Speaking Out About Christmas Traditions and Family
In a reflective holiday reminiscence the author contraste a frenzied gift rush with a father who shops Christmas Eve to avoid duplication. He recalls guiding his dad’s gifts for his mother and a humorous loophole of buying his dad’s present, while celebrating family trees and the warmth of a nostalgic Southern Illinois Christmas. The piece ends with wishes for a merry Christmas and a hopeful 1969.
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Dad
Mom
John
Richard
Mary
Sam
Forestry Club
Southern Ilinois University
Southernlinois
Avery
Dairy Princess Ready for Holidays and County Gifts
Peggy Stefanik thanks readers for get well wishes and notes her absence from the Swiss Lim burger meeting on December 14 1968. She praises Kathy Zimmerli who filled in as Green County Dairy Princess and urges support for the Ag Chest and county promotion through dairy products and Christmas gifts. She wishes a blessed holiday season and a happy new year.
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Green County
Kathy Zimmerli
Kathy
Ag Chest
Peggy Stefanik
Burnette Rear 71 Argyle dies after illness
Funeral services for Burnette Rear 71 of Route 2 Argyle were held at 2 p.m. Monday in Argyle Lutheran Church with Rev. Lyman Oman officiating. Burial in Woodland Cemetery. Rear a lifelong Argyle resident and farmer livestock dealer survived by wife Edna Hendrickson two daughters two sons two brothers three sisters and 13 grandchildren. Erickson Funeral Home of Argyle handled arrangements.
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Burnette Rear
Argyle
St. Clare
Argyle Lutheran Church
Lyman Oman
Woodlawn
Erickson Puneral
Mr. Rear
Adams ‘Township
Green County
Mrs. Duvis of Janesville Widow of 70 Years
Mrs. Duvis, longtime Janesville resident and First Lutheran Church member, died aged with survivors including two sons Stanley and Donald both of Janesville, three daughters Mrs Russell Hall, Mrs Ralph Rye, and Mrs Edward Myers, a brother Lewis Paulson, and two sisters Mrs John Mapes and another listed in the fragment.
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Janesville
Russell Hall
Ralph Rye
Ava Jon
Edward Myers
Cherry Valley
Ill
Lewis Paulson
Orfordville
John Mapes
Mrs Anna Duoss 89 Dies After Long Illness
Native of Blanchardville Anna Duoss 89 of Route 1 Janesville died Sunday in a Janesville hospital after a long illness. She was born Anna Paulson and married Andrew Duoss in 1905. He died in unclear record.
Janesville Family Mourns. Two Funeral Services Planned
Obituary notes Janesville resident Mrs. Mattie Zimmer and 15 grandchildren plus 10 great grandchildren. Funeral services set for Tuesday at First Lutheran Church in Janesville with call periods at Wolfgram Funeral Home. A second service Thursday in Warren Michigan at Bartell Funeral Home with Rev. John Maxim officiating and burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Janesville
Mattie Zimmer
Boise
Ida
Pam
First Lutheran Church
Wolfgram Funeral Home
Monroe
Tell Funeral Home
Warren
John F. Maxim
Paul’s Lutheran Church
Elmywood
Christmas Day Home Invasion Report Describes Incident
A report notes a home in the area was entered after 7 p.m. on Christmas Day with authorities investigating the break in.
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Neral
Mrs Gilbertson Succumbs at 47 in Medford Home
Hazel Hagen Gilbertson 47 native of Lafayette County died unexpectedly at home in Medford on December 21. She was born March 12, 1921, daughter of Mrs. Goldie Hagen of Blanchardville and was married December 10, 1945 in Iowa to Harold Gilbertson. Survived by husband two sons John and James Medford two daughters Carol and Rosie Wyskoskie Medford her mother five brothers Elmer Hagen Gratiot Norman Richard Earl Blanchardville Melvin Warren Ill. and two sisters Mrs LeRoy Rood and Mrs Dean Hawkins The readable text ends abruptly.
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Lafayette County
Harold
Hazel) Gibertson
Medfor
Goldie Hagen
Blanchardville
Warren, Ill
Hazel Hagen
Mary
Iown
Harold Gilbertson
John
James
Medford
Miss Carol
Randall
Rosie
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