Wellsburg couple marks 69th anniversary at farm home
Mr and Mrs Slebe Meyer celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary on April 1 near Wellsburg. Family members traveled from Kansas City to Des Moines and beyond for a noon dinner with children and grandchildren present. Relatives from Steamboat Rock Ames Des Moines and other towns sent greetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May
Slebe Meyer
Wellsburg
Rol Behr
Rick
Randy
Rhonda
Husty
Kansas City
di Meyer
Kansas ‘City
Harley Meyer
Phoenix
Ariz
Edward Meyer
Washington
Fred Widmann
Sandy
Waterloo
Gertie DeNeal
David Taffinder
Joe Boelman
Clarence Meyer
Cedar Falls
Keith DeNeuf
Des Moines
Milton DeNeuf
Shell Rock
James Wolfe
Minneapolis
Edward Mennenga
Gerhardt Kramer
Paul Eckhoff
Steamboat Rock
Bob
Amfane
Ames
Wellsburg Couple Marks 69 Years On Farm
Mrs. Martin Ross of Wellsburg and Clara Widmann of Waterloo celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary. Married April 1, 1903 by Rev. Thalken in Wellsburg, they have resided on the game farm west of Wellsburg their entire married life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Ross
Wellsburg
Clara Widmann
Waterloo
Slebe Meyer
Nantje Riekena
Thalken
Wel Ung
Arranging Course Begins April 19
The Modern American Flower Arranging course starts Wednesday April 19 in the Eldora First National Bank community room. Instructor is Mrs L N Hackett of Marshalltown. Cost is 10 dollars. Enrollees should bring a container pin holder notebook and branches of shrub plus early flowers. Call Glen Hinders at Eldora High School to enroll. Further information from Mrs Richard Bennett or Mrs Howard Frey of the Eldora Garden Club co sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Eldora
L. N. Hackett
Marshalltown
Glen Hinders
Eldora High School
Richard Bennett
Howard Frey
Eldora Garden Club
Eldora Library Receives New Album Shipment
The Eldora Public Library announces a shipment from the Iowa State Traveling Library featuring albums by Victor Borge Earl Wrightson Beatrice Lillie Odetta Peter Duchin Johnny Mathis Carl Smith Ferlin Husky Bob Dylan Bing Crosby Rosemary Clooney and others plus original cast recordings. A Easter egg hunt story hour drew children as the Easter bunny visited and Judy survives chaos hoping for more gatherings with 4 and 5 year olds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora Public Library
Iowa State Traveling Library
Victor Borge
Earl Wrightson
Beatrice Lillie
Odetta
Peter Duchin
Johnny Mathis
Carl Smith
Ferlin Husky
Bob Dylan
Bing Crosby
Rosemary Clooney
Peter O’toole
Katherine Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Art print collection dwindles with four on display
The column notes the art print collection has few pieces left on view with two more likely to be sold before publication. The writer urges readers to visit and reserve prints for home or office, hinting at a recent strong response and demand.
Local church schedules and Easter greetings in Hubbard area
Church notices list weekly activities at St John’s Lutheran Salem United Methodist Faith Evangelical, with pastors Lehlie McKinley Sargent and details for services, confirmation, youth events, choir gatherings, and prayers. Community members are named in Easter dinner and visit scenes from several households in Jewell and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, John's Lutheran
W. E. Lehlie
Church Council
Circle
Easter Sunday Dinner Guests Across Several Families
A village Easter round of family gatherings includes Mrs. Lydia Below hosting relatives, and many others from Alden, Garden City, and Ellsworth as well as Des Moines and Waterloo. Donated angel food cakes go to the Western Home from Salem church WSCS members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Harris
Monte
Mike
Mare
Cedar Falls
Richard Engelking
Becky Knudson
Marshalltown
Merlyn Engelking
Ronald
Sheryl
Marie Engelking
Vera Hanson
Iowa Falls
Blanch Stenberg
Jewell
Silas Hanson
Bill Maynard
Lester Hanson
Vincent Butler
Charles Robertson
Larry Smith
Town Falls
Vert Norem
Pat
Kurt
Cole
Eldon Balvanz
Heidi
Amanda
George
Stotser
George Balvanz
Linda Keller
New Hampton
Eldon Keller
David Ryerson
Tammy
Roxanne
Albuquerque
N. M
Herbert Neubauer
Joel
Walter Winter
Gary
Gus Dubberke
Story City
Lydia Dubberke
Esther Dubberke
Wits
Aly Berve
Pti
Dopal Nan Ee
Jay
Mra. Merrill
Julia Clark
Elldord
Fred Schrormeier
Dwight Clark
Déansada
Olson
Jan
Moline
Ifid Lehmeier
Alden
Waldo Below
Tracy
Eugene Zoske
Lydia
Sherman Stoke
Robert Rutzen
Clarence Tysdahl
Larry
Orlan Stolee
Garden City
Lydia Rutzen
Western
Esther Krueger
Edna Granner
WSCS
Salem United Methodist Church
Paul Sievert
Ted Sievert
Robert Marshman
Art Ziebell
Paul Ziebell
Ellsworth
the Manor Nursing Home
Leonard Penning
Wendell Eley
Zearing
Robert Fisher
David Fisher
Oswell Fisher
J. C. Gines
Basil Bachman
Robert Bachman
Kevin and
Kelly
Hannibal
Leo Hutchens
Des Moines
Dennis Bachman
Kimberly
Floyd Beasley
Eldora
Helen Barnes
Joe Conrad
New Providence
Keith Bachman
Adrian Bachman
Donna
Ruby Bailey
Floyd Bailey
Orville Zerka
Waterloo
New Life Theme at St John’s Easter Service
St John’s Lutheran Church observed Easter with the theme New Life. Vi car Wayne Brinkmann preached on Romans 6 4 and Lutherans Donald Gummert and Quane Gummert accompanied with trumpet as the hymn Jesus Christ is Risen Today Alleluia was sung. The sermon linked baptism to rebirth and the trumpet to Christ’s resurrection. Easter flowers like the daffodil and Easter lily were noted for their trumpet shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. John’s
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Wayne Brinkmann
Jesus
Donald Gummert
Quane Gummert
Christ
Dighton Awarded Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Service
Chief Master Sergeant Leo E. Dighton received the Bronze Star Medal and second Dark Leaf Cluster for meritorious service as Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, Tanker Branch, 307th Organizational Maintenance Squadron, 307th Strategic Wing, U Tapao Airfield Thailand. His leadership aided SAC efforts in Vietnam during 17 March 1971 to 17 March 1972.
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Leo E
Bud) Dighton
Add
Ed Dighton
Union
U Tapao
Thailand
Leo E. Dighton
307Th
307Th Strategic Wing
U-Tapao Airfield
Dighton
Strategic Air Command
Vietnam
Dighten
Easter Services and Church Activities Recorded
The Watched Wellsburg Reformed Church reports music by organist Mrs Herman Harms and a solo by Mrs Wayne Brinkmann. The children’s choir, including Jeff Cross and Cheryl Fairbanks, performed Come, O Children, Sing to Jesus. Easter banner proclaimed He Lives. Church groups met in early April and plans for a second teachers’ training session and a Russian broadcast lecture at Ap lington Reformed Church were announced with open invitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Harms
Wayne Brinkmann
Jesus
Jeff Cross
Paul de Neuf
Cheryl Fairbanks
Keith Murra
Mike Fairbanks
Ronnie Hippen
Linda Hippen
Tammy Hippen
Wellsburg Reformed Church News
Washington
First Reformed Church
Aplington
DeKock
World’s Smallest Gospel Singer to perform at Union Church
Lowell Mason known as the World’s Smallest Gospel Singer will give a 60 minute concert of gospel and sacred music at Union Church of Christ on Thursday April 13 at 7 30 p m Pastor Maurice Hinds says Mason who stands 46 inches tall is recording for Crusade Records and is the featured soloist for Revival Fires He will be joined by his wife and three children for the program and a closing Revival Fires ministry report will be presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Mason
Union Church of Christ
Maurice Hinds
Mason
Crusade Records
Service career praised in Air Force visit to Union
The excerpt notes a respected airman reflecting great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force. It mentions the 22nd year of service for Dighton and records that his wife and daughter Janet accompanied him on visits to Union and Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Air Force
Dighton
Janet
Union
Florida
Complete 10 Day TM Trip To New Maddoo
Twenty four Salem United Methodist Church youth fellowship members of Hubbard travel by bus with chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Faust and others for a 10 day mission to Espanola New Mexico. They will clean and renovate an abandoned cemetery and visit Eisenhower Museum Bandelier National Park Los Alamos Atomic Energy Plant Flying W Ranch Air Force Academy and Denver Mint before returning to Hubbard on April 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem United Methodist. Church of Hubbard
Marvin Faust
Gene Bunte
Dorothy Faust
Nancy Gelhaus
United Methodist
Espanola
New Mexico
Eisenhower Museum
Abilene
Kans
Cliff
Bandelier National Park
Atomic Energy Plant
Los Alamos
Flying W
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
U. S. Mint
Denver
Hubbard
Hinds Daughter to Lead Choir on Spring Midwest Tour
Holly Hinds, daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Faurlee Hinds of Une Ida, a member of the Choralists at Nebraska Christian College in Norfolk, Nebraska, begins a tour April 19 that will pass through Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
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Holly Tings
Ant
Faurlee Hinds
Uneida
Chotalewrs
Nebraska Christian College
Norfolk
Nebr
Sro
Iowa
Midedurf
Llinois
Wisconsin
Lee
Nebraska
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Larson's and
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D-X
Ford
Ing
Walioday Star
Hubbard News
Crosley
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Paul F. McKinley
Jr. Hi & Sr. Hi
First United Methodist Church
Fort Dodge
Faith Evangelical Church
LeRoly Sargent
East Lane’ Manor
Teaveby
Douglas Geerdes
Crosley Farm
Walleye Pike
Steamboat Rock Cafe
Steamboat Rock, Iowa
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Maddoo
Wessie Painting & Decorating
ECONO
Watson’s
Watson Drug
Russ Harvey Autoland, Inc
Pontiac Motor Division
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