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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1961
Page
2
Memorial day visits and gatherings filled Malvern and nearby towns as families from Broken Bow Hastings and Aurora joined relatives. Visitors included Verna Bennett Lena White and multiple local residents with dinners, letters and hospital updates noted along with several weekend trips to Sioux Falls Maquoketa and Ames.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday May 41 at 2 20 p m at Mansfeld Funeral Home for Elmer S Malcom. Casket bearers included Mike Heaton Louis Miller Ray Horn Max Tashner Elmer Edlund and Harold Met. Interment was in Malvern Cemetery with Crown Lodge Mason rites. The life sketch notes birth August 1 1911 in Farragut moving to Carson Henderson Randolph area, marriage to Beulah Madison October 12 1940, and death May 29 1951 in Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs after a long illness. Survivors include Beulah, daughter Shirley, son David, mother Edith Malcom, sisters Bernice Bennett Ruth Bennett, brothers William and Carl, and many relatives.
Mesdames Leon Lemonds Ed Pipurn Jerry Maher and Charles Hall hosted a church bridal shower May 23 at 7 30 p m honoring Miss Barbara Potter. Pencil games entertained guests as Lorie Wortman Susan Wood Katy and Carol Hall assisted with guesses. Out-of-town visitors came from Shenandoah and Denver with local calls from Yor White and H L Nims home visits by LaVern Francis and Ula Francis Chavarria of Denver.
Oaks Mission Circle met at the Oaks Community Church to discuss the upcoming June installation of new officers. Women, prayers, and lessons on Mothers of the Bible were shared among 13 attendees, with refreshments served after.
A series of social visits and gatherings noted around Red Oak and nearby towns. Families from Red Oak, Treynor, Lincoln, Seward, Missouri Valley, Griswold and Griswold shared Sundays and weekends with relatives such as the Stream, Warren, Brammeier, Oleson, Viner, Brammeier, Neighbors, and Castor clans, plus the Osborns.
Mrs Glinton Parker reports community news from Wesley Chapel and Henderson. Visitors include Danny Shaw and Steven from Chicago staying with Nyren and Shaw families. several families attended the alumni banquet in Henderson. Memorial services at Wesley Chapel cemetery and a Russia trip talk by Rev Waterman drew a crowd.
Readers report a Wesley Chapel WSCS executive committee gathering at Mrs. Ben Wilson’s home on Wednesday morning. The narrative lists attendees including Lyla Agell, multiple Nyren and Wilson family members, and Rev Rowe, noting graduation exercises at Emerson and various social visits around the Malvern and Council Bluffs area. Paul Nyren and Lyla Asell were graduates. post-ceremony hospitality followed. Additional social and community visits are recorded among Macomb, Lanyon, Clifton Hill, and Silver City residents.
Open house honored visiting guests from London and Omaha at the Morris Evans home in Red Oak. Local families hosted Sunday dinners and attended Tarkio College alumni events while others joined a Baudette fishing trip and a Council Bluffs trip for high school and commencement activities.
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