Community Holiday Cards and Visits Across Town
Local families record a flurry of Christmas and New Year visits. Deborah Lichty stayed with grandparents while parents attended a Kansas City basketball tournament. Numerous calls, dinners, and gatherings spread through Ottumwa, Centerville, Albia, Des Moines and nearby towns as relatives shared meals and gifts during the festive period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah Lichty
Zell Callen
Wayrie Lichty
Craig
Kansas City
Waterloo
Local Holiday Guests Fill Social Pages With Visits
A sequence of family gatherings and dinners marks a festive period. Names include Aubrey Christy Lloyd Landgrebe Gerald Rinehart Bert Rinehart Clarence Scott and Ray Tubaugh among others as relatives and friends share Christmas and New Year meals across Ottumwa Centerville Belle Plaine Udell Seymour and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Walter
Sandra’ Anderson
Richard Tubaugh
Janiece
John Grenfell
Nellie Williams
Barbara Coltrain
Garden Club
Max McDonough
Jerry
Jackie Tubaugh
Belle Plaine
Albert Tubaugh
Ray
Bill Luse
Lacona
Gene
Polk City
Claude Paris
Gary Anderson
Earl Campbell
Lois Tadlock
Venetah Tubaugh
Donna Rae Tubaugh
Sharon O'Conner
Sharon Walter
Sharon O’conner
Alva Tubaugh
Blakesburg
Florence Hahn
Sandra Anderson
John Lindskoog
Udell
Gerald Burton
Iva, Strunk
Bob Strunk
Iva Strunk
Lazell Strunk
Larry
Raymond Williams
Centerville
Barbara
Reo Bryant
Seymour
Ray Tubaugh
Brenda Gee
Lee Tadlock
Wilbur Miller
Bertha Miller
Nellie Wiliams
Dixie Rae Tubaugh
Kenneth Coltrain
Coltrain
Shanghai By Mary Lou Rinehart
Sunday dinner guests at Bert Rinehart's included Dell, Dick, Clark and Hazel Hellyer, George Hellyer and Patty Karol, Gerald Rinehart and Mike, George Rinehart and Cindy, Monnie Rose, Donna and Terry. Pauline Christy spent Monday morning with her grandmother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey
Chirtaty
Reunday
Doyle Christy
Pauline
George Rinehart
Cindy
Bert Rinehart
Lloyd Landgrebe
Chester Wymote
Ottumwi
Gerald Rinehart
Mike
Dick Brown
Clarence Scott
Max Hill
Myr
Gene Hall
Judy
Alice Ruth Canny
Mary Lou
Fred Christy
George Hammond
George Hiner
Glen Overturf
Ronnie
Lola Hawk
Ottumwa
Fred Taylor
Earl
Cora Murphy
Harold Young
Vera Firkins
Hazel Hellyer
Donna Rose
Oral Large
Frank
Ruth Bennett
Ronald Landgrebe
Kenneth Landgrebe
Bill Landgrebe
David Lippert
Marilyn Landgrebe
Ralph Stickler
Dell
Dick, Clark
George Hellyer
Patty
Karol
Monnie Rose
Donna
Terry
Pauline Christy
Christmas Week Gatherings at West Point Families
Mrs Len Hoffman reports a busy holiday visiting pattern in West Point as relatives from Ottumwa and nearby towns shared meals and evenings with the Hoffmans and friends. Several couples and children traveled between homes including Hagerman, Brown, Cooper, Hoffmans, Potts, Argo and Turner households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Brown
Sheryl Jean
Carol
Ottumwa
Rex Hagerman
Will Hagerman
Gene McCrory
Lloyd Callen
Arthur Andrews
Leo Hoffman
Sheryl Jean Brown
Darrell Cooper
Ralph Turner
Richard
Martha Potts
Clair Potts
John Exline
Roscoe Argo
Argo
Lloyd Johnson
Vinton Lundy
Bass Herteen
Andy Mosley
Jennie Jennings
Debby Dunham
Johnette Hiner
Johnette
Debby
Moravia FFA chapter holds Friday meeting in Ag room
Thirty two members and the advisor attended. Larry Long was informed he would receive the two chapter gifts and Charles Argo would receive the chapter cow. Gary O Connor reported Christmas cards sales and Karl Rogers gave a basketball team report. Next meeting is January 11 when the queen will receive her packet. Meeting closed at 11:45 with refreshments. Gary Perry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravia
Future Farmers of America
Rall
Larry Long
Charles Argo
Gary O'Connor
Karl Rogers
Gary Perry
Home Economics Class Two Recipes T: Brown Sugar Chews and Easy Mint Fudge
Students share two favored kitchen recipes from a Home Economics class week. Brown Sugar Chews combine egg brown sugar vanilla and nuts baked 18 to 20 minutes at 350 in an eight inch pan yielding about 25 pieces. Easy Mint Fudge blends sugar milk butter and mint wafers with marshmallows heated to soft ball stage then folded and cooled in a pan with walnuts on top.
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Y. C
Pleasant Hill Community Notes Gather News and Visits
Mr and Mrs Pearl Kelsey and family return to Hampton. Various local residents visit and host events at neighbors homes. Betty Jean Dunham and family visit Russell Brown. many attend W S C S at Methodist church. Carrie Turner hospitalized for cold treatment. Roy Argo in Albia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Kelsey
Hampton
Lloyd Bennett
Bussey
Nellie Thompson
Betty Jean Dunham
Russell Brown
Debbie
Orlie Farris
Larry
Robert Blue
Mesri Dicks
Theodore Henderson
Bill Moore
Constance Thompson
Nona Dicks
Edith Callen
Clara Brown
Methodist
Truxton
Paul Dicks
Gerald Rinehart
Mike
Dick Brown
Massmans, McAninchs host, visit and social notices
Ottumwa Saturday activities centered on home visits and gatherings. Martha Massman Gordon Massman Janice Moore and Mary Helen Harley attended a shower at Blakesbore while Jim McAninch family and others visited Dick Brown and Earl Swift homes. Several households hosted dinners and ice cream socials as New Year events and quilting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley Tisue
Paul Jordan
Dick Brown
Mearl Dicks
Earl Swift
John McAninch
Jim McAninch
Con- Me
Max
John William McAninch
Martha Massman
Gilbert Callert
Shirley Townsend
Bloomfield
Floyd
Bennie Menn
Des Moines
Russell Brown
Don Ryan
Mabel Moore
Ben
Lester Sager
Johnetta Hiner
Debbie Dunham
Helen
Connie McAninch
Martha Masemar
Lowell Shepherd
Pat Printy
DeWayne Moore
Jan
Charles
Nellie Thompson
Blanche Argo
Theresa Brown
Centerville
Debbie
Phyllis Broshar
A. J. Brown
W.S.C.S
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Earl Sievers
Avoca
Frank Rogers
Saundra Scott
Luther Caster, Jr
Monroa
Lowell Harris
Newton
Maude Coltrain
G. Woodward
William Woodward
Famly
Colfax
John Miller
Humboldt
Clarence Dowd
Ina Miller
G. Hawk
W. B. Stone
John Palton
Malcom
Zoe Callen
Qoal
Marvin Gardner
Joe Conger
Donald
Delmar
Tha Miller
Carl Tisue
Wayhe
Gary
Wil-larmsburg
Tisue
Mearl Walter
George Winsler
Jack Baldwin
Mystic
Merrill Shepherd
Levi Robinson
Ralph Robinson
Jimmie
Claire Robinson
Ruthie
William Robinson
Billy
George Robinson
Paul Broshar
Art Boeckleman
Joenen
Arnold Cutkamp
Bruce
Mark
Skip Broshar
Pearl Broshar
Judith
Johnny
Boeckleman
Skip Broshay
Broshay
Fredrick Hahn
Columbus
Hahn
W. N. Miller
Eleanor Miller
Fred Hahn
Maquoketa
Paul Howell
Moulton
W. C. Murdy
CWO
Smith Tharp
Memphis
Tenn
Mary Rose Main
Davenport
Almont Main
Tharp
Ben ‘Tharp
Albia
Ida McCrory
Burlington Hospital
Burlington
Iowa
Ervin Stheox
Mra
Clair Stheox
Laverne
Tommy
Ivan Wright
Vaughn
Marla
Cemeterville
Dorin Wailes
Bayard Neff
Rockford
Bernard Neff
Champaign
Kenneth Free
Blaihe
Mary Burne
Dayne Taylor
Maxine
Margaret Burns
Richard Veach
Joellyn
Marion Adams
Donald Adams
Joyce Harris
Cloud Holtingsheld
Square Albia
Finn Wayne
Kiddie’s
Turner Funeral Home
Albia Sales CO
Sale Pavilion
Lowa
H. ©. Peterson & Son, Don
Bay Morehead and
Jobn Bebbler
Vod Smeogers
Barbara Strunk
Shanghai
Mary Lou Rinehart
Gardner Hatchery
West Point
Mrs
Len Hoffman
Scribbler
F. F. A. News
Pleasant Hill
E.N. Catterlin
Hotel Annex
Blessing’s
Blue Bird
Jackson Centerville
Dick” Cooper
W. Washington Centerville
A. M. Wilson
Alsia, Iowa
Centerville Monument
E. P
Bill” Johnson
Ford Service
General Motor
Briggs Motor Co
Ford
Wee
Lowe’s County Mutuals
County Mutual
County Mutuals
Wapello Mutual Insurance Assn
E. G. Hawk
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