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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1963
Page
3
A long list of visits and weekend gatherings from the Ada area notes many families traveling to see relatives in Shawnee Muskogee Ardmore and Oklahoma City. Activities include camp meetings house fires and daily routines with Isaacs Law Ward Steen and Tucker families prominent among those visiting and hosting relatives and friends.
Mrs. and Mr. Pod Law hosted visitors including Ada residents Ada Law and Robin with Saturday. Lillie Miller and Elma Law shopped in Ada Friday and visited Lina Bevers at the Stonecipher home. Troy Miller family spent the Fourth at Lawton with Darrell Harrison. Charlie Crowder of Lawton stayed with the Millers Wednesday. Pat Law and Greg and Virgie Pennington visited Elma Law Monday. A Texas friend of Larry Nessel is visiting. The boys attended a late Ada movie Saturday night.
Mrs Rae Garrett and family spent July Fourth in Sulphur with friends, reporting a pleasant day. Rae attended the funeral of Walter Ethridge at Stratford Pentecostal Holiness Church, recalling his quiet, devout nature and life in the Corley community. Details recount Ethridge family moves, remarriages, and four daughters and two sons.
The text mentions night with his mother Mrs. Susan Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reed as they go fishing somewhere in Arkansas. Barbara Hopper left Saturday for Los Angeles where her husband Dwight is stationed.
Mr and Mrs Van Ray Reed and Mrs Mary McCracken visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Bill Reed and Grandma Grove. Thelma Jean Garrett and Sondra praise camp meeting services while sharing updates on neighbors and visitors including the Hawks from Denver who recently visited their Guam memories and Typhoon experience.
The report recalls a typhoon near the Hawks where homes were leveled and resources scarce yet the team saved water for cooking and sanitation. Local residents visit friends in Ada and Oklahoma City. Bob Gray leaves hospital and returns home. Community updates include visits, moving homes, and schooling families across Hart and nearby areas.
Mr and Mrs Thurman Gray and their son Dale along with Mrs Sheron and Beverly Martin of Oklahoma City visited Mr and Mrs Oren Gray on Sunday afternoon.
Mack Summers and Alvis Griffith visited Davis on Sunday. The McNinch family reunion drew Leo McNinch and Gayle to Oklahoma City. Carl Wright and his sons from New Iberia visited Ercy Ownbey. May Johnson visited Mrs. Woolly as others dropped by. Ed Coffey hosted a watermelon feast with multiple families attending. Visits stretched to Tulsa and Stratford with nearby relatives joining in.
Community notes from Oklahoma include visits among Griffiths McNinch Summers and Hatcher families. Trips span Purcell Ada Sulphur Dimmittx Texas and California with relatives in Okmulgee and Ada exchanging greetings and health updates. May and Christine send regards from northern California amid sundry hospital and travel updates.
Visiting Mr and Mrs Own bey and Charles Wednesday evening. The note records a social visit at their home on a midweek evening.
Mr and Mrs Roy Cantwell and Joe Bob Dennis with Miss Mary Johnson visited Mrs James Walker in Lodi California on Friday night. Christine said Melvin Johnson remains crippled from a broken ankle.
Mr and Mrs Roy Cantwell and Joe Bob Dennis hosted a Wednesday evening gathering. Charles Ownbey was a Sunday dinner guest of Mr and Mrs Ercy Ownbey.
Mrs Gertie Summers and Mack visited in Roff Friday with Mrs. Nettie Hodges. Mrs Joe Summers and Anita Pickett and Mrs Gertie Summers visited Mr and Mrs Ercy Own bey. Others visiting the Ercy Ownbery home Saturday included Mrs Ethel Reed of Roff and Mr and Mrs Clinton Barbee with Lisa and Kathy of Dallas.
Mrs Penrod and Karen called on Mrs Grace Johnson and May Sunday morning. Afternoon visitors were Mr and Mrs Far rell Sales from Colbert.
Mrs Evert Summers hosted guests including Gene Summers and Gina from Pauls Valley and Joe Summers with Anita from Pickett. Also present were Mr and Mrs Ben Ownbey and Charles, who visited Mr and Mrs Otis Coffey Friday evening and brought tomatoes.
Mr and Mrs Don McNinch and Gayle visited Norman with his parents Mr and Mrs Leo McNinch over the weekend. Fourth of July guests at Mr and Mrs Bob Hatcher included Mr and Mrs Guy Lawson Gaylene Paul Summers and family Ada Oscar Summers and children from Okmulgee and Mr and Mrs Clifford Hatcher and girls from Oklahoma City. Bob Hatcher worked in Sulphur Saturday and visited Mr and Mrs Marvin Cordell with Robert.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Flowers and their children of Sulphur visited Sunday with the Bob Hatchers, sharing a family afternoon.
The first West Point class of 1802 had two graduates Joseph G. Swift and Simon M. Levy. Both men served in the War of 1812 and advanced to notable military roles.
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