Love and letters shape foster child futures in care notes
A social worker letter urges full, compassionate disclosure about foster children. It stresses that most kids are normal but hurt by past trauma, needing love and dignity to overcome placement challenges. Plus reader notes on widow etiquette and unanswered questions about masturbation and homosexuality in Ann Landers columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amn Landers
Marlene
Ann Landers
Ann
Lubbock
Pattern and beauty trends mingle in 2016 catalog notes
A jumble of sewing pattern details and a New York mail order note mix with a World Book Encyclopaedia excerpt on ancient Roman hair. The piece mentions pattern sizes, mailing costs, and fashion supplies, then shifts to Velma Howell hosting a Blue and Gold Club meeting and a New York AP report on blond hair in antiquity and modern beauty shop spending.
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New York
Germany
United States
Couple remarry after 32 years divorce in London
Albert and Violet Pamment aged 73 and 72 wed again in London after a 32 year separation. A chance meeting with Albert’s daughter Patricia brought them together and their younger son Clifford, 44, served as best man. Violet says they are wiser and more sensible now.
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London
Albert
Violet Pamment
Patricia
Clifford
Violet
Club Notes and Meetings Mention Nursing Homes and Music Club
Club Notes details new officers Mrs Bechtle Frances Potts and Mrs Harry Loyd with Mrs L E Dunn as historian. Cards signed for hospitalized members. Plans for nursing home favors in Feb Apr and July led by Mrs Potts and Mrs Howell. Jan 21 meeting with Mrs Reed. Terri Daugharthy hosted Sixth Grade Girls Music Club with Melissa Beeman guest for Christmas program. January meeting with Sherry Gislar. Richmond Fortnightly Club met at Mrs George C Dietrich home under Mrs Lela Duffey who read The Miracle Child by Pearl Buck. Guests Gladys Garrison Mrs Elmer Anderson Mrs Cecil Vining. Mrs 4 C Sigler to host Jan 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bechtle
Frances Potts
Harry Loyd
L.E. Dunn
Potts
Howell
Reed
Daugharthy
Melissa Beeman
Eldon Rader
Sherry Gislar
Richmond
George
C. Dietrich
Lela Duffey
Pearl Buck
Gladys Garrison
Elmer Anderson
Cecil Vining
C. Sigler
Socialettes and Doman family dinners across Kansas
Rural and city households hosted pre Christmas gatherings with multiple families. Attendees included Peckhams in Rantoul and Williams burg, Hermrecks in Tim and Debbie, and Fennells in Ottawa, plus Myron Green's Cafeteria in Topeka hosting the Doman family supper with Topeka and Ottawa members and others from Manhattan and Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Hermreck
Tim
Debbie
Williamsburg
Ron Hermreck
Jed
Walter McMillen
Wellsville
Myron Hermreck
T Independence
Dick Stoneking
Darrin
Randy
Pomona
Frank McMillen
Janis
Alan
Shari
Ross Baker
Peggy Toumberlin
Gerry
Mickey Fennell
Jeff
Ottawa
Doman
Myron Green
Topeka
Lee Hettick
E.L. Birt
Earl Birt
Marcia Kay Doman
Howard Doman
Ferne Simmons
Myrtle Doman
Earl Doman
Michael
Roger
Manhattan
Charles Burrows
Jean, Lawrence
Engagement of LeAnn Davis to Robert Bieker Listed
February engagement announcement for LeAnn Davis of 609 West Fourth and Robert Bieker of Osawatomie. LeAnn, a senior at Ottawa High School, works at Peoples National Bank. Robert is an installer-repairman for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. The couple plans to marry February 2.
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Norman Davis
W. 4Th
LeAnn
Robert Bieker
A. J. Bieker
Osawatomie
Ottawa High School
Miss Davis
Peoples National Bank
Bieker
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Food Shorts Quick, Easy Meatless Dishes and Desserts
A compact guide offering meatless supper ideas and quick desserts. Create a cornmeal mush bake topped with tomato sauce and cheese, or fill sponge-cake cups with lemon pie filling then top with whipped cream. Suggests using canned tomatoes, frost fruit, and ready fillings for speed.
Women Fellowship Meeting Notes at Local Churches
Club Forecast lists Christmas meetings and group sessions across churches. Adelines at 7 30 p m Youth Center. American Baptist Women at First Baptist. Samaritan and Christian Service schedules. various groups at First Christian and UMC churches with named leaders and times.
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First Baptist Church
Searchers
Wayne Gilliland
Samaritan
Christian Service
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Fortenberry
Hampton
Social Service Bureau
Jane Doe
John Doe
Mrs. John Doe
Hey Diddie Diddie
Dad
Anne Adams
Ottawa Herald
West 17Th St
N. Y
Velma Howell
Blue and Gold Club
Chester Bechtle
Terri Daugharthy
Mrs
Russell
Mrs. James Peckham
Rantoul
Harry Peckham
Linda
Peckham
The
University of Kansas
Charles A. Peckham
Francis E. Warren
Air Force Base
Cheyenne, Wyo
Finderson Carpet & Draperies
David Anderson
East 15Th Street
Uns Etleger
del Cabell
Etna
Albright Sewing Circle
S. Main
Kansas
Mauidee
OK Photo
Leann Davis and
Women's Fellowship
Church of the Brethren
CWP
First Christian Church
Sarah
Ruth
Dorothy Beeman
Esther
Hazel Sieger
UMW
First United Methodist Church
Deborah
William Clark
Dorcas
James Wallen
Eleanor Lloyd
Martha
W. C. Goodman
Rebekah
R. A. Gollier
Henry Parker
Bob Cook
June
Jrs
Jr. Petites
Poinsettias
Hraiokrk
Ramsay Charge
Bankamericard
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