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Gold Star Mothers Honor Cedar Rapids Veteran Bonds
An interview with Cedar Rapids Gold Star Mothers leader Mrs. McFaddin outlines the group’s twofold mission to aid returning soldiers and their families, and to preserve memory of fallen sons from World War I. The chapter, first in Iowa to be nationally chartered, plans a fund-raising tag day and will expand with meetings and a veterans building room.
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Gold Star
Shick General Hospital
Army Infantry Show
Sydney Smith
Mt. Vernon Road
Cedar Rapids
Gold Star Mothers of
McFaddin
Geda Suchomel
Leonard Field
Goldena Meyer
William Shanahan
Fred Anderson
Jane Rawson
Alma Mach
Charles Stevens
Ed Plotz
Charlotte McHugh
Gail Lahman
Beatrice Narber