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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1971
Page
6
A long list of visitors and family gatherings from Marion to Kirksville and Des Moines filled weekends and Sundays. Notably, the Woodwards hosted kin from Kansas City and Kirksville, while Annette Van Dorin visited grandparents. Other gatherings included Mrs. Sadie Railing’s hospital observation and multiple relatives attending services for Verna McAninch and Donald Plum in Albia.
Glennie Dicks attended Eastern Star in Moravia on Tuesday evening. Doris Christy attended the Moravia high Junior mothers meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs John Spencer and Bobby visited the Dick Brown home Wednesday evening. Shelly Rees of Knoxville spent last week with her grandparents and others of Moravia. Verna McAninch has died, and sympathy is extended to the family.
Local residents attend funerals weddings and visits over the weekend. Sibyl Whitehead helped hang an art exhibit in Moravia. Verna McAnnich was laid to rest with family present in multiple households. Guests include Russell Brown, Dick Brown, Clayton Sheldon, Truxton Dicks, Navin, Rees, Messamaker, and many others across Chariton West Des Moines Albia and What Cheer.
Lori spent Sunday evening at the Kenneth Calhoun home and Helen McAninch called on The resa Brown Monday morning, reflecting a quiet pattern of neighborhood visits.
The Mon roe Busy Maidens 4-H club met April 7 at the home of Wanda and Jean McFarland. Eight members answered roll call. The group voted to donate five dollars to CARE. Presentations on color themes and color wheel cues were given by Breda Johnson Gretchen Peterson and Marilyn Shelquist. Refreshments were served by Wanda Jean and their mother reporter Jane Zajec.
Mrs Burdett Cox reports a weekend of visits and birthday celebrations in UNION TWP. Local families including Main, Cox, Wright, Dommer, Logan, and McClure shared meals, a birthday picnic, and social calls across Osceola Ottumwa and Boone with relatives in Indiana and Vietnam veterans referenced.
James Miller in Moravia Monday evening. Jim Miller Nyle and Bill Underwood at the school. Mrs Burdett Cox and Nyle treated by a dentist in Centerville Wednesday morning. Mrs Cox spent day with Mrs Jim Logan and Steven. Nyle Cox and Kenneth Wright supper guests. Mrs Cox with Mae Harper Wednesday evening. Nyle and Kenneth worked at the schoolhouse. Mrs Cox was sick Thursday and Friday with visits to Mrs Harper. Mrs Curtis Tomlin joined for dinner Friday. Tomlin baked and decorated a cake for Mrs Harper's birthday. Mrs Raymond Lockman called. Tomlin Jill Lisa Sacco Mrs Burdett Cox Mrs Dale Cox Bryan Marla Kevin visited Saturday afternoon. Mrs Harper received gifts and many cards and calls for her birthday. Mrs William Tomlin also celebrating. Curtis called to see both mothers. Mary Joyce Mullins and fiancé visited Mr and Mrs C P Mullins Saturday. Mrs Burdett Cox spent Monday with Mr and Mrs Carl Cox and girls and called on Mrs Arthur Gifford in Moravia.
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