Blind Johnston City homemaker overcomes blindness with braille living
Jean Heiser, totally blind for three years, runs a household in Johnston City with braille labeled appliances, plastic stored goods, and help from her husband and family. She learns braille via Alvin Roberts, uses talking books, and shares humor about cooking mishaps while staying active in church and community activities.
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Frances Killpatrick
Southern Illinois
Johnston City
Jean Heiser
Susan Heiser
Jean
Tommy
Hurst
Lacrosse
Wis
Janesville
Alvin Roberts
Carbondale
Dept. of Public Welfare
Library of Congress
General Mills
Crab Orchard Lake
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Catholic Women's Club
Susan
Parish Picnic And Bazaar Plans Highlight Community Event
A parish picnic today features cake and punch served by Mrs. John Hosner and Mrs. Bernard Lowe. Final arrangements for a bazaar planned for July 13 include a chicken dinner at 5 p m and a walk through the church grounds.
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John
Hosner
Bernard Lowe
Home Bureau Day set with demonstrations and new member event
The Jackson County Home Bureau hosts Dem onstration and New Member Day from 10 a m to 3 p m on Wednesday. Open house 10:30 to 1 with a 1 o'clock program featuring piano by Frances Etherton and a schedule of jam and jelly making film strip sewing lessons and 4 H stunts.
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Jackson County Home Bureau
Frances Etherton
Barbara Sue Hagler
Midland Hills
Christopher Miners Hospital Auxiliary Carnival Event
The Christopher Miners Hospital Auxiliary will sponsor a carnival in Christopher from July 5 to 9 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars park on Market Street. Tickets will be sold at the concessions for treasury funds.
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Christopher
Mollie Brown
Civil Defense
Irene Spikings
Tinsley Webb
Indiana
Dan Webb
Maude Vogel
Walsh Summerfelt wedding in York Nebraska
Saturday ceremony at St. Josephs Church York Nebraska united Miss Deanne Elizabeth Walsh daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas G Walsh of York with Robert C Summerfelt of Carbondale Wisconsin. Officiated by Fr Holloman. Couple will reside in Carbondale after a wedding trip to New Orleans and Florida. Summerfelt a SIU zoology PhD candidate. Walsh employed at Feirich and Feirich in Carbondale.
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St. Ann’s
St. Francis Xavier Church
Carbondale
Harold McAdamis
Robert Hutsch
Deanne Elizabeth Walsh
Robert C. Summerfelt
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
York
Nebraska
Holloman
Scarlett O'Malley
Winnetka
Theresa Geis
Marcia Stuthell
Jackie Miller
Mary. Walsh
Mary Beth Hasse
New Orleans
Florida
Southern Hills Apartments
Summerfelt
Loretta Heights College
Denver
Feirich and Feirich
Stevens Point College
SIU
Zoology
Air conditioner rescue from family in Centralia
Margaret Boswell recalls a hot 96 degree trailer day in Centralia. Her mother buys an air conditioner, her brother installs it and repairs the slanted stairs, causing a fall but leaving her oddly cool and grateful.
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Centralia
Marion couple wed in family home ceremony
Judith Evelyn Howenstein married James Goddard in a June 17 ceremony at the home of Paul and Charlotte Wilson in Marion before 30 guests. The bride, a 1960 Marion High School graduate, and the groom, a 1959 SIU Vocational Technical Institute graduate, now reside in Paducah, Kentucky.
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Judith Evelyn Howenstein
Leon Howenstein
Maplewood St
Marion
James Goddard
Eugene Field
Alline Goddard
George Ritter
Paul Wilson
Charlotte Road
Sharon Sue Vinson
Charles Robert Jackson
Wilson Home
Goddard
Marion High School
Southern Illinois University Vocational Technical Institute
Union Carbide
Paducah
Miss Dasher to Wed James O'Steen
Mr and Mrs Arthur Dasher of West Frankfort announce the engagement of their daughter Barbara Ann to James Paul O'Steen son of Mr and Mrs Nobel O'Steen of Thompsonville The couple plan a July 2 wedding at Third Baptist Church West Frankfort Barbara Ann Dasher is a Frankfort Community High School graduate with Airline Personnel training in Omaha Neb She worked as secretary to the manager of the Prudential Insurance Co Branch in Peoria James P O'Steen is a Thompsonville High School graduate employed by the Stetson China Co in Lincoln
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Arthur Dasher
West Frankfort
Barbara Ann
James Paul O’steen
O’steen
Nobel O’steen
Thompsonville
Miss Dasher
Frankfort Community High School
Omaha
Neb
Prudential Insurance Co
Peoria
Stetson China Co
Lincoln
Third Baptist Church
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Mrs. Heiser
Talking
Wisconsin
Trixie
Home Bureau
Joe Deason
Somerset
Frank Jacquot
Miss Walsh
Thomas G. Walsh
Louis G. Plushnak
Nikoosa
Wisc
Raymond Petterson
Richard Walsh
Dennis Walsh
Cathi Walsh
Mark Petterson
Margaret Boswell
Frances
Higgins
Mrs. James Goddard
Barbara Ann Dasher
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