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Rural Iowa Fourth of July Family Gatherings Across Towns
Residents and guests attended multiple July Fourth events in Newton, Bussey, Ottumwa, Lenox, and Os kaloosa. Families including Vos, Oliver, Manges, Carna han, Vander Velde, Vander Meide, Lytwyn ee, and Van Hemert joined reunions, picnics, and dinners. Visitors came from California, Illinois, and Minnesota as extended kin visited relatives and attended funerals and lawn weddings nearby.
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William Vos III
Adele
Edward Oliver
Edmondson Park
Oskaloosa
Bud Manges
Bussey
Maxwell Carnahan
Maptag Park
Newton
Durham
California
Ilinois
Bob Marsh
Villisca
Clarence Vander
Stra
Charles Spoel
Zuideman
Dick Duncan
Earl Vander Meide
West Des Moines
Louise Vander Meide
Mabel Littleton
Hs. Neal Schuring
Louise
J. B. van Hemert
Warren Sandeen
Duluth
Minnesota
Sheldon Gladstone
Des Moines
Bill Peters
Tom Steward
Oklahoma
Texas
Herb Vander Waal
Bill Kilpatrick II
New York City
Lorh
Bill
East
Marlene Booy
Sioux City
Muller
West d
North Dakota
Gertrude Lourens
Francis van Veen
Frank van Veen
Connie Vanden Baard