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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 11, 1945

Page

21

Former Coe Students Serving in Red Cross

Coe college released alumni rolls listing former students serving with the Red Cross in many fronts. Names include Barbara Barrick in Hawaii, James Blazek in Kentucky, Helen Bray in Fort Worth, Lola Coffey in Italy, and many others in hospital wards, field offices, and overseas posts. Families and addresses accompany several entries as the war effort continues.

Red Cross War Fund Coe College Coe Red Cross Barbara Jane Barrick Winnebago, IL Hawaii James Wallace Blazek Kentucky RAF Great Bend Kan Solomons Michael B Avenue NE Helen S. Bray Marion Fort Worth Texas Lola Jean Coffey Iowa City General Hospital Italy Lavenia Beck Davenport Morning Sun Washington, D. C Frederick R. Ellingson Wayland Academy Seaver Dam Wis Great Lakes

Decorah Couple Wed In First Congregational Service

Miss Gretchen Altfillisch and Lt. Philip W. Tone married at Decorah First Congregational Church. The rite was by Rev. Alfred H. Bartner with a 75 guest reception at Winneshiek hotel. They plan to live in Clinton, where Tone is a patient at Schick Hospital.

Decorah First Congregational Church Gretchen Altfillisch Charles Altfillisch Philip W. Tone Elmer J. Tone Park Ridge, Til Alfred HM. Bartter Germany First Army Mene Mra. J. W. Altfillisch Edar Samide

YWCA Notes On Matrons Lunch And Club Plans

The Young Matrons meet Wednesday at 1:30 for a dessert luncheon at the YWCA with Mines E Korensky and Charles Postal as hosts. Mrs Parry will review a book. Local Business and Professional clubs of the YWCA revise the national program. four club cabinets dine Thursday at 6 at the YWCA to discuss changes. Bertha Davies chairs the Inter-church council arrangements.

Y.W.C.A E. Korensky Charles Postal Parry Business and Professional Girls Bertha Davies Inter-chuir Council

Mathews Engagement and March 17 Wedding Plan

Mr and Mrs R P Mathews of 1337 Ellis Boulevard NW announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Alice to Frank L Sreyson of Canton Ohio The wedding will be held March 17 at the bride's parents home with immediate family present Miss Mathews is a Roosevelt High School graduate Mr Sreyson attended Canton schools and works for Grain Processing in Muscatine the couple will reside there

Margaret Hurst Thomas Swick Blairstown Raymond E. Day Army Ground and Service Forces Hot Springs Ark Floyd Day Fifth Street John L. Dodge Albert H. Graves Pfc Dale E. Johnson Arlington Hotel Pfc. Day R. P. Mathews Ellis Boulevard Mary Alice Frank L. Sreyson R. C. Smith Canton Miss Mathews Roosevelt High School Mr. Smith The Grain Processing Corporation Muscatine

PEO Meetings Schedule and Birth Anniversary Note

Mrs W C Henning at 1730 Second Avenue SE hosts chapter DK Monday at 6 p.m. for a buffet. officers to be elected. social committee chaired by Mrs Stofler serves supper. Chapter GM meets at 7 30 p.m. at 314 Crescent Street SE with Miss Ellen Miller assisting. Mrs Archie Pike at 60 Circle Drive NE honors her husband on his fifty third birthday with a picnic supper. guests include Mr and Mrs Otie Picke of Blue Springs Neb.

W. C. Henning Second Avenue SE Harry Dunker Crescent Street SE Ellen Miller Archie Pike Circle Drive Otie Picke Blue Springs

Red Cross Workers Named For Washington Training

Former USO director Betty Carrithers 35 reports March 19 for hospital staff aide training in Washington. Elinor Sweitzer to report March 31 as a Red Cross hospital worker. Junior Red Cross staff include Katherine Bryan and Marian Martin, both former McKinley teachers. Evelyn Street, a former Coe nurse, now in England with the army nurse corps. Cedar Rapids Red Cross workers listed with home service, speaker’s bureau, and staff assistants. Gold Star Mothers chapter No 1 to meet Friday at 7:30 in the federal building.

John Elliott Fisher Salt Lake City New York A. J. Fisher China Lucile Funkey Ernest Funkey Bever Avenue India Harold A. Gipe Denton Texas Justie E. Gist Pearl Harbor Middle East Dora Jane Hamblin Cedar Rapids Australia Clarke D. Hileman Maynard Peterson Field Colorado Springs Eleanor C. Hunting R. D. Hunting First Avenue NE France Maxine Lee Beverly Hills Calif Shannon B. Little Palo Red Cross Dorothy Gabbert Loudermilk Franklin High School Jefferson Barracks John G. Lovejoy Nashua Elven N. McIlhraith Family Welfare Bureau Sioux City Frances M. McLaughlin J. F., McLaughlin Twenty-eighth Street Drive Mayo General Hospital Galesburg Ill LaVon I. Madden Fenton Sarah D. Palmer Robert Palmer Knollwood Drive Arkansas Robina M. Rae National Red Cross Washington Ethel Belle Rogers Y.W.C.A Station Hospital Fort Leonard Wood Dorothy Rowles Florence R. Telecky J. J. Telecky Ely Betty Carrithers Ira T. Carrithers Forest Drive SE Elinor Sweitzer Linn County County Relief Department Katherine Bryan Milton G. Bryan Second Avenue SE McKinley School Marian Martin McKinley Nebraska Colorado Evelyn C. Street Coe College Chicago Army Nurse Corps England James Sigmund Home Service H. J. Chadima Twenty-third Street Drive Linn ‘County E. E. Schenefelt Vernon Drive Linn County Carl Thomas Cottage Grove Avenue SE Harold Skinner Eighth Avenue SE Elwood M. Miller Waverly New Guinea Robert N. Skinner Helen ‘Hughes Weddle William Hughes Iowa Federal Building

Warrant Officer Heath A. Smith Married in Canada

Announcement of the marriage between Miss Ruth Marjorie Lowelle Heller of Edmonton and Warrant Officer Heath A. Smith of the Army. Ceremony held January 31 in Edmonton with Rev. R. M. Watts officiating. The bride was given in marriage by her father and attended by her sister Evelyn Heller among others.

Ruth Marjorie Lowelle Heller C. Heller Edmonton Canada Heath A. Smith Army Ethel Smith Sixth Avenue R. M. Watts Evelyn Heller

Bride and Captain Glover Wed at Ceremony

Miss Alice Baril and Capt Stanley Glover U S A A F wed and were honored at a reception at the bride’s home. They plan to reside in Edmonton. Mizpah Circle members met at Mrs Stewart Shank’s home and welcomed Mrs M W Buckland and Mrs H M Robertson into the circle. The group donated $5 to the Red Cross and Afghans for Schick General Hospital in Clinton were made by the group.

Alice Baril Stanley Glover U.S.A The King’s Daughters Stewart Shank M. W. Buckland H. M. Robertson Red Cross Schick General Hospital Clinton

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Sun Mrs Philip Tone YWCA Mary Alice Mathews P.E.O. Meetings Charter Mrs. Pike Oscar Workman Dempsey Second Avenue Sedial North Chicago Homburg Millinery
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