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New Hope Highlights Local Visits and Births
Genevie Donovan reports on community updates from New Hope including a two week Colorado vacation by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prough and family, visits from numerous neighbors, a birth of Lynda Charlene Goodwin at 11:20 a.m. Monday weighing 5% pounds, and attendances at weddings and garden shows. The note mentions relatives and friends from Ames, Des Moines, Ottumwa, Albia, Oskaloosa, Blakesburg, and Moravia, with hospital and Rochester references, and several local social visits and weekend gatherings.
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Harold Prough
Colorado
Anne Pettibone
Ames
Jerry Goodwin
Des Moines
Lynda Charlene
Goodwin
Margaret Burton
Orville Burton
Irven Ealing
Fred Dusablen
Kenneth Daniels
Trenton Wilson
Junior White
Janice Lynn
R. C. Wilson
Lute Hiatt
Frank Hiatt
W. E. Donovan
John Wood
Bessie Donovan
Junior Donovan
Irven Kalvig
Ed Yeager
Anne
Ottumwa
Howard Harper
Leo Weat
Ernest West
Paul Broshar
Skip
Loyd Carter
Lucile West
Burdett Cox
Thelma Phillips
Bert Meadows
Virginia Pettibone
Jim
Tom
Oskaloosa
Carol Blomgren
Rochester
Minn
Juanita Dooley
Mary Meadows
Howard Guenther
Vet Callen’s
Walter Luther
Larry
Francis Price
Bloomfield Fair
Gus Hiatt
Elvy Gillispie
Weldon Luther
Kathy
Leanne
Lloyd
Larry Luther
Rock Island
Gerald Hunter
Jane
Frankie
Blakesburg
Nels Patterson
Wheatland
Wyo
Moravia