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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1971
Page
8
The marriage of Miss Mary Ellen Kerr of San Antonio, Texas, and John Michael Hobert of Berryville was held Saturday at 2 o’clock in Grace Episcopal Church Berryville. The ceremony was per-
Sheila and Lois Everline, Staunton School for the Blind students, received the Achievement Award from the Winchester Association of the Blind during a meeting. The group plans to send president Mrs. Amy Barnes to the National Federation of the Blind Convention in Houston in July. A hymn sing fundraiser was held by Trinity United Methodist Church Berkeley Springs to support the trip. The narrative then describes a wedding in Winchester with Misses Kerr and Hobert, their attire, attendants, reception, and subsequent travel plans to Nicaragua and Washington. Mrs. Hobert is magna cum laude from Catholic University and will study law. Mr. Hobert, also a Catholic University graduate, will study law there.
Mrs. Virgil Baughman of Sunnyside was honored at home with a surprise 70th birthday party. A cake shaped like a map of the United States and Hawaii highlighted the states where her children live. Four children attended with families. others could not attend. Wendell Dick praised her as a fine mother and citizen. She was born June 17, 1901, in Hardy County and taught there and with Frederick County PTA work.
Community calendar snippet lists events across Thursday and Friday including WCTU at Braddock Washington Hotel Pistol Night Winchester Rifle and Pistol Club and several fire company meetings at various halls Church and club activities are scheduled with times from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Winchester and surrounding locales.
Miss Beverly Dawn Facemire daughter of Mrs. Mary Facemire and the late Leonard Facemire married Charles Hubert Haislip Jr son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haislip Sr of Wilson North Carolina. The ceremony was performed by Cecil Steyns with white gladioli carnations and daisies and music by Phylis Strother and Terry Milburn. The couple will reside in Chesapeake where the groom is stationed with the U S Marine Corps.
Hawthorne Branch girls joined a nature walk at Cleridge the home of Mrs. C. Stanley Clevenger along Opequon Creek and a wooded slope. They studied mosses ferns and wild flowers and were served refreshments after a garden tour. The club's quarterly meeting is set for Monday at 10 a.m. at Miss Shirley Napps 1413 Handley Ave. The annual Cole Reunion is Sunday at the Exchange Shelter with a picnic lunch around 12 30 p.m.
Vacation Bible School will start at the Refuge United Methodist Church in June and run through June 18 from 7 to 9 PM each night. All children in the area are welcome to attend.
Women of the Moose Winchester Chapter 1367 met Sunday with 30 members and guests from Winchester Lodge 1283. Governor Smallwood praised cooperation, welcomed a new Defending Circle candidate, and announced a Legion of the Moose fundraiser on June 19 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. A June 24 meeting and June 27 officer installation were scheduled, with a buffet to follow.
MISS LLOYD MARTIN CATHER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Cather of Amherst St., graduated Sunday from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton with a Bachelor of Art in English and made the Honors List for the second semester. She is one of several local residents noted for education and health, including Mrs. B. F. Strother in Winchester ICU and various patients at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Dr. and Mrs. Walter S. Hough mark their 50th anniversary at 523 Fairmont Ave. The couple wed June 9 1921 in Hebron Indiana Methodist Church. They have two children, Mrs Preston A Christjohn of Morristown New Jersey and Don M Hough, plus four grandchildren. Mrs. Hough was Fern Winfred Marsden.
The Little Garden Club will meet tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Mrs. William Johnston's home on Hawthorne Drive. Members are asked to note the change of time for the meeting.
The moentary meeting of the Stephens City Home Demonstration Club will be held on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Gervis Lemley. The program topic is New Ideas From Packaged Mixes and suggested recipes from basic mixes may be exchanged and shared for new tastes.
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