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Long friendship endures across generations in local families
Longtime friends the Roberts and Booth families celebrate 49 years of annual dinners begun by Melvin Booth’s mother and Mrs. Frank Leeper. The note also covers renovation, travels, a fire incident near Ainsworth, school banquet details, social club gatherings, a 50th anniversary open house, a May wedding plan, and a frost damaging early plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
Frank Leeper
Marr Park
Washington County Parks
John L. Davis
Davis
John D. Hazelett
Ken Peters
Washington
Mesa
Ariz
Lee Baird
Ken
Baird
John
Richard Havel
Nashville
Tenn
Clarence Lasek
Hampton, I
Paducah
Kentucky
Lake Barclay
Arcola
Ill
Rock Dome
Ainsworth
Highland High School
Jack Hamilton
Highland Gymnasium
Couriers
Ed Miller
Roy Collier
George Stout
The
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Chester Holcomb
Stouts
Holcombs
Robert Stephens
West Chester
Mary Williamson
Richard Allen Stephens
Richard Stephens
Gene Stephens
F.W. Schnoebelen
Riverside
Mary Crandall
Ruth Wenger
William Wulf
May
Ruth Gideon
Charles Eyestone
Friendship Club
James Witthoft
Art Witthoft
Vera Wulf
Richard
Mary Young
Betty Kuenemen
Lorna Shepherd
Linda Witthoft
Witthoft
Raymond Lasek
Highway 218