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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1970
Page
8
Charlottesville headmistress Miss Margaret Jefferson plans retirement this year after decades at St Anne’s School. She is pictured with her pedigreed cocker spaniel Miss Vicky, a gift from students ten years ago when she arrived.
Mr and Mrs Phil Cochran of Purcellville marked 30 years of marriage with a Goose Creek Country Club reception hosted by their children Gary Cochran of Arlington and John Ashton of Sterling Park. The couple wed in Manassas on April 27, with Sybil B Price their former name. Attendees included Lucy Polhamus and siblings in Hagerstown and Berryville guests Janet Ball Allen Cochran Eugene Routzahn James Packett.
The Annual Fabulous Rummage Sale runs today and Friday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Readers will find new and nearly new clothes including gowns and suits, riding attire, shoes, hats, bags, and antiques. Luncheon is available at a nearby inn.
A full day calendar lists multiple rummage sales at N Braddock Street Emmanuel Church and Block Building S 7th as well as Rotary Club at Washington Hotel. Evening activities include Shenandoah Region Antique Automobile show Hoppers Auto Club and various fire company meetings. Community groups Knights of Columbus Girls Athletic Association andfire halls host gatherings through the night.
Mr and Mrs Carlton Ramey Sr hosted guests during the Apple Blossom Festival including Edgar Barber and Michael Wolfe families from Manassas, Capt Lynn Wolfe in Vietnam, Rev and Mrs Thomas Wildman from Winchester, Lucinda and Karen Ramey, and other relatives. Mrs Sharon Hawkins is a hospital patient in Winchester Memorial. Donald Towlen and family returned home after visits in Williamsburg and touring Jamestown Yorktown Norfolk and Portsmouth. Carpers Valley United Methodist Church ladies plan a bake sale Saturday in front of McCrorys starting 8 am featuring country ham sandwiches.
Birth notices announce Edward Arthur Coffelt Jr at Strasburg from Edward Arthur Coffelt Sr and Mary Ellen Moon. Also Kimberly Dannette Toms from Mary Kate Taff and Robert Moore Toms Brook. Additional births include Eugene Mill Road, Charles Allen Smith, Tracey Ann Kump, Denis Joseph Doherty II, Mary Beth Helsley born May 1 to May 4.
Mrs. Bayliss and Sgt Gant wedding details from Berryville and Clarke County noted. The 23d Neighborhood Art Show at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains features Roy Slade as judge, with about 200 entries. Show hours run Friday 8 to 11 p m, Saturday 10 to 6, and Sunday noon to 8.
The Delta Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi in Martinsburg WV invites interested people to join free classes for prospective parents. The first meeting is tonight in the clinic room at Kings Daughters Hospital, Martinsburg, at 7 30 PM. Classes continue Thursdays in May at the same time.
John Davis, a Park Service naturalist, spoke at the Colonial Garden Club April meeting presenting a slide program Shenandoah Sampler. Awards given included Special of the day and yellow ribbons for Mrs. Taylor Simpson and Mrs. Julian D. Berlin, with judges Mrs. Jack Phillips and Mrs. Robert Barbour.
Mrs. Mary Jean Casey president of the Winchester Frederick County Republican delegates along with Mrs. Virginia Trenary alternate attend the VFRW Annual Spring Conference in Virginia Beach. Officers will be elected. Governor and Mrs. Linwood Holton will attend.
A Mothers Day program at Old Stone Church Greenspring is set for Sunday at 2 30 PM Mrs Ruth Crum will speak and Mrs David Fahnestock will sing solo with a quartet of Aldus Cooper George Yeakley and Ernest Milburn The service is open to the public The church lies west of White Hall.
Residents asked to help clean Fairview Cemetery west of Gore Saturday afternoon. Community volunteers welcome, with supplies and assistance requested to improve resting grounds for those buried there.
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