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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1947
Page
22
The Bedford The Anthony Hunt Hamilton American Legion Post 221 Woman's Auxiliary will hold its monthly meeting in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. President Mrs. Elizabeth Atwood will preside over the business session.
Funeral services were held last Wednesday for Mrs. Edward Parmelee of Yonkers New York formerly Dorothy Dickerman a Bedford resident daughter of Mrs Lawrence F Dutton of Fletcher Road Bedford. She leaves her mother her husband a Naval officer a daughter Dorothy Parmelee of Yonkers a son Richard S Davis of Lexington two sisters Mrs Milton Manning of Falmouth and Mrs Richard S Parris of Waqutoi and a brother Lawrence J Dutton Jr Bedford.
Sudbury notes Mr and Mrs Leo Quinn with their two young daughters visiting Mrs Mary Quinn Dietrich during Mr Quinns vacation from duties at the Town Hall. Friends of Mrs Edward Van Dusen report she is a patient at Charlesgate Hospital in favorable condition. Charles C Way departed by air Monday evening for Pittsburgh PA to visit Vaughan Monroe and Mrs Monroe, the noted orchestra leader.
Bedford residents Mr and Mrs Gaston Goyette hosted their daughter and family, Rev and Mrs Kenneth Wyatt with Thomas and Deborah, returning from a New Hampshire vacation. Edna Meharg and daughter Ellen Meharg vacationed in Nova Scotia and stopped at Cape Breton on the return trip.
John Courtney Livermore enjoys his third birthday today. Mr and Mrs Herbert L Clark have returned from a trip to Sangerville Maine. Ann and Carol Julin daughters of Mr and Mrs Stanley Julin South street are spending two weeks at Camp Kiwanis Camp Fire Girls Camp South Hansen.
Two young men from Waltham were injured on the Middlesex Turnpike Bedford when a tire blew and the car crashed into a tree. Felix J. Jeoffrey 18 and Thomas McCullough 18 of 12 Lyman Street were treated at St. John’s Hospital Lowell for cuts and knee injuries and held for observation.
Concord Art Association opens Exhibits of the Week with Col Swaim loaning a Bermuda scene titled Cambridge Beeches. Roger D. Swaim of Concord lends a watercolor showing a cave and sailboat as the exhibit begins August 22. Hudspeth adds Rockport watercolor on August 29. The gallery is open daily 10 to 5 except Mondays and Sundays 2 to 5.
Services were held Monday afternoon at Douglas funeral parlors in Lexington for Mrs Nellie S Thomas Barnett of Carlisle road Bedford. Rev Frank W Thompson chaplain at the Veterans Administration and pastor emeritus of the Church of Christ officiated. Mrs Barnett born in Concord 73 years ago has lived in Bedford sixteen years and is survived by her husband a son William H Barnett Jr a brother Arthur B Thomas of Boston a sister Mrs Herbert Bourne of Lexington and three children. Interment followed at Shawsheen cemetery Bedford.
Mrs. Sarah Buttrick daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lloyd Buttrick wed Herbert Henry Cook son of Mrs. James Alexander Sinclair and the late Captain Henry R. Cook of the Royal Navy. Rev Frank W. Thompson officiated at the Beaford Veterans Hospital chapel. The couple will reside on Springs road in Bedford following a wedding trip. Mrs Cook aided U S O and Red Cross during the war. Mr Cook is a World War II veteran.
Bedford-Many and others attended the Old Home Service at Ye Meeting House Freemont N H on Sunday. Rev Willian E Mack of the Church of Christ spoke on The Future of America. The Paul Revere Guild of Bell Ringers provided music.
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