'Baby Jane' buried in Tipton
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — About 20 people attended the funeral Thursday for a newborn girl found dead in a Cedar County barn. The girl, called Baby Jane Lincoln by investigators, was buried at New Horizon Cemetery Officials named her after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for U.S. Highway 30, which is near the barn where she was found. The Rev. Frank Heubner of the Cedar Street Baptist Church said he wonders how someone could abandon the baby. "But we do not understand the depths of somebody else's circumstances, the despair that they would feel," he said.
The newborn's body was found Sunday in a barn that faces the farmhouse near Lisbon where Tim and Debbie Wilson live with their son, Luke, and Tim's father, Clair Wilson. An autopsy shows the newborn was alive at birth. Officials have not released a cause of death. Detectives estimate the child could have been left in the bam as late as 6 a.m. Sunday. The body was inside a. white plastic bag that had been tied, then placed in a black plastic garbage sack that was open.
Karen Yonkovic of Lisbon attended the baby's funeral. "We just thought someone should be here," she tearfully said after the ceremony. 'We love babies. We don't think that this should, have to happen to them. There are too many places for them, there are too many people wanting them. There's a doorstep somewhere. There's a home, there's warmth, there's love. This should never happen." Yonkovic was one of several people who left flowers on the baby's tiny white coffin.
The Cedar County sheriffs office is taking donations for a headstone...
Cherokee County Daily Times, Nov 16, 1996, p8
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — About 20 people attended the funeral Thursday for a newborn girl found dead in a Cedar County barn. The girl, called Baby Jane Lincoln by investigators, was buried at New Horizon Cemetery Officials named her after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for U.S. Highway 30, which is near the barn where she was found. The Rev. Frank Heubner of the Cedar Street Baptist Church said he wonders how someone could abandon the baby. "But we do not understand the depths of somebody else's circumstances, the despair that they would feel," he said.
The newborn's body was found Sunday in a barn that faces the farmhouse near Lisbon where Tim and Debbie Wilson live with their son, Luke, and Tim's father, Clair Wilson. An autopsy shows the newborn was alive at birth. Officials have not released a cause of death. Detectives estimate the child could have been left in the bam as late as 6 a.m. Sunday. The body was inside a. white plastic bag that had been tied, then placed in a black plastic garbage sack that was open.
Karen Yonkovic of Lisbon attended the baby's funeral. "We just thought someone should be here," she tearfully said after the ceremony. 'We love babies. We don't think that this should, have to happen to them. There are too many places for them, there are too many people wanting them. There's a doorstep somewhere. There's a home, there's warmth, there's love. This should never happen." Yonkovic was one of several people who left flowers on the baby's tiny white coffin.
The Cedar County sheriffs office is taking donations for a headstone...
Cherokee County Daily Times, Nov 16, 1996, p8
'Baby Jane' buried in Tipton
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — About 20 people attended the funeral Thursday for a newborn girl found dead in a Cedar County barn. The girl, called Baby Jane Lincoln by investigators, was buried at New Horizon Cemetery Officials named her after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for U.S. Highway 30, which is near the barn where she was found. The Rev. Frank Heubner of the Cedar Street Baptist Church said he wonders how someone could abandon the baby. "But we do not understand the depths of somebody else's circumstances, the despair that they would feel," he said.
The newborn's body was found Sunday in a barn that faces the farmhouse near Lisbon where Tim and Debbie Wilson live with their son, Luke, and Tim's father, Clair Wilson. An autopsy shows the newborn was alive at birth. Officials have not released a cause of death. Detectives estimate the child could have been left in the bam as late as 6 a.m. Sunday. The body was inside a. white plastic bag that had been tied, then placed in a black plastic garbage sack that was open.
Karen Yonkovic of Lisbon attended the baby's funeral. "We just thought someone should be here," she tearfully said after the ceremony. 'We love babies. We don't think that this should, have to happen to them. There are too many places for them, there are too many people wanting them. There's a doorstep somewhere. There's a home, there's warmth, there's love. This should never happen." Yonkovic was one of several people who left flowers on the baby's tiny white coffin.
The Cedar County sheriffs office is taking donations for a headstone...
Cherokee County Daily Times, Nov 16, 1996, p8
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — About 20 people attended the funeral Thursday for a newborn girl found dead in a Cedar County barn. The girl, called Baby Jane Lincoln by investigators, was buried at New Horizon Cemetery Officials named her after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for U.S. Highway 30, which is near the barn where she was found. The Rev. Frank Heubner of the Cedar Street Baptist Church said he wonders how someone could abandon the baby. "But we do not understand the depths of somebody else's circumstances, the despair that they would feel," he said.
The newborn's body was found Sunday in a barn that faces the farmhouse near Lisbon where Tim and Debbie Wilson live with their son, Luke, and Tim's father, Clair Wilson. An autopsy shows the newborn was alive at birth. Officials have not released a cause of death. Detectives estimate the child could have been left in the bam as late as 6 a.m. Sunday. The body was inside a. white plastic bag that had been tied, then placed in a black plastic garbage sack that was open.
Karen Yonkovic of Lisbon attended the baby's funeral. "We just thought someone should be here," she tearfully said after the ceremony. 'We love babies. We don't think that this should, have to happen to them. There are too many places for them, there are too many people wanting them. There's a doorstep somewhere. There's a home, there's warmth, there's love. This should never happen." Yonkovic was one of several people who left flowers on the baby's tiny white coffin.
The Cedar County sheriffs office is taking donations for a headstone...
Cherokee County Daily Times, Nov 16, 1996, p8
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