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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1959
Page
4
The Firkins family and their party, including Donald and Tommy Firkins, spent a week vacation at Bluff Creek on the Klamath River and fished the Trinity River. They returned home Friday, August 28.
The SHS wives of faculty and women teachers gathered for a potluck supper hosted by the Wives and Women’s Club. Marilyn Fulcher gave a welcome as the new club president, marking her first official act. Games provided entertainment as the group, meeting monthly, strengthens school ties.
Seven year old Lucy Bergman celebrated her birthday at her grandmother's home with games and gifts. Attending were her cousins Rodney, Danny, Stanley Isaac, David Siemens, her brother Gordon Bergman, her mother Mrs. Lowell Bergman, grandmother Mrs. Isaac Bergman and aunt Mrs. Vernon Isaac.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Isaac and Mr. and Mrs. John Wiens traveled east to Henderson Nebraska for a two day church conference. They visited Whitewater Kansas and Hillsboro before continuing to the Black Hills to view buffalo, take a chair lift, and see the Spearfish Passion Play. They then toured Yellowstone after an earthquake, visited Grand Teton National Park and Salt Lake City includes the Mormon Temple grounds and the Utah State Capitol.
Ida Lovelle Koenig and Calvin Lepp exchanged vows Friday August 28 at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Shafter. The ceremony featured blue and white decor, a large wedding cake, and a reception in the church patio with family and friends in attendance. The couple will reside in Oxnard where the groom works at the State Hospital of Camarillo. the bride is from Shafter and attended Pasadena and Fresno colleges.
Mr and Mrs George Love of Los Angeles welcomed their first child a daughter named Margie L Rayne born in Santa Monica on Wednesday August 26 weighing 6 lbs 8 oz Grandparents are H B Love and Ben Giesbrecht of Shafter The new parents are high school graduates Visiting relatives included Mrs Jess Combs and Mrs George Feustino with overnight at Mr and Mrs Robert Combs of Long Beach.
Attendees for the second shower honoring St Mars daughter included Mrs. John Branner Blake Witcher Russel Ramman Olin Fenderson Jack Dauphin O R Taylor Melvin Parr Vernon Parrott and Ruth Olson. Arrangements and refreshments were planned by Mrs Maynard Wilder Jim T Witcher Leroy Allen Hugh Pennington and Ben Grundy. One game was played with the prize won by Mrs Hugh Pennington followed by an evening of fellowship.
Twenty eight college students were honored at a Wednesday evening social in the Mennonite Brethren arch as they prepare to depart for classrooms near and far. Don Isaac opened with prayer and scripture, with musical selections by a student trio and duets. Reverend Henry Dick spoke, and refreshments were provided by local hosts Abe Isaac, Art Hemingson, and John Enns couple.
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