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Mother's Day Socials Fill Homes Across Communities
Readable fragments show numerous families hosting or visiting for Mother's Day. Many names appear across towns like West Union Postville Oelwein and Luana with dinners calls and hospital notes. Several households hosted dinners and receptions while others welcomed relatives from Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Decorah during the holiday period.
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Leo Schori
H. B
Larry, Butikofer
Lloyd Meyer
Postville
Max Hunsberger
Palmer Hospital
Frieda ‘Etter
Palmer “Memorial Hospital
West Union
Esther Moore
Clarence Moore
Postville,Jr
Robert Mobré
Allan
Orville Moore
Werner Moore
Leonard Moore
Lennis
Dale. Seitz
Andrew Molokken
Waterloo
Waterloo, Were Dinner Guests: Mother's Day In the Mrs. ‘Walter Kohls
Louis Dennler
Edith Dean
Sheridan Downey
Grundy Center
Louis Becker
Charles Becker
Clermont
Mine Gari-Hackmann
Reuben Hackmann
Alice and
Lindd
Rolald “Heckmann
Hugo Hackmann
Dale Seitz
Earl Seitz
PeVere
Halverson
Donald Thomas
Strawberry Point
Francis
Butikofer
Cindy
Tami
Coffee Cup Cafe
Raymond Brandt
Fred Butikofer
Tam
Francis Butikofer
Win Denk ‘Gardiner
Sidney Corbin
Wadena
Charles
Estherville
Lorence
Muehlethaler
Helen Blockhus
Ernest Brandt
Waverly End
Kasper Hanson
Brooming Prairie
Minn
Robert Blockhus
Helen C. Blockhus
Blooming
Preiri
Joe Frieden
Melbert Baechler
Robert Robbins
Roberta
Fredericksburg
Keith Kohler
Grant Schultz
Lester Gehring
Robert
Stewart Schultz
Kohler
Klingman's
Eloise Lantz
Allen Memorial Hospital
Arthur Lantz
Norris Capper
Tracy Anderson
Ka Jona
Charles Capper
Ord
E. Klingman
Mary. Barrett
Phil Gaines
Cedar Rapids
Roy Barrett
Diane
Arlington
Robert Barrett
Waukon
Louis Klingman
Robert Sieleman
Ostwein
Frank Sieleman
Herman Schupbach
Anna Schupbach
Derryl Leonhart
le Roy
Eva Jennings
University Hospitals
Alla
Leonhart
Cornelius Reierson
Mervin Reierson
Arthur Nelson
Hudson
Ray Chapman
Robert Chapman
Virgil Frieden
Lisa
James Brown
Oelwein
Harry Frieden
Martin Hanson
Fanny Frieden
Norah Olson
Detroit
Michigan
Virgil Friedens
Elgin
Friedens
Ida
William Jenkins
H. W. Falb
Robert Falb
Roger
Douglas
Leo Falb
Charles Koester
Ed Wagner
Clair Wagner
Reynold Balmer
Vern Wagner
Robert Burgess
Jack Adrian
D'Rene
Davenport
H. D. Yack
John Lyford
Vernon
Lulu Schmid
Lena Cooley
Cornelius Relerson
Clara Helium
Decorah
Bess Twange
Long Cooley
Iowa City
John Butikofer
Lawrence Butikofer
Sheryl
Richard Brackin
Palmer Memorial Hospital
Bertha Lehman
Anna Butikofer
Paul Butikofer