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Christmas Holiday Gatherings Across a Wide Network
The article lists numerous Christmas week visitations and meals across families in towns like Emerson Red Oak Malvern and Glenwood. It notes extended family connections including Bass Shull Bayes Bayes Seipold Hardy Jeffrey and others, with many hosting dinners and traveling between Iowa towns for the holidays. A correction clarifies that the Chantry pageant king was Uwe Richardson, not Hoover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Harold Hardy
Town City
Roy Bowling
Lakewood
Colo
Verlin Hardy
Delbert Sutton
Leo Stortenbecker
Silver City
Edythe Mackey
Richard Shore
Dale Shull
Jerry Hites
Glenwood
Eva Livasy
Dallas
Texas
J. P. Powell
Encino
Calif
Don Primrose
Vic Babbitt
Noval Lowe
Warner Watts
Mark Babbitt
Orville Babbitt
Joe la Sala
Warren Darrah
Howard Handleys
Nemaha
Nebr
Dean Binghams
Nevada
Dan Hertzers
Cambridge
Frank Darrah
Denver
Raymond Pontons
Virginia Kelso
Tom Nelson
Olympia
Wash
Bill Blackburn
Bill Jr
University of Iowa
Micheal Blackburn
Abby
Bill Cardwell
Richard Cardwell
Des Moines
J. R. Cardwell
Ivan Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Chicago
Jack Hering
Jake Koonce
Co. Bluffs
Dennis Bartley
Jack Jammett
Larry Maynes
Jim Maynes
Art Sackett
Greenfield
Roy Dean Mansfield
Buddy Hertz
Pomona
Karl Hertz
Bud
Grace Seipold
Kenneth Siepold
Rodney
Doug Myers
Mary Skerrit
Phyllis Skerritt
Richard
Lawrence Jones
Max Radford
Jolene Young
United Methodist Church
John Waller
Red Oak
Edmundson Hospital
Bill Baer
IWCC
Clarinda
Neil Darrah
Lora Pearce
Malvern
Robert Schultz
Gregory Schultz
Ames
University
Fred Whitesides
Omaha
Mary Skerritt
John Ludeman
Linda
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Genevieve Payne
U. S
Bernard Spiker
Ft. Benning, Ga
Chantry School
Uwe Richardson
Hoover
Joe LaSala