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Looking Back Sunday and Local Obituaries Echo Small Town Life
This long chronology recalls a 1963 church fire, funeral notices for Fred Sell Henry Otto Fred Brunscheen Ernest Rucker and other local deaths with services in Buck Creek Waverly and Denver Bremer County events include school graduations marriages births and civic notices from Tripoli and surrounding towns All read as a community ledger of faith schools families and public life across Bremer County Iowa.
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Wm. Barrack
Sumner
Fred Sell
Klinger
Henry Otto
Buck Creek
Fred H. Brunscheen
Elaine Boeckmann
Waverly
Ernest Rucker
Denver
Evelyn Hahn
Ronald Hills
Frederika
Rudolph Pavelec
Bremer County
Tripoli
Tripoli Commercial Club
Wisconsin
Karl Koehler
Faith United Church of
Robert Brewer
Hadley Brewer
Tripoli Community High School
Sandra Bergmann
Sharon O'Connell
Verla Zander
Clarence Christopher
Bremer County Extension Home Economics Committee
Faith Church
John F. Bahlmann
E. E. Basye
West Union
Walter Schwerin
Ralph J. Wikner, Jr
Des Moines
R. O. Wikners
Stan Miller
van Buren
Keosauqua
Tripol
Fred C. Fink
Beaky Piegers
Tripoli Red Sox
Northeast Iowa Baseball League
St. John E&r
Siegel
Duane Buls
Gus Buls
Torrence
Cal
Grace Lutheran Church
Martinsdale
Harold Frese
Mary Anderson
Douglas Hale
Peoples Natural Gas Co
Dale Trent
Dubuque
Leo Wittenburg
Readlyn
Melvin Ohlendorf
Robert Meyer
Joe Brooks
Carl Kowalsky
Seattle
Wash
Einar Fergemann
Ronald Donn
Tripoli High School
Turkey Valley High School
Tripoli Red Cross
William Faust
Arnold Thalacker
Virgil A. Wacker
Post Place
Fred C. ©Inx
Russell Lee Dancer
Marvin Dancer
Kipoll
Barbara Dietz
Robert Hennings
Western Douglas
Wanda Haynes
Dennis Niemeyer
Fredericksburg
Mildred Franscha
Lavern Heine
Faith United Church of Christ
Danny Drewis
Gerald Kiemp
Tripoli Fire Department
Lavern Hunemuller
James H. Eick
Readlyn Savings Bank
Lester Buenger
Lloyd Carpenter
California
Otto Buenger
Truman Stahr
James J. Snedecker
Denver Savings Bank
Tripoli Merchants
Tripoli Nursing Home
Bonnie Eick
Alan Weidler