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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1957

Page

3

Mrs Roach Rites Planned at Fairview Church

Funeral services for Mrs Laura Virginia Roach will be held Thursday at 2 p m at Fairview Church with Rev Ralph Mahoney officiating. She died Monday after a long illness, born November 3 1898, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Kearns. Survived by husband Ernest and five daughters and four sons. Burial Zerkle cemetery under Foglesong funeral home.

Point Pleasant Laura Virginia Roach Fairview Ralph Mahoney Ernest Roach Dan Gwilyn Pearl Gibbs Zanesville Lester Smith Hartford Norman Smith Bridgeport Ohio Ada Roach William Menominee Mich Lester John Donald Zerkle Foglesong Funeral Home

Apple Grove Social Notes Highlight Local Visits

Mr and Mrs Ernest Ripley and family from Columbus visited Mrs Charles Sayre and Mr and Mrs Olden Thaxton for the weekend. Other guests included Mr and Mrs Earl Smith of Middleport and Mr and Mrs Earl Shank of Letart Falls.

Apple Grove Ernest Ripley Columbus Charles Sayre Olden Thaxton Sayre Earl Smith Middleport Earl Shank Letart Falls Cid Durst Portland John Hayman Colter Hue Donahue Pickway, Ohio Jack Sargent Earl Robinson

Parking and Traffic Recommendations For Point Pleasant

The Parking and traffic committee of the Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce completed its recommendations in a Tuesday night meeting. Committee chairman John Hushion announced solutions to traffic congestion and parking problems will be sent to the chamber board for approval and to the merchants division for comment before city council action. Attendees included Tom Fisher Milton Lewis Rush Krode Joe Guarino and John Sayre.

Point Pleasant Hustion Tom Fisher Milton Lewis Rush Krode Joe Guarino John Sayre

4-H Day Set for June 6 at Mason County Camp

Mason County 4-H Club Activities Day will be held June 6 at the South Side Mason County Camp. Registration starts at 10 a.m. with roll call at 10:15. Events include poster contest with two classes, good grooming for boys and girls, poster identification rules, and judging in canning clothing bake goods vegetables corn and electrical categories.

Point Pleasant Mason County South Side

Blessing Dies at 64 in Point Pleasant

Cecil Floyd Blessing 64 died of a heart attack Tuesday on his 64th birthday at his Letart area home. A Mason County farmer and former Enumclaw Washington native, he served in World War 4. He married Maude Blessing in 1918. Survived by two sons Paul and Cecil, sister Virgie Hunter, four brothers Ancel Byrd Claude Clarence. Friends may call at the home Friday. funeral arrangements by Fogle song Funeral Home.

Point Pleasant Cecil Floyd Blessing Letart Enumclaw Wash Mason County Blessing Maude Blessing Paul Cecil Akron Virgie Hunter Ancel Byrd Claude Clarence Berkley Foglesong Funeral Home

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