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Vernon and area residents mingle with visitors and clubs
Social visits fill a Vernon record as families travel from Vandalia East Peoria and Peoria. the Ladies Aid frames a quilt for Patoka, the 4-W Pinochle club holds a March 13 gathering, and many locals attend church, hospital, and university events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estella White
Louis Laurence
Peoria
Jimmy
John Quayle
Marilyn
Hobart Arnold
Zion
Bertha Danbery
Les Ballance
Patoka
Aid
Ada Dolly
Leo Kinney
Leo Freyer
W. L. Cranbery
Melvin Keypler
Vandalia Hospital
Kep
Lorene Sprinkle
Lora Wilson
Hades Laurence
Margaret Livesay
Winnie Sprinkle
Goldie Gherkin
Gertrude Jones
William Hathaway
Paul Chriss
Junior West
Paul Bates
Frederick Jarrett
Marion Laurence
Howard Peyton
Harold Livesay
Isabel ‘Protz
Vandalia
Yale Higle
Gayle Stevens
June Pumphrey
Tom Quayle
Walton Arnold
Breese
Effie Arnold
Fred Lawrence
Harold Jolliff
Augusta Nichols
Tania
Walton
Bill Gregory
Alma Enant Sunder
Tesber Pratt
Alice
Shirley
Hazel Tlanrente
Marrarnt Tivecay
William Hathaway Jr