Library Schedule Listed for Holiday
The Forest Park Public Library will be closed all day Monday December 24 and Tuesday December 25 for Christmas. It will also be closed Monday December 3 and January 1 for New Year. The Friends of the Library Christmas meeting is Thursday evening December 21 with music drama featuring the Proviso Boys Octet and pianist Robert Peller plus group caroling and a one act play Just What They Wanted directed by Miss Carolyn.
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Forest Park Public Library
The
Friends of the Library
Proviso Boys
Robert Peller
Carolyn
Local cast members announced for upcoming performance
Schwab reveals the cast for the upcoming show with Marian Jazbinchek, Louis Jazbinchek, Josephine Austin, Laurel Smith, and Roy Leming. The production invites everyone to attend and join the audience.
Spurling Rites For C Frank Spurling 80 Forest Park Resident
C Frank Spurling 80 a Forest Park resident for 40 years died at his home 1920 Dunlop early Tuesday Former Peaslee Hardware employee Funeral 3 pm Thursday Dec 20 Zimmerman and Son chapel Arlington cemetery Interment Survivors widow Temple A four sons Ernest M Loren F and C Roy and a daughter Goldie M Voss
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Spurling
C. Frank Spurling
Forest Park
Dunlop
Peaslee Hardware
Zimmerman and Son
Arlington Cemetery
Temple A
Ernest
Ire M
Loren F
C. Roy
Goldie M. Voss
William Preiss Celebrates On 30th Birthday
William H. Preiss of 7703 Monroe Forest Park hosted an open house on Sunday December 16 for his 90th birthday. He came with brother Ed from Germany then Harlem in 1488. family history traces roots to Forest Park with siblings and multiple generations in Illinois and Washington state.
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William H. Preiss
Monroe
Forest Park
Bill Preiss
Germany
Harlem
Bill
Bob
Adolph
Benson
Marie
Centralia
Wash
Edward
Chicago
Elmhurst
Forest Hills
N.Y
Manhattan
Walter
Bertha
Villa Park
Mildred
Seattle
Lillian
First Baptist Church of
Oak Park
Masonic Lodge
Every man who lives right sets an example for others
A concise moral maxim emphasizing individual conduct as a model for society and urging steadfast integrity.
Forest Park Girl Scouts Gift Festival brings gifts to community
Forest Park Girl Scouts from all troops gathered December 9 at Lowell School Oak Park for the Gift Festival. A representative from each troop delivered gifts to local service agencies and hospitals. Over 200 girls and leaders sang carols at Altenheim Old People's Home and distributed boxes of Christmas cookies to residents.
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Forest Park
Lowell School
Oak Park
Altenheim
Big Chance: Man Risks Loss by Leaving Affairs to Friends
A saying warns that entrusting all affairs to friends can lead to danger of being dropped or abandoned. The adage cautions reliance on others for critical matters and underscores personal accountability in life choices.
Mrs. H. C. Zimmerman Injured in Fall at Home
Mrs. H. C. Zimmerman of 624 Marengo is a patient at Oak Park hospital after a fall down stairs last Sunday. Her daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Ira Drake had just gone out to buy a Christmas tree when the accident happened. A neighbor, Joe Bondi, brought her to the hospital where she received a fractured left foot and eight stitches in her right hand.
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H. C. Zimmerman
Marengo
Oak Park Hospital
Ira Drake
Zimmerman
Joe Bondi
Rohloff Rites
Caroline Rohloff of Oak Park died December 15 at Columbus Hospital Chicago. Funeral services were held at 1 30 p m Monday at Zimmerman and Son Funeral Home with Rev R W Roth officiating. Burial was in Waldheim Cemetery. Survivors include son Paul C Rohloff two grandchildren and sisters Mamie Cross and Elizabeth Greves.
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Caroline Rohloff
N. Marion
Oak Park
Forest Park
Columbus Hospital
Chicago
Zimmerman and Son Funeral Home
Rev
R. W. Roth
Waldheim Cemetery
Paul C. Rohloff
Mamie Cross
Elizabeth Greves
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Marcelle Allergenic
MLW
Mobilgas
William Preiss
Rabe’s
Madison St
Streat
Evenin
Sunbeam
Sporting Goods and Appliances
T Park Forest
Forest Theatre
Madison Street
Homer's Restaurant
Girl Scout News
Rohloff
Y . Perry
Bacall Cleaners
Alice Zimmerman
Frank Furlong
Madison Street Forest
Kastrup & Lehman
Forest
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