Meesters to Celebrate 25th Wedding Anniversary
Calvin and Eveline Meester of 409 West Fourth Street observe their 25th anniversary on Saturday June 5 at Colfax Center Presbyterian Church rural Holland. An open house 7 to 9 p.m. with a 7:30 program hosted by their twin sons Ray Freeport Kansas and Rich Cheryl Zenith Kansas. They were married June 15 1951 at Pella and farmed in rural Holland until 1969 then moved to Pella.
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Calvin Meester
Fourth St
Colfax Center Presbyterian Church
Holland
Ray
Freeport
Kan
Rich
Cheryl
Zenith
Eveline van Engelenburg
Pella
Miss Franje Graduates At Iowa Lutheran Nursing
Melody Franje daughter of Mr and Mrs Marion Franje R R New Sharon graduates from Iowa Lutheran School of Nursing at St Johns Lutheran Church commencement exercises were held. She is a 1972 graduate of Pella Christian High School and will be employed at Mahaska County Hospital after graduation.
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Franje
Iowa Lutheran
Melody Franje
Marion ‘Franje
R.R
New Sharon
St. ‘John’s Lutheran Church
Y Melody
Pella Christian High School
Mahaska County Hospital
Drake University awards B A in economics to Bandstra
Thomas A. Bandstra of 2010 Franklin St. received a B A degree in economics from Drake University during recent commencement ceremonies.
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Thomas A. Bandstra
Franklin St
Drake University
Two area grads honored at IHCC commencement
Two area students graduated from Indian Hills Community College in a recent commencement. Sharon Van Hal of Leighton completed the clerical program while Glen A. Fynaardt of Searsboro finished the farm machinery repair program.
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Indian Hills Community College
Sharon “. van Hal
Leighton
Glen A. Fynaardt
Searsboro
Two DMACC Graduates Cherilyn Van Dyk and Debra Rietveld
Two Pella area women completed programs at Des Moines Area Community College on Sunday. Cherilyn R. Van Dyk of Otley finished the accounting specialist program and Debra J. Rietveld of Pella finished the secretarial course.
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Pella Area
Des Moines
From Garage to Broadway David Vos Creats Afoot
David Vos, raised in Pella and educated at Northwest Missouri State, rose from directing garage productions to co writing and choreographing Something's Afoot a Broadway musical whodunit starring Tessie O'Shea The show traversed Atlanta Goodspeed Toronto and other venues before opening on Broadway Vos long career in theater includes work in Des Moines San Juan and Puerto Rico where he led English language theater writing several musicals and guiding a weekly Spanish TV program.
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David Vos
West Market Park
Pelia
David
Tessie O’shea
James McDonald
Robert Gerlach
Atlanta
Goodspeed Opera House
Connecticut
Washington, D.C
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
Toronto
Nelson
Gertrude Vos
Monroe
Pella
Northwest Missouri State College
Des Moines
Who-Tv
New York
Big City
Jack
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Marvin Hamlish
Hamlish
San Juan
Finch
Three Students Named to NMSU Honor Roll
Three area students earned spring semester honors at Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville. Paul Thomassen and Phyllis Van Haalen of Pella and Harlan Bryan of Searsboro achieved 3.0 GPA or higher, with Bryan posting a perfect 4.0.
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Northeast Missouri State University
Kirksville
Paul Thomassen
Phyllis van Haalen
Pella
Harlan Bryan
Searsboro
Bryan
Vander Waal Named M D
Steven Vander Waal son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Vander Waal received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in commencement ceremonies on May 14. He will begin residency in internal medicine in Lansing Michigan on July 1.
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Steven Vander Waal
Ralph Vander Waal
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Steve
Lansing
Mich
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Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Meester
Drake Graduate
lEart Pohlmann
Surance Policy
Longfellow
Sound Pone
Cook & Son Agency
IHCC
DMACC
the Barber
Jose Ferrer
NMSU
Vander Waal
M.D
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Richard
East
1St St. Pella
Iowa
Singer Company
Snapper
Poer
Ant
Van
EPA
Chrysler
Kingma Motors
Pella, Iowa
THE
Dodge Boys
Dodge
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