Easter Week Delights Spark Aiken Community Events
Aiken groups plan for upcoming activities including St. Thaddeus Church Garden and Home Tour on April 12 led by Mrs. Don Coon Jr. and Mrs. Thomas Ewing. An Artists Guild sale complements posters and art displays. Local families welcome visitors from Wilmington, Del. and Georgia Tech for Easter. Debbi Gayhart to visit before marriage plans. Rehearsal and bridal events for Miss Cheryl McIntosh and Phillip Chewning proceed in Florence. The Magee family hosts relatives from Homestead, Fla. and local visits continue as Mrs. Barnes visits from Columbia.
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St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Don Coon, Jr
Thomas Ewing
Artists Guild
Sands
O. S. Mann
George Street
Crosland Park
Peg
Aiken
Mervin Sand
Peg Mann
Gene
Paul
Wilmington
Del
Manns
Ricky
Georgia Tech
du Pont
Miss McIntosh
Cheryl McIntosh
Phillip Chewning
Calvary Baptist Church
Florence
Leo Ruff
Flamingo
Cheryl
Curtis Ford
Sara Ford
School Lunch Menus Tuesday Through Friday
Tuesday offers milk fish in batter turnips mashed potatoes carrot sticks ginger bread with lemon topping corn bread and butter. Wednesday serves milk barbecue beef over rice fresh black eyed peas Harvard beets citrus fruits jello rolls and butter. Thursday features milk hot dogs oven baked beans cole slaw peach upside down cake bun. Friday includes milk hot beef patty baked potato green beans celery sticks ice cream biscuits and butter.
Percle Kinlaw Purvis Engagement Announced
Elizabeth Anne Percle and Lewis Kinlaw Purvis Jr expect marriage on June 20 at First Presbyterian Church. Miss Percle recalls grandfamily ties in Macon and Baton Rouge. Purvis, an Aiken High School graduate, completed three years in the Marine Corps with Vietnam service.
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Elmo L. Percle
Elizabeth Anne
Lewis Kinlaw Purvis, Jr
Lewis K. Purvis
Mr. Purvis
Miss Percle
J. C. ‘Griffin
Macon, Ga
Mr. Griffin
Luke Percle
Baton Rouge
Benjamin M. Smith
Robert S. Purvis
Aiken High School
University of South Carolina
Purvis
United States Marine Corps
Vietnam
First Presbyterian Church
Miss Gayhart to Wed Mr Nabors in August
Deborah Grace Gayhart and Donald Nabors announce their engagement. Gayhart is a 1966 Aiken High School graduate and a University of Alabama sociology major in Alpha Kappa Delta. Nabors is a University of Alabama mechanical engineering senior. The wedding is set for August 29 at First Presbyterian Church in Aiken.
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George V. Gayhart
Deborah Grace
Donald Nabors
Harvey M. Nabors
Birmingham
Alabama
Miss Gayhart
Aiken High School
University of Alabama
Alpha Kappa Delta
George Gayhart
Henry W. Jones
Ramsey and Long unite in spring Florida wedding
Mr. Ramsey III and Miss Allene Jewel Long were married at St Thomas More Catholic Church on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee. The ceremony featured family members as officials and attendants with a daisies and yellow tulips reception following at the groom’s parents home.
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Allene Jewel Long
David Madison Ramsey, III
St Thomas More Catholic Church
Florida State University
Tallahassee
Miss Long
Sam C. Long
Mr. Long
Fort Pierce
Florida
Mr. Ramsey
David M. Ramsey Jr
Ramsey Jr
Margaret Moody
Aiken
Wilhelmina H. Moody
Sgt
Wilbur Long
Travis Air Force Base
California
Army
Air Force
Marine
Family growth surpasses 50 million in 1960s America
During the 1960s American families grew faster than the total population reaching over 50 million. About 87 percent are married couples, 11 percent have a female head of household, and 2 percent a male head only.
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U.S
School Breakfasts Double In 1969 Statistics
The school breakfast program nearly doubled from 1968 to 1969 with about 300000 children across 2900 schools eating breakfast at school in 1969. Total breakfasts served rose from 16 million to 35.6 million, with over 70 percent served free or at nominal cost.
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Tewkesbury
Paul Tewkesbury
Barnwell Ave
First Presbyterian
Nancy
James
Helen Tewkesbury Crenshaw
Ruth
Mrs. Tewkesbury
Tiny Rene Ann
Mr. Tewkesbury
Paul III
Wallace
Chayne
Mary Sue
Paulette
Debbie Gayhart
Debbi Gayhart
Emn
Roger Magee
Josephine Magee
Chesterfield Street
Jo Ada
Homestead
C. Rogers Magee
John Todd
Melody
Rogers
Mrs. Barnes
B. T. Barnes, Sr
Columbia
B. T. Barnes, Jr
Summit Drive
Live Bunnies
Coward-Corley Seed Co., Inc
Your Garden Center
Park Ave
Dial
Wea “Avia
Bermuda
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Hawaii
Crest Travel Agency
York
Elizabeth Anne Percle
Aiken, S.C
Whiskey Rd
Mr. Nabors
Deborah Grace Gayhart
Marry
John M. Long
Michael Ziegler
Gainsville, Florida
Miracle Products
Aundry
Johnson’ DD
Park Ave. S. E
Aiken, S. C
Paty Eder Cs
AYS
Marc
Kalmia Plaza
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