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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1972
Page
5
A dense list of visitations and greetings across the Cocal region includes Rev. Erich Dornbusch visiting friends in Oran and Oelwein, multiple families hosting guests from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo, and a string of Sunday and weekend calls among neighbors, relatives, and former residents.
The column notes numerous relatives and friends visiting or staying with families in Tripoli during a recent week. Highlights include Jimmy Lee Hyde staying with grandparents in town while his parents were in Omaha, and Airman Roger Buchholz and family returning to Fort Worth after leave. Several reunions and picnics are described with attendees from Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, California, Seattle, Denver, and beyond.
About 150 friends and relatives attended the celebration for Mr. Sievers marking his 50th anniversary. Attendees included Anna Slack Rose Krueger Dale Krueger and family from Tripoli T A Anderson and R Hecox of Nebraska. Sievers, born in Nebraska, moved to Tripoli as a child, lived there until 1922, then moved to San Bernardino in 1928 where he served as an Oldsmobile dealer for 27 years. He was a charter member of the San Bernardino Business Mens Steak Club and a gold card holder of American Legion Post No 777.
A series of birth notices from Glendale Heights to Waterloo details nine newborns. Jason, weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces, born July 23 to Virgil and wife, with grandparents Arthur Graening and Erwin Hoppenworth. A son born July 11 to Everett Bonarden. a daughter born July 24 to LeRoy Bonarden at Mercy Hospital Oelwein. David Jon Joyce Axon born to Ronald Opfer in Cedar Falls. Melody Ann Westen dorf, 9 pounds 2 ounces, born July 15 at Allen Hospital Waterloo.
The Tripoli High Class of 1947 held its 25th reunion Saturday at the Baraka Inn in Waterloo. Ten members attended along with Mrs. Donald Fuller and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Busch. Letters were read from absent classmates and a five year reunion is planned with Marilyn Hoppenworth Dale Buchholz and Vernon Kirchhoff on the committee.
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