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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1955
Page
4
Elfen Sexton daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerald Sexton of Poplar Avenue will leave Sunday to enroll at Monterey Academy.
Mr and Mrs George Nugent and two children Pat and Mike arrive from Casper Wyoming to attend J B Nugent and Patricia Sinnott wedding in Shafter on September 10th They stay with Mrs Nugents parents Mr and Mrs M A Seales on Enos Lane and plan to remain two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Absher hosted a four generation gathering at 164 Rodriguez Street honoring Nellie Absher. Fifty two attendees included 28 grandchildren and two great grandchildren with relatives from California and Chicago. After reunion and dinner attendees dispersed back to their homes.
Jerri Vannatta bride elect of Jack Janzen Jr was surprised Friday evening at the home of Mrs William Dalke with co hosts Mrs Donna Lynch and Mrs Dalke. Guests enjoyed games prizes gifts refreshments and flowers. The wedding is set for September 17 at Union Congregational Church in Shafter.
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its first fall meeting Tuesday September 6 at eight o'clock in Memorial Hall. Norma Hooks will present slides from her trip to Sacramento for Girls State. Reports of summer activities will be given. Hostess will be Mrs Louise Bellows.
Dr. and Mrs. Pete Guenther of 289 Golden West avenue arrived in Shafter after a three week visit with Mrs Guenther’s sister and husband, Mr and Mrs Robert Arnett in Bellingham Washington. They also took a three day sightseeing trip to Vancouver Island.
Al C Goodman of Kernville reports that Master Sergeant Russell Sprague his wife and two children have returned to the United States after two years in Germany and two in France with the 12th Air Rescue Group and are now stationed near San Marcos Texas. During service they adopted a girl. Mrs Sprague the former Aldine Myrick Janzen. They regret they cannot visit Shafter yet due to vacation time used in Europe.
A private funeral service for infant Jannett Carr of Delano was attended by relatives from Shafter including R. W. Rodgers, Tammie Trantham, Cecil Golding family, Tom Loomis, Bob Rodgers, Millard Woolsey, and Jess Combs. Frank Trantham’s sister Frankie is Mrs. Carr, with C. E. Starxes of San Francisco also present.
Friends gathered Saturday to celebrate the Jay Steelmans house warming at 300 Tulare Avenue hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brantley and others. A weiner roast accompanied gifts for the couple as guests listed include families and members from Exeter and local residents.
Mrs Roy Pasley and her grandson Danny Evans returned from a seven week vacation to Topeka Kansas visiting her father Everett Martin and cousin Mrs Alvin Swank in Kansas City. They traveled with Mr and Mrs Ray Shively of Hayward and stopped in Hereford Texas to see Charles Pasley. En route home they noted the flash flood damage from the day before and previously traveled with Mr and Ricky of Bakersfield who returned home earlier.
The Shafter Business and Professional Women's club will hold its first fall meeting on September 6 at Irene Tilley’s home 120 West Lerdo Avenue. All members are urged to attend as final plans for the membership tea will be made with Mildred Patterson as general chairman.
Nelle Marie Newton of Atlanta marries Minor Reade Rootes of Shafter in a single ring service at St. Luke Methodist Church Columbus Georgia conducted by Rev Pledger W Parker. Attendants include Dorothy Newton and Page Rootes with a New Orleans honeymoon planned at 708 East Main Fowler California.
Mr and Mrs Claude Raines returned home from a nine weeks vacation in the East visiting Scottboro Alabama Washington D C Virginia West Virginia and relatives in Martins Ferry Ohio They traveled back via Nebraska and Wyoming and are now at the Janzen Apartments Lerdo Avenue.
A Canadian visitor from Toronto arrives by plane in Bakersfield on Saturday for a week with Mrs. Lawrence Gloeckler and Tina Weins. She is aunt to Mrs. Gloeckler and sister-in-law to Tina Weins, and will be met by the Gloecklers. She plans to depart in a week from British Columbia after visiting friends and relatives.
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