Social and church notices from local communities
Social and club news lists visits and events at the United Presbyterian Home Tama Mesquakie United Presbyterian Church Lenox burial services for Mrs Bertha Cheese hospital discharges and family visits. Notables include Rev Lavern Seth Chief George Young Bear Dr Kerr Miss Aurora McIntyre and families from Noble Prescott Allison Brighton Iowa City and Aurora Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesquakie
Dr. Kerr
Miss Aurora McIntyre
Mr. Eden
Lenox
Bertha Cheese
Miss McIntyre
Prescott
Mrs Godlove to celebrate 95th birthday in March
Clara Godlove, resident at Sunny Haven Rest Home, observed her 95th birthday with a family party on Sunday. Two birthday cakes were shared among relatives including M D McCreedy Harold Godlove Frank Embree Una Gordon and grandchildren Susie Embree Max Embree and Lisa Susie Embree. She was a longtime journal correspondent in Haskins community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Godlove
Sunny Haven Rest Home
M. D. McCreedy
Harold Godlove
Frank Embree
Una Gordon
Susie Embree
Max Embree
Lisa
Local residents share visits and hospital stays
Mrs. Cleo Shockey entered Mercy Hospital Iowa City for treatment. Leonard Horak was released after eleven days for an ankle infection. Others report visits, birthdays, and weekend trips to Washington Cedar Rapids Muscatine Davenport and Dubuque. The notes mention Kansas events and NCAA wrestling trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleo Shockey
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Leonard Horak
Speeding fines set by city police in three cases
Kenneth Pilcher of Ottumwa, Richard Eugene Hesseltine of Brighton, and Michael McCandless of Ainsworth were charged with excessive speed in a motor vehicle and fined by Justice of the Peace Glenn Holden. Pilcher paid fifteen dollars Hesseltine thirteen dollars and McCandless ten dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Pilcher
Ottumwa
Richard Eugene Hesseltine
Brighton
Michael McCandless
Ainsworth
Justice of the Peace
Glenn Holden
Pilcher
Hesseltine
McCandless
Social calendar week full of meetings and events
A dense listing outlines Tuesday through Friday community gatherings. Numerous circles, clubs, and Auxiliary units meet in homes, churches, and public halls with guest speakers, craft sessions, luncheons, and socials. Notable items include interior decorating by Jan Geuther, a fashion presentation, and multiple note changes to dates.
Rainbow Girls and community groups host meetings and events
Worthy advisor Barbara Strum presided at Rainbow Girls at the Masonic Temple with plans for April church visit and a March 30 initiation practice. Grand Assembly in Mason City June 14–17 announced for attendees. Women of the Moose and Golden Age Club held programs and sewing sessions at Moose Home and YWCA, with visits to the Veterans Hospital and various social activities including a Hootenanny and the Friendship Session in De Witt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Strum
Masonic Temple
Methodist Church
Temple
City Hall
Daryl Dodder
Grand Assembly
Mason City
Dodder
Ed Letts
Dinner Sunday for Lt Potter family honored return from Guantanamo Bay
About 45 relatives gathered at the Farm Bureau building for a cooperative dinner honoring Lt and Mrs Clare Potter and their children Robert Laverne and Carolyn who had just returned from two years in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The Potters planned to visit Waterloo with Mrs Potter’s mother Winnie Baker before reporting to duty in San Diego California. Also present were Mr and Mrs Walter Sheets Mr and Mrs Merle Statler Mr and Mrs Wilmer Lauderman Mr and Mrs George Baker Mr and Mrs Melo Janecek and Gary Mr and Mrs Merle Miller and family Mr and Mrs Allen Darbyshire and daughters Mr and Mrs Marvin Stater and family Mr and Mrs Don Rich and family Dale Statler Larry Lauderman and Mr and Mrs Carl Chalupa and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Baker
Sioux City
Winnie Baker
Carl Chalupa
Clare Potter
Robert
Laverne
Carolyn
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Farm Bureau
Potters
Waterloo
San Diego
Calif
Merle Statler
Wilmer Lauderman
George Baker
Melo 'Anecek
Gary
Merle Miler
Allen Darbyshire
Marvin Stater
Don Rich
Dale Statler
Larry Lauderman
Helschers elected to American Angus Association
Helscher S W and D R Helscher of Washington are elected members of the American Angus Association at St Joseph Missouri as announced by secretary Glen Bratcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helscher
S.w
Lutheran Couples Club Meets at Good Shepherd
The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd Couples Club met Sunday evening with 11 couples present. Roy Hodges led a discussion on Christian Marriage while Dwight Bodes organized Easter activities including an egg hunt and bonnet construction with men as models. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Roy Hodges
Dwight Bodes
Kay Wittmer to Marry Robert Witt in April
Kay Rita Wittmer and Robert C. Witt plan a wedding on April 11 at 7 30 p m in Fairmont Methodist Church. Kay is a 1960 Fairmont High School and Swedish Hospital School of Nursing graduate and works at Swedish Hospital Minneapolis. Robert is a 1956 Wilson High School graduate who studied at the University of Minnesota and is a sales representative and estimator for Adler Steel Products in Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Wittmer
S. Prairie Avenue
Fairmont
Minn
Kay Rita
Robert C. Witt
Clarence K. Witt
St. Paul
Wittmers
Washington
Miss Wittmer
Fairmont High School
Swedish Hospital School of Nursing
Swedish Hospital
Minneapolis
Wilson High School
University of Minnesota
Adler Steel Products
Fairmont Methodist Church
Surgeon reports historic chimpanzee heart transplant
Dr. James D. Hardy and a team described their January chimpanzee to human heart transplant at the ACS meeting in New Orleans. The operation, done at the University of Mississippi, was a success only briefly as the recipient died two hours after implantation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
APS
James D. Hardy
Hardy
American College of Surgeons
ACS
Furman T. Wallace
Spartanburg
D.C
University of Mississippi
Te University
Admitted Yesterday and Today in Local Medical Records
Listed yesterday admissions include Dale Lee Carrell Washington medical Earl Finke Washington medical Terry Lee Hellfrich Richmond medical Marvin Howsare Crawfordsville surgical and today Mrs W S Kyle Washington medical. Discharged yesterday Deanna Funston Keota and today Clint Churchill Ollie Mrs Sam Lambert Washington Wanda Simmons Washington Dean Wacholz Washington Mrs Chris Earnest Washington Mrs Homer Porter West Chester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Lee Carrell
Washington
Earl Finke Washington
Terry Lee Hellfrich
Richmond
Marvin Howsare
Crawfordsville
W. S. Kyle
Deanna Funston
Keota
Clint Churchill
Ollie
Sam Lambert
Wanda Simmons
Wasington
Dean Wacholz
Chris Earnest
Homer Porter
West Chester
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Maurice Grieser
Wayland Church
Grace Cottrell
Stanley Jones
Sammy
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Albert Simpson
John Sprole
Burton Sprole
Allison
Harold Ross
Wellman
Silas Ross
Myrtle Horton
Willis
Horton
Leland
Harry Williams
University Hospital
Mrs. Godlove
Sylvia Nicholson
Irma Eden
Muscatine
Bess Huber of
C.P. Berkhoff
Kay
Kathy
Jack Babcock
Robyn
Kirt
Cedar Rapids
Babcocks
Jan Fane
Mercy School of Nursing
Kay Berkhoff
Larry Biship
Vennard College
University Park
Steve Lins
Howard Lins
Hayward
Sharon Goemaat
Clarence Goemaats
Jackie Knupp
Abe Goemaat
Elmer Vance
Alicia
Lorel Garrett
Dubuque
Main
Garretts
Garrett
Milwaukee
Illinois Central
C.B. and Q
Great Northwestern
Merlyn Edwards
Robert Lowe Sr
Harold Stephens
Tom
Lynn
Leslie
Cedar Falls
Children’s
David Krabill
Rt. 1
Leslie Ann Blick
Eldin Bauer
Marion Dunbar
William Brice
Rosalita Peiffer
Rt. 3
Janis Ruegsegger
Leonard Leichty
Mr. Pleasant
Harold Messenger
W. Harrison
City
Paul
North Side Square
Dick Pratt
Richard
Wolf's Flower Shop
Jaycee Ettes
Jack Nelson
Jan Geuther
Y Whizzers
Rosemary Club
John Cherry
VFW
First Presbyterian Circle
Pearl Gardner
Cicle V
Ray Glover
Rhoda Nielson Circle
Eva
Delbert Earil
WSCS
Circle X
Carlton Mangold
R.Q. Eastland
VW Rooms
Delbert Soper
Glenn Fuhr
WRC
Herb Campbell
Just Us
George Jarrard
Jolly Nine Club
O.E. Nordyke
John Custer
Stewart Pta
Rural Women’s Club
William Marie Jr
West Monroe
PEO
Robert Mass
Gerald Hahn
LBC
Martin Whittaker
Double Deck
Oral Mayo
Prairie Flower Missionary Society
Eileen Genheimer
Johannesburg
South Africa
St. Paul Church
WCTU
Margaret Work
Fleur de Lis Club
Bill Foster
Lloyd Marek
Family Living I
Roger Sherman
Gordon Secrest
Heights
Rollie Dunbar
Spear of
Oakdale
M.R. Flickinger
Circle Hi
Robert Moss
Fred Moore
Methodist
Church
Rebekah Lodge
Bethlehem Commandery
VFW Hall
Robert Holmes
Sunbonnet
Lyle Darbyshire
Journal
Dallas Kinney
Rainbow Girls
Arley Brown
Richard Peterson
Marion Snodgrass
Stanley Wallace
James Hotchkiss
Peterson
Jesus
Wallace
Wayne Wagner
Moose
William Lloyd
Robert Dunbar
Moosehaven
Charles Crone Jr
Golden Age Club
YWCA
Red Cross
Opal Hobbs
Rhua Helmick
Veterans Hospital
Letts
Ed Sorrell
William McDole
Ray Stalder
Betty Ward
Howard Curl
Robert Grubb
James Edwards
Evening Journal
Iowa
Chuck Gibson
Mgr
State Farm Mutual Car Finance Plan
Earle F
West Main
State Farm Mutual Automobile Reserance Company
State Farm
Imcwrance
Brown's Shoe Fit. Co
Cosbbiee
Peikatte
Kay Wittmer
Sherman-Eden Funeral Home
Olympia
Westinghouse
Osincup
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