Community notices from Creston Advent services and club events
Local items include Dr Roy I Farmer announcing Advent service on December 16 at 10 30 am with the sermon God’s Indescribable Gift. Bake sale at Winkler on December 15. American Legion Auxiliary and Garden Club plan gift drives for Apple Creek State Hospital ward and Legion Hall wrap party. Farewell parties for the Miller family and 4H Club activities noted along with church events, meetings, and officer installations across Creston community groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy I. Farmer
Methodist Church
Winkler
American Legion Auxiliars
Legion Home
Charles Louis
Estelle Weir
Apple Creek State Hospital
Auxiliary
Creston Garden Club
Legion Hall
Dee
Apple Creek
Vrs
Harry Keltz
Rob Co
Giet
Foward Miller
Presbyterian Church
Edward Miller
Lima
Ohio
Miller
AtMor
Campus Capers Dear Susie
Dad’s weekend inspired dorm decorations as parents attend classes. A zoology lab demo shows a frog’s brain and heartbeat after death for parent entertainment. SAE pledges repeatedly clash with actives causing probation, de pledging, and a return to mischief. Dorm fire drills again break late records with a towel clad resident in the lobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
SAE
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Cap local women honored in Gray Lady Service ceremony
Thirteen women are capped in the charter class of Gray Lady Service at Apple Creek State Hospital. Local inductees include Mrs. Co E Duskey of 61 N State St, Mrs. F O Kanehl of 111 W Liberty, and Mrs. Clarence Kunkler of 147 Grandview Ave. They completed a ten hour probationary period in occupational therapy work. The ceremony is Sunday December 4 at 2 30 p m in the Quonset Auditorium on hospital grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rittman
Gray Lady
Apple Creek State Hospital
Quonset
Co.e. Duskey
State St
F. O. Kanehl
Furlough for PFC Chester Straub from Seville Ohio
PFC Chester L. Straub spent a 14 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Albert Straub of Seville Ohio. He enlisted August 30 1956 and trained at Fort Leonard Wood then Fort Lee before serving in Greenland. His address is PFC Chester Straub US 52405251 417th Trans Co Fort Eustis Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester L. Straub
Albert Straub
Seville
Ohio
Pfc
Straub
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
Fort Lee
Virginia
Quartermaster School
Thule
Greenland
Chester Straub
Fort Eustis
Virgina
Creston Man Dies After Truck Car Crash at Junction
Paul Whitmore 73 of Canaan Township died instantly Tuesday when his farm truck collided with a car driven by Paul Saltsman of Doylestown at Routes 604 and 6 in Andyason Miles LeRoy. Whitmore was a farmer and livestock dealer and lifelong resident. survivor includes daughter Stella Fulton of Seville and son Miles of LeRoy. Saltsman is in critical condition at Lodi Hospital, a West Salem resident and English teacher in Doylestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Whitmore
Canaan
Paul Saltsman
Doylestown
Andyason
LeRoy
Whitmore
Stella Fulton
Seville
Miiles
Saltsman
Lodi Hospital
West Salem
Obituary: Isaac Boyes 69 of Creston
Isaac Henry Boyes aged 69 died Friday at Lodi Community Hospital after a two week stay. A Canaan Township farmer since 1936 and former Boxboard employee, he belonged to Wooster Baptist Temple. Survived by his wife Tokie Jenkins and five daughters and five sons, 38 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were by J. C. Murray Funeral Home with services at Wooster Baptist Temple and burial in Rittman Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Henry Boyes
Lodi Community Hospital
Canaan
Boxboard
Wooster
Belpre Woman Visiting Sister for Indefinite Stay
Mrs Della Smith of Belpre Ohio visits sister Mrs Alia Art rip for an indefinite stay. Mr and Mrs Chester Watts of 717 N Seneca St are the parents of a 9 lb son Chester Allen born November 1 at Orrville Community Osteopathic Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Smith
Belpre
Ohio
Alia Artrip
Chester Watts
N. Seneca St
Chester Allen
Orrville Community Osteopathic Hospital
Norwayne Student Dies at Sixteen in Illness
Gordon Bruce Rhoads aged 16 died at his Jackson home after a three month illness. Born in Ownley Maryland he was a Norwayne junior active in football and track. Survived by father Melvin and stepmother, two sisters Barbara and Karen, two brothers William and John, two stepsisters Diana and Terry Chenevey. Services were held Tuesday at the Methodist Church with Dr. Roy S. Farmer officiating. Burial in Creston Cemetery. J C Murray Funeral Home handled arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherd
Myrtle Bowman
Anna Farmer
Meichel
Goldie Stoll
Henre Yablonski
Norwayne High School
Wooster
Cannan Juutheran Womens Missanaes Society
Wilfred Backelman
Columbus
Ohio
Germany
Rev Backeliman
Franfort
Roy Nieman
Herbert Werstler
Raymond Tegtmeier
Columbus State School
Glen Borland
Harold Jolly
John Pamer
Eugene Young
Gordon Bruce Rhoads
Jackson
Ownley
Norwayne
Methodist Church
Melvin Rhoads
Barbara
Karen
William
John
Diana
Terry Chenevey
Roy S. Farmer
Creston
Edward Begert
Nelson Nichols
Donald
Robert Boyes
Richard Baid
Richard Allen
Methodist Youth Fellowship
J. C Murray
Infant Dies in Orrville Hospital
Fourteen day old Jeffery Lee Atkinson, infant son of Mr and Mrs Guy Atkinson of Canaan, died Friday. Survived by parents one sister and one brother. Services from the Canaan residence Sunday afternoon J C Murray in charge. Burial in Canaan Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffery Lee Atkinson
Guy Atkinson
Canaan
Orrville Oestapathic Hospital
J. C. Murray
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Margaret Fitzthum
Methodist Sunday School
Millers
Presbyterian Womens Guild
Oz Sio Whitacre
Nelson Gordon
Willian Deas
Harold Carter
Rena Wood
Stella Myers
Harles Coffey
Warren Knepp
Raymond Sykes
Diamond Phi
Ina
America
Philco
Cap
Underwood
Rittman Press
Isaac Boyes
Rittman Hardware
Ford
Don K. Freed
Rittman, Ohio
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