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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1964
Page
10
Taylor County’s Christian Rural Overseas Program invites donations of corn beans or money. The CROP solicitation began December seventh and runs this year, with participation by local churches and volunteers seeking support for hunger relief.
Attendees at a Baptist church basement Kickoff in Bedford viewed a filmstrip on Hong Kong's destitute living conditions. Rev. dom E F Thomas, associate director of the CROP program, outlined relief aid supported by Christian World Service and various county solicitors. Film strips available in Taylor county through December with contact names listed for campaign leaders.
Harry E. Brown, aviation machinist's mate third class USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Brown, Blockton Town, visits European ports after participating in Steel Pike, the largest Atlantic amphibious exercise since World War II. He serves aboard USS Guadalcanal as helicopters ferry Marines in a vertical envelopment.
Funeral services for E. R. Boham, a 71 year old World War I veteran from Lenox, were conducted Nov. 20 at the Bentler chapel. The obituary notes his military service and local ties.
Sheridan hosts Thanksgiving gatherings for local families including Mr. and Mrs. Carly Young Caroline and Robert and other relatives from Westboro Isadora and Prairie Village Kansas. The Adult Ladies Sunday school met at the Methodist church with 15 participants and gifts exchanged. In Conway Mrs Arent Norden reports on Wednesday visitors to the Hewitt home including Mrs Gladys Hunter and Elmer Tonga noxie Kansas.
Funeral services for Mr Boham of Lenox were held after his death on November 27 at Veterans Hospital in Omaha. Interment followed at Lenox Cemetery. Born in Barnard Missouri he was a retired station foreman for the Burlington Railroad and had resided in Lenox for 21 years. Surviving are a son Lloyd of Cleveland Ohio three daughters Mildred Davidson Dolly Boham Ruth Gowey Creston and Lenox and 14 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. His wife had predeceased him.
Thanksgiving day guests included Wendell Eighmy and Don with Carroll and Kansas City relatives, E A Page and daughter from Raye, Cole visiting Bertha Scroggie, Tony Hromas and family from Broken Bow staying with Archie Graham, and Norton family hosting Jack Ruseo and Royal Ruse from Lenox.
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