Mr Citrus Simpson remembered on 87th Mount Dora birthday
Personal notes recall James W. Simpson one of Mount Dora’s first white births. A picnic at Gilbert Park and an open house on Country Club Road mark his belated celebration. He helped start grove maintenance and dairy ventures and led early road paving efforts.
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James W. Simpson
Mount Dora
Gilbert Park
Simpson
Country Club, Rd
Colonel Norton
Charles St
House Razing Prompts Historians Talk in Mount Dora
An evening discussion centered on the Donnelly house site now occupied by the Masonic Lodge. A booklet from 1907 titled South land Memories read by Emma Jane Tallant sparked interest. The event also announced committee appointments and society leadership for Mount Dora history coverage.
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Donnelly
Mount Dora
Southland Memories
Ladies Aid Society
Methodist Church
Sunoco
Emma Jane Tallant
Alfred Rehbaum, Jr
Henry W. Land
Alfred Rehbaum
Richard Whittington
Harold Overhiser
Ann Whittington
Board of Governors
C. H. Estey
C. R. Javens
W. Eardley Wilmot
Cleon W. Colby
Daniel H. Bishop
Judith K Shotts Engagement Told
Emmet B Shotts's daughter Judith Karen engaged to Peter J Cammarano of Long Branch New Jersey. Judith a Mount Dora High School graduate who studied at Lake Sumter Junior College and University of South Florida. Peter a Navy veteran and current employee at Federal Electric Corp Merritt Island Launch Area Cape Kennedy. Wedding planned July 10 at First Methodist Church Mount Dora.
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Emmet B. Shotts
Judith Karen
Peter J. Cammarano
Nicholas J. Cammarano
Long Branch
N. J
Mount Dora High School
Lake Sumter Junior College
University of South Florida
Tampa
Admiral Farragut Academy
Toms River
U. S. Navy
Federal Electric Corp
Merrit Island
Cape Kennedy
First Methodist Church
Mount Dora
The Men In Your Life
Advice urges homeowners and families to preselect trusted professionals such as a lawyer and a funeral director. It highlights lawyers for buying homes drafting wills and setting up trusts, and funeral directors for emergencies, stressing advance planning and personal knowledge.
Doctors Offices Advice Aims at Healthier Habits
Many patrons of doctors offices and patent medicine counters would benefit from eating less food drinking more water and reducing liquor while adopting a more regular sleep schedule.
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Doctors
Mothers Day Observed By Eastern Star Mount Dora Chapter 103
Mount Dora Chapter 103, Order of the Eastern Star, observed Mothers Day at the last meeting. Leslie and Eleanor Jackson, parents of Worthy Patron Curtis Jackson, were escorted to the East for the evening. Corsages were given to Della Faye Ripple as oldest mother and Della Noyes as youngest. Initiation followed with Catharine and Joe Story Eleanor Sammons and Della Noyes receiving Degrees. A Clermont Chapter letter invited officers for Friendship night on June 8. Flag Day Ceremony planned for the next meeting Thursday June 10.
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Mount Dora
Leslie
Eleanor Jackson
Curtis Jackson
Della Faye Ripple
Della Noyes
Catherine
Joe Story
Eleanor Sammons
Clermont
Jean Maleski
Ruth Guegeon
Lola Berato
Alice Jackson
DAR Chapter Honors Dead in Memorial Rite at Multiple Cemeteries
Ocklawaha Chapter DAR held its annual memorial in Greenwood Cemetery Eustis reading the roll call for the dead and honoring Mrs. S T Bolton. They moved to Pine Forest Cemetery Mount Dora to dedicate Mrs Lillian Keiths grave marker and placed flags at Grand Island Tavares and Sorrento cemeteries.
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Ocklawaha
DAR
Greenwood Cemetery
Eustis
J. R. Reedy
E. L. Nixon
E. L. Schumacher
S. T. Bolton
Schumacher
Bolton
Regent
J. F. McKinna
Philip Johnson
Usaf Reserve
S. A. Wiltsie
Pine Forest
Mount Dora
Lillian Keith
Grand Island
Tavares
Sorrento
Sharon May Engaged to J Norman West in Johnson City Wedding Planned
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Trudell announce the engagement of Sharon Gail May of Johnson City Tennessee to J Norman West of Johnson City. Miss May is a Milligan College alumnus who sang with the Milligan Choir and studied choir directing. West, a Johnson City native, is a former exalted ruler of the Johnson City Elks and sales manager at WETB Radio Voice of the Press Chronicle. The wedding is set for early July at First Christian Church Johnson City.
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Leonard Trudell
Sharon Gail May
Johnson City
Tenn
J. Norman West
Wallie West
Miss May
Lewis County High School
Vanceburg
Portsmouth
Ohio
Interstate Business College
St. Mary’s Academy of Music
Milligan College
Milligan
Sigma Society at LSJC Installs First Officers
The Sigma Society at Lake Sumter Junior College will hold its first annual installation banquet Thursday at 6 30 p.m. in the Florida Room Trade Winds. Nancy Wilson is installed as president Carla Ross as vice president Sally Reynolds secretary Sheila Ham treasurer and Sharon Uhl parliamentarian. Speaker Mrs Ethel Hanford charter president of the Leesburg Soroptimist Club discusses her convention attendance in Switzerland and club projects.
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Sigma Society
Lake Sumter Junior College
Florida
Grace Dempsey
Soroptimist Club of
Leesburg
Nancy Wilson
Carla Ross
Sally Reynolds
Wildwood
Sheila Ham
Mount Dora
Sharon Uhl
Memorial Trophy Cabinet Donated to Florida Girls School
Helen Krauss of Tampa donated a trophy cabinet to the Florida Federation of BPW clubs as a memorial to Elizabeth Heth of Tallahassee. The cabinet at the Florida School for Girls in Ocala will house federation trophies and currently contains a plaque for Puerto Rico federation organization in 1957, a merit certificate for the Commission of the Status of Women 1964-65, a 1963-64 leadership conference gold gav el, and a silver vase for three consecutive national membership awards.
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Florida Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Helen Krauss
Tampa
BPW
Elizabeth Heth
Tallahassee
Florida School For Girls
Ocala
Florida Federation
National Federtion
Puerto Rico
Commission of the Status of Women
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Dorans
Winston-Salem
N. C
New Mexico
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Arthur E. Cook
Michigan
Robin Hood
California
Oregon
Washington
S. R. Freeman
Crosswicks
Atlanta
E. M. Hendrickson
James R. Buchanan
Diane Wilson
U. S. Air Force
Orlando Afb
Military Air Transport Service
U. S
Francis E. Peck, Jr
Francis E. Peck
Stetson University
DeLand
John Tietjen
Orange Memorial Hospital
Christine Dettra
Howard C. Dettra
Bryan College
Dayton
Immanuel Baptist Church
Richmond
Chesterfield County School
Jimmy Hardester
Ernest Hester
Pensacola
Cindy
Doran
West Coast
Freeman Lee
Brenda Jones
Orlando
Zoo
San Diego
Disneyland
J.H. Story
Mount Plymouth
New England States
Canada
New Hampshire
J. Fred Bradford
Vic Rice
Phoenix
Ariz
Don Rice
Leslie F. Jackson
Boston
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CoOc
A. Lee French
The
Americanizer
American Fire and Casualty Co
Robert J. Longstreet
Stetson
University of Cambridge
England
University of Pennsylvania
Duke
Daytona Beach
Wesley Manor
Jacksonville
Shear Magic Hair Styling
N. Donnelly St
Phot
Lake County
Judith K. Shotts
Fifth Ave
Sharon G. May
Prescription
Alexander
Harlan G. Burgett
First National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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