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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1970
Page
3
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Laird will be celebrated September 26 with a reception in the Coquille Community building. All friends invited to call. The Xi Alpha Nu held a Luau on the Bob Haugs patio on September 12 after returning from Hawaii.
Mrs King hosts the Friendly Neighbors Club meeting last Thursday at her home. Members planned gifts for ill neighbors and for Mrs Van Eyk in memory of her mother Mrs Lee Van Eyk. Attendees included several named residents and the next meeting will be at Mrs Albert Cupinski's home.
Campfire program starts well after aSeptember 14 meeting and mothers volunteered as leaders except for fourth grade girls. Interested residents may call Mrs. Richeared Payne at 572-2488 or contact the Coos Bay Campfire Girls office at 200 American Building.
VFW Auxiliary met at Sts Anns and Michaels Hall to report a rum mage sale profit of about 78 dollars. They sent 40 dollars to the national home in Eaton Rapids Michigan for the orphans fund, and donated 30 dollars to cancer research. They will join the Coquille post for a Veterans Day potluck on November 1 at 6 30 p.m. at the Coquille Labor Temple. initiation will occur at the next meeting.
The Myrtle Point Garden club convenes Friday September 18 at 1 30 pm in the Fire Hall. Mrs T G Sumertin and Mrs Sarah Moe Closkey are to serve as hostesses for the meeting and flower arranging agenda.
The wedding of a former local resident and a former resident, Rena Albright and Mark Williamson, occurred June 20. The bride, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Haga of Green Acres, attended Myrtle Point and Marshfield High School. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Williamson of Coopers Mills, Maine, graduated from Lincoln Academy in 1967 and served as a Navy electronics technician second class in San Diego. The couple plan to live at 3608 Euclid Street. Mrs. Ray Mast of Allegheny will give a program on The Use of Fresh Flowers in the Home and asks guests to bring containers and flowers.
Sue Powrie will be installed as worthy advisor of Elgin Assembly International Order of Rainbow for Girls. The ceremony is Saturday September 19 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Hall and is open to the public. All friends and relatives are invited.
The Women’s Club meets at Fireman’s Hall on Wednesday September at 1:30 p.m. All members and guests invited. Coffee hour precedes installation of officers for next year. Retiring president Mrs Charles Evans to install president Mrs Mitch Myers and others including Mrs Waldemar Gurney and Mrs Foster Price. Travelogue on Switzerland by Mrs Fred Gross closes the afternoon.
Bessie Elean Beber 53 died September 15 at McAuley Hospital Coos Bay. A registered nurse and Oregon State Nurses Association member, she helped organize the Myrtle Point Junior Women’s Club and the Business and Professional Women’s Club. She was born December 8 1916 in Raymond Washington and married Dr Ernest Beber January 2 1941 in Coquille living in Myrtle Point. Survived by husband Frank daughter Carol and numerous relatives. Funeral September 18 at 2 p.m. Myrtle Point Chapel with burial at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens officiated by Father Augs berger. Memorials suggested to Kidney Association care of Myrtle Point-Charge.
Mrs. Fordyce Worsham of Portland visited Myrtle Point with friends on business, hosted by Mrs. Lulu Jarvis. Various local residents were noted visiting, births announced including a daughter Quinn LeAnn to the Rogers family in Batavia, and community members attending events and hospital stays. A recipe for banana fritter batter appears amid the notices.
December wedding planned for Patricia Ann Madewell and Roger C. Bushnell. Miss Madewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Madewell Sr., Powers, is a 1969 Powers High School graduate and medical assistant student. Bushnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Bushnell, Powers, is a 1968 Powers High School graduate and Western Business University Portland alumnus, currently in the U.S. Army in Bed Kreutznach, Germany.
A compiled schedule of worship times and contact details for churches in the Arago and surrounding area. It lists pastors, service times from September to May, summer adjustments, Sunday school, youth groups, prayer meetings, and additional activities across denominations including Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Latter Day Saints, Brethren, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Arago Community Church.
The Guy P. Davis Family expresses gratitude for sympathy, kind gestures, messages, and flowers received after their bereavement. They extend sincere appreciation to all friends for their support during the loss.
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