Years Gone By reminiscences and local notes
Local items recall milestones from 5 10 and 25 years ago in Monticello Center Junction and surrounding areas. Ralph Husmann becomes Walnut Grove rep. hearings on Milwaukee tracks abandonment. kindergarten cutbacks. 1961 and earlier dates noted with weddings births business moves and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Husmann
Center Jet
Walnut Grove
People's Natural Gas Division
Northern Natural Gas Company
Omaha
Federal Power Commission
Matilda Schneider
Noble Grand
Loyal Rebekah Lodge
Monticello
Sacred Heart School
Center Jct
Panthers at Independence and area community events week
Local notes list sports schedule with Panthers facing Independence and Manchester, plus civic and social gatherings at Monticello Anamosa and surrounding communities. Entries include youth games, Scout meetings, Navy recruiters, Rotary, fire department, square dancing, and club activities with several family and community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Monticello
Gold Star
American Legion Auxiliary
Frank Williams
Birthday and social visits noted in Monticello area
AMBER Mr and Mrs Art Handle Cammie and Mark returned to their Oseola Michigan home Feb 9 after visiting Geo Siebels Amber and Mrs A Handle Anamosa. Anne Plueger Debra Streeper helped Vickie Freese celebrate her seventh birthday with friends and relatives including Henry Freese Amber Edwin Freese Scotch Grove Elmer Zumbach Manchester. Further visits from Henry Freese Monticello Hayo Tobiason Jay Joslin Bill Steinbock Geo Siebels WmT Jansen Amber and Carl Harms Monticello were recorded along with others present Ed Helgens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amber
Art Handle
Cammie
Mark
Oseala
Mich
Geo Siebels
A. E. Handle
Anamosa
Anne Plueger
Debra Streeper
Vickie Freese
Vickie
Theodore Freese
Freese
Vickie Lea
Henry Freese
Edwin Freese
Scotch Grove
Elmer Zumbach
Manchester
Hayo Tobiason
Monticello
Jay Joslin
Weekend Guests and Local Birthdays in Jackson County
Weekend visitors gathered at Fred Buckholtz home including the Darrell Buckholtz family and Mrs Darrell Buckholtz parents Mr and Mrs Louie Peters. Monday birthday dinner honored Fred Buckholtz with the Glen Westphal family Lena Buckholtz and Walter Holtz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Holtz
Kenny Somerville
Robert Somerville
Bill Somerville
James Huffman
Gladys Snyder
Lyle Huffman
Ronald Holtz
Hawthorne Club
Robert Alden
Midland Community School
Brian Reade
Kay Bronson
Connie Wilsler
Jeanne Hodgden
Fred Buckholtz
Darrell Buckholtz
Manly
Louie Peters
Swalesdale
Don Buckholtz
Glen Westphal
Duane Buckholtz
Donnie Carstensen
Lena Buckholtz
Walter Holtz
Onslow
Ralph
Dorothy) Eggert
Jackson County Hospital
Maquoketa
Henry Hansen
St Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Kristy Petersen
Ed Zabokotsky
Walker
Chris Hansen
Florence Mortensen
American Legion Auxiliary
Laverne (Ann) Bremer
Monmouth
Des Moines
Ray Martensen
Fred Buckhorn
Paul Rohwedder
George Dusanek
Harold Marshall
George Brookover
Community Networking With Local Families Across Buck Creek
Social visitors and weekend guests fill multiple households in Buck Creek and nearby towns. The gatherings include Kinfolks from Dundee Anamosa Cedar Rapids and Marion with dinners, calls, and birthday celebrations reported through the week.
Weekend Social Guests Include Local Families
Mrs. Junior DeShaw and family and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weber and baby visited. Attorney and Mrs. Kenneth Keith and family of Ottumwa spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miles. Mrs. Lew Keith joined the Sunday dinner. Mrs. Dan Flanagan hosted guests including sisters-in-law Mesdames Pat, Jay, Lyle and Jim Flanagan, Ann Herron of Chicago, a Delta air hostess, who spent Tuesday with sister Mrs. Eugene Wuchter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Creek
Bob Garner
Phil King
Kenneth Sheppard
Lloyd Andrea
Jlin
Carrie Sheppard
Dundee
Elmer Sheppard
Frank West
Jimmie
Cedar Rapids
Roy Dighton
Maurice Thompson
Don Corll
John King
John Stimpson
Anamosa
Bernard Thompson
Regina
the Stimpsons
Thompsons
Roy Havens
Paul Green
Glen Thompson, Jr
Herman Dolley
Schreiner Chapter
O.E.S
Monticello
Darwin Green
Todd
Poplar Heights
Loras Kehoe
C. J
Lester
North Hunt
Justin Supple
Kathy
Connie
Pat
Paul Supple
Marion
Mary Supple
Art Weber
Junior DeShaw
Donald Weber
Kenneth Keith
Ottumwa
Archie Miles
Lew Keith
Dan Flanagan
Mesdames
Pat, Jay, Lyle
Jim Flannagan
Ann Herron
Chicago
Delta
Eugene Wuchter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Earl L. Wahl
Savage
Dolan Clinic
Edward G. Buol
Dewain Fluckiger
John Hein
Henry Prult
Wilfred Kramer
Doris Otten
Otto Otten
Catherine C. Gross
Lyle E. Ridenour
Catherine Hosch
Gilbert Becker
Walter S. Eby
Scotch Grove Township
John L. Prouty
Eby’s
Mar l L
A. T. Madsen
Ford Agency
X-Ray Childress
L. E. Hoag
Mr. Madsen
John Boss, Jr
Fort Des Moines
Sikeston
Burton McLaughlin
Bud Hauss
New Orleans
Cy Bert
Diamond Creamery
Gottlieb Bader
Hall Mfg. Co
Messers Walter
Albert Kiburz
Kansas City
Miss Hazard
Ernest Landis
First Street
Cao Ae Eee
Ar Ann
Panthers
Independence
Central School
Carpenter School
SCS
Neil Sexton
Monticello Conservation League
U.S. Air Force
Rebekah Lodge
IOOF
Knights of Pythias
K of P
Knights of Columbus
Monticello Community Building
Iowa
Pythian
Jones County Conservation Board
Bert Hubbard
Geo Rickels
John Otten
Wi B. Hinricks
Carl Schoon
Herman Helgens
Herman Harms
Ray Poppe
Merle Jacobson
W. B. Zimmerman
WM. Jansen
Adolph Schoon
Iowa City
Stewart Jansen
Alvan Weers
Wm. T. Jansen
Henry Weers
Henry Rink, Jr
Kenneth Husmann
Langworthy
Dena Dirks
Merle Jansen
Don Ketelsen
Wayne Zion Brotherhood
John Osterkamp
Clarence Herren
Everett Engelbart
Legion Auxiliary
Wayne Hall
Oxford Jet
Carol Balichek
Louie Balichek
Borden's
Arnold H. Poock
Fordens Dairy Products
Olin
Wyoming
Ford Fairlane
Ford
FDA
Freese Motor Company
Moll
FFA
Beyer Aviation
TINTS
Dubuque, Iowa
Country Gentlemen Band
Prairiemoon Ballroom
Prairieburg
St. John’s Lutheran Church
William Schildbach
Warsaw
Illinois
of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
LEE
Stuhlers Salute
Future Farmers
Ron Rogers Allen Alferts
Tom Aitchison
Merle Gerdes
Jim Bull
Dfane
Zumbrunner
John Zoller
Stuhler
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