. Currently working toward a degree in social work at Metropolitan State U.

Survived by wife, Carol; son, Joel; daughters, Rebekah Priest and husband, Michael and Elizabeth; mother, Estelle Williams Arneson and husband, George Arneson; brothers, Scott and Jon and wife, Deborah; nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends. Funeral 11 am Tuesday at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 5000 W. 50th St. Visitation Monday, 5-8 pm and 1 hour prior to service. Interment Grandview Cemetery.

Memorials preferred to the Courage Center. Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel 612-920-3996 252 Funeral Directors Helpful Telephone Numbers Social Security Admin. 1-800-772-1213 Service available from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on business days.

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Insertion of an ad In Memoriam additional assistance in correct phrasing may be arranged by telephoning 673-4130 JOHN R. QUINN March 20, 1934 Jan. 3, 1999 It's hard to believe it has been a year since you left us so suddenly. 1 miss your laughter, friendship, humor and love. Most of all.

I miss having my dad to talk to and share life with! Missing you always, Kelly XOXOXOX0 RONALD HEIMER For the past year you've been in our thoughts daily. You left us much too soon and suddenly. You are loved and missed dearly. God be with you, Your family. MONDAY, JANUARY 3 2000 STAR TRIBUNE PAGE B5 Some online newspapers experience date glitches Some newspapers needed to look no further than their online editions to find examples of Y2K problems.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press; the Daily Globe of Worthington, and two of its sister papers, the Forum of Fargo, N.D., and the Daily Republic of Mitchell, S.D., had glitches. While news content wasn't affected, the four Internet sites contained date errors. At midnight Jan. 1, the Pioneer Press' home page published the date as "January 1, 2010," whereas the home pages of the Globe and the Daily Republic reported the date as "January 1st, 19100." "It hasn't been automatically corrected," an unidentified woman who works on the Pioneer Press' Web site said Sunday night about the newspaper's problem.

She said the dates are being fixed manually. Globe managing editor Bob Van Enkenvoort didn't know what caused the problem on its Web site, which is serviced by technicians at the Forum. The Forum's problem was confined to its weather page, where on Sunday afternoon the NSP from B1 Y2K fears led NSP, Met Council to pare down computer systems That was when the power industry wasn't sure it could find and correct computer problems that could play hob with the nation's electric system, he said. "If all this equipment did have embedded chips (that could cause malfunctions when the year changed to there was no way to replace it all," he said. But by mid-1998, after six months of setting priorities and examining equipment, "the best surprise" was that "this was doable, we can get this done.

We learned how to test for it." The Met Council's chief administrator, Jim Solem, said that the agency compiled an 8-inchthick looseleaf notebook of contingency plans for New Year's Eve. "We never opened it," he said. "It was almost kind of a letdown." Computer cleanup Ehalt said NSP decided early to rely not on consultants but on "employees actually working the system" to find and fix Y2K problems. A key step was for his full-time Y2K staff of 80 to assemble, for the first time, an inventory of the utility's computers and software programs. "We eliminated over 1,000 applications that we just didn't need," he said.

Solem said the Met Council's computer inventory "cleaned up an enormous amount of garbage. One guy had something like six personal spreadsheet programs. Dealing with a bunch of engineers and scientists and getting them to get rid of their toys" might have proved impossible without the impetus of Y2K, he added. As lead troubleshooters, Ehalt and Solem had to learn in detail how their operating systems worked. "I'm a project manager, not an electrical engineer," Ehalt said.

"I was learning how national electrical power works and how power plants work with that." Solem said the Met Council's complicated task was to learn which of the 17,000 pieces of equipment in its sewage treatment system had computer chips' sensitive to the 2000 changeover. "We spent a lot of time and effort trying to find out from manufacturers" how those chips were made, he said. Besides speeding up the previously scheduled replacement of the main control system for its treatment plant in St. Paul, the council figured out how many backup generators were needed for more than 100 pumps that keep sewage flowing through more than 600 miles of big sewer pipes in the seven metro counties. "The last thing we wanted was you-know-what in people's basements," he said.

Because the council also runs the Twin Cities area's major public transit system, the Y2K effort included buying generators to open and close doors of bus garages and pump fuel into the bus fleet in case electricity failed. Lasting benefits Solem said that the council spent about $13 million updating computer systems and buying backup equipment but that only about half that amount was linked directly to potential Y2K problems. The rest was spent to provide better long-term backup for its sewer and transit systems. "We were preparing for a catastrophe that never happened," said Ted Mondale, Met Council chairman. But now the council is equipped for a power failure lasting three to six days.

Before, it could handle only one day. Ehalt said that the electric power industry, which normally is highly competitive, shared information behind the scenes, and that the unusual cooperation provided "a great example of what business can do when they pull together." Although such cooperation is "very transferable," he said he expects "some will forget it as they get back to a competitive world." Mondale and Solem offered Hearing Tests Set for Senior Citizens FREE hearing tests are being offered this week at the locations listed below. The tests have been arranged for anyone who suspects they are losing their hearing. Such persons generally say they can hear but cannot understand words. Testing with the latest computerized electronic equipment will indicate if you have a hearing loss or not.

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