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Birthday greetings and local notes from Lavenham
The Lavenham News wishes Barbara Bedford a happy birthday on June 12. The paper reports a May 29 death of Mrs. John Fisher in Portage hospital, with funeral details and burial at Rossendale cemetery led by Rev. Ian Harland. It lists visitors, local visits, a field day at Elkhorn, schoolteacher Georgina Painter, and various community updates including Mr. George Aikens medical care, construction work by I. Friesen, and a flood of casual social news from Portage la Prairie, Treherne, and surrounding areas.
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Barbara Bedford
Portage Hospital
John Fisher
Wes Henry
Albert
Eleanor
Vancouver
Rossendale
Lavenham Rossendale
Ian Harland
Morley
Derek Aikens
Butler
Manitoba
Georgina
George Aikens
Winnipeg
Regina Ernie Aikens
Ralph Ackerman
Rev I. Harland
Wilbert Aikens
Russia
C. Dobbin
Hugh Lounsbury
Treherne
Florence
George Blagden
Ernie Aikens
Portage
Ernie
Regina
Aikens
Deere Lodge Hospital
Tribune
Ethel Woods
Blanche
Oakville
Jack Gibb
Phil Henry
McFayden Seed Co
Snowden
Sask
Choiceland