Rolfe High School names valedictorian amid senior awards
Carol Rude daughter of Mr and Mrs Leroy Rude of Rolfe was named valedictorian of the 1971 Rolfe Community High School senior class at Class Night. She held a 3.666 GPA and received the Mary Sherman Fuller Award among multiple honors. Robert Wiegert was salutatorian with a 3.50 GPA and several awards also announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Rude
Leroy Rude
Rural
Rolfe
Rolfe Community High School
Miss Rude
Robert Wiegert
Raymond Wiegert
Robert
RHS
Mary Sherman Fuller
Edna M. Marcum
Laurie Brinkman
Monte Howard
Rolfe High School
Tom Winkleblack
Joe Ives
Memorial Service For 13 Pocahontas Auxiliary Members
The Pocahontas County Legion Auxiliary held a memorial service in Rolfe for 13 deceased members. Candles and poppies honored those who passed in the past year. Poppy Day is set for May 29, with several names listed from Rolfe Laurens Fonda Gilmore City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas County Legion Auxiliary
Rolfe
Donood
Local Legion Auxiliary
Lyle George
Laurens
Don Spencer
Ife
Helen Thompson
Relfe
Etta Mefford
Pocahontas
Hannah Cole
Varina
Anna Tieceman
Mary Rose Messenger
Catherine Bradford
Regina Mullen
Fonda
Marian Howard
Have Iock
Ella Brown
Ellen Hartnett
Gilmore City
Mary Pavik
Plover
Edith Jarville
Sadie Conny
Rolfe Area Pool prepares for May 29 opening and season plan
Rolfe Area Swimming Pool heads to a second season with May 29 opening. Marshall Farley reports ticket sales and staff hires including Sandi Spencer as head lifeguard and guards Dave Loxterkamp Barb Loxterkamp Laurie Brinkman and Jim Hulgan. The pool will run 1 30 to 9 30 daily with adult night 7 00 to 8 30 and lessons 15 cents each for children plus 25 cents for adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe Area
Marshall Farley
Sandi Spencer
Dave Loxterkamp
Barb Loxterkamp
Laurie Brinkman
Jim Hulgan
Red Cross Aid
Havelock-Plover
Rolfe
Obituary and Commencement Report From Rolfe Area
Obituary notices for Mrs. Ted Truelson recount her life from Gilmore City to Rolfe with burial in Clinton Garfield Cemetery. The Rolfe Community School 1971 commencement honors 27 seniors including foreign exchange students Constance Lepca and Geraldo Gama of Brazil and features Max Goldman as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe Community School
Rolfe Memorial Auditorium
Max Goldman
Keokuk
William Hutchinson
Paul Strickfaden
Jerome Coyle
Memorial Day Observance Scheduled for Clinton-Garfield Area
Memorial Day ceremonies set for Monday May 31 at Clinton-Garf ield Cemetery with a 2:00 p.m. program after a 1:30 p.m. salute at the Cecil Cumming memorial tree on Main Street. Poppy Day observance occurs Saturday May 29 with support urged for the American Legion Auxiliary sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton-Garfield
Cecil Cumming
Main Street
James Saathoff
Rolfe Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Schedule Set For Crop Acres Report At ASCS Office
The ASCS announces all crop acres must be reported before Feed Grain program payments. Certification will be more complex this year with a complete farm crop report required. Farmers should bring a farm sketch showing set aside acres and field sizes to the designated township day or visit June 7 to June 11 at the listed offices.
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ASCS
New Orleans
Bellville & Lizard
Cedar & Colfax
Des Moines & Garfield
Death of Dewey McGirk in California
Friends report the death of Dewey Duke McGirk in San Diego California after a long illness with heart trouble He died March 31 Survived by wife Pauline Wilson and two sons Sam and John First published notice from the Rolfe area family in the local paper
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Duke McGirk
San Diego
Calif
Rolfe
Pauline Wilson
Sam
John
Former Resident Freeman Dies in California
Idella Brinkman Freeman of San Bernardino California died May 14 1971 after a yearlong illness. She was born May 5 1895 near Rolfe Iowa taught 25 years and married H W Freeman of Covina. Survivors include her husband two children two grandchildren three sisters and one brother. Services and burial were May 17 in Covina California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Vaughn
Rolfe
Idella Brinkman Freeman
San Bernardino
Calif
Freeman
Diedrich A
Anna Mary Margaret Wiegman Brinkman
Brinkman
Rolfe High School
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
University of California
H. W. Freeman
Covina
Bill
Mary Margaret
Jessie Wellstead
Ottumwa
Mae Caffray
Apple Valley
W. F. Brinkman
Pocahontas
Glaucomobile Comes to Rolfe for Free Eye Screenings
The Glaucomobile visits Rolfe on May 25 and 26 to screen residents for glaucoma at the Legion Hall. Seventy one people have signed up. testing is by appointment, free, and run by the Rolfe Lions Club with support from the Iowa Lions Light Conservation Foundation and the University of Iowa College of Medicine ophthalmology department.
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Rolfe
United States
The
Legion Hall
Iowa Lions Light Conservation Foundation
Department of Ophthalmolgy
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Rolfe Lions Club
Engagement of Cheyl Roe to Edward Vaughn Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Reeder of Waukon announce the engagement of their daughter Cheyl Ann Roe to Edward A. Vaughn son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Vaughn of Rolfe. Both are attending MNI in Cedar Falls. A June 12 wedding is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Reeder
Waukon
Cheyl Ann Roe
Edward A. Vaughn
Alvin Vaughn
Rolfe
Miss Roe
MNI
Cedar Falls
Confirmation at St. Pauls with Rev Brase on May 2
Nine youths from St. Pauls Lutheran Church were confirmed in a service led by Pastor Rev. G. H. Brase on Sunday May 2. Front row included Karen Bierstedt Virginia Ripperger Nancy Post and Randy Thoren with others behind them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
G. H. Brase
Rev. Brase
Karen Bierstedt
Virginia Ripperger
Nancy Post
Randy Thoren
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Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Pocahontas County
Bill Brinkman
Brinkman Auto Company
Dennis Duerling
Shaun Feldman
Karen Brinkman
Michele Pomerenko
Doug Christensen
M. W. Webb
Betty Crocker
Mrs. Newton
Home Ec
Mark Feldman
Mark
T.truleson
Ted Truelson
First Lutheran Church
J. G. Brinkmann
Harold Christensen
Dean Peters
Louis Poppinga
Fritz Guderian
Zola Pisel
John Siefkin
Donald Johnson
Mike Wiemers
Jim Saathoff
John Pogge
Eldon Peters
Harlan Peters
Charles Martens, Jr
Eugene Applegate
Ann Saathoff Truelson
Grace Saathoff
Theodore
Ted) Truelson
Judy
Kay
JoAnn
Pocahontas Community Hopsitl
Cortlyn
Judy) Almquist
Fennimore
Wis
Ron
Kay) Kuehn
Marshalltown
Robert JoAnn Bringolf
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Lettie Martens
Edna Behrendsen
Woodland
Wash
Henrietta Lane
Fort Dodge
John Saathoff
Robert LeRoy Allen
Tim James Bintz Jill Darlene Brinkman
Laurie Brinkman Judy Caroline Deling Mark William Feldman David T. Frerk
Cheryl Ann Richard Karen Lynn Ripperger
Carol Jean Rude Patricia Joan Samson William J. Shimon Paula Marie Sinek
Linda Diane Thoren
Robert James Wiegert
Thomas E. Winkleblack
Debra Lynn Zeman Constance Lepca
Geraldo Gama
Weather Report
May L H P
Market Report
St. Paul’s
Row
Linda Christensen
Lynn Neugent
Raymond Schoon
Ricky Johnson
Alan Kuchenreuther
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