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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1952
Page
3
A long Thanksgiving weekend in Unionville featured a miscellaneous shower for Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Green hosted by Mrs. D. S and Mrs. Fenton. Numerous neighbors attended or sent gifts. The period also included multiple family gatherings across nearby towns with relatives visiting, meals shared, and several members noted for hospital stays and ongoing care.
Thanksgiving activities fill Iconium as families visit and guests travel from Des Moines and Albia. Charles Wakefield returns from Europe service. residents plan an oyster supper, while many share dinners and afternoon calls at neighbors’ homes across the town.
Thanksgiving scenes abound as families from Enon and surrounding areas share meals and visits. J T Van Dorin hosting relatives, Leo Van Dorin and others stop by, and multiple households report turkey dinners, birthdays, and church gatherings with neighbors and friends.
Daughters attended a birthday dinner for E G Hawk at the Cloud Hawk home on Sunday. Several families at a Friday PTA meeting. Mrs Fern Hudgens and pupils gave a short program. Pie coffee and cocoa were served. Dallas Faber and family dined with Mrs Ida Griffin on Sunday. Sylvan Van Dorin and family spent Sunday at the W H Van Dorin home. Mr and Mrs J T Van Dorn visited the M and Boardman homes. Kid Robinson, Fred and W H Van Dorin were at Sunday afternoon visits. Francis Purvis and family of Traer brought Mrs Fred Van Dorf to her home Saturday and spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs Essie Purvis in Centerville. Mr and Mrs Arthur Johnson visited her mother, Mrs Charles Bettis, Friday afternoon.
Attendance at Fairview church and Thanksgiving gatherings are recorded, listing numerous local families and relatives from Darby and Albia visiting, dinner guests, and Sunday calls with names including Pearly Boyer Whicker McDanel Gladfelder Foster Tomlin and others in the community. The note catalogs social visits around Thanksgiving across multiple households.
My and Mrs Lee Benz and family spent Wednesday evening with Al Brizendine and were dinner guests at Chas Benz on Thursday. Mr and Mrs Edd Pointe and family spent Thanksgiving at Blakesburg with Mr and Mrs Floyd Crandall. Edds brother Arthur from Sunnylope sanitarium was present. Edds spent the evening with Wm Norton. Mr and Mrs Bill Long and family were dinner guests Thursday with Mr and Mrs Jack Long. Jack visited Bills Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs J W Hutton Louise Curtis and Claude were dinner guests Thanksgiving with Mrs Mintie Yeager and Barbara, turkey furnished by Curtis. Mr and Mrs Lee Benz called at St Joseph hospital Sunday afternoon to see his uncle. Mr and Mrs Edd Points and family spent Sunday evening with Woodward Norton family. Snow storm is developing.
A series of Thanksgiving Day dinners and Sunday visits weave through local families. Names include Coulson, Miller, O Conner, Burns, Tucker, Smith, Shoemaker, Mikels, Whicker, Boblenz, and others as households hosted relatives and friends from Centerville to Rathbun and Unionville. Several attended Tamburitzans events and missionary plans involve a Penn family.
Attendance at Sunday School recorded at 48. Local residents like Rev LaForge and family returned from two weeks in Oklahoma. Thanksgiving gatherings include the Roy Sulser home with extended families, plus visits among Sulser, Fenton, Martin, Cross, Vickrey, and Sulser households. Several names appear in social calls and holiday plans amid wintry travel changes and illness mentions.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Shelquist spent Thanksgiving at Ottumwa enjoying gatherings with relatives and friends, marking a seasonal family occasion away from home.
The report lists multiple Thanksgiving gatherings around Ottumwa and Albia at homes of the Bergasons Eaton VanZantes and related families. Events include dinners with relatives and friends and the So and Sew club gathering at the VanZante home. A heavy snowstorm is noted for Monday morning.
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