Community Visits and Family News in Zion and Nearby Areas
Local residents report visits among families including the Carters Feather Belcher Sanders and Chandler households. Hospital trips note Mrs. Maggie Wall’s gallstone tests and surgery prep, with several kin and friends stopping by. Aft ernoon drives explored the Boulder oil field and Carlyle Dam area, while illnesses include mumps affecting Larry Pratt and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder
Carlyle Dam
Aletha Sanders
Genevieve Orrell
Dick Feather
Kinmundy
Mary Feather
Charles Murfin
Lori
Vandalia
Marvin Chandler
Sammy
Glen Blake
Bruce Carter
Lester Belcher
Copperas Cove
Texas
Melvin Belcher
Rhoda
Walter Belcher
Salem
Eugene Belcher
Belchers
Bears and families visit in Vernon Payne era
A local column lists numerous Sunday and weekend visits among residents. Helen Caudle Vernon Payne and family visited Mrs. Lulu Payne. Tom Barnes and wife from Rochester, Illinois, visited Charles Fiscus. others called on relatives, attended a fish fry, celebrated Thural and Della's 39th anniversary, and toured the new Old Folks Home by the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Payne
Lulu Payne
Tom Barnes
Rochster
Ill
Charles Fiscus
Mary Ballance
Cora Ballance
Decatur
Thural Morey
Cecil Holt
Estell Blunk
Walter Arnold
Jack
Dayle Robertson
Thural
Della
Weekend Visits Document Local Social Roundup
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Herschel of Lincoln spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kinney. Don Towler and daughters visited Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Heather in Pittsburg while Mrs. Fayne Marohl traveled to Decatur to see her mother. Sunday school counted 32 attendees. Mr. Orval Jones was taken to the hospital Monday evening, May 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Herschel
Lincoln
Lloyd Kinney
Don Towler
Herschel Heather
Pittsburg
Fayne Marohl
Decatur
Orval Jones
St. Mary’s Hospital
Centralia
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Judy
Linda
Dale Sperger
Darrell, Dick
Ricky Adams
Richard Feather
Berthel Sanders
Rhoda Belcher
Farthing
Odin
di Falco
Steak House
E. Bre
Dawy
RTE
Savings and Loan Assn
Broadway and Elm
Nell
N. Bray
Salem, Illinois
N. Poplar
Centralia, Illinois
Bear Haven
Helen Caudle
Clyde White
Simps Caudle
Caleld
Raymond Caudle
Cecil
Hallie Holt
Stephen Ballance
Doug Hassey
David Goodin
Richard
Butch
Carla Landreth
Leo Landreth
Jerry Murray
Stanley Meador
LaRoy Academy of Beauty Culture
Sybil Edgington
Francis Baker
Illinois
Checkerboard News
Universal
Butane Go
S. Locust Centralia
Tate Ave
Halden Hill
BATES
SHELL
M & W Products
Patoka
Irina
sRiic
Purina
Checker Board
Patoka Elevator CO
Mansfield Heating & Plumbing
Holly
Ziegler Corp
Gragg Equipment Co
Firestone Tires
Hwy
E. Centralia, Ill
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