Gunther, Mary Elizabeth 100th Birthday

GUNTHER, ADNEY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 7/3/2007 at 21:35:25

MRS. GUNTHER 100TH EVENT OPEN HOUSE

Mrs. Henry (Mary) Gunther, will be honored Sunday, March 5, on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Open house will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.

The presence of relatives and friends is the only gift she desires.

Mrs. Gunther is active in her own home and enjoys getting out every weekday when she boards a bus for the LeMars Senior Center to have dinner and socialize with friends. She attends church regularly on Sunday.

She and her late husband operated the LeMars Rendering Works for many years in LeMars. She was predeceased by her three sons. She has 16 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren. Most of her grandchildren plan to be in LeMars for her 100th birthday.

~Source: LeMars Daily Sentinel, March 1989
~NOTE: Mary Gunther's birth date: March 3, 1889.
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LE MARS WOMAN MARKS 100TH BIRTHDAY TODAY

Centurian Mary Gunther of LeMars will remember her 100th birthday today (Friday) as a snowy affair. She couldn’t attend her party at the senior center because it was cancelled due to a winter storm warning.

However, most of her 16 grandchildren had planned to be in LeMars for the big event, and she will be able to enjoy their company.

She will be honored Sunday, March 5, with open house from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Methodist Church hall. Mrs. Gunther, active in her own home, not only attends the congregate meal at the senior center each weekday, but she also regularly attends Sunday church services.

She asks only the presence of relatives and friends as her gift on Sunday.

She and her late husband, Henry Gunther, operated the LeMars Rendering Works for many years. Their three sons have died. Mrs. Gunther has 16 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren.

"Happy 100th Birthday, Mary E. Gunther"

~source: The Sioux City Journal, March 1989
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