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Thanksgiving Gatherings Span Several Iowa Towns
Numerous families from Independence Decorah Oelwein and surrounding areas hosted or attended Thanksgiving and pre Thanksgiving meals and events. Guests included Kinred Love Boies Parker Jellings Craig Roepke Thimmesch Shatzer Culver and others with dinners at homes in Waterloo Oelwein Mason City Hokah Farley Swea City and Duokerton. Local church events and visits by relatives persisted through the weekend with a Pledge Day dinner and Evangelistic meeting noted.
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Jack Kinred
David and
Margaret
Independence
Alice Hauschen
Harvey Love
E. L. Erickson
Waterloo
Dorothy Boies
Mildred McIntosh
Decorah
Orpha Parker
Don Jellings
Oelwein
Harold Craig
Madison, Wis
Gene Craig
Mason City
Richard Roepke
Washington
Arlo Craig
Marie Matteson
Robert Shatzer
Jesup
Lynn Culver
Swea City
John Thimmesch
Robert Tschumper
Hokah, Minn
Russell Thompson
Farley
John Slater
Jeff
Marilyn Roepke
Waverly
Albert Roepke
Larry Bandixen
Camanche
Edna Martin
Leonard Roepke
Michael Roepke
Carl Roepke
Darlene Hall
United Methodist Church
Jud Richardson
Baptist Church
Dunkerton
Cecil Johnson
Kenneth Johnson
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Gayle
Stanley, Union Church
Fred Johnson
Maquoketa
Unaath