Funeral for Mrs Emma LaRoche held in Sacred Heart Church
The funeral for Mrs Emma LaRoche widow of William J LaRoche of Leonard Street was held at Sacred Heart Church with a Requiem High Mass after a prayer service at Mahar Son Funeral Home. Bearers included Nicholas Marra Fred Butler Edward Maynard Napoleon Maynard Edward Butler and Richard Durand with honorary bearers from St Annes Society. Relatives from Pittsfield North Adams Springfield and nearby areas attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma LaRoche
William J. LaRoche
Leonard Street
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Sacred Heart Church
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
James T. Donahue
C.S.C
Nicholas Marra
Fred Butler
Edward Maynard
Napoleon Maynard
Edward Butler
Richard Durand
St. Anne’s Society of Sacred Heart Church
Robert Lawton
Edward Giroux
George Therriault
Armand Garand
Frederic Hoth
Encarnita Adorable
Women’s Auxiliary
VFW Post 1332
Wilma Costa
VFW
State Department
Margaret Knights
Lillian Bourassa
Ernest Costa
VFW State Department
Father Donahue
Parks Lawn Cemetery
Pittsfield
North Adams
Springfield
Mass
Bennington Briefs Highlights Local Library and Club News
Bennington Free Library offers a new copying machine for public use with a small fee. Norshaft TOPS meets at Library Hall on Tuesday at 7 p.m. with a new date and time and a low call supper. A weigh loss queen will be crowned after six weeks. Business and Professional Women's Club June meeting featured a cookout with 16 members and one guest at Cecile Roy and Therese Goodermore’s home. Cecelia Greene Callahan School of Dance presents its 14th annual revue The Jolly Pied Piper at Mt Anthony Union High School auditorium Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets at door or from students. performances include Bennington Rockettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Free Library
John Rothrock
Norshaft Tops
Library Hall
North Bennington
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Bennington
Cecile Roy
Therese Goodermore
East Road
Cecelia Greene Callahan
Rosemary Rice
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Richard E. Connell
Mt. Anthony
Grange Notes from Pomona and Bennington Area
Po mona annual church service set for July 21 at noon at the Church on the Green West Arlington led by Rev John Geer. A July 2 Battenhill Grange Hall meeting will plan Rutland Fair exhibit with listed committee members. Taconic Grange Neighbors Night June 25 at 8 pm. Bennington Grange travel program. Youth Camp June 22 26 at Camp Downer. Holmes Transportation safety meeting June 6 awarded pins and Merit certificates. three long time drivers honored. film on safe driving shown.
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Pomona
Green
West Arlington
John Geer
Geer
New York
Punch
Battenhill Grange Hall
Rutland Fair
George Cooledge
Clarence Decker
Jesse Harrington
Battenhill Grange
Florence Hattat
Rose Gleason
Bennington
Theresa Wood
Richard Hunt
Shaftsbury
William Wilbur
Tim Thompson
Mt. Equinox
Grange
Taconic Grange
Bennington Grange
Camp Downer
Holmes Transportation, Inc
C.W. Hibbs
Carriers Insurance Co
Des Moines
Iowa
William Keating
Framingham
Mass
Edgar Lemieux
Richard Bump
Wilfred Bissonette
New Books At Bennington Free Library Listing
Bennington Free Library lists new acquisitions across genres and authors. Notable entries include Adleman Rome Fell Today and McKuen Listen to the Warm, with works by Blake Nietzsche Plato Voltaire and Veblen Portable editions. Some titles relate to World War II, religion, poetry, and cookery with notes on availability and reservations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adleman
Rome
Biegeleisen
Blake
William Blake
Cooper
Emerson
Gibson
Greene
Kent
Milton
Marchland
God
Nietzsche
Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Pocock
Chile
Pedro de Valdivia
Silberman
Sorensen
Military Wives State Meeting Seeks Volunteers and Plans
The Military Wives Club will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. at Mrs Patricia Allard's home in Hoo sic Falls. Transportation inquiries go to Mrs Bruce Niles or Mrs Glenn Walk. Summer plans include a family trip to Catskill Game Farm and a Lake Harriman picnic. The unit will collect clothing for Vietnamese orphans via shipment from Pease AFB New Hampshire, coordinated by Chaplain Sargent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Wives Club
Patricia Allard
Hoosick Falls
Bruce Niles
Glenn Walk
Catskill
Lake Harriman
Vietnam
Sargent
New Hampshire
Pease Afb
Saigon
Niles
McCullough Named Symphony Trustee
John McCullough of North Bennington was elected to a four year term on the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Assn board at the annual meeting. Carleton Howe of Manchester was re elected president. The orchestra will perform at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester on July 7 with violinist Sergiu Luca playing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlebury
John McCullough
North Bennington
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Assn
Carleton Howe
Manchester
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Sergiu Luca
Tchaikovsky
Hoff Backs Guaranteed Annual Income Plan in Vermont
Governor Philip Hoff endorsed a guaranteed annual income plan for needy Vermonters while Lt. Gov. John Daley urged limiting it to the seriously ill and unable to work. CEO Director Thomas Davis proposed the program, debating funding methods including a $2 minimum wage or subsidies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Northeast Kingdom
Donavan Named to Aetna Honorary Society
Peter F. Donavan Jr., president of W.H. Wills Insurance Agency, is inducted into Aetna Life & Casualty’s Plan Professional Society for exceptional service to Bennington area business clients. He received the achievement award from Michael Bromage and holds multiple community and professional memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter F. Donavan Jr
W.H. Wills Insurance Agency
Aetna Life & Casualty
Bennington Area
Aetna Plan Professional Society
Aetna
Donavan
Michael Bromage
Rutland Casualty and Surety Division
Bowdoin College
CPCU
Vermont Association of Insurance Agents
Rotary
U.S. Navy
Bennington County Industrial Corporation
Vermont Association of Crippled, Inc
Ymca Development Drive
VFW Auxiliary Holds June Meeting and Honors Members
The VFW Auxiliary met on June 11 with special prizes won by Mary Wellington and Bessie Green. The charter was draped for Emma LaRoche, a member since 1931. Dept President Wilma Costa was escorted in and praised. plans for a joint meeting June 25 were discussed. A notice announced the council meeting June 30 in Manchester. In Maine, Janet G. Carpenter from Bennington VT earned a Colby College BA in biology. speaker was David McCord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VFW
Mary Wellington
Bessie Green
Emma LaRoche
Marion Charest
Wilma Costa
Ina Damon
Bennington
Tom Kinney
Dept
Waterville
Maine
Janet G. Carpenter
Lewis C. Carpenter
Putnam St
Colby College
Bennington High School
David McCord
Harvard University
Carpenter
Colby
Religious Riots in Nagpur Leave Three More Dead
In Nagpur India police gunfire killed three people on Thursday, raising the four day death toll to 27 amid Hindu Muslim rioting in the central Indian city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagpur
India
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Norman H. Greenberg
Greater Bennington Association
Vermont State Retail Association
Vermont
Berkeley V. Bennett
VRA
George E. Young
Triple
Grand Union Empire
Denby’s
Troy, N.Y
Enterprise
Gregg
Greenberg
Main Street
Ua Ag Iy
Nate
Denar
Eee
Ennington
Bennington Briefs
Ethan Allen
New Books
Bennington Free
Uchida
Miya
Military Wives State Meeting
Branley
Cooney
Fitch
Hurd
Jennings
Jones
Trent
Hoff
Oneida
Main ST
Costa
Harned-Fowler
of New
Artery Arcade
Our Home
Pratt ST
Roofing & Sheet Metal CO
Hlene
Economy Auto Stores Inc
For Protection & Beauty
A. J. Dewey & Sons
Mckinley Street
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