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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1970
Page
8
A message of gratitude thanks friends relatives and neighbors for prayers cards letters gifts and support during a hospital stay and recovery. The writer extends thanks to doctors Bert Helen and Yates and the Capital staff for wonderful care.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness after the death of husband and father. Special thanks to Rev. J Engbers for visits and prayers. Also notes upcoming choir lessons by Mr Exner focusing on directing, rehearsal techniques, group singing, and read through anthems for varied choir levels to improve church worship.
Local column reviews events from 1930 to 1960 in Rock Valley and surrounding towns. It lists deaths, anniversaries, and community notes spanning the past decades, including obituaries for Elmer E. Miller and Leo Heeto Breat, wedding anniversaries, and local visits.
A flurry of visits marks a weekend in the area as relatives from Grinnell Mason City Sioux City and Sioux Falls converge for the Golden Wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John van de Weerd of Stockton. Attendees include Gerrit Wissink and family Rosie's Kessler Darrell Kessler and others, with notes of concerts and school events in Cedar Rapids Hawarden Vermeillon and Rock Valley as well as a Vienna Academy choir performance.
Extension horticulturist A. E. Cott of Iowa State University says training young trees is 90 percent courage and 10 percent know-how. He warns orchardists to slow production in the first five to six years, treating them like children in a schooling period before fruit bearing begins.
Mrs. Johanna Kragt of Rock Valley announces the engagement of her daughter Joyce to Date Bakker of Rock Valley. Miss Kragt, a 1967 Dordt College graduate, teaches in the Pella Christian School system. Mr. Bakker, also a 1967 Dordt graduate, is employed in Rock Valley. A June wedding is planned.
The Siouxland Conference wraps up with champ Pion Sioux Center 80 over George 43. West Lyon secures second with 15 68 over Boyden Hull. third place to the losers. Central Lyon George and Rock Valley tied for fourth at 3 4 with Allan one game behind. Maurice Orange City ends in eighth. All conference teams enter tournament play this week. Final standings and season records shown in parentheses.
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