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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1953
Page
2
The Ivanhoe Manor PTA will hold its last meeting of the year on Tuesday May 26 at 8 pm at the school. Installation of new officers will take place and annual reports will be presented. A Musicale by Ivanhoe Manor School students directed by Rocco Mattel. Hostesses include officers and chairmen.
The Lowvale Chapter of the Order of Eastern Stars will host a spring luncheon at Masonic Hall on Lincoln Avenue in Dalton. Business people are served at 11:30 am and the public at 12:30 pm. Adult tickets cost 8a and children 50 cents.
Ss Marys Catholic Church Riverdale announces its Altar and Rosary Society will hold a May 24 Communion Sunday at 8:00 am Mass. Girl Scout units from the parish will join in communion with Brownies of Troop 81 who recently received their First Holy Communion. The group met May 18 at 8:00 pm and May devotions honored the Blessed Mother.
The final Thorn ton Township High School and Junior College P.T.A. meeting is set for Monday May 26 at 8 00 p m in the high school auditorium A film Sure We Argue At Our House will be shown and discussed by Mrs Bertram E Little State Visual Education Chairman Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers Formal installation of the new officers will conclude the meeting Hostesses for the social hour will be parents from Markham Mid Jothian Oak Forest Blue Island Tinley Park and Posen with Mrs Otto Bohn as chairwoman
Jackson Arthur Pickett aged 69 of 1159 Green Street Chicago died May 14 employed as a salesman He is survived by his wife Florence and a sister Mrs Jennie Chandler of Dalton Funeral services were held Saturday May 16 at Bachman Funeral Home at 1 pm with Rev Russell Howard of the Dalton Methodist Church officiating Interment was in West Lawn Cemetery Cullom Illinois
Carl Nerwood Bickel 53 of 14106 Clark Street Riverdale died May 11. He was an inspector at Acme Steel Company and a member of Lowvale Lodge 1139 AP & AM. Survived by wife Letha two sons James and Donald two daughters Mrs Gordon McFarland and Mrs Laura Brown two sisters Mrs Mary Simpson and Mrs Addie Little two brothers Harry and Earl and seven grandchildren. Funeral services were Thursday May 14 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church Riverdale with Rev R C Shawll officiating. Interment Mount Vernon Cemetery Chicago Bachmann Funeral Home in charge.
Gertrude Elizabeth Reisig died May 15 at her daughter’s home in Dolton. Born July 5, 1884 in Oakley Idaho, she had lived in the area seven years. Survived by two daughters Lonna Ruth Leleu and Mary B. Glassey, five sisters, one brother and three grandchildren. Funeral 10 am at Bachmann Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Schuller officiating.
Monica Freeman age 38 died in Athens Florida after an accidental fall. She leaves husband Sydney and two daughters Blaine and Linda Lou. Funeral services were held Wednesday May 20 at St Marys Church Riverdale with burial at Assumption Cemetery. Bachmann Funeral Home directed arrangements.
Charles E Shaffer of Riverdale New Jersey area is honored by Investors Diversified Services Minneapolis for top regional 1952 sales in face amount installment investment certificates mutual fund shares qualifying for TD S Presidents Club membership among over 2200 representatives announced by Earl Crabb LD S chairman president
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