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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
13
Miss Betty Jane was honored at the Ohio Council of Church session in Columbus this week. She was elected president of the Youth Department and serves as assistant minister at Lakewood Church.
Seaman 2-c Menie Pincelli returns to Great Lakes after a furlough visiting wife Betty and children Jiam and Judith and his parents in Chauncey. He is now at the relief center in Chicago awaiting transfer. His wife and children and his mother accompanied him to Columbus. Sergeant Staley and family took a furlough to Chauncey and left for Camp Shelby.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Jackson for Lott Oliver, 84, with burial in Fairmont Cemetery. The obituary notes his wife Lydia died previously and mentions revival scenes and local family ties in Chauncey and Millfield, reflecting wartime furloughs and community gatherings.
Mrs Sanders and daughter Lou Ann plan to depart after Mr Sanders locates an apartment. Mr and Mrs Sanders and daughter and Mrs C E Sanders, employed in Athens, spent Tuesday at the Sanders home in Millfield.
Converts of the Church of Christ revival will be baptized tonight at 7:30 in the baptistery of the First Chauncey Church in Athens. A prayer meeting for Morristown Holiness Church members will follow, hosted at the home of Mr and Blaine Bullock in Bailey. Local churches are invited.
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