Greene Post Office cutbacks protest petitions circulates
Greene Commercial Club approves petitions protesting mail service reductions at the Greene Post Office and future cutbacks. The effort aims to alert residents by placing notices in local stores and calls for action against reduced hours Sundays and holidays and possible rural delivery elimination. Louis Downing leads class reunion search and Perry Larson address. Kingery reunion set for June 27 at Ackley Conservation Park with potluck.
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Greene Post Office
Postal Department
Louis Downing
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Perry Larson
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Kingery
Ackley Conservation Park
Marble Rock
Local League Teams and Schedule Highlight District Games
Dodgers Cardinals Giants Twins Orioles Cardinals clash set for June 23 with 6:15 and 8:30 starts, plus a July and July 20 slate. Summer reading program at Greene Public Library invites Grades 2 to 6 to join the Bicentennial effort and earn a commemorative bookmark.
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Cardinals
Ormvies
Red Sox
Giants
Twins
Orioles
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Greene Public Library
Schoneman Rites Held For Frank E. Schoneman
Frank E. Schoneman 61 died Tuesday at his Allison home. Services were at St. James Lutheran Church at 1 30 PM with burial in Allison Cemetery where military rites were given. Survivors include his wife Alvera two daughters Mrs Charles Wubbena Waterloo and Mrs Dave Mongin Green Bay Wis three sisters Mrs Bernard Faught Charles City Mrs Wayne White Nashua and Mrs Russell Frascht Charles City three brothers Richard Clarksyn Bill St Ansgar and Randall of Allison. Vogel Funeral Home in charge
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Allison
St. James Lutheran Church
Schoneman
Alvera
Charles Wubbena
Waterloo
Dave Mongin
Green Bay
Wis
Bernard Faught
Charles City
Wayne White
Nashua
Russell Frascht
Richard
Clarksynl'Bill
Kenyon rites held Thurs for Theodore Kenyon
Funeral services for Theodore Kenyon 69 of Marble Rock were held Thursday June 17 at Reid's Funeral Chapel with burial at Hillside Cemetery. Rev. Carroll Robinson officiated. Kenyon born April 1 1907 in Norwich New York died June 14 at Good Shepherd Nursing Home Mason City. Survived by wife Bertha Marble Rock one stepson LaVerne Smith Marble Rock and four stepdaughters Lyla Truex Opal Ackley Alma Jean Hinrichsen Shirley Herman all Marble Rock plus a sister and brother in New York.
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Marble Rock
Reid
Hillside Cemetery
Carroll Robinson
Mr. Kenyon
Norwich
New York
Good Shepherd
Mason City
Bertha
LaVerne Smith
Carl
Lyla) Truex
Myron
Opal) Ackley
Mervin
Alma Jean) Hinrichsen
Earl
Shirley
Herman
Greene
Class of 1926 reunion at Round Grove Golf Club
Greene High School’s Class of 1926 marked their 50th reunion on June 5 at Round Grove Golf & Country Club. Eighteen of 35 members attended, with many local and former residents listed. Herman Stubbe presided as Master of Ceremonies, Wilbur Tindall led the invocation and memorial service for deceased classmates.
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Greene High School
Round Grove Golf & Country Club
Ray Swab
Beulah Kingery
Glendale
Calif
Harlan Swab
Marvel Kingery
Mason, Mich
Fred Fitchbourne
Marguerite Zeller
Fortune, Mont
G. R. Balderson
Florence Merrick
Keosauqua
Ed Folkerts
Elsie Hurd
Rudd
Albert Allen
Faith Roebrick
Marble Rock
Henry Beguelin
Ventura
Galen Gerhard
Indian Harbour Beach
Fla
Alfred McWilliams
Aredale
Carlton Teeple
Waterloo
Kenneth Wilson
Sioux City
Clark Moser
Lucy Meek
Erik Anderson
Grace Miller
Herman Stubbe
Wilbur Tindall
Kids Races Set For July Fourth Celebration
The Beta Sigma Phi Greene Commercial Club sponsor Fourth of July Kids Races on Monday July 5 at 9 30 a m on the high school football field. Races for ages 3 to 12 award cash prizes to the top three finishers. Afternoon events include canoe and raft races, free watermelon and fireworks at Perrin Park.
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Beta Sigma Phi & the Greene Commercial Club
Perrin Park
Senior Girl Scouts Paper Drive This Saturday
The Senior Girl Scouts will pick up papers this Saturday June 26 and ask for curb collection by 10 a.m. Acceptable: boxes bags or tied bundles. A marked vehicle will serve rural residents at Pooley Lumber Co parking lot. Collected papers go to Harold's Service Center near Nashua to be turned into insulation.
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Pooley Lbr. Co
Harold’s
Nashua
Infant Allen Wheat Committal Services Held
Graveside committal services were held Tuesday morning at Sunnyside Memory Gardens in Charles City for Allen Wheat infant son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Wheat who died at birth. Survivors include his parents, maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Francis Brinkman, paternal grandmother Mrs Pearl Wheat, maternal great grandmother Mrs Rosa Brinkman. Hauser Funeral Home handled arrangements.
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Sunnyside Memory Gardens
Charles City
Allen Wheat
M&M
Kenneth Wheat
Francis Brinkman
Pearl Wheat
Rosa Brinkman
Hauser Funeral Home
Bicentennial Mass Choir Rehearsals Scheduled
The Bicentennial mass choir will rehearse each Wednesday at 8 p.m. at St. James Lutheran Church Educational Unit. Participants from Allison, Greene and Clarksville area are asked to meet at 7 30 p.m. for the skit.
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St. James Lutheran Church
Allison, Greene & Clarksville
Greene girls rally to take 7th in tourney and stun Nashua
The Ramblerettes totaled 75 runs in five games while allowing 85, posting 2 wins and 3 losses. Bev Brinkman earned her third conference win, homering and driving in three as Laura Harris hit a three run shot in a late rally to beat Nashua 27 20. On Thursday they faced Allison in the first round of the tournament.
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Ramblerettes
Nashua
Greene gals
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Laura Harris
Allison
Greene Public Library Teen Board Members 1975 76
The Greene Public Library Teen Board list shows Seniors Deb McGee Barry Delp. Juniors Veronica Merfeld Steve Nordmeyer. Sophomores Vonnie Heitland Phil Wahlgren. Freshmen Cathy Stephenson Duane Pitcher. New seniors retire next year. two freshmen will join. Deb McGee three years on board. Vonnie Heitland two years.
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Greene Public Library
Deb McGee
Barry Delp
Veronica Merfeld
Steve Nordmeyer
Vonnie Heitland
Phil Wahlgren
Cathy Stephenson
Duane Pitcher
Allison Roughs Up Greene In Marathon Invitational
Allison exploded for five runs in the first inning and seven more in the third to build a big lead before Greene rallied with two in the first and nine in the third to close to one at 12-11. Walks and errors in the sixth sealed Greene’s fate as Allison won. Bev Brinkman took the loss after a 3 for 4 day and three RBIs including a third inning triple. Laura Harris added two doubles.
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Allison
Greene
Bev Brinkman
innning
Laura Harris
Dawn Landers Wins 12th Grade Poetry Contest
Dawn Landers of Greene placed first in Grade 12 at the annual 1976 Iowa Poetry Day Assoc. contest. Teacher Mrs. Barnhart assisted. Her poem will be published in the association brochure of poems to be released at the Oct 16 Cedar Rapids convention.
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Dawn Landers of
Greene
Iowa Poetry Day Assoc
Barnhart
Iowa Poetry Day
Assoc
Cedar Rapids
Jim Schroeder Celebrates 30 Years in Greene Concrete Business
Jim D. Schroeder marks three decades with Schroeder Concrete in Greene. He began in 1946 with Andrews Concrete, bought the Greene firm in 1959, expanding from two 2 cubic yard mixers to seven 7 cubic yard trucks. The company sells redi mix to private and contractor customers and also performs installations. Schroeder and his sons Bruce and Dan run the business, with Bruce as redi mix plant manager and Dan leading the construction crew. The firm pours basements with brick patterns and handles footings walls and floors as a three day job, serving a 250 mile radius. Schroeder, his wife Mary, and daughter Jan are active in Greene church and community groups.
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Jim D. Schroeder
Schroeder Concrete
Schroeder
Andrews Concrete
Paul Beguelin
Greene Recorder
Bruce
Dan
Air Force
Jim
Mary
Jan
Cowallis
Oregon
Oregon State University
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