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Vernon area social notes and church events recap
Vernon guests include Dean Freyer from the Great Lakes naval training station visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Tillman and Miss Anna Morton. Many locals attend a Pentecostal Sunday School election and Christmas sermons as community members visit, host, and travel between Vandalia Bear Creek Centralia Patoka and Decatur with names such as Mary Epps Anna Benefiel and Opal Jones appearing throughout.
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Dean Freyer
The
Great Lakes ‘Naval Training Station
H. O. Tillman
Anna Morton
Isés Alvena
Josie Wasmuth
Rose Gehrken
Anna Wasmuth
Bird Holt
Stringtown
Cecil Holt
Mary Binnion
Vernon
Rebekah Lodge
Ivy Lowe
Centralia High School
Marion Epps
Helen Hathaway
Vandalia High School
W. L. Hathaway
Glen Cox
Miss Payne
Bear Creek
Eli Morgan
Geo. Payne
Madge Doolen
Decatur
Lloyd Doolen
Elston Doolen
Mary Epps
Pentecostal Sunday School
Miss Opal Jones
Gladys Sorrell
Ruth Sorrell
Stewart Meador
Pentecostal Church
Ren Epps
St. Louis
John Thompson
W. L. Danbury
Arlie Sprinkle
George Walton
Gus Prott
Hope Metzger
Shobonier
Anna Dickerson
Mt. Vernon
Gebe Whitehurst
George Crothers
Assumption
John, Barnes
Patoka
F .M. Smith
Frank Hatch
Reba Haines
Salem
Gladys
Opal Jones
Charlie Epps
Tom Quayle
Merritt Doolen
Jim Phinney
John Gehrken
Kapps
Mulberry Grove
Fred Meyer
Lew Bates
Louise Betts
Beulah Jarrett
Jay Arnold
Centralia
Leo Landreth
Lillian Godel
Mary Jarrett
Helen Jarrett
Isabelle Herring