Social News of Interest in Winchester Area 1945
Community notes from Winchester and nearby towns recount lodge meetings, officer elections, and visits by district and assembly leaders. Activities include memorial services, degree work, hospital updates, and new member inductions, followed by socials and travels of residents and guests.
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Winchester Rebekah
Rebekah
Front Royal
Edinburg
Rebekah Assembly of
Virginia Coffman
Cora Robertson
Winchester
Ulette Smith
Mildred Ingles
Isht
Anna Eshelman
Sadie Evans
Beulah Meneffe
Leona Ritenour
Freddie Younger
Ella Miller
Anna Boxwell
Mildred Hammock
Lou Coffman
Hotel Jack
Winchester Lodge
Annie Furlow
Assembly
Shenandoah Lodge
Miss Ann Ritter Underwent Tonsilectomy
Miss Ann Bowen Ritter daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed win Ritter of East Piccadilly street underwent a tonsillectomy this morning in Winchester Me.
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Genevieve Fincham
Robert Fincham
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ann Ritter
Ann Bowen Ritter
Edwin Ritter
East Piccadilly Street
Berryville Social Events Highlight Summer Visitors
Berryville Virginia social items list out of town guests attending the Cover-Wolfe wedding and local visitors over the weekend. Names include Rev. A. N. Blackenbeckler Concord North Carolina and Elkton Virginia hosts the Covers and Scheuers along with many Harrisonburg Pleasant Run and Baltimore connections. The note also mentions trips to Washington Buckroe Beach and Pioneer Camp with youth group members and relatives visiting from Winchester Staunton and Arlington.
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Berryville
Cover-Wolfe
A. N. Blackenbeckler
Concord
N. C
R. L. Cover
M. R. Cover
Arthur Cover
Elkton
Harold Sarrant
Philadelphia
T. C. Cover
Washington
James Crown
Jimmy Crown
Susan Crown
Harrisonburg
Russell Cover
Staunton
Bronze Star awarded to Sgt Edward Householder in Pacific
Staff Sgt. Edward S. Householder of Clearbrook received the Bronze Star Medal from the 6th Infantry Division commander for meritorious achievement during operations against Japanese forces on Luzon from February 1 to April 3. He serves with a front line rifle company, 20th Regiment, 6th Infantry Division, credited with a long record of continuous combat in the Pacific.
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Edwards. Householder
Malissa M. Householder
Clearbrook
6Th Infantry Division
Luzon
P. I
Householder
Pacific
Rites Held Today for Mrs. Rhoda C Seal
Funeral services for Mrs. Rhoda Catharine Seal were held at Welltown Methodist Church. She died Sunday morning at Sunnyside from a heart attack. Survivors include her husband and children J R Seal Ed Seal George Seal Frank Seal and Mrs Leonard Butler all of Winchester plus siblings and five grandchildren. Interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery with Pallbearers Frank Marple Morris Marple Robert Pitcock Kurtz Butlerclaree Fletcher and Conley Newin.
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Rhoda Catherine Seal
Welltown Methodist Church
F. T. Fulcher
Criglersville
James Seal
Baltimore
Maggie McDaniel
Mount Hebron
Frank Marple
Morris Marple
Robert Pitcock
Kurtz Butler
Clarrae Fletcher
Conley Newin
Brucetown Bible School Plans Summer opening
The Brucetown vacation Church School will open Monday July 2 at nine o'clock in the Brucetown Methodist Church. All boys and girls from beginners through the intermediate department are invited to enroll. Director Mrs. F. Fulcher expects a large enrollment.
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Brucetown Methodist Church
F. Fulcher
Bush Meeting at Kinder Hook
A Bush meeting will be held at Kinder Hook on Sunday July 1 starting 11 30 a m The Rev Elijah Strange states that the white missionary and the Rev Butt will attend All are urged to attend.
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Kinder Hook
Elijah Strange
Butt
Plan Children Day Service At Nain
A children's day service will be held near Nain on Sunday July 1 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at Fair View Church. The public is cordially invited to attend.
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Nain
Fair View Church
Musical Program At Shiloh Church
A musical program will be held at Shiloh Baptist Church in Millwood on Sunday July 1 from 3 to 8 pm for the Household of Ruth benefit. The Jordan Star Quartette of Baltimore will perform, sponsored by Mrs Roxie Morgan.
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Friendship Fire Hall
Margaret Keffer
Dorothy Allamong
Ruth Beard
Evelyn Brannum
Harrisonburg
John Fosbrink
Catherine Flickinger
Shiloh Baptist Church
Millwood
Household of Ruth
Jordan Star Quartette of
Baltimore
Roxie Morgan
You can Buy E s with ease Phone your bank today
A compact sales prompt urging readers to contact their bank to purchase E s now. It emphasizes immediate action and convenience through direct phone outreach.
In Memoriam Hilda Combs Remembrance Poem
In Memoriam text recalling Hilda Combs four years after her June passing. The verse expresses longing, prayers, and the belief angels took her from pain. The caller notes a burial and hopes for reunion in the afterlife. Dated around 6 26 2011.
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Hilda Combs
Hilda
Gallantry Won Silver Star For Lt. Richard Lowe
First Lieutenant Richard A. Lowe of this city received the Silver Star for gallantry during the liberation of Manila as a leader of a reconnaissance patrol. He manned a pedestal mounted light machine gun from his jeep hood, repelling Japanese forces and preventing tank pursuit. Lowe, a 21 month overseas veteran, previously fought in Bougainville and Guadalcanal and also holds the Combat Infantryman Badge and Asiatic Pacific Theater ribbon with two bronze stars.
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Richard A. Lowe
Una M. Lowe
Manila
Philippine
Lowe
37Th
Bougainville
Solomons
New Caledonia
Guadalcanal
Tropical Storm Hits Cape Henry and Norfolk Area
A tropical storm crossed near Cape Henry and Manteo causing rough seas and winds up to 58 mph. A freighter grounded 500 yards off Fort Story Officers Club, with the Navy dispatching a tug for aid. Rain totaled 3.41 inches as barometer readings fluctuated through the early morning.
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Manteo
N. C
Monteo
Y. Va
Cape Henry
Navy
Officers Club
Fort Story
Fifth Navy District
Norfolk
What is Wrong When Prayer Fails?
A 80 year old English geographer Edwin J Dingle recounts his 21 years in the Far East and a mystic learned in Tibet. He credits knowledge power with health wealth and recognition and offers a free 9000 word treatise from The Institute of Mentalphysics in Los Angeles for interested readers.
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Forbidden
Tibet
Edwin J. Dingle
England
Far East
Dingle
Institute of Mentalphysics
South Hobart Blvd
Dept. S-173
Los Angeles 4
Calif
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A. O. Smedley
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Leon Scheuer
Carrie Scheuer
Harold Scheuer
Elaine Scheuer
Agnes Marlowe
William Levi
Andy Lavelle
James B. Lindsay
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R. K. McDonald
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Virginia Armstrong
R. E. Davis
Midland
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Jane Carey Lindsay
Fairview Beach
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Nancy Jane Wolfe
Richard Beardsworth
W. E. Shafer
Suffolk
Shafers
Richmond
White Oxfords
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Brucetown Bible School
Shiloh
J. W. Grove Furniture CO
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the Commercial & Savings Bank
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The
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Chapman Motor CO
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