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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1962
Page
15
Christmas Day visiting groups from Columbus Junction and nearby areas remark on gatherings at multiple homes. Families including Cecil, Pedersen, Summy, and Pugh clans shared holidays in Winfield, Sigourney, Hedrick, Moline, Cedar Falls, and Troy Ohio among others, with extended relatives noted across several households.
A Christmas dinner gathering in Columbus Junction featured extended family hosting with dozens of relatives from Oakville Wapello Morning Sun Nichols Keota and Morning Sun attending. Separate notes mention Mr and Mrs Dennis Sloutner visiting with Dempsey family and Elizabeth Duncan with son Doug at Wapello plus Russell Greene visiting his parents and Leo Thomas at Iowa Methodist hospital Des Moines.
Christmas notes show families visiting relatives across Mason City Mediapolis Waterloo Grundy Center Ottumwa Iowa City and Iowa locations. Columbus Junction Mason City Mediapolis Waterloo Grundy Center Ottumwa Iowa City reflect holiday visits by Bosveld Vannice Jamison Slight Semlow Lowe Marshall Swisher Dawson and others during the Christmas holiday period.
Columbus Junction hosts Christmas guests at the Huston home with Marshall Smith and family Davenport H. Lee Huston. Roy Smith. J E McDermott Obtumwa. Anna Jones entertains at her home with Gary Jones Winfield Paul.
Jones Ottumui and Keith Jones Winfield and families share Christmas gatherings with relatives in Des Moines Brooklyn Libertyville and Brooklyn. Grandsons Gary and Hugh Jones plan visits this week while Warren Lewis Sr and family hosted holiday guests and prepare to travel home to Brooklyn.
Recorded deeds show Florence M Supple to John D and Anita A Wyatt for lots 1 and 2 in block 7 Marolf addition Wilton Valli and Anita to Johnnie L Aird Doro thy Benson, lot 5 and part of lot 21 block 33 Smalley addition South Muscatine. Donald Grim to Glen F and Laura A Brossart lot 1 Roscoe Hills Muscatine. Ralph Cole to Wilma Cole Quitclaim lots 8 4 and 5 block 9 Fairport. Elizabeth Reynolds Murdock to Robert A Leora M Hazen lots 29 and 30 block Park Place Muscatine.
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