Tingley Lions Club
ABARR, ARCHIBOLD, BAILEY, BEEN, BASTOW, BAILEY, BOYD, BRECKENRIDGE, DUKES, ECKERMAN, EIGHME, ENGLAND, GRANT, GROUT, HALM, HILL, IBBOTSON, JOBE, JOHNSTON, KINNE, JOHNSON, LININGER, ENGLAND, MCKEE, MILLER OBERMEIER
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/19/2011 at 03:18:35
Tingley Centennial: 1883 ~1983
Tingley Lions Club
The Tingley Lions Club was organized in 1957. Its charter was granted November 8th. There were forty-six charter members: Quentin ABARR, Harry ARCHIBOLD, Dr. Lyle BAILEY, Harley BEEN, Ernest BASTOW, John BOYD, Russell BOYD, Billy BRECKENRIDGE, Dean BRECKENRIDGE, E. M. BRECKENRIDGE, Wm. S. BRECKENRIDGE, Merle DUKES, Earl ECKERMAN, Lucius EIGHME, John ENGLAND, Rev. Willis GRANT, Donald GROUT, Harold GROUT, Wm. HALM, David HILL, Loren IBBOTSON, Dave JOBE, Dean JOHNSTON, Lawrence JOHNSON, Donald KINNE, Keith LININGER, Lloyd ENGLAND, Glenn McKEE, Marvin MILLER, M. H. OBEMEIER, John OVERHOLTZER, Wayne OVERHOLTZER, Leonard O'NEAL, Richard PISTOLE, Dale REYNOLDS, Frank RICHARDS, Carl RIGGS, Edwin SHERWOOD, Dr. Harry SHEUMAKER, Francis SMITH, Harry SKARDA, Donald WEEDA, Paul WEEDA, Darrell WERNER, Elton WERNER, and Herman WILKES.
The first president of the club was Carl RIGGS, and the first secretary-treasurer was Wayne OVERHOLTZER. Quentin ABARR has been secretary-treasurer since 1962, or a total of 20 years at the present [1982] writing.
The meeting nights have been the first and third Thurdays of each month.
When the club was organized, the meetings were held in the old depot which was owned by the Tingley American Legion. Allyn JARRED purchased the Legion Building in 1967. The Lions Club then moved to the Tingley Community Building for its activities. The Lions Club, in cooperation with the Tingley City Council, has done much to improve the Community Building, so that now the town and surrounding community have a meeting place of which to be proud. The Community BUilding is used for family reunions, 4-H meetings, American Legion Auxiliary, and various other groups.
For several years, the Tingley Lions sponsored the Mt. Ayr girls' sports banquet - one year, both girls' and boys' banquets. It also has sponsored the Tingley Little League and paid the coach.
Each year the Lions have a chili and oyster supper, the procceds going to the Iowa Lions Sight Foundation. The club has sponsored a number of projects to raise money for community betterment, such as donkey ball games, tractor pulls, and printing the Ringgold County Fair Books. The Lions contribute money each year to the Tingley Halloween Fun Night, the Easter egg hunt, and provide treats for children at Christmas time. The club also contributed money to help build the tennis court.
Over the years, the Lions Club has done much to make Tingley and community a better place in which to live.
Tingley Lions Club Members, 1982
Curtis LININGER, Dan WEEDA, Ernest BASTOW, Donald WOOD, Loren IBBOTSON, Rick FARRELL, Wayne STOLL, Ivan SHIELDS, Lloyd WEEDA, John OVERHOLTZER, Dean BRECKENRIDGE.
Cecil ALLEN, Richard DERSCHEID, Billy BRECKENRIDGE, Quentin ABARR, Mike BRECKENRIDGE, Clare JOHNSON, Wayne OVERHOLTZER, Lloyd BONHAM, Frank RICHARDS, Marvin SHIELDS, Ted TAYLOR.
Carl RIGGS, Elton WERNER, Keith LININGER, Eddie FORD, Jim JOBE, George HOSFIELD, LeRoy WOOD, Kenneth WOOD, Howard WURSTER, Gary WURSTER, Donald WEEDA.
Quentin ANDERSON, Jim ENGLAND, Ivan GROUT, John HETTINGER, Dean JOHNSON, Bob JOHNSON, Phil KENEALLY, Lloyd MILLER, Marvin MILLER, Gary PETERSOHN, Lyle RAINES, Lyndon RICHARDS, Gene PETTINGER.
SOURCE: Tingley, Iowa Centennial: 1883 - 1983. Pp. 119-20. PSI, Inc. Belmond IA. 1983.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, September of 2011Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011
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