Watermelon Prizes, Bowling Notes, and Club News
May is National Watermelon Month in Florida and Mount Dora bowling memories surface as rinks undergo renovation. Recent club talk covers dead ends in lawn bowling, ALBA rules, and a lively Friday bridge with Vera Kimberley and Willard Walker as high scorers. Also note the May 30 pot luck and get well wishes for Olin Eckley. Readers urged to send updates to box 134 B or 1221 Crestview Drive.
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ALBA
Vera Kimberley
Willard Walker
Olin Eckley
Waterman
RD 1
Tavares
Crestview Drive
Mount Dora
Interment in New Hampshire For Miss Tallant
Funeral services for Miss Effie Josephine Say 8 were held at St Edward's Episcopal Church with Father Charles H Hay officiating. A former resident of Eau Gallie and Mount Dora she was active in the Episcopal Church and local societies. She leaves four brothers Eben M Hugh V Albert A and John H and four sisters Ella Daniels Loren Raymond and Mrs Victor Blair plus nieces and nephews. Interment in Pelham New Hampshire. Rehbaum Funeral Home handled arrangements.
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Effie Josephine Say
St. Edward’s Episcopal Church
Charles H. Hay
Eau Gallie
Mount Dora
Emma Jane Tallant
Episcopal Church
Sunshine Circle of the
King’s Daughters and Sons of
Community Notes Highlight Sorrento Mount Plymouth Events
Sorrento Mount Plymouth notes recount a 27 attendee Presbyterian potluck, fire department meeting in Tavares on life saving masks, and a tuberculosis control award to Mrs Ruby Paul. Other items include high school band concert at Mount Dora, a Ladies Auxiliary variety show, perfect attendance awards, church anniversaries, gospel sings, and visits by former pastor Rev H E Dawkins with community gestures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Dori Lee
Dori
Sorrento-Mount Plymouth
Noel Gulledge
Harold Sammons
Clyde Bryan
Walter Carlyon
Travis Woodham
Martens
McKinna
Bill Paul
Ruby Paul
Lake County
Ladies Auxiliary
The
Fire Dept
Sorrento Civic Building
Southern Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union
Culver
Fran Silvia
Patty Helm
Nancy Stewart
Lela Phillips
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Church
H. E. Dawkins
Eastman
Brother Dawkins
Joe Fisher
Will Carter
Jessie Battle
Grady Smith
Shuffleboard Round Robin and Red and Black Play Notes
Leesburg hosts Lake County Round Robin with Mount Dora teams posting ten wins. Don Riddle and Clare Sutliff-led Mount Dora pair lose in second high playoff to Umatilla. Red and Black matches feature Patch Economos and Osterland, with Dodd-Osterland winning 105 to 35. Women's and men's divisions crown Smith Legat and Owen Patch in close finals. Also reports of member Marie Johnson's passing and 56th wedding anniversary for Charles and Curtis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Leesburg
Mount Dora
Clare Sutliff
Don Riddle
Umatilla
Walter Peter
Carroll Patch
Nick Economos
Dodd
Harvey Osterland
Joe Ralabate
Jennie Sutliff
Dodd-Osterland
al Becher
Harland Wheeler
A. D. Owen
Dottie Nolet
Ann Peter
Ernest Morris
Red
Prentice
Nolet
Owen-Patch
Bessie Economos
Mrs. Fritts
Tom Hunter
Joe Smith
Fred Steele
Ted Beckhold
Harry Prentice
Ture Anderson
Clyde McCauley
Marie Johnson
Eustis
Charles Curtis
James Swager
Ohio
William Sharpe
Mount Dora Historical Society Holds Season Finale Dinner
The Mount Dora Historical Society ends its season with a covered dish supper on Thursday May 23 at 6 30 p m at the Mount Dora Community Building. Frank Bridgman will give a 7 45 p m talk on Early History of Plymouth Mass followed by an important event.
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Mount Dora
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Bill
Florida
Wilbert Conrad
Conrad
Lake Dora
San
Antonio
Jean
Poquelin
God of Love
Roman
Criti
New Hampshire
Tallant
Fred O
Bud) Dickinson
Golden Triangle
Sorrento
Mount Plymouth
By Bill Paul
P. O. Box
Lake County Firemen’s Assn
Mount Dora High School
Ashtabula, Ohio
Ed Kilvela
Presbyterian
Joe Paul
Doreen Geddes
United Presbyterian
Doris Geddes
Bert Bush
Clyde Newnham
Sorrerito
Palatka
H. C. Cooper
Middleburg
Charles Newnham
Rob Parham
WJOTV
Jacksonville
Aloha
Don Driggers
Robert M. Ferran
Mount Dora Road
James A. Glisson
S. Bay St
First Federal
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
North Boulevard
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