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pto Ohrts Observe Their tfi Wedding Anniversary. srd Mrs. John Ohxt of this Wd the opportunity to ob-% occasion which conies -surely few people when Parsed their 60th wedding jsary Monday, Sept. 22. rears ago they celebrated 53U1 anniversary at their here with a large gather-of relatives and friends at-7 but chose io observe the q Ibis year in a quieteripReceived Visitorst ot their sons and fami • and other relatives and caOed on them Sunday i»n and others on Monday, were also remembered telephone calls and grcet-tards and received gifts of rj jnd bouquets of flowers from out o! town who them were Mr, and Mrs. rtOhrt, Vinton; Mr. andLoo Ohrt, Everett and Lu-Oiirt, Mr. and Mrs. Kay-i Ohrt and Mr. and Mrs.Ohrt. all of Jesup; Mr. ifrs Kenneth Ohrt, Ed-Faust Sr., Edmond Faust d Miss Mary Wandschnei-S Cedar Falls.Married in 1887 ; Ohrts were married Sept.337 at the home of Mrs. parents, Mr. and Mrs.Ballheim, four miles of La Porte City in Bruce ip, Benton Co. The cere-ras performed in the «of the immediate fam-br Rev. H Hauser, pasLor i local Immanuel Evangel-urch at that time.(ring their marriage they near Mt. Auburn and n the La Porte City vicin-tii m Benton and Black counties until March 1, shen they retired from % and moved to La PorteMrs, John OhrtJohn Ohrt'{hty-Five Years Old Onrt who was 83 years t 3 is m fair health for ears. He still does someng, reads a little and up town occasionally. He in in Holstein, Germany me to America with his r when a boy of ten years tiled in the Mt. Auburn,community.Ohrt will he 85, Dee. 7 year, Her health no long-its her to leave home, however, able to do the lasts required to keep upher home by having assistance with the heavier work. She also is able to read a little although her eyesight is failing. As Rosa Ballheim she was born in a log house on her parents' farm near Menominee Falls, Wis. In 1385 she moved with them I % Iowa where they puichased 160 acres of prairie land four mites south of La Porte City and erected a home and bams upon it The couple have five sons, Albert, Vinton; Kuno, La Porte City; Herman, Mt. Auburn; Louis, Jesup and Ted, Waterloo. They also have 28 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.r
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Progress Review
La Porte City, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 25, 1947
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