The Independent-News, Volume 121, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 December 1995 — Page 10

— INDEPENDENT NEWS — DEC. 28, 1995

OBITUARIES

SAMUEL MADONNA Samuel E. Madonna, 67, of 400 W. Washington St., Plymouth, passed away at 8 p.m., on Thursday, Dec. 21, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fort Wayne, of natural causes. He was born on Oct. 6, 1928, in Rockford, 111., and lived in Plymouth since 1990 coming from Argos. He married Carol A. Berger on Dec. 30, 1972, who survives. He had been with the Rockford, 111., Police Dept., was an emergency medical technician and was a volunteer with the Argos and Walkerton EMS. Also surviving are daughters, Linda Case and Sandra Case, both of Byron, 111., Julie Hollett, of Argos and Crystal Barts, of Midlothian, Ill.; four sons; 12 grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; a sister, Pat Leßranch, of Rockford, Ill.; two brothers, Joe, of Bonne Terre, Mo. and James, of Hillsboro, Mo. and a half brother, R. J. Madonna, of Kankakee, 111.

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Services were held at 1 p.m., on Sunday in the Johnson-Daniels Funeral Home with burial in the Maple Grove Cemetery, Argos. Memorial contributions may be made to the Argos or Walkerton Emergency Medical Service. He was an Army veteran. ANNA C. KLUNE Anna Crambert Klune, 33, of Farmington, CT, died on Nov. 26 of injuries she had received in an auto accident on Oct. 12. She was a granddaughter of the late John and Elsie Crambert, longtime Walkerton residents, and the daughter of the late Dr. Albert C. Crambert and Frances Crambert Heyward. She had received her bachelor’s degree in music management and a masters degree in business administration from the University of Hartford and had attended the Hartford College for Women Entrepreneurial Center. An accomplished flutist, she was a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. At the time of her death she was the owner and

manager of her own business, “Too Important to Forget,’’ in Farmington. Among her survivors are her mother and stepfather, Frances and David Heyward of Lancaster, PA; her sister, Rebecca Crambert of Narvon, PA; her fiance, Dr. Michael Rice of West Hartford, CT, and her maternal grandfather, Allen S. Wilson of Shelbyville, KY. Memorial contributions may be made to the Anna C. Klune Memorial Fund, c/o Simsbury United Methodist Church, Simsbury, CT, and sent to her mother, Frances Heyward, P.O. Box 5372, Lancaster, PA 17606. HOW TO FIND PEOPLE FROM PUBLIC RECORD Every day thousands of people are searching for other people. Some area adopted children looking for birth mothers, others are looking for missing spouses, their ancestors or missing friends. Many people think these searches require expensive private detectives or other professionals. In most cases this is not so. In most cases these detectives get their information from the same public records that you can use. A new book by Robert L. Berko, executive director of the non-profit Consumer Education Research Center, has written How to Find People With Information from public records to help amateur searchers in their quests for missing persons or birth parents. The book is available for $19.95 from Consumer Center, 1980 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ 07040 or by calling 1-800-872-0121. Many searches are as simple as looking for the name in a database with the names of all telephone records in the United States. There are several computer programs that contain this information. If you don’t want to go to this expense, Mr. Beko’s organization has a database of 80 million records and can do the searach for you. Other public records that you can use are marriage, death, divorce, voter registration, post office, motor vehicle, Selective Service military and many more. The book will not only show you how to determine what records you need, but lists the names and addresses of the offices where these records are held. If you problem is a missing spouse who is in arrears on child support, every state has a Child Support agency that will do most of the searching for you even if your spouse is in another state. The book lists the address of the Child Support office for every state.

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