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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1962
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Fred Stehle and Jamil Alice visited the area. The Stehles bought the E A Weimer home north of Cross Mountain and plan to move permanently mid term. Their daughter Sara, a senior, will enroll in high school here.
Jehovahs Witnesses announce a circuit assembly at the Junior High Auditorium on December 14 16 attracting about 900 delegates. District supervisor H A Fetzik and circuit supervisor C Newcomb will visit the local congregation ahead of the event with sessions led by Fetzik and Newcomb including a model ministry school ordination service baptism and a public meeting broadcast on KNAF. All sessions are free with no collection.
Since 1902 the U S Secret Service has been charged with guarding the President. This note outlines the long standing duty assigned to the agency following Mc Kinley’s assassination.
Funeral services for 75 year old Mrs Emil A Feuge were held at Bethany Lutheran Church on Sunday December 2 1962. She died December 1 at 1 am in a local hospital. The Rev Henry F Treptow officiated with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs Feuge nee Bertha Manske was born August 9 1887 in Sealey Texas and married Emil A Feuge on November 20 1906. Surviving are her husband six children eight grandchildren one great grandchild a sister and a brother among others. Pallbearers included Wesley Eckhardt Ray Schaefer koeter and Curtis Feuge.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Pehl honored their twin children Billy and Betty Pehl with an eighteenth birthday party Sunday December 2 at their cabin on the Pedernales River near Stonewall Co hosts were sister and her husband Mr and Mrs Leonard Brieden of San Antonio The afternoon featured games singing and dancing with music by the father on a concertina and Rev R J Gronle on guitar A hot dog supper followed and about 45 guests attended including members of St Mary's senior class and Rev Gronle their religion teacher
Mr and Mrs Bobby Loth of Del Rio welcomed a baby girl named Susan Frances on November 16 weighing 8 1 2 pounds. She joins brothers Bobby 3 and Kenneth. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Robert Loth and Mr and Mrs Joe Fey. Great grandmother is Mrs August Woerner. The baptism occurred December 2 with sponsors A J Loth and Mrs Frank Schmidt, proxy for Mrs Schmidt.
Six newborns reported from local hospitals this week by families including Weed of Fredericksburg Ricardo Uballe of Blanco Collette Hoppe of Johnson City Mason Holt of Mason and Paul Uballe of Blanco. The births include three boys Terry Wayne Ricardo and a Mason boy and three girls and Collette and a Blanco girl. Weights range from six pounds fourteen ounces to nine pounds three and a half ounces with dates from November 28 to December 5.
Fredericksburg FFA teams excel in area and district events. The Land and Soils Judging team placed third in the Area 7 contest at San Marcos with members Albert Usener Duane Jobes Elgin Schneider and Dan Wade Crenwelge. The FFA Quiz team won first with James Rode Mark Reed Clayton Grona and Kenneth Sagebiel. Mark Reed was high individual. Parliamentary Procedure and Chapter Conducting contests saw first year students place third in Hill Country District Leader ship contests held at Boerne. Team members included James Weinheimer George Walker Stephen Friedrich Ben Ellebracht Peter Jacoby David Ketron and Phillip Pressler guided by Robert Siford.
The District 7 Gold Star Banquet will be held in San Angelo on December 12 with a local delegation attending. Laverne Duecker and Lyle Dean Spaeth, Gillespie County Gold Star 4-H winners, will receive Gold Star pins shaped like a Texas map with a central star.
The Jaycees announce a public event to entertain attendees and raise money for a worthy cause. Tickets cost 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children, inviting the community to attend and enjoy a good time while supporting the effort.
Mr and Mrs Milton Petermann returned from Dallas where she attended the Texas Division Annual Meeting of the American Cancer Society Crusade on November 28 and 29 They were guests of Mr and Mrs Walter McKay who showed them Dallas places of interest Suoseriee to the Standard.
Among those undergoing operations in local hospitals during the past week were George Bradley and Mrs. Marlin Althaus of Fredericksburg Leandro Elizondo of Stonewall and Mrs. Dwight Smith of Boerne.
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