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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
6
A dense Elgin notice details neighbors visiting, dinners and Sundays with the Gottlieb and Ben Dennier homes, visitors from Elkader and Rochester, and several trips including Decorah park outings. It notes hospital visits, a six week embalmng course completion, and various club activities plus a Kensington Club gathering and local reunions.
St Pauls M E Church led by Minister J J Snyder. Mrs Louis Klingman plays piano. Worship at 10 o clock Sunday. Sunday school at 11 o clock. Grace Foxwell plays piano. Sunday school at 10 15 a m. Worship service at 11 15 a m.
Norway at 9:15 o clock Norse services. Norway at 10:80 lecture by Mr Livingston. Marion at 8 o clock lecture by Mr Come to church. You are welcome at each and every service. S J Strandjord Pastor.
Sunday worship and communion at 10 o clock Sunday school at 11 oclock Business session at 2 p m Election of officers Junior meeting at 1 p m Wednesday July 8 Women s Missionary Society meets at 2 p m Prayer meeting at 8 p m Choir rehearsal at 6 p m Local social and travel updates mention hospital visits and trips to Rock Valley Cedar Rapids Avoca Harmony Niagra Cave and medical meetings in Oelwein with a focus on community events and personal news.
Katherine Garvey born in Ireland April 12 1850 died June 25 near Elgin at eighty six. She married Robert Wilson in 1871 and lived in Massachusetts Grant county Wisconsin before settling south of Elgin in Pleasant Valley township. Surviving children include Mary Ogle Robert Wilson Alice Winkler Katherine Brabham Anna Howard with nine children twenty grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral at St Pauls M E church conducted by Rev J J Snyder with interment in Elgin cemetery.
We express heartfelt gratitude to friends and neighbors who helped during our mother Mrs. Katherine Wilson illness and death. Thanks to those who sent flowers and to the quartette for music and all others for sympathy and support.
Mrs Wm Barker of Elgin submitted to an operation at the Oelwein hospital on Wednesday of last week. She is reported to be doing unclely. Ed Metzger fell from a hay rack on Thursday last week injuring his shoulder and will be unable to perform farm duties for several weeks. Mr and Mrs John Berndt and daughters Lucille and Irma visited Guttenberg last Wednesday for the funeral of Will Berndt who died the previous Saturday. Mr and Mrs Wm Wilson of Dewein came Saturday after the death of his mother Mrs Robert Wilson sr and stayed until Monday as guests of Fred Gehring. Betty Kohler left Monday for Peoria Illinois to be bridesmaid at Bernita Bopp's wedding on Tuesday. Kohler traveled with her fiancé as far as Dubuque before she took the bus.
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