Lenox Decoration Day Programs and Community Events
Lenox held a Decoration Day program in the city park with song America a mixed quartet invocation by Rev Moneymaker reading by Donnella Warner and an address by Rev E F Hagee. The Kensington Club met with 14 members, garden hints piano selections and refreshments. Residents and visitors attended flower shows concerts home visits and social gatherings around Lenox and nearby towns.
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Donnella Warner
E. F. Hagee
Two Hopkins Obituaries Highlight Local Residents
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Holker of Hopkins died suddenly at her home at 58. Born 1882 in Clarinda, she leaves husband Joseph Henry Holker and six children in Kansas City and Hopkins, plus eight grandchildren and three sisters. Also dead is William H. Mendenhall, 68, longtime Hopkins resident, survived by wife and five children. Funeral services were held at the Hopkins Methodist Church with burial in Hopkins cemetery.
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Margaret Ellen Holker
Joseph Henry Holker
Hopkins
Clarinda
Holker
Margaret Ben Coleman
Mr. Holker
Maryville
Henry Joseph Holker
New Market
Elvin Andrew Holker
Orville Lea Holker
Margaret Helden Moran
Kansas City
Joe Herman Holker
Gertrude Neva Holker
Clara Mothershed
Hills City
Minn
Bessie Weaver
Siam
Mabel] Johnson
William H. Mendenhall
Guthrie County
Iowa
Mendenhall
Clyde Canning
Edna Mendenhall
Marguerite Mendenhall
E. K
Grant
Ben
Robert Russell Graduates Coast Guard and Military Training
Robert Russell, son of Mr and Mrs Galen Russell, traveled from San Diego to Norfolk Virginia en route. He has completed four years in the Coast Guard and was selected for a Navy school course to train as a special mechanic for aviation companies nationwide. The Vacation Bible School enrollment reaches ninety as Hopkins population grows since the 19th census. Social events include a Mothers and Daughters banquet, a Women’s Missionary Society meeting, and Children’s Day programs at local churches.
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Robert Russell
Galen Russell
Norfolk
Ladies of the Christian Church
Stanley Swanson
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Lee Guthrie
Susie Bonar
Joe McMullen
Local social notes and town movements near St Joseph
The column lists numerous residents and visitors across nearby towns. Activities include church outreach in St Joseph, officers installed at a Christ ie church district missionary meeting, sales of D X station and cafe to Woodrow Elfritz and Kelita Mendenhall, and multiple family gatherings and travels encompassing Excelsior Springs Shenandoah and Maryville. Residents attend funerals, visit relatives, and plan summer housing and travel.
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BR. Co. Lockwood
Bertha Jeffers
Charles Gray
Irvin Hanna
Christie Church
St. Joseph Monay
Ott Oberhouser
Woodrow Elfritz
Kelita Mendenhall
Elizabeth Wieser
Howard Thomas
St. Joseph
Sheridan Lewis Sanders graduates in Columbia Missouri
Sheridan Lewis Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sanders, graduated Monday evening in Columbia where he studied law. A social shower honored Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cooper and daughter who lost their home by fire. Various local families attended visits and services, including the Streeters at St Joseph and a hospital patient with a hip operation.
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Lewis Sanders
Paul Sanders
Columbia
Louis Cooper
Charley Haun
Cleo
Helen Malaney
Bedford
Ed McCormick
Dall Churchill
Alva Streeter
Ernest Streeter
John Lamison J
Bradshaw
Nebr
Virginia
Gordon Marile
Albion
Engagement Announced Dorothy Edith Gebhardt to Paul Harris Conway
The notice reports the engagement and upcoming marriage of Dorothy Edith Gebhardt of Conway to Paul Harris of Conway. After a short Illinois honeymoon the couple will reside west of Conway where the groom farms. Local events include Conway LOCALS to be presented at the Methodist church on Sunday morning June 9.
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John Gebhardt
Benton
Dorothy Edith
Paul Harris
Conway
Ilinois
Local Residents Attend Decoration Day Visits and Travel
A long list of neighbors and relatives from Gravity Loc to Bedford and Clarinda extended visits and trips over Decoration Day. Families like the Millers, Joneses, Browns, and Smiths spent weekends with kin in Lenox, Maryville, Omaha, and Des Moines, while several individuals traveled for family gatherings and church events.
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Jack Summers
Chicago
Lenox
Martin Smith
Marion Hardman
Long Beach
Calif
New York
Harry Stoner
Hampton
Iowa
Frank Morgan
Sheldon
Wisc
Guy Reynolds
Gravity Loc
Ray
Ida Bell
Miller
Ston
Cherokee
L. E. Morley
Jay Levitt
Jimmy Welsh
Des Moines
Rosa Custer
Newton
Jess Clark
Welsh
Rebekah Circle Meeting and Guest Visit
The Rebekah Circle gathered Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Tom Cunningham assisted by Mrs. Harry Morley and Mrs. Harley Wallace. Thirteen members plus two guests attended as business was followed by dominoes and Chinese checkers, with refreshments served. Later about thirty members visited Mrs. Emma Creech to cheer her in illness, sharing cards and games while Lillie Hill of Grand Island spoke on the local lodge.
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Rebekah Circle
Tom Cunningham
Harry Morley
Harley Wallace
Ralph Wilson
John Alexander
Rebekah
Emma Creech
Lillie Hill
Grand Island
Nebra
Rebekah Lodge
Mothers Honored at Village Socials Across Villisca and Gravity
Guss Miss Maxine Naver of Des Moines visited her parents, Clyde Naven, with Frank Moritz of Villisca visiting Joe Anderson’s home. Mrs Will Rock attended a club meet at Florence Posten’s in Villisca honoring mothers. Deloris McCoy had a birthday party at Alva McCoy’s Gravity home. Margaret and Genese Jackson visited grandparents Herbert and Mrs. King in Villisca. Memorial services were held at Prairie Rose cemetery near Iveyville.
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Harry Puffer
Des Moines
Fred Goudie
Anita Brookman
Jorge Gale
Lois Alexander
Burlington
Nebr
Ella Brookman
Grace Patch
Bert Wood
Idaho
Falls
Brookman
Margaret Damewood
David Peck
Shenandoah
Madeline
G. E. Smith
Omaha
Arthur Pancake
Grace Sullivan
Ed Lock
Hawley Mahaffey
Corydon
Frank Reid
Castlewood
So. Duk
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Thiece
Albert Leving
Kenneth
St. Joseph
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Wood
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Bedford
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Clyde Naven
Frank Moritz
Villisca
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Will Rock
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Rack
Verne Lewis
Deloris McCoy
Alva McCoy
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Margaret and
Genese Jackson
Herbert King
Prairie Rose Cemetery
Iveyville
Executor's Notice in Taylor County Iowa Estate
Notice to all interested parties that on May 27 1940 the District Court of Taylor County Iowa appointed Henry French executor of the Fred French estate All indebted parties must pay and those with claims must present them authenticated to the court for allowance Dated May 27 1941 James R Locke Attorney
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Taylor County
Iowa
Fred French
Henry ©. French
James R. Locke
Notice of Probate of Will in Taylor County Iowa
The Iowa Taylor County District Court announce probate hearing for H W Parrish deceased with will dated September 24 1938 and codicil dated April 10 1940. The hearing set for June 18 1940 at Bedford Court House at ten in the morning before the District Court or Clerk. People with interest must appear and show cause why the will should not be probated. Dated Bedford Iowa May 22 1940. Clerk of District Court Thos L Kuhn.
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Taylor County
H. W. Parrish
Bedford
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