Mount Ayr Class of 1948, 2010 Reunion

BLANTON, TRIGGS, LINK, EASON, BUCK, BENTLEY, PRATT, KLEJCH, SICKELS, WLATER, JONES, SAVILLE, MOHR, MOORE, JACKSON, LESAN, RINEHART, MICHELSON, ADAMS, SANDAGE, BROWN, FOLAND, THOMPSON, GROUT, CHRISTENEN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/16/2010 at 21:50:58

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Mount Ayr Class of 1948

The Mount Ayr high school class of 1948 gathered at the Ramsey Farm Heritage House for their 62nd reunion on Friday, May 29, at 11 a.m. The noon meal was catered by Ruth BLANTON and Lola TRIGGS LINK returned thanks.

Jim EASON welcomed the guests and thank yous were extended to secretary Lola LINK and to the planning committee, Barbara BUCK BENTLEY, Doris PRATT KLEJCH, Jim EASON, Sam SICKELS and Edna WALTER JONES. Updates and comments concerning absent classmates were discussed and letters from Mary Ann MOORE JACKSON of Montgomery, AL and Jessie SAVILLE MOHR of Gowrie were shared. Get well cards were written to hospitalized members, Gene SICKELS and Joan LESAN RINEHART. The names of 19 deceased classmates were read and remembered.

Plans were discussed for the next class get-together with the decision that it be held may 2011 at the same location.

Those attending the event were Jim and Nina EASON, Sam and Evelyn SICKELS, Doris (PRATT) and Norma KLEJCH and Edna WALTER JONES, all of Mount Ayr; Wanda MICHELSON ADAMS of Kellerton; Juniors BROWN of Des Moines; Harold and Shirley SANDAGE of Ottumwa; Bob and Beth FOLAND of Washington; Jean (THOMPSON) and Dale GROUT of Riverside, CA; Lola TRIGGS LINK of Rapid City, SD, and Joan CHRISTENSEN CRAIG and Jean SLAVIK SCHLAPIA of Ames.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2010