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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1969
Page
5
A long list of Memorial Day guests and weekend visitors from Sumner Waterloo Cedar Falls and other towns visited relatives in homes from Vernon to Fairbank. Families including Brase Woodcock Duncomb Hartman and many others shared hospitality and attended hospital or commencement events at UNI.
A series of births and social visits dates May 28 to Monday highlight area life. Monica Lynn Franzen born May 28 at Allen Memorial Waterloo. Sarah Michelle Franzen born May 29 at Mercy Waverly. Families and relatives from Oelwein Waterloo Cedar Falls and beyond visited friends and attended weddings and graduations including Audrey Singer Tom Manson at Manchester First Lutheran.
Completes basic Pvt. Carmi M. Dooly of rural Ionia has finished basic at Fort Polk Louisiana and attends signal corps school at Fort Monmouth New Jersey. He enlisted in January 1969 and is a 1965 Tripoli High School graduate later earning a United Electronics Institute diploma in August 1969. His address is Pvt Carmi M. Dooly RA 54932949 Co B School Bde USA SC5 Fort Monmouth NJ 07703.
Social notes recount weekend visits at Gouldsburg Park Hawkeye and Waterloo with many families including Meyers Sievers Steward Block Koch and Gundels. Joyce Meyers Joyce and Bernard Gundel’s family honored Joyce’s confirmation in Glidden Lidderdale and South Sioux City Nebraska while veterans from Vietnam are noted.
At the University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls commencement Thursday evening Mrs Jane Hunter earned a BA in Business Education. Attending with families were Alfred and Fred Rieck Gary Otto Rieck Fink Carma Kuethe Brent Steere Meier Dirksen Guthrie Center and others. Mrs Judith Smith and John Smith also attended with Debnam Dennis Debra Charles City family members present.
Nineteen first and second year Agriculture Power and Equipment students from Hawkeye Institute of Technology toured the University of Nebraska Lincoln tractor testing laboratory and related centers on May 21 22. Instructors Jim Waterbach and Jack Bailiff led the group and praised the warm welcome. The visit included talks on minimum tillage and irrigation systems.
A reception Sunday at the Ewald Lahmann residence honored the daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Thompson Moline Sr who were married May 17. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Thompson Mr and Mrs Ted Lahmann Denver Mary Ellen Lahmann and friend Ames Mr and Mrs Frederick Rewoldt and family Frederika Mr and Mrs Herb Miller Mr and Mrs Erhardt Lahmann Mrs Emma Miller and Mr and Mrs Ewald Miller.
Marvin Luhring, son of Mr and Mrs Arlin Luhring, departed Waterloo Tuesday morning to enter military service.
In Denver special report, Mr. and Mrs. B T Moon of Cedar Falls observed their 57th wedding anniversary at their daughter’s home in Calmar Iowa. The Heinz Company sent a gift a letter noting the number 57 holds special meaning and a box of favorite foods. The couple married May 30 1912 and have a son Lael in Des Moines and six grandchildren plus a great grandson.
Otto Wendt died Wednesday evening in a car tractor crash near Fredericksburg. Attendees at the Saturday funeral in Sumner included Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Frahm and family, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nerge, Mr. and Mrs. Aug Hunemuller, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rieck, and Mr. and Mrs. Art Brandt.
Guests gathered Saturday evening at the Donald Mirs home to honor Mrs. Mirs a Wartburg College graduate. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Carl Lang Mr and Mrs Glen Mirs Mr and Mrs Edwin Kasemeier and family Mrs Bertha Kasemeier Sumner Mr and Mrs Lorenz Strottman Mrs Janice Dorn and daughters Readlyn Mr and Mrs Erwin Volker Mr and Mrs Ray Brase and Mr and Mrs John Poock. Mrs Mirs earned a B S in elementary education.
Mrs. Victor Bartels of Denver marks their silver wedding anniversary with an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 PM at St. Peter Lutheran Church. They wed June 8, 1944, in Elma, were guests hosted by children Mrs. Richard Buss and Jerry Lee, with Ronald deceased and one grandchild Scott Buss. The couple, residents of Denver for nineteen years, will join family at Carver's Restaurant in Waverly for a noon dinner.
A pot luck dinner at the home of Mrs. Anna Kappmeyer Sunday honored her birthday with guests including Ervin Petersen and Roger Readlyn, Ruben Poock and Mary Ann Waterloo, Harold Kappmeyer and Brian Clear Lake, Wm Kappmeyer McGregor, Allen Bockhaus and family, Lavern Busse and family Waverly, Wayne Sauerbrei and family Fairbank, Charles Mueller and family, Paul Kappmeyer, Walter Kappmeyer, and Henry Kerkhoff Fredericksburg, Pat Brogan. Afternoon visitors were Henry Kerkhoff and Pat Brogan.
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