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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1967
Page
4
The Zoar United Church of Christ in New Hanover Illinois posts a Friday service and communion on March 24 at 7 30 p m Sunrise Service March 26 at 6 00 a m Easter Breakfast at 7 00 a m Sunday School at 8 45 a m and Easter Service and Communion at 10 00 a m Pastor Rey Wilbur L Biaseh leads the observances.
Pauls Lutheran Church in Missouri Synod at 227 N Good Haven Dr lists Divine Services at 8:00 and 10:15 am with 8:00 am broadcast on WCBW FM. Sunday School and Bible Classes for all ages at 9:05 am. Visitors welcome at all services.
House of Prayer holds Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. An open Bible Study is held Friday at 8:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome. For location call 281-4826.
Details of morning and evening worship times for First Baptist Church Bethany Methodist Immaculate Conception and St Paul United Church. Includes service hours Sunday School confirmations and choir notes for a community Easter observance in Columbia Illinois. Saint Stephen's Assembly of God hosts sunrise service preachers Pastor Wood and parish activities listed.
Forty three confirmands joined St. Paul United Church of Christ in Columbia during a 10 15 a m Palm Sunday service. The photo shows confirmands with pastors Rev. Gerhard A Friz and Rev. Norman H Rahmoelier and lists names across three rows.
Mrs O W Bollinger of 325 Liberty Street Columbia is a medical patient at St Marys Hospital in East St Louis. Mr and Mrs C L Volkert, 206 W Locust St Columbia, have as their guests this week Mr and Mrs George Vogt and their children Lise Amy and David of Roanoke Virginia. Mrs Vogt is the former Carol Volkert.
A brief notice lists classes at the Rectory recurring on Mondays and Fridays at 7 p.m. The inquiry class runs weekly, inviting participants to attend in the parish setting.
Church announces services at Market and Rapp Streets with Rev. R. H. Davis as pastor. Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning Worship 11 00 a m Evening Service 7 30 p m Family Night Service 7 30 p m Visitors welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Veit marked their 48th wedding anniversary with a March 2 dinner and party hosted by sons Earl and Melvin Veit and their spouses. The gathering at Earl Veit's home included card games and friends from Columbus Millstadt St Louis and nearby areas.
Easter sunrise service at 6 00 a m will be held at St Stephens Assembly of God Church with Bethany Methodist First Baptist and St Stephens clergy participating. Rev John Wood will speak with special music and refreshments to follow. Memorial Hospital patient Bill Brucker is listed as a patient in Belleville.
A devotional piece compares a French hiker's extreme thirst in Death Valley with Jesus Christ's crucifixion. It highlights Jesus thirst as a symbol of spiritual longing and sacrifice, urging readers to seek divine love and share it. The piece ends with a prayer thanking God and a thought about living water opened by Jesus thirst.
The Altar Society of Immaculate Conception Church met with 35 members. New president Mrs Dean Keim announced volunteers for Clem Metter and Mrs Dale Mat tingly, and noted entertainment and kitchen roles. Members were asked to save pint bottles for Easter favors for the Waterloo Nursing Home and to send reservations for the Day of Recollection by April 15.
The New Hanover Unit Home Makers Extension Association met at Zoar Church Hall on March 13 with 21 members present. Roll call referenced A Family Easter Tradition as members shared health, safety, nutrition lessons, and a snack spread.
Mr and Mrs Charles J Grueninger of Columbia and Mr and Mrs John Meier of Waterloo returned from a five day 1900 mile trip to see Marine Pfc Marvin Grueninger at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort South Carolina. Marvin marked his 20th birthday March 18 and had just come back from a three week temporary duty assignment in Yuma Arizona. The Grueningers and the Meiers visited in Gatlinburg Tennessee in the Smoky Mountains en route home.
Mrs Mary Jane MacDonald announces the marriage of her daughter Linda to Donald Grabel of St Louis on March 15 at Temple Emmanuel. After a honeymoon in Miami and the Bahamas the couple will reside in St Louis after March 25.
Mr and Mrs Herman Block hosted a 4 30 p m Sunday dinner on March 19 to honor Mr Block s birthday Guests included the Blocks and family Le May Gene Roediger Lester Schumacher Roy Rusteberg and families from Columbia
The Bishop Zoroweste Circle 886 Daughters of Isabella met Monday March 20 at the K of C Hall Waterloo with Regent Thek la Kruse presiding. The October meeting moved to the second Monday to allow officers to be elected before the diocesan installation. Illinois State Convention in Rockford May 19-21 announced. Regent to attend. A dress-orama fundraiser followed led by Past Regent Ermantine Gruninger. Dresses sizes 12 through 20 available. contact Mrs Gruninger by March 28.
The column notes that the nearby area sits at the heart of beef raising country, citing a map as evidence. Local residents discuss pasture conditions and cattle markets, highlighting regional prominence in cattle farming.
Reed of families hosted Palm Sunday and March confirmations at St Paul United Church of Christ and local homes. Attendees included relatives from Columbia, Waterloo, Mt Olive, East Carondelet, St Louis, and England, celebrating Dean Lungwitz John Kannewurf Michael Kannewurst Dorene Stumpf and other confirmands.
Gene Garris, a 1964 Columbia High School graduate, writes from Bangkok about Da Nang air strip activity, rockets hitting the base and high mission counts by Marine planes. FHA organizes mailings to former Columbia No. 4 students in service, with letters posted in the Homemaking Room bulletin board.
Merle Duncan announces Mission Shrine Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem will relocate to Columbia Lodge. The 17th annual Installation of Officers took place March 18 at 7 30 open to friends and families with officers installed including Juanita Williams Archie Williams Lavern Brinkman Martin Duncan Elva Weisler Marjorie Bottiaux Betty Hood Louise Hecke Anna Lerch.
A local notice lists households including Mr. and Mrs. Art Metz and children, Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dieh and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Joyce Steppig and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Don Gericke and sons, Robert Stoll, Mary Kaye Steppig, Allan Hoffmann and his siblings Albert Dennis Clark Cindy and Francine.
Mr and Mrs Herman Schaefer hosted a Sunday birthday gathering at 206 Good Haven Dr for their son Robert turning 13. Attendees included relatives from St Louis Arnold Mo and Columbia plus Mrs Louise Groppe.
The Mordoc Homemakers Unit of the Home Extension met March 20 at Mrs. Herbert Mueller’s home in Columbia. Mrs. Kenneth Stumpf and Mrs. Jack Divers led the major lesson Understanding Teenage Boys and Girls. Mrs. Jake Ramsey gave the minor lesson Nutritious Snack Foods. Hostesses were Mrs. Julius Straub and Mrs. Roy Stumpf. Also noted a local resident Mrs. Minnie Glassmaker has returned home after an eye operation at St. Mary's Hospital in East St. Louis.
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