Sunday Visitors Pack Social Round at Heims and Neighbors
Sunday visits span several farms and towns with gatherings at the Heims, Becker, Goedken, Catlett, Lahr, Trenkamp, Gadient, and Mohr households. Attendees include Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Hopkinton, Cascade, Dyersville, Petersburg, Shellsburg, LaPorte City, and Prairieburg families plus hospital note for Mr. Hunter. The Robert Mohrs bought the Tibbits home at auction and plan to move in soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Heims
Dick Heims
Brad
Cedar Rpids
Vince Seibold
Monticello
Connie
Harry McQuillen
Cascade
John Rogers
Clarence Shemmel
Farley
Kenny Becker
Gilbert Becker
Delhi
Jack Digmann
Bill Schlenkamp
Prairieburg
Bernard Goedken
Joe Catlett
Leslie
Bud) Freeze
Hopkinton
Mary Lahr
Clarence Lahr
Petersburg
Joe Felton
Mick Russ
Dyersville
Tom Oehler
George Turnis
James McGovern
Frank Trenkamp
Leon White
Richard
Florian Westemeier
Shellsburg
Frank Miller
Mary
Fred Hunter
Hunter
Iowa City Hospital
Mike McNally
Irvin Recker
Gerald Recker
Leo Schemmel
Loren Smith
Douglas
Larry
LaPorte City
Hans Mohr
Robert Mohr
Robert Mohrs
Anna Tibbits
Birthday Pinochle Party Hosts Range of Local Guests
Castle Grove hosts honor of Mrs. Wayne King of Martelle with a pinochle party and birthday observance. Guests include the Peck, Soper, Reth, Kromminga, Ulferts, Dahl, and King families among others. Awards went to Soper and Reth for high, Ulferts and Kromminga for low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
Wayne King
Martelle
Glen Soper
Herman Reth
Louie Ulferts
Richard Kromminga
Orlyn Peck
Ben Eiben
Arnold Jacobs
Garth Grafft
Marion
Glen King
Louis Ebel
Williamsburg
George Bonjour
Olin
Olin Howie
Debbie
Patsy
Delmar King
Keith
Karen
Mary
Kenny
Bob Black
Harry Reth
Guttenburg
Darwin Hardersen
Don
Anamosa
Marengo
Max Specht
Daniel
Don Anderson
Robert Holub
Sadler
Art Holub
Mrs. Takes
Francis Miller
May Muller
James White
Holy Week Services Gather Faithful Across Days
The schedule lists Good Friday service at Union Presbyterian Church and Easter events including UCYM sunrise service at 5 30 am Easter morning and 10 30 am Easter Service with special choir music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mounday
Union
Presbyterian Church
UCYM
Biography of the Pastor A Morris Lotte
The Rev A Morris Lotte was born in Marion Ohio and educated in Massillon Ravenna Oberlin. He was ordained in 1941 at Butte Montana and married Louise Peckham the same year. He served churches in Oregon Montana Denver Shenandoah Primghar Monticello and he and Mrs Lotte have two children Karen and Barbara.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Morris Lotte
Marion
Ohio
Massillon
Ravenna
Oberlin College and Seminary
Oberlin
Lotte
Butte
Montana
Louise Peckham
Cleveland
Oregon
Denver
Colo
Iowa
Primghar
Shenandoah
Monticello
Rey
Karen
Barbara
History of the First Congregational in Monticello
The First Congregational Church in Monticello began in 1860 with Rev. E. P. Kimball. It organized formally in September and was dedicated January 1868. The building cost four thousand dollars, funded by pledges and subscriptions. Notable leaders included Rev. Kimball, Rev. Warner, and Rev. Latte, with a growing, prosperous membership by 1904 and ongoing efforts for a public library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
E. P. Kimball
American Home Missionary Society
Congregational Church of
C. C. Walworth
Boston
Congregational Society
C. C. Warner
Latte
Church Officers Named in Local Cabinet List
The church cabinet includes Alfred Egger Henry Grape Mrs Chester Condit Mrs Cecil Goettsch Rex Ricklefs Mrs Guy Byerly Mrs Vernon Meier Mrs Robert Shipton Royal Hunt Mrs Ross Baty Mrs Chester Lang Cecil Goettsch Mrs Irvin Rhatigan Mrs Ji M Stott Mrs Arch Edwards Chester Condit Keith Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Egger
Henry Grape
Chester Condit
Cecil Goettsch
Rex Ricklefs
Guy Byerly
Vernon Meier
Robert Shipton
Royal Hunt
Ross Baty
Chester Lang
Irvin Rhatigan
Ji- M. T. Stott
Arch Edwards
Keith Lubbock
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holy Week
of the
First Congregational Church
Bowen's Prairie
Dubuque
Cass
Kimball
John White
White
Celeste E. Wales
Lyman P. Hoyt
Sarah Hoyt
Sarah Higby
J. Leach
Isaac Russell
S. A. Benton
J. D. Jones
J. K. Nutting
J. D. Bell
William Levitt
Loren Brintmall
D. Jenkins
C. A. Towle
J. T. Blanchard
W. L. Demorest
J. W. Davis
A. M. Case
M. A. Breed
J. A. Deutrick
Acme Electric
Arnold Poock, Borden's Milk Baty-Hoffman Insurance
Bud's Super Valu
Bud's Plumbing & Heating
Condit Insurance Agency
Corbett's Floral Shop
German Mutual Insurance Assn
Great Plains Supply CO
Harms Way
Hetzler-Copley Insurance Home Gas CO
Iowa Electric Light & Power
Jones County Farm Service CO
Jones County Oil CO
Chevrolet-Olds
Kuriger Brothers
Long's Drug
Long's Royal Blue
Mode O'Day
Auto Wreckers
Monty Cafe
Monticello Express
Monticello Impl
Monty Produce
Peoples Natural Gas
Poplar Heights Rem Electric Robinson Dairy School Implement
Seehusen Oil Company
Shomont Lumber Company
Skelley's Market
Spahn & Rose Lumber Co, Staner Heating & Plumbing Wears Inc
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!