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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
4
Local residents and visitors frequent Cape Girardeau Sikeston and Charleston venues. Names include Mrs Paul Foster Mrs Ruth Finney and Mrs Robert Foster Mrs H B Green and daughter Margaret, and several families from St Louis Sikeston Jackson and Per kins. Activities range from shopping visits hotel stays and hospital procedures to radio announcer employment and family visits across towns.
Mrs L B Swanner and family hosted guests from Sikeston and Detroit while Mr and Mrs James Pratt and kin visited relatives. Frank Poe of St Louis spent a week here with kin and friends. Maurice Beardslee and son Harold of Detroit joined relatives here. Lester Martin of near Cape Girardeau and Bonnie Lee Brewer traveled for parental business in St Louis. Glenn Beardslee and daughter Glenda of St Louis spent a week with relatives. Camille Darby and Margie Watson of Detroit visited G C Darby. Dayton Phelps and daughter of St Louis were guests for several days. James Buck and Judy of St Louis visited Mag Buck and Dorman Buck and family. Eugene Granneman and Sandra Jean spend the week with their husband and father on a boat. Van L Gray and their children from Winfield visited C M Beardslee’s family.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Church of God Vanduser for Mrs Tou rana Richards 79 who died Saturday at her daughter's home Miss F Spann Vanduser Rev J L Hatchel Cape Girardeau officiated Burial in Sikeston City cemetery with Welsh service Surviving: three daughters I McGuinn O F Spann and Lucile Hutchison a son Raymond Richards and Lonnie Counselor a Grand Haven Michigan, stepson Myrtle Ferguson, Marquand.
Mr and Mrs L W Waters of Matthews announced their son Wallace E Waters has been promoted to First Lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in combat in Italy from April to May 10 He has served overseas with the 394th Field Artillery Battalion since last November Other Matthews News includes local visits trips and family happenings from community residents and mentions of weddings and hospital training assignments In Kennett the Board of Education seeks a new superintendent after QO L Pierce resigned after eight years leading the district
The Municipal Opera revives Victor Herbert’s The Fortune Teller starting Monday night June 25 for seven nights at 8 45. It features Metropolitan Opera stars Mini Benzell and Morton Bowe in lead roles with John Gurney Ruth Urban Earl Mac Veigh and more in a lavish Forest Park production of the popular operetta with songs like Slumber On My Little Gypsy Heart and Hungarian Hussars.
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