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Christmas dinner guests fill Steamboat Rock area
Many families from Eldora Iowa Falls Ackley Wellsburg Parkersburg Victor and Des Moines shared Christmas dinners and visits. The Baptist adult class held a party December 26 in the church basement with games and a lunch, plus a gift exchange. Local households hosted relatives including the Frerichs, Luiken, Van Dornum, Hall, Tholen, Folkerts, Johnson, and Sentman families amid town and farm community gatherings.
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C. L. Lamb
Gordon
Robert
Darrell Jensen
Eldora
Pete Jensen
Raymond Potthoff
Patsy
Edd Frericks
Robert Moore
Ft. Jackson
South Carolina
R. J. Moore
Whitten
Henry Wabben
The
Baptist Church
Edd Luiken
Charles Luiken
Iowa Falls
John Seims
Ackley
Martin Kruse
Albert Zimmerman
Anton Luiken
Ernest Luiken
Max Folkerts
George
John Frerichs
Henry Rose
Ted Neederoff
Wellsburg
Harry Folkerts
Terry
Wilson Patterson
West Union
Henrietta Hall
Hattie Tholen
Albert van Dornum
Tom Kruse
Erastus Akers
Hampton
Louis Muller
Louis
Victor
Mike Daleske
Ernest Kruse
Russell Karstens
Lloyd Boomgarden
Minneapolis
Minn
Jake Boomgarden
Will Frerichs
Walter Steinfeldt
Darlene
Duane
Carl Frerichs
Jacqueline
Arthur Frerichs
Douglas
John M. van Loh
Grundy Center
Grace Baker
Russell Holmes
Henry Buthman
Lydia
Alfred Bell
Ardyce
Phyllis
Minnie Bell
Ida Eaton
Gladbrook
Louis Johnson
Bob McKillup
Walcott
Indiana
Mildred Johnson
Des Moines
L. G. Johnson
Carl Sentman
C. E. Sentman