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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1971
Page
6
A Muscatine Journal listing enumerates church events and service times for many congregations. Holy day masses, regular worship, youth meetings, prayer groups, Bible studies, and choir practices occur across St Marys to Trinity Episcopal and beyond, with weekday and weekend sessions noted.
Navy Fireman Leland V. Chapman of Muscatine Iowa earned a Meritorious commendation aboard USS Oklahoma City. Lieutenant James A. White home from Vietnam received the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal. Private Danny Ogle Terpenning of Muscatine enlisted in the Marine Corps for four years and is training at Camp Pendleton. Area soldiers Edwin R. Parrish and Michael T. Lee just completed nine weeks of advanced infantry training at Ft Polk Louisiana, including urban combat and weapons handling.
The notice details Pvt Michael J Wedekind at Fort Gordon Ga and Ray B Healy at Treasure Island Calif plus Cadet Michael T Nietzel son of Mr and Mrs Verle Nietzel Muscatine undergoing six weeks ROTC training at Ft Riley Kan from June 12 to July 23 He is pursuing a PhD at the University of Illinois and is among 13000 ROTC summer students The piece notes his wife Deedra resides in Champaign Illinois.
Navy Petty Officer Third Class Gary L. Pippert, son of Kenneth and (mrs) Pippert, has returned to Mayport Fla aboard USS Albany after a six month Mediterranean deployment with the Sixth Fleet. The voyage included Tonian Adriatic Aegean Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean Seas with allied units and visits to Spain Italy Greece and Malta. Pippert attended Eastern Iowa Community College. Marine Master Sergeant Robert L. Harris, husband of Lucille Pelton of Muscatine, retired after 20 years active service at the Marine Barracks Norfolk Va.
Al Weiershauser of Muscatine Iowa arrived for duty at Grissom AFB Indiana as an administrative specialist with a Strategic Air Command unit. The Vietnam veteran is a 1965 graduate currently serving in America’s nuclear deterrent force with long range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
A new address has been received for Pvt Jerry Wayne Beeding. His mother Mary Eller McGourly of West Liberty and Burr A. Beeding of Muscatine report the update. The soldier is associated with Muscatine High School and recently earned a B A from the University of Iowa.
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