Clare City Commission Holds Regular Session December 1969
Clare city officials receive notices from Donald Holbrook Jr and Ann Arbor Railroad about a U S 10 crossing delay. The traffic report from AAA is reviewed. A church sign request is approved subject to city manager and highway department. Open house planned for Sid and Sandy O Dell to assist fire victims.
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Clare City Commission
Donald Holbrook, Jr
Department of Natural Resources
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
AAA
Clare Methodist Church
Christmas gatherings span families in multiple towns
Mrs. K. L Cook and family hosted Bob Amble and relatives marking Bob’s birthday and Charles Amble’s wedding anniversary. Dozens joined holiday visits across Mt. Pleasant Lansing Saginaw and nearby towns with many relatives and friends attending meals and gatherings at homes and public spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Amble
Davison
Charles A. Amble
Bob
Mrs. Amble
Roy Stamman
John Cook
Bev
Leslie Cook
Kenneth Cook
Jerry Sweete
Midland
Dennis Allen
Farwell
Ruth Cook
Saginaw
Aaron Brink
Tom Grean
Mt. Pleasant
Richard Couture
Mancelona
Gary Collins
Jennifer
Columbus
Ohio
Francis Kinne
Dorothy Collins
Burdette Reigle
Ithaca
Olive Bruce
Norman Bruce
Lansing
DeWayne Nash
Garden City
Livestock Prices Recorded in December 29 1969 Report
The livestock report lists prices across categories with steers at 26 to 29 dollars, standard utility 22 to 26, Good-Choice heifers 22.5 to 26.5, cows 23 to 25, commercial utility 20.5 to 24, canner-cutter 17 to 21.5, feeder steers 30 to 37, feeder heifers 27 to 31, prime veal galves 45 to 53, good-choice 39 to 45, lambs 27 to 29, hogs 28 to 28.75 No. 1 and 27.75 to 28.25 for 190 lb, slaughters 5 to 8.25, and feeder pigs 15 to 42.5 per head.
Longtime Sheridan farmer Badgley dies at 54
Badgley Wellington E Badgley 54 died suddenly December 25 at his Sheridan township home from heart trouble. He was born April 29 1915 in Sheridan to Lee and Mary Badgley and lived there his whole life. He married Elnora Orvis April 30 1939 and was a Elm Grove Church of God member and Farm Bureau supporter. Surviving are his wife one daughter four sons his mother and one granddaughter. Funeral December 29 at Stephenson Doherty Funeral Home with Rev Virgil Brinkman officiating. Burial at Cherry Grove Cemetery.
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Wellington E. Badgley
Sheridan Township
Aakanihaia
Clare County
Lee
Mary Badgley
Elnora Orvis
Eagle Parsonage
Elm Grove
Earl William Brockway
Corning
New York
Emma England
Toledo
Ohio
Pontiac Motors
Clare
Emma
LeRoy Kullman
Nancy
Harrison
Alma Brockway
Stephenson Doherty
Dale Beavers
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Deaths mix local figures and distant ties in year end notices
Obituaries note Coleman born veteran and Muskegon business leader Earl Brockway of Clare in mixed death notices. Mullally family spans Colorado to Michigan with four sons two brothers and four sisters listed. Burial and service details given for Brockway with family survivors and a brief Icelandic note on language.
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Coleman
Coleman High School
Central Michigan University
Muskegon
Adelaide M. Walther
Martin J. Mullally
Boulder
Colorado
James
F. Mullally
John W. Mullally
U. S. Public Health Service
el Reno
Oklahoma
Neil. G. Mullally
Francis Mullally
John Mullally
Mt. Morris
Walter Doppel
Port Charlotte
Florida
Ellen Mullally
Flint
Monica Mullally
Detroit
Byron Oliver
Farmington
Clara Mabel Leeth Dies After Long Illness at Clare Home
Clara Mabel Leeth died on Christmas morning at the home of her daughter in Clare following a long illness. Born January 25, 1893 in Defiance County Ohio, she moved to Michigan in 1900 and lived in Arthur township. She married Andrew McCellan Leeth in 1910. he died in 1960. Surviving are three daughters, one son, three sisters, three brothers, 15 grandchildren, and 28 great grandchildren. Funeral service Sunday at 2 p.m. at Brokering Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Charles Hilliard officiating. burial in Cherry Grove cemetery.
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Clara Mabel Leeth
Walter Kleiner
Suh Street
Clare
Charles
Emma Garver
Defiance County
Ohio
Michigan
Arthur Township
Clare County
Andrew McCellan Leeth
Leeth
Sheridan Township
Eagle
Edna C. Hutchinson
Emma E. Carncross
Marguerite E, Kleiner
Forest Leeth
Florence A
Rever
Beatrice E
Acre
St. Clair
Alta Mae Beattie
Marine City
Walter E
Forest L. Garver
Ray L. Garver
Lyons Ohio
Brokering Funeral
Charles Hilliard
Colonville Church of God
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Clare Jay Gees win Christmas Lighting Contest
The Clare Jay Gees select Brokering Funeral Home as Christmas Lighting Contest winner amid many festive displays citywide. Clare area residents showcased extra effort to beautify homes during the holidays.
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Clare Jay Gees
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Clare City. Commission
Madge Ruark
Sid
Sandy O'Dell
Geneva Township
O’dells
Sno-Mo-Rina Center
Elvis Presley
Mary Tyler Moore
Elvis
RCA Records
Barbara Mnair
Jane
William Goldenberg
Daic Elliot
James Lee
S Schweitzer
Eric Bercovick
John Joseph
Richard Morris
William Graham
Joe Connelly
Universal Picture
Walt Disney
K. L, Cook
Jim Brink
Dennis
Goodrow
Connie
Richard Hilton
Mike Cook
Assembly of God
Holiday Inn
Kalamazoo
Anna Carpenter
Alan Larnard
Thomas Ritter
Willard Dancer
Dale Dancer
Terry
Lee Dancer
Brian
Alfred Gardner
Leslie Gardner
Titus Blosser
Livestock Report
Badgley
Mullally
Martin Mullally
W. Larch
Muskegon Insurance Agency
Campeau
Brockway
Bermuda
Bob’s Tire Store
Bob Schafer
Ent
Tex Ferguson
His
Galaxies
Main ST
Farwell, Michigan
BY Schrot
Chamber of Commerce
Pasadena
Calif
Jay Green
Jim
Tri- City
Jay
Clare Area
Jack Tice
Don Holbrook Jr
Harold Hughes
Ernie Boberg
Keith
Clare High School
Dawn
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Clare, Rosebush, Coleman
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