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Iowa Farm Homemakers Honor Roll Crowns Six Winners
Six Iowa farm homemakers were honored at a Des Moines luncheon for the 1963 master homemaker award. Recipients include Mrs. Roy Cornie Morning Sun Mrs. Nathan Frederick West Branch Mrs. Howard Pearson Ellsworth Williams Mrs. Hugo Schnekloth Eldridge and Mrs. C D Spear Indianola Mrs. Spear’s family has farmed 320 acres for over a century. The event also recognized 15 top pork producers from across Iowa and three purebred hog breeders, with honorary awards to state figures and editors.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roy Cornic
Morning Sun
Nathan Frederick
West Branch
Howard Pearson
Williams
Hugo Schnckloth
Eldridge
C. D. Spear
Indianola
C. E. Warland
Fort Dodge
Cornice
Cornie
Louisa County Extension Council
Cornics
Columbus Gazette
Adams
Jobson
Ceder
John Brown
Harpers Ferry
Frederick
Farm Bureau
Fredericks
Hamilton County
Farm
Ellsworth
Hugo Schnekloth
FL Drige
Scott County Extension Council
Schnekloths
John
Davis
Schnekloth
Spear
Indianola Farm
Spears
Warren County
Marvin
ISU
E. Warland
Warlands
Badger
Conference of American Lutheran Church Women
Wallace Farmer
Merle Twinam
Crawfordsville
Keith Barnes
Brighton
Byron Hafner
Letts
Cloyce Stuart
Washington
Stephen Wiggers
Ora | Babbitt
Avoca
Leo Bodenstein
Iowa Falls
Alvin van Langen
Radcliffe
Ed Stadtlander
Rockwell
Keith Kent
Auburn
Harold Holm
Stanhope
Wall Brothers
Iowa City
Louis Lane
Preston
Norman Getz
Storm Lake
Howard Palmer
Shell Rock
Morris Nuehring
Kanawha
Homer Schoenwetter
Garner
Emmett Wolf
Cleghorn
Walter Martin
Renwick
Wallace Messerschmitt
Hedrick
Carl Hirsch
C. J. Cooper and Sons
Hartley
F. L. Jackson