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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1971
Page
5
In Moundsville West Virginia inmates at the state penitentiary raised nearly 1300 to buy gifts for 11 teens at the Marshall County Child Shelter. Nancy Clark organized the drive with help from prison staff and the Moundsville Jaycee chapter. Each teen received clothing and a watch.
Obituaries report Joe Albert Lehr 68 of Monroe died 1 25 pm while shopping with his wife. Also noted George Sickinger 67 of Mill Valley California and infant Cindy Lou Bauman stillborn in Juda. Mae Martin 84 of Lafayette County died in Phoenix with funeral in Kenosha.
Mrs Theda May Browntown and Mr and Mrs William Butts of Rockford Illinois plan a Dec 26 move to Port Rickey Florida. Holiday guests include Frieda Renter and James DeMeter Lena Illinois and Donald Browntown. Mrs Mary Blodgett returns from Ft Wayne. Mamie Stark dines with Mrs William Hexom South Wayne. Terry May Monroe visits M V Millers and Mary Blodgett.
Mrs. Louisa Steffen, a 78 year old Monroe resident, recounts Swiss holiday traditions including bratzelis rosettes and bierabrot. Her life spans 1893 Portland birth through ownership of the City Hotel and multiple Swiss dishes during wartime meat points. She now cooks for family as four children ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren are cited. Police in Windsor hunt for suspects in the Royal Bank of Canada heist with about 950000 still missing and several suspects in custody.
Lt. David Deininger and wife Mary Carol with sons Jonathan and David visit their Monroe relatives until Dec 27 before his three month sea duty on the USS John Marshall. The couple hosts a birthday joke at a Dec dinner and neighbors share local notes about peanut brittle houses and snow postcard questions.
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