Thanksgiving visits and tales from Elgin area life
Local residents shared Thanksgiving dinners and visits across Fayette and Clayton counties. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Helms welcoming a 12 1-2 pound daughter born Friday morning, Nov 27, and multiple gatherings with families in West Union, Postville, Elkader, Clermont, Charley City, and Oelwein. The Elgin Echo offers a combined Echo Enterprise special subscription offer through 1982. Mrs. Spahr celebrated her eighty sixth birthday with family and friends, followed by a card shower and best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Helms
Echo and Enterprise
Fayette
Clayton Counties
L D. Hendershott
Oelwein
Spahr
Cashman
Elma
Illyria Church Notes Invite Community to Sunday Go to Church Day
Minister J J Snyder and pianist La Fonda Shaffer lead Sunday school at 10315 a m with a brief program for Beginners and Primary classes at 11. The pastor will give a children seron after the program. Truthseekers class voted to fund equipment for Beginners and Primary departments. Church members invite all to attend with a friendly welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Snyder
la Fonda Shaffer
Fred Rothlisberger
M. E. Church Notes Sunday Services and Plans
Morning worship at 10 o clock with chorus leading the singing. Sunday school at 10-4. A large attendance last Sunday. Ladies Aid Society meets Thursday afternoon at Mrs. L. B. Carter's home. Christmas committees named by Sunday school officers: Program Mrs. Walter Falk Mrs. Leo Schori Mrs. J Jer dee Serene Yack and Mrs. R. V. Brandt. Decorating teams are in Mrs. Mel Kohler and Mrs. L. B. Carter classes with Tree and Treat by Mrs. Max Thoma and Mrs. Mel Kohler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Planiat
Ladies’ Aid Society
L. B. Carter
Walter Falk
Leo Schori
J. ©. Jerdee
Serene Yack
R. V. Brandt
Mel Kohler
L. B.’Carter
Max Thoma
Baptist Church Notes from Sunday Services and Activities
Sunday events include 10 a.m. communion 11 a.m. Sunday school 12:15 p.m. dinner and table serving. 2 p.m. English service. Week events list teachers’ training Dec 8, junior choir, prayer meeting, and choir rehearsal. 160 attended Sunday school. B Y P U. heads to state convention in June. Dec 27 program announced. Pastor Ph Lauer invites all to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Wenger
Ern Baechler
John Luchsinger
Karl Miller
Alfred Ruckdaschel
Mra
Len Simek
Arno Lindroth
Eda Zurbriggen
Marie Erhardt
Marshall Helms
Migin
Ph. Lauer
Lutheran Church Notes December 6 Service Schedule
Lutheran notes report Marion service at 11 o clock with mission offering urged after low 44 percent of the budget raised. First Lutheran McGregor at 2:80 and St Olaf Chapel at 7:20 for Young People. Frances Plage of West Union visited Faye Brabham. Thanksgiving gatherings noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
First Lutheran
McGregor
St. Olaf Chapel
Henry Franklin Martin obituary notices long life in Fayette county
Henry Franklin Martin born June 25 1874 on a farm near Brainard died November 4 1981 in West Union hospital aged 57 years 4 months 29 days He lived most of his life in Fayette county and married Grace Conner in 1917 They had four children Lyman H Lola Mae Roy Ry and Walter L He is survived by his widow his father Frank Martin his brother Lewis and his sister Mrs Martha Learn Funeral services were held at their home on Friday at 2 pm conducted by Rev J J Snyder with a Wyoma male quartet singing Burial was in Elgin cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Franklin Martin
Frank
Sarah Martin
Brainad
West Union Hospital
Florence Sullivan
Fayette County
Elgin
Grace Conner
West Union
Iowa
Lyman H
Lola Mae
Roy Ry
Walter L
West Elgin
Frank Martin
Lewis
Glenfield
N. D
Martha
Wyria
Leo Rothlisberger
Clarence Thoman
Howard
Forest Shaffer
Elgin Cemetery
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Loss
We express gratitude for the love and friendship shown, the flowers from school children, the Illyria quartet, and others who lightened our time of sorrow. Words cannot express thanks for the kindnesses extended to Grice Martin and Chilean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illyria Quartetta
Grice’ Martin
Pioneer Woman Marie Muehlenthaler Dies After Illness
Mrs. Marie Muehlenthaler mother of Ben and Emil Dennler died at the home of the latter in Elgin on Sunday morning after months of heart trouble She would have been sixty one December 3 Funeral services were held at one o'clock Monday at the Ben Dennler home Rev Alfred Imhof officiated in English and German The body was taken to Hohenwald Tenn for burial beside her husband She left seven children and several brothers and cousins She relocated from Blienbach Switzerland to America in 1891 later moving to Tennessee where Swiss settlers formed Hohenwald The family expresses thanks for the community support during her illness
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Muehlenthaler
Mesdames Ben
Emil Dennler
Ben Dennler
Alfred Imhof
Oelwein
Hohenwald
Tenn
Muehlenthaler
Jacob
Fred
Slater
Blienbach
Canton Bern
Switzerland
America
Tennessee
Yowa
Ben Dannler
Elgin
Fried
Young Elgin West Union youths attend community event at Brabham home
A group of youths from Elgin and West Union gathered Sunday evening at Faye Brabham’s home for an oyeteyatew. After supper they attended a show in Postville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Mae
Alyina
Mabel Friedenl
Alice Haas
S. C. Jerdee
Clermont
Elgin
West Union
Faye Brabham
Abpper
Postville
Thanksgiving Travel and Family Gatherings Mentioned
The notice lists several residents and their plans for Thanksgiving and winter travel. Mr. and Mrs. George Poliltt visited his mother in Cresco. Rose Garber travels to Sabetha Kansas then Samar Missouri to visit relatives and back next spring. Mrs. Arvilla Shaffer heads to Los Angeles for the winter. Multiple local families host and attend Thanksgiving dinners at the Melcir and Peter Luchsinger home and other households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Poliltt
Turkey
Cresco
Rose Garber
Sabetha
Kansas
J. P. Strahm
Samar
Ben Frieden
Arvilla Shaffer
Oelwein
Los Angeles
Calif
C. E. Cave
I. F. Shaffer
Mra
Walter Neumatina
West Union
Harry Bennett
Randalia
Earl Bennett
Iva Bennett
John
Lester Luchsinger
Melcir
Peter Luchsinger
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Dr. L
Hutchingon
Dentlet
Anna DeSart
Dorothy
Lawrence Cannon
Hans Winkler
Louis Thompkins
Waukegan
Em Schori
Palmer Bartholomew
Thos. Howard, Sr
Hadsel and
Lena Henderson
Mrs. Smith
Paul Muehley
Jack Wood
Elgin Echo
Dubuque Tele-graph-Herald
Echo
B. M. Benson
Belva
Josephine Muellerman
Ruth
Torkelson
Mr. and
Mia
Elmer Schori
Carl
Betty Kohler
Margie Christ
C. J. Halstenson
Mrs. Warren Harrington
Humphry Roberts
C. J. Harrington
Myrlin Feller
Moorehead
Fellering
A. M. Weibel
William and
Harold
Paul Zurbriggen
Chicago
Bay
Heins
Joliet
A. J. Phillips
Emma Bunting
Elkader
Bess Stohr
Mrs. C. 8. Halstenson
Earl Eaton
Cedar Rapids
Rosa. Reusser
Alton Saunders
Charley City
Henry Frieden
Wm. Walther
Leo
H. D. Yack
N. W. Evans
Bernita Bopp
Kathryn Strauch
Phyllis Kohler
Ernestine Holzer
Charles City
I. C. Jerdee
Mabel Frieden
Alice Hass
Cedar Falls
Oxfords
Elgin, Iowa
Illyria
M. E. Church Notes
Baptist Church
Lutheran Church Notes
Strandford
Frances Plage
Anna Brabham
Faye
Ben Brabham
Young People’s Bridge Club
Gordon Mosby
W. C. Falk
Nick Bakeman
Ern Bauder
Mary Skarshaug
Frances
Ray Stratton
Huron, S. D
Ed Bauder
K. E. Mark
J. Anderson
Almer Anderson
Melvin Olson
Paul Liddle
Goodye
BROS
Monarch
Kohlers Elgin, Iowa
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