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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
L-R: Curtis LININGER, Dan WEEDA, Ernest BASTOW, Donald WOOD, Loren IBBOTSON, Rick FARRELL, Wayne STOLL, Ivan SHIELDS,
Lloyd WEEDA, John OVERHOLTZER, Dean BRECKENRIDGE.
L-R: Cecil ALLEN, Richard DERSCHEID, Billy BRECKENRIDGE, Quentin ABARR, Mike BRECKENRIDGE, Clare JOHNSON, Wayne OVERHOLTZER,
Lloyd BONHAM, Frank RICHARDS, Marvin SHIELDS, Ted TAYLOR.
L-R: Carl RIGGS, Elton WERNER, Keith LININGER, Eddie FORD, Jim JOBE, George HOSFIELD, LeRoy WOOD, Kenneth WOOD, Howard
WURSTER, Gary WURSTER, Donald WEEDA.
NOT PICTURED: 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 2011
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011
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