De Soto volunteer Thelma Blumenstock embodies town spirit
In De Soto Thelma Blumenstock is a lifelong volunteer who gives time money and energy to PTA concessions park board work and youth sports. She attended PTA meetings led elementary programs manned concession stands and even funded uniforms for a state team. Now retired from outside work she tends a garden quilts and donates a yearly quilt to support the De Soto Park while urging others to pitch in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Marx
Southern Illinois
de Soto
Thelma Blumenstock
PTA
Durin Games
Terward
Mills Distributing
Blumenstock
Illinois
Blumenstocks
de Soto Park
Vienna couple to mark 50th anniversary Sunday
Mr and Mrs Leslie Hogshead of Vienna plan a 50th wedding anniversary open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p m at their home. They have two sons Jim of Cincinnati and Tom of Nashville, four grandchildren, and invite friends and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Leslie Hogshead
Virginia Patton
Nashville
Jim
Cincinnati, Ohio
Tom
Nashville, Tenn
Dear Ann Landers column on YMCA privacy concerns
Letters discuss unwanted exposure of young girls in male fitness facilities at Eau Claire YMCA and a reader’s critique of nude photography in marriage. Other notes cover wedding party inclusion of a Black friend and a reverse-name habit in a Bakersfield couple, plus new officers of the Singing Sphinx chapter of Sweet Adelines in Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Landers
Eau Claire
Wis
YMCA
Peoria
Ill
Macon
Burlington
Broudana
Annie
T.T
Mary
Yram
Charles
Selrach
Singing Sphinx Chapter
Sweet Adelines Inc
Linda Clutts
Makanda
Joann Girten
Valier
Betty Jo Malinee
du Quoin
Cathy Jauch
Carbondale
Pat Wheeler
Carterville
First Presbyterian Church
S. University Ave
Willisville couple marks 40th wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lodge of Willisville celebrate 40 years of marriage with an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at St Joseph Parish Hall. They wed Jan. 1, 1942, in Perryville Mo. The couple has five children Ar chie Wydeck Bill Lodge Kay Degenhardt Lyle Wydeck and Wayne Lodge, plus 11 grandchildren across Willisville Salem and Percy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Lodge
Willisville
St. Joseph Parish Hall
Lodge
Dorothy Popham
Perryville
Archie Wydeck
Bill Lodge
Kay Degenhardt
Lyle Wydeck
Salem
Ore
Wayne Lodge
Percy
Volunteers aid breast cancer patients in Reach to Recovery
Local American Cancer Society volunteers Elizabeth Floyd Edna Hadley and Mrs Philip Hoffmann of Carbondale provide practical help to mastectomy patients. They offer exercises guidance clothing adjustments and temporary prostheses along with information manuals. Dr J A Petrazio of Murphysboro presides Jackson County unit.
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American Cancer Society
Elizabeth Floyd
Edna Hadley
Philip Hoffmann
Carbondale
J. A. Petrazio
Murphysboro
Jackson County
The
Cancer Society
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Southern Illinoisan
ED Greer
Virginia Hogshead
Bakersfield
Bake
Anna
Bob
Sweet Adelines
Hancock Fabric
Hancock Fabric’s
Joe Clifton
Paducah
Kentucky
Hancock
Holiday Inn
Paducah, Ky
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