A Glance at Washington History and Holiday News
A year end Washington column highlights a new public street map due in January and a flurry of holiday visits. Local families travel to Des Moines and Taylorstown while others host relatives from New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Michigan for Christmas.
Service Pfe Larry E Jones US 55720098 D Co 815th Engr Bn
Service personnel listing for Larry E Jones with unit D Company 815th Engineer Battalion APO 33 San Francisco California. This entry records military assignment and location for identification and archival purposes.
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Pfe
Larry E. Jones
D Co
Engr
First Wash County resident earns Red Cross swim cert
Milo Steele Jr. becomes the first Wash ington County resident to complete 50 miles in the Red Cross swim and stay fit program. He joins others aiding the elderly, decorating the county home, and delivering candy during the 1962 Christmas season.
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Milo Steele Jr
Washington County
Red Cross
Washington
Washington Christmas Party Brings 165 Attendees
The Washington Rotary club and YWCA hosted a Christmas party in the YMCA community room with dinner, presents, and a Santa visit for 165 attendees. A holiday film screened afterward as 13 new Letter Club members were initiated at the high school.
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Washington Rotary Club
The
YWCA
YMCA
Nursery School Tea and Community Christmas Events
The Jack and Jill School and Washington Community Schools observe Christmas break with reconvening Jan 3. A mother tea is held Dec 21 as children decorate and bake cookies. Local social events include showers and gifts for Miss Latta bride elect Miss Linda Brindley honored at breakfast and linen gifts. A baby boy named Matthew Douglas born to Doug and Margie Fuhr weighs pounds 2 ounces.
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Jack and Jill School
Washington Community Schools
E.D. Morrison Jr
Linda Brindley
Miss Brindley
Billie Young
Robert Day
William Shannon
Doug Fuhr
Boulder, Cole
Matthew Douglas
Fuhr
Margie McCleery
Richard H. McCleery
Glenn Fuhr
Washington
Washington Area Christmas Party Held At YMCA
Employees of Washington Manufacturing Company and guests enjoyed their annual Christmas party with a buffet in the YMCA and a program. Local residents mention holiday travels, illnesses, and family visits as part of the week’s social notes.
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Washington Manufacturing Company
YMCA
Holiday Concert Delights At High School Symphonic Band
The high school Symphonic Band directed by Alan Bergstrom performed The Glorious Sound of Christmas in the new gymnasium with a Christus backdrop. Mrs. Clifford Thorne left for New York City for Christmas with Elizabeth Thorne. A Washington home was broken into and ransacked Thursday evening but only a small amount of change was taken. The break in occurred at 709 East Van Buren St between 7:30 and 9 p.m. Washington Junior High eighth graders were invited to a free movie on December 24 by the Washington Chamber of Commerce. Washington High girls defeated Mascaline West 42 to 38. Mrs. W J. Shannon hosted a PEO Chapter 1 Christmas tea with overnight visitors from Omaha and Chicago arrivals for Christmas. David Brewer, recently ill, has recovered and came home. The Stebbins family from Rockford, Illinois, are due to visit Christmas week.
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Dave Livingston
Taylorstown
Dave Jr
Oscar Lucas
Livingston
S.W. Livingston
Alexandria
William Livingston
Harold D. Briley
Daytona Beach
Fla
Harold
Ben Briley
Mary Briley
Menominee
Mich
Lee Drollinger
Lemmon
Shelbyville
Ind
Cyrus Lemmon
C.S
JE. Lemmon
Bob Frink
New York
Russell Frink
W. F. Flynn
West Chester
Charles Morris
Gordon
Walter Wells
Jimmy
J.E. Wells
Chicago Heights
Curtis Wells
George Powers
Richard Wright
Des Moines
Don Gardner
Washington
Lewis Anderson
Anna Marie Weeks
San Andreas
Calif
Dewey
Miss Weeks
California Eastern Air Ways
Chicago
John Jackson
Simpson
Albert Simpson
F.E. Bartow
Geraldine
Ruth
Gidley Cafe
York
State Theater
St. James Church
Naval Pilot Training
Rendevour, Pvt
Dale Bower
Camp Leonard Wood
Duane Allen
Alan Bergstrom
Christus
Glenn L
Todd) Wilson
East
van Buren St
Birthday Party Poem Of The Week
Poem describes a mother preparing Christmas cheer with cherubs angels and a house full of helpers. Grandma Anne and Mary join in baking and decorating while a star shines over a tree signaling a warm Christmas Eve at home. Vivian Baumgartner Word Weavers.
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Gabriel
Grandma Anne
Mary
Hospital and Birth Notices Row Across Iowa Entries
Daily hospital notes list births adoptions and admissions in Washington Kalona Columbus Junction Keota West Chester Muscatine and surrounding areas. Entries name families such as Mr and Mrs Ronnie Rich a son Mrs Leland Wheeler and Miss Marlene Peiffer among others with dates for yesterday and today.
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Ronnie Rich
Washington
Ronald Bender
Kalona
David Brewer
Rolland Baird
Cotter
Jacob Swantz
William Conaway
Muscatine
Edgar Boone
Iowa City
Gregory Reece
Columbus Junction
James Fuhr
Richard Hills
Frank McKune
Tom Morrison
Keith Murphy
Donald Schantz
Ella Flood
Donald Hendrickson
Leland Wheeler
Columbus City
Marlene Peiffer
Charles Lyle
Keota
Oren Miller
James Morrow
West Chester
Deaths noted across towns including Davenport and Washington
Obituary notes list Linda Bales 18 of Davenport killed in a weekend highway crash. Maude Pardon 81 and Nettie S. Custer 87 die in Washington area facilities. Irene Conrad 71 dies in Keota while visiting Florida. Vincent Pohren 82 of Davenport passes after illness. Charles Dolies 69, famed amateur golfer, dies in Long Beach. Lon Hyde 84 dies in Wayland Pines Rest Home. Andrew William Henry 79 of Fairfield dies in Washington County. Funeral services set for Mrs Irene Mary Conrad in Keota.
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Bob Anderson
Dick Moothart
John Green
Bob
Nardy
John Cherry
Bill McDole
Jim Richards
Charles
Skeeter Lemley
William A. Brown
Dudley
R.F. Rae
Bill Brown
Helen Foster
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
John Foster
Ruth Marjorie Walker
Dell Walker
Missouri Teachers College
Kirksville
WMT
London
133Rd Infantry
Merle Simpson
Phillips and Hebner
Evening Journal
F.W. Eastwood
Bill
Carol Brewer
Sterling
Kan
Jay Brewer
Journal
Maxine Baxter
Margaret Marshall
Moody Bible Institute
Maxine
Kathleen Coffey
Helen Jungbluth
E.D. Morrison
County Tax Payers League
Children of
Ralph Pratt
Santa Claus
Clayton Nicholson
H.C. Hull
Josephine
Cedar Rapids
Catherie Jane
Henrietta
University of Min
Nesota
Minneapolis
Betty Babcock
Marianna Ball
Pittsburgh
Orville Elder
Glendale
Pops Harrison
Washington Junior College
Y Leaders
Harrison
Charles W. Davis
Fred Downing
Donald Rinner
Ames
W.S. LaGrange
George Freshwaters
Washington Junior College Cardinals
Stan Kiesey
356
Ira Bowman
W. H. Keeley
Mary Juliet Lemmon
Patricia Keeley
Frances Darbyshire
Jack Horner
FE. C. Eicher
Horse Shoe Club
Washington County Hospital
State Laboratory
Ington County Hospital
Dorothea Thompson
Josephine Bailey
Barbara Miller
Ophelia Miller
APO
San Francisco, Calif
Review of the
Reota
Merlin Gibson
Blue Bird
Yaro Chmelar
Joe Pieper
M. J. Redlinger
Legion Rooms
City Hall
Robert Brewers
Mercy Hospital
E.R. Cordy and Sons
Daniel and
David
Vandalia, Mo
D.W
I.B. Hoxworth
Marvin Lewis
Hoxworth
Russell Owen
Ainsworth
Smart Distributing Company
William Smarts
Jemina McClintic
Wayland
Glen Payne
Jennifer
Winfield
Robert Payne
Lockridge
K. K. Klopfenstein
Kent Klopfenstein
Bernard Payne
Edgar Payne
Beauchamp Rest Home
Henry County Hospital
J.E. Anderson
Harlan
Tom Stewarts
Ann Stewart
Drake University
Rotarians
Harold Stevens
Mid-Prairie
Demons
Frank Sanders
John Bordwell
Anna Godwin
Shenk
Wellman
Archie Godwin
Merl Shelman
Shelman
Miles Shelman
Suzanne
Miles E. Shelman
Loris Shelman
Randy
Lane Morgan
Gary
Charles Wikoff
Brighton
John Shelman
Janet Richards
Pam Farrell
Leon Shelman
Ethel Shelman
Mer Shelman
Dave Winslow
Davenport
Lavern Shelman
Wellston
Loyal Order of the Moose
Woren of the Moose
United Presbyterian Homie
the Pines Rest Home
Halcyon House
Hazel Pease
Ft. Collins
Colo
Jd. Pease Jr
Blanche Harvey
Gerald Ibe
Honolulu
Hawaii
Ibe
Shirley
State University of Iowa
Shireen
Harvey
Bishop Estate
Bertram Street
Brian Baird
Santa Barbara
T.A. Jones
G.E
Barney) Sakulin
Eclipse Lumber Company
Clarence Goodwin Jr
Hayward
Clarence Goodwin
Richard Harvey
Dean Funston
Paul Goodwins
Delmer Lendt
Clarence, la
William Rarick
Highland Social Club
Edwin Reha
Linda Fritz
Martin Margeau
Mayeau
John Tucker
Tucker
John Turner
Kenneth Snider
Keith Cohenour
Helen
Warren Shafer
Ben Turner
Cherie
Famil
Howard Arbogast
Jim Trotman
John Arbogast
Bill Turner
Mark Charles Turner
Johnnie Arbogast
Olds
Charles Arbogast
Earl Arbogast
Marilyn Latta
Keith Vetter
Floyd Sturgis
Sturgis
Miss Latta
Harley Cole
Children’s Hospital
Linda Knutson
Milford Knutson
Carrol Young
Iowa Wesleyan College
Stephen Barrett
California
Oak Park
H.C. Pick
Livingstons
James O. Hewitt
Germaine Lane
la Jolle
Brigg James
Clemma Mosier
Fred Palmer
Porger
Palmyra
Harold John Blansett
Marlene Peitier
Rodney Woods
Chalupa
Pat Sorrell
North Texas State University
Denton
Texas
Ed Sorrell
Milo Sorden
Sorden
C.C. Rice
Robert H. Rice
Atlanta, Ga
H. F. Freshwaters
John
San Diego, Calif
Paul Shearer
University Hospitals
James Houstman
Washington High School Distributive Education
Houstman
Clifford Thorne
New York City
Elizabeth Thorne
Washington Chamber of Commerce
JR. Wigh
Cagers
Mascaline West
W J. Shannon
Mery Reese
Myrtle Reese
Catherine Jackie
Mary Ann Kirby
Omahe
Spene Christaes
Littl
Robert Brewer
R. W. Stebbins
Diane
Brian
Rockford, Il
Darrell Ross
Vivian Baumgartner
Israel Hexworth
Medical
Surgical
Edwin Lukovsky
Washington, Surgical
Richard Wart
Judy Simpson
Earl Lemley
Medical Today
Hal Figgins
Richland
Amos Miller
Debbie Jaspering
Nora Hixson
Jimmy Horn
Nichols
Robert Schulte
Harper
Robert Montgomery Wagner
Ella Nash
Joan Hammes
Homer Jarrard
Linda Bales
Maude Pardon
Pines Rest Home
Nettie S. Custer
Jake
Irene) Conrad
Tampa
B. Hexworth
West
Jefferson Street
Vincent Pohren
Chic) Dolies
Long Beach
Irene Mary Conrad
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Keola the Rey
SS Kempker
Wayland — Lon Hyde
Priday Andrew William Henry
Fairfield