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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1955
Page
3
Evening of Tuesday gatherings and visits across Enon and nearby towns. Families including Followwills, VanDorins, Fabers, Tur ner, and Hawks shared birthday celebrations, dinners, and farm and park outings with relatives and friends from Belmond, Bakersfield, Adel, Ottumwa, and Moravia. Several trips to see kin, attendance at Farm Bureau, and a hospital visit accompany the local social round over the week.
In Kirksville Mo Sunday residents hosted gatherings at multiple homes. Families including the Lockman and Burnette Ward households, J T VanDorin, Flora Jones, R B Faber, Leo and Albert McCombs, Art McCombs, Marvin Vance, Mary Fisher, and Gene Judge all shared visits, ice cream, and companionship. The note mentions 4-H activities and visits from Des Moines guests.
Des Moines workers Marvelee Mikels visited family while Sylvia Callen traveled to Iowa City for medical care diagnosed as Parkinson's disease. Centerville hospital stays for Martha Coulson followed by nursing home transfer. Community visits included Theo Miller and family hosting, birthday observance for Dwight Hiatt, and planning trips to Colorado from Newton.
A string of visitor and family drop ins across Aubrey Christy, Elaine Christy, Barbara Christy, and related households highlighted days from Monday to Sunday. Des Moines, Numa, Albia, and Osceola connections tied to Christy, Landgrebe, Rinehart, Over turf, and Nash families with dinners, calls, and attendances at community events and ice cream social.
Maple Grove society column lists visits and gatherings among local families. Mr and Mrs Bill Wilson and family spent Tuesday at Delbert Love’s home. Don Ahee and family visited Ralph and Clell McDanel’s. Lyndon McDanel called at McDanel’s. Clair and Bud Tadlock households hosted, and Bud Walter and Mearl Walter families shared Sunday dinner. Nancy and Donna Tomlin traveled to Waterloo to stay with Rex Tissue.
Mr and Mrs Basil Tedlovke and family were supper guests at the Bob Wilson home. Delia, Mectory and Gene Skinner of Ottumwa fed at the Gabe Jennean home. Sharon Walter returned from Perry after visiting her aunt. Curtis Tomlin hosted birthday gatherings with Harold Hawk and family and Kenneth Free and family. Freeman Hoover visited Ottumwa hospital to see nephew David Steel who has polio. Girls’ evening at W H VanDorin. Bernard Hayes hosted Sunday dinner with Bill Cummings family. Other guests included Mae Mineers Seat Mt Citton and Keith Arnall. Robert Clark family at Bud McDanel home. noon callers Daphne Hilton Homer Weldon Dwight Coop Shirley Townsend. Fldine and Charles Tadlock at Grant Tadlock Home. Bill Wilson traveled to Ottumwa. Sheila and Diane at W H VanDorin home. Melvin Hux and baby of Hetendorf spent Thursday with Don Rhee family. Freeman Hoover also mentioned.
Sunday dinner guests at the Frank Hoover home included relatives and Lyle Hoover en route to Puerto Rico. Numerous callers visited Bud McDanel and family, with Mrs. Jennie Kinnamon visiting her daughter’s family, and others at Gabe Johnson, W. H. VanDorin, Lloyd Beatty, and Roe Ahee homes.
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