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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1957
Page
6
Local residents report visits and gatherings across nearby towns. Mrs. Carl Crane of Monroe visits the Van Zante home. The Sunshine Bible Class meets at Mrs. Gertrude Ralbers. Several families attend funerals and share greetings, with plans for Tulip Time travel and spring projects. Weather and moisture updates accompany social notes as residents discuss visits, repairs, and community events.
Mercy Oskaloosa treated Ethel Hart and Ethel Morris for medical needs. Grace Ballard visited Red Rock with Maud, later to Collins Hospital for a blood clot. Delighted by wet snow, residents enjoyed igloos at Red Rock school while Norman Karr tended garden and others planted oats. Dawn Elizabeth arrived as Ernie and Renee Reed’s new baby girl. Delighting tales of travel plans and Adventist meetings, Des Moines and Pella trips occurred amid village life and rain.
Marvin Van Haaften joins Vermeer ae Co in Pella after work at a Pella Bakery. Daisy Williams hospitalized March 15 for birthday cake and cards. Drs and nurses present. Aunt Alice Van Ryswyk, 86, visits with cane. March 14 marked 62 years of marriage for Alice and spouse. Grace Crozier’s son Leland, now at Knoxville Veterans Hospital. Jerry Waardhuizen farms river-bottom land. Art Waardhuizen and Catherine Waardhuizen flew to Cedar Rapids. Dave Robinson ill in Collins hospital. Mrs. Louis De Moss also ill. Mary Templeton and others attend funeral for Mrs. Frank Kingery in Knoxville. Killdeer and turtle dove noted in snowfall. Sarah Harvey substitutes at Dunreath during Lucille Mullens clinic trip.
Mrs Tunis Blom and Mrs Eugene Kaist the former Janice Vander Pol were honored at a party with gifts and a tray lunch. Mr Vernon Vander Kamp and three children visited Herry De Jong in Sully. Mrs Dick Bruxvoort hospitalized in Newton for tests. Weddings noted for Robert Rozendaal and Mary Jean Freeken in Newton. Lydia Society hosts a Holland Psalm Sing April 11 with free lunch. Henry Van Wyk returns from Texas. Martha Circle meets at First Reformed Church planning clothing drive for Indian Mission in Nebraska. Many area residents listed among attendees. Donald Beerends of Prairie City welcomed a son born March 29 at Mi Hospital in Oskaloosa. Mrs Ralph De Vries hospitalized in Des Moines, now home. Peter Kloostra home from Mahaska hospital in Kal oosa. Needs concise cleanup.
Mr and Mrs Harry De J and Mr and Mrs Ed De Z visited Mr and Mrs Joe Pal at the John Paltzer home in Pleasantville. Joe has recovered well after surgery in New York City. Babies baptized at the Christian Reformed Church include Lloyd Ray Van Zante and Mario Brent Ja. The Rev Van Essen presided. Beginning April 7, services at the Christian Reformed Church will shift to morning and evening with Rev H Bossenbroek of Pella leading.
Rev Haverkamp led morning services at First Reformed Church in Prairie City with an evening return despite bad weather. Local residents attended cancer drive instructions in Newton and a funeral in Pella for Harry De Jong. Weekend travel included Grand Rapids and Knoxville outings, with church groups meeting for repairs and meals. Kathy Linn Terlouw turned three as family gatherings and birthday celebration took place. Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid planned an all day event with a pot luck lunch and sewing activity. De Haai family attended Clyde Palmer funeral in Moravia.
Mrs Nick Van Dyke shopped in Des Moines and returned with daughter Margie for the weekend. Prairie City visitors attended the travelog at Douyrstre Chapel and several joined church events at Trinity Reformed. Mrs Emma Rinehart died at 71 in Prairie City and funeral was at Pleasant Hill. Other notes include a 60th anniversary in Pella and a Fort Dodge plant discussion among local residents.
Coal Ridge News reports a sequence of social visits across Knoxville including Harold Bailey Priscilla and Donnie with Chas Bailey's family, Rev and Mrs Deiterick from First Baptist Knoxville, C J Anderson and Diana at Bob Sager’s, and gatherings involving W A Anderson, G H Franklin, Wm Franklin and their daughters. Multiple Sunday and weekday visits feature the Franklins, Andersons, Dixons, and Crosbies with relatives in nearby New Sharon and Bella. The note closes with a stray line about a crippled child.
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