Torrance Family Reunion Sunday

TORRANCE, ORMISTON, TINKER, HOLLEY, CARPENTER, BRANNIAN, KOONS, NELSON, CLEAR, WILSON, SWAIN, HAMER, BURROUGHS, HALSTROM, LOCKHART, BLAIR, SIMPSON, DAVIDSON, HALL, WICKHAM, LE FEVRE, LEPLEY, WHITE, OSTROM, LATCHEM

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Date: 8/18/2010 at 22:04:05

The Grinnell Herald-Register (Grinnell, Iowa) Aug. 17, 1939

TORRANCE FAMILY REUNION SUNDAY

Eighty-four descendants of Thomas and William Torrance met Sunday at Merrill Park for the annual family reunion. At a business meeting old officers were re-elected to serve for the ensuing year.

Sharing the cooperative dinner and social hours were the following: W.F. Ormiston, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tinker, Mrs. W.E. Torrance, Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Holley, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Carpenter, Tom Torrance, Forrest Torrance Mr. and Mrs. William Torrance, Evelyn Brannian and Joan Koons, all of Brookyn; Leo Torrance, Wm. Torrance, Jessie Torrance, Beatrice Nelson, and Cleona Torrance of Iowa City; Mr. and Mrs. E.K. Clear of Belle Plaine; Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Wilson of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Ira Swain of Boone; Mrs. Ione Torrance of Cedar Rapids; Ralph Hamer of West Liberty; John Torrance of Indianola; Mr. and Mrs. Vance Torrance, Jackie and Diana, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Torrance and Jerry, Pearl and Alva Burroughs, and Geraldine Halstrom, all of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Vance Lockhart of Moline, Ill., Mrs. Flora Lockhart of Puento, Calif., Mrs. E.C. Blair and Mrs. Elsie Simpson of Victor; Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Davidson and Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Hall and Larry of North English; Donna Mae Wickham of Waterloo; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Le Fevre, Mrs. Sadie Lepley, Mrs. Flora White and Bobby White, all of Mason City; Russell Brannian of Chelsea; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Torrance, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ostrom, Bruce and Joyce of Hartwick; and Marilyn Torrance, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Latchem, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Torrance, Mrs. Mary Swain and Carol and Irene Torrance, all of Grinnell.