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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1954
Page
8
Mrs. Monta Wickham hosted a Sunday afternoon trousseau tea for Effa Jean Wickham. 125 guests were served refreshments by Karen Wickham Janet Fuhriman and Joyce Buttars. Effa Jean, recently wed to Bud Steers of Preston, will live in San Francisco.
The Fine Arts Club held a December 21 Christmas party hosting 26 members at Helen Beckstead’s home with a three course dinner and toasts on club life. Santa distributed gifts as music and capers themes per speakers. The page also notes Elmo Peterson returning from the Northwestern states LDS mission and family Christmas visits across Montana, Salt Lake City, Logan, Denver, and Price with relatives including Maughans and Chidesters.
Ladies of the Cheerio club hosted a Christmas party on December 31 with a dinner for husbands at Chicken Chat o then games at the Morrison home. Gifts exchanged among many named couples and out of town guests included the Thompsons of Richmond. Nancy Greaves hosted a New Year party for ten at her home with lunch for guests Julie Simmons Diane Palmer and others. The Oneida stake Primary Board held a party at the Geddes home in Banida for about forty members and their husbands with dinner and games.
Colleen Gill and Lamont Richards were married in a double ring ceremony at the Logan Temple with President A George Raymond officiating. A Logan cafe breakfast followed and a reception in the second ward chapel featured pink and white carnations and a three tier cake. The couple will honeymoon in New Mexico Arizona and southern Utah. Colleen is a Preston High School graduate and Lamont from Bear River High School.
Many residents spent the holiday weekend visiting relatives across Utah and Idaho. Names include Reginald Harmer, Orris Harner, Vernon Perkins, Parley Stratter, W Paul Merrills Jr, and Rawson Taylor, among others, with travels to Preston Preston Logan Rexburg Sacramento and Amarillo and visits to Ogden, Fairview, and Idaho Falls.
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