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Damascus Area News Highlights Local Christmas Events
Damascus area residents joined church services across multiple congregations for Christmas Eve and Day observances. Lions Club hosted its Christmas Door Decoration contest and booth for charity, while new residents arrived on Greensboro Drive. Numerous social events included travel club trips to New York City and a Princess House party. Inductions and committee appointments at local churches and honors for students marked the season.
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St. Anne’s Episcopal Chapel
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Damascus Lions Club
Damascus
Lion Roger Buxton
Lions Club
Lion Tom Krissman
McAvoy
Charles A. Senseney
Julian P. King
Marvin M. Magin
Patrick Byrne
Earl Marshall
John Rachael
Dorothy Cosgrove
Damascus Travel Club
New York City
New York
Taft Hotel
Copacabana
Frankie Valli
Radio City Music Halls
Scrooge
Mary Virginia Dietz
Eleanor Fleming
Sterling Day
Raymond Snapp
Charlotte Whiddon
Julie Whiddon
Judy Molesworth
Dottie Crutchley
June Watkins
Marian Watkins
Kenneth Wright
Charles Fleming
Frances Kemp
Ira King
Dorcus Burdette
Myxs
Robert Griffith
Reffit
Luther Burke
Lynda
Kenneth Howes
Dianne
Jack Day
Lee Ellen
Cora Fort
James Johnson
Ada Hines
Harvey Haines
Dorothy Fava
Claudia Howard
Marion Howes
Gordon Duvall
Lucy Prevost
Evelyn Arnold
June Poole
Anne Hurley
Lynda Hahn
Clark King
Marian Johnson
Wilma Paxton
Crythe Holton
Hazel Ricketts
Doris Brown
Joann Brown
Virginia Ridgely
Sailye Ridgely
Ruth Gosnell
Ethel Grimes
Shouffer
Rudy Watkins
Merrle Warfield Jr
Greensboro Drive
Spring Garden Estates
Ernest L. Magee
Louise Moore
Kenneth Mullinix
Irvin Long
Fox Ridge
Hilda Smith Kinsey
Robert Littleton Jr
Frederick
Damascus Methodist Church
Frank Depre
Earl Pope
High Street
Robert Molesworths
Penn Shop Road
James Talley
Calvary Methodist Church
Harry Green
Kenneth Smith
Reginald King
Torremolinos
Spain
Massey Ferguson
Playamar Hotel
Linda Woodfield
Debbie Hurley
Princess House
Emerson Slacum
Robert Nace
Kim
Slacum Family
Cambridge
Russell Long
Jodi
Kenneth King
Leonard King
Lisa
Kelly
Leonard Jr
National Capital Region
Antique Automobile Club of America
Vienna