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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1963
Page
5
Schaetter Funeral Home of Fredericksburg handled arrangements for Gina Michelle They transported her body to Silsbee Texas near Groves for funeral services. She was the county s first rural road traffic victim for 1963. One other person died in a traffic accident on Main Street in the city.
The Edison Street Church announces its annual picnic at Oak Crest Park in the Grange Area on Sunday June 30. The program starts with Sunday school at 10 and worship at 10 30, with an old fashioned band concert directed by Carla Edge in the afternoon.
Fredericksburg unit Battery A 5th Battalion 133rd Field Artillery departs North Fort Hood at 6 am Sunday June 30 for a two week field training. Sixty three men and three officers join over 8000 Guardsmen from 98 Texas towns in the 36th Infantry Division for advanced individual training and intensified unit maintenance before returning July 14.
Perry Milton Pehl, son of Cle mens Pehl, represented the American Legion unit 244 at Boys State in Austin. He gave a detailed report at the membership meeting Friday night and auxiliaries joined the Legionnaires to seal the report. The post voted to contribute 10 dollars to the Summer Recreation Fund and postponed decisions on adding a store room until after November 11, 1963. Post officers for 1963 64 were elected: Kurt Kuhlmann commander Monroe Schuessier first vice commander Larkin Everett second vice commander Elgin A Friedrich adjutant Harry Land chaplain Leo Blanchard Sr service officer Walter Heinemann historian Eska McDougall finance officer Henry Kammlah sergeant at arms Roscoe McMahan child welfare chairman. Installations will take place at the July meeting which will include a social evening.
L H Reuwer was reelected president of the Gillespie County Unit of the American Cancer Society at a board meeting Tuesday morning. Officers named include Mrs Ernest Hodges vice president Mrs W A Nettle secretary and Perry Woerner treasurer. The county pledges rose from 1200 to 1800 for the Texas Honor Roll and volunteers raised 2512 86 plus 73 in memorials. The district and Texas overall exceeded quotas showing strong community support.
Ashley Wayne Klaerner son of Mr and Mrs Homer Klaerner was baptized Sunday June 23 at Zion Lutheran Church with Rev David Heidtke officiating Sponsors were Nathan Hannemann Elaine Crenwelge and Mrs James O Neil After noon friends visited the Klaerner home for cake and coffee Grandparents are Lillie Hannemann Ernest Hannemann and Mr and Mrs Chester Klaerner
Cheryl Behrends a 13 year old from Stonewall won the grand champion prize in the Peach Jam poster contest. First place winners from three divisions were recognized with cash and ribbons. Judges included Bill Hodges Clara Anderegg and H Welge Lewis.
William Albert Jackson son of Mr and Mrs Robert Jackson Brownsville died in an auto accident in Edmund Oklahoma on June 15 Funeral services were held in Brownsville on June 18 He is survived by parents grandmother an older brother and a high school companion Kenneth Copenhaver who were summer workers in Oklahoma They were Brownsville High School graduates earlier this month The Koenneckes attended the rites and returned home Keene Texas noted as a Seventh Day Adventist founded town with a Sunday post office.
Four Fredericksburg juveniles aged 11 to 15 were placed in parental custody after a County Court hearing on car theft charges. Deputies and police traced the crimes to a predawn spree involving two abandoned cars and a Jeep taken from a local business, with the youths admitting to prowlings and a wrecked vehicle. Names were not released due to juvenile status.
Girls named Gail Hermann Janice French Kathy Reichenau Vicky Reichenau Mary Lee Loudon Brendan Bierscwale Belinda Frerschwale and Pat Wynn attended the June 16 22 session of the Hermann Sons Youth Camp near Kerrville.
Miss Carol Weidenfeller was invested into the order of the Sisters of Divine Providence in a ceremony at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Lake Convent, San Antonio, on Friday June 21. She took the religious name Sister John Lorraine. Attending were her parents Mr and Mrs John Weidenfeller, her brother John Paul, and extended family from Little Rock Arkansas, San Antonio and Austin, along with several reverends and Miss Rose Sinkule.
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