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Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, September 13, 1984
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr Record-News
Another successful Appreciation Days celebration brought a weekend crammed with activity to Mount Ayr Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. From merchants sales to new events like the go-cart Grand Prix races and the slippery watermelon races,
there were activities for all ages, with the MARC '84 goodwill committee again working hard to put together an
entertaining celebration. Named queen of the annual festival was the South Page Community band queen contestant
Karmen BURSEN. Other candidates included Tammy WALTERS of Mount Ayr Community high school and Gina HEWLETT of
Grand Valley Community high school.
Lyle MINNICK for Ringgold county sheriff and Darlene MORGAN for auditor will be the names placed on the November
general election ballot as the Demorcrat party's nominees.
Eva PATRICK, 101, a Mount Ayr resident, was presented with a certificate from Governor Terry Branstad honoring her
as a member of Iowa's elite class of centenarians recently. Kenneth MORROW, chairman of the advisory council to the
Area Agency on Aging in area 14, made the presentation at Mrs. PATRICK'S home in Polk Villa Apartments.
Rev. and Mrs. Jim SCHUTTER and their two daughters, Judith, three and one-half, and six-month-old Johanna, escaped
serious injury but probably totaled their car in an accident about 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7.
Fire destroyed a barn at the Jack HUGHES farm, where HUGHES lives, two miles southeast of Kellerton in a Friday noon,
Sept. 7 blaze. No contents were in the barn to be involved, according to Oscar REED, Kellerton fire chief, who
with his crew were called to the scene.
Dr. D. E. MITCHELL and Mrs. Maurice CARR were re-elected president and vice-president, respectively, of the Mount
Ayr Public Library board of trustees during a meeting held Sept. 4.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
September 06, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Bill MURPHY, Parnell MO
September 10, a daughter to Fatch and Fatiha ABDUL NURI, Mount Ayr
OBITUARIES in September 13, 1984 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Eva Viola SEVERS WOOD
Florence "Flossie" ELLIOT SACKETT
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012
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