Washington News Roundup of Holidays and Local Events
A the-long list of visits and engagements highlights Washington area holiday activity. Families including the Wests and Morrises host or attend gatherings. Cpl Dodder and family visit. Sam Simmering wins a Coast to Coast prize coat. education notes mention staff changes and college moves. local clubs install officers and plan open houses. and county residents prepare licenses and attend tax meetings at the courthouse.
Christmas Dinner Guests Across Washington Area
A week of Christmas gatherings centers on Washington families hosting relatives and friends from Iowa City, Wellman, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Oakland and beyond. Notable entries include households of Quinn, Lowe, Young, Morris, Friese, Hensel, Funk and many others sharing dinners and exchanges amid travel disruptions from winter storms. Some out-of-town guests include Olive Miksch of Ainsworth and Ruth Dupuis of Mason City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Thieleker
Chicago
James L. Quinn Jr
Iowa City
John Quinn
State University of Iowa
James L. Quinn
Thielekers
Olive Miksch
Ainsworth
Quinns
Bob ‘Lowe Sr
Bob Lowe Jr
Dan
Tom
Sue
Clarence Lee
Marlin Peiffer
Joe Richards
Kim
Merion Edwards
Kathy
Ruth Lowe
West Branch
Larry Lee
Carol Foley
Sterling, Ill
Ruth Dupuis
Mason City
W. B. Dupuis
Des Moines
Leo Stone
Gene Stone
Peggy
Audrey
Cedar Rapids
James Stone
Julie
Oakley Payne
Kermit Payne
Washington
Harry Payne
Muscatine
Lloyd Turnipseed Jr
St. Louis
Lloyd Gray
Brighton
Robert Burham
Hospital News Admitted and Births and Dismissals
Hospital notices list multiple admissions births dismissals and patient updates across Washington Kalona Wapello Riverside Brighton Karona Richland and Ainsworth. Entries include names such as Ernie Downs Sharlene Homkamp George Miller Bennie Buffington Debra Batterson and Gene Booth with medical or surgical statuses and multiple newborn announcements.
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Ernie Downs
Washington
Sharlene Homkamp
Surgical
Robert Stewart
Riverside
Arthur Long
Brighton
Debra Kay Batterson
Russell L
Hal Figgins
Richland
Richard Bean
Ainsworth
Marriages This Week in Christian Church
Miss Karen Foster daughter of the Stanley Fosters wed Rolla Copley son of Mr and Mrs Rolla Copley of Davenport in the Christian Church here. She teaches in Reinbeck and he is a senior at the State College of Iowa. Ainsworth ceremony for Carol Ornduff and Robert Waters in Ainsworth Methodist Church followed by details of families and careers.
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Eddie Morrison
E. D. Morrison Jr
W. H. Spera
Washington
Charles Morris
Decatur
Robert Spera
Spera
Kalamazoo
Sam
Wendell Booth
Wendy
W. D. Booth
Major Booth
Hawaii
Booth
California
William Gamon
Wellman
Majorie
Robert E. Jones
Hugh Jones
Crawfordsville
Gene Crossett
Danny
Beverly Baker
Davenport
Gene Crossett Jr
State University of Iowa
Gene
van Allen
Cape Canaveral
Karen Jennings
Glasgow
Larry Morrow
Iowa
James Cook
Millard Cook
Cook
James
Mr Cook
Inlaw
Homer Morrow
Martha Cook
Douds
Milford Cook
Ted Griffith
Everett Burham
Everett K. Burham
Randy
Drew
Grand Junction
Robert L. Burham
Lynn
Des Moines
Lloyd Gray
Brighton
Herb Henry
Oakridge
Ore
Henry
Nancy Burham
Karen Foster
Stanley Fosters
John Rolla Copley
Rolla Copley
Christian Church
Reinbeck
State College of
Ainsworth
Carol Ornduff
Robert Waters
Ainsworth Methodist Church
Kenneth Ornduff
Ross Waters
Mt. Pleasant
Mediapolis
Iowa Wesleyan College
Snowbound Nature Chronicle of a Hungry Wildlife World
In a triangle near Crooked Creek an abandoned road and new gravelled path host chapters of wildlife survival. Rabbits mink fox and birds leave tracks and prints as hunger drives behavior. humans observe and note how nature and man differ in population control.
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Nature
Crooked Creek
Poem Of The Week Poem Of The no INSPIRATIONAL BOOKKEEPING
The poem laments evening fatigue slowing the poet’s stride as Vivian Baumgartner notes the end of day leaves her with no words. She describes the struggle between a productive pen and time reclaimed by a quiet night.
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Vivian Baumgartner
Area Deaths This Week
Kalona funeral services for Walter Eugene Hershberger 33 were at 10 a.m. at Kalona Methodist Church with Re Edward Philgreen and ev Howard Marty in charge Yoder Funeral Home arranged the services Richland Stella Swartewalder died at 3 a.m. Christmas morning at her Richland home after years of illness Wayland funeral services for George Haberman were held at 1 30 p.m. today at Wayland Methodist Church with Rev Fred Martin and Rev Willard Leichty in charge
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Kalona
Walter Eugene Hershberger
Kalona Methodist Church
Re. Edward Philgreen
Ev. Howard Marty
Yoder
Richland
Stella Swartewalder
Wayland
George Haberman
Wayland Methodist Church
Fred Martin
Willard Leichty
Death of Edna Bailey Webb Reported in Santa Ana
Word arrives of the death of Edna Bailey Webb of Santa Ana California who died on December 25.
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Edna Bailey Webb
Santa Ana
Calif
Death notices in Richland area report two fatalities
Leon McConnell 57 a farmer living four miles northwest of Richland was found dead in bed Wednesday afternoon by his brother Harold who farms nearby Frank Miles died Wednesday in Mt Pleasant A funeral at 1 50 p m Saturday at Cookes and Weir Funeral Home in Mt Pleasant for Miles
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Richland
Leon McConnell
Mr. McConnell
Frank Miles
Mt. Pleasant
Cookes and Weir Funeral Home
Death notices for Howard McBride and Olive Munro in Florida and Pennsylvania
Howard McBride aged 70 died in Tampa Florida. Olive Munro aged 80 died December 28 1961 at her farm home 32 miles northwest of West Chester. She had resided there all her life and had been ill for six months.
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Ackley
F Dixon
KR H. Willits
White Way
Dixon
Washington County
Washington
Washington County Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
Washington Fire Department
Farmers Union
William Sutherland
Howard McBride
Tampa
Fla
East Main Street
Olive Munro
West Chester
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