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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1955
Page
1
In a brief notice workers completed track work near First and Walout while Santa Fe employees were placed on guard. No trains delayed. passerby advised to expect normal service. Contact McVay Ambulance at 700 for emergencies. visitors permitted for a patient recovering in hospital.
Hospital notes list admissions including Mrs. Charles R. Mason and Roy Kirkpatrick with Saturday admissions and several births with weights. Community items cover 4-H events at Forest Park, a fried chicken supper, polio shot schedules for Coffey county, and local arrests or court appearances. Also noted are returnees from KU Medical Center, hunting club plans, and the Sunflower 4-H fair at Melvern with event schedules. Local families from Ottawa, Osawatomie, Overbrook, and nearby towns are named with addresses and recent life events.
Mrs. Della M. Blaine, 73, of east of Wellsville, died Saturday afternoon in a Norton sanatorium after a 30 year patient stay. She lived in the Wellsville area most of her life and is survived by three sisters Maude Thorn Edith Ackley and Ethel Rice of Wellsville and four brothers A C Shores Gardner J O D Shores Delta Colo Roy C Shores Cedar Edge Colo and F W Shores Murdock Minn.
Obituary notices from Wellsville and Garnett report Mrs Ada Elizabeth Ayres Sullivan died at her Hillsdale home aged 71. Services in Paola and Hillsdale, burial in Edgerton and Hillsdale cemeteries, with survivors including husband Oscar and three children. Also noted are Mrs Mary Sutton of Garnett and Denise Leann Barber of Paola, plus a 4 H judging school in Franklin County and local police briefings.
A list of upcoming sales with locations and dates including Overbrook Livestock Sale in Overbrook Kansas July 27 and August 3, Ottawa Market Bale July 30, Delbert Preston near Baldwin Kansas August 2, plus July 26 27 28 August 2 notices for multiple sellers and venues.
A Kansas City man dies after a stroke in April. He was a longtime Catholic in Lee's Summit Mo and the last of his family. Survivors include his wife Cecelia, six sons and four daughters with homes in Kansas City Blue Springs Parsons Williamsburg South Carolina and other places. One daughter died in 1938. He leaves 46 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements place body at Lamb Funeral Home then Lillis Kansas with services at St Joseph Catholic Church and burial in Lillis Cemetery.
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