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RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 24, 1955
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
John WARIN was re-elected president of the Ringgold County Fair Association at a meeting held Monday afternoon in the
courthouse assembly room. Other officers elected were Bill TIMBY, vice-president and Stuart HOOVER, secretary-treasurer.
The Rev. Gene CHERRY has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Kellerton Christian Church to accept a call to the
First Christian Church at Rockport, MO. Rev. CHERRY and his family will move this week to Rockport. During his year's
pastorate at Kellerton, the church received 20 new members, 13 of whom were by baptism.
Funeral services for Peter C. MOFFETT of Lamoni were held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 22. Mr. MOFFETT was instantly killed Saturday
afternoon about 2:30 p.m. as he was struck by a car while crossing the road in front of the Earl ANDERSON farm, one and
one-half miles south of Lamoni. He was 87 years of age.
On Veteran's Day, 40 men gathered at the home of Hilding SHUM and built 200 rods of fence and pickup up corn from the ground
for Mr. SHUM, who recently suffered a fractured leg while operationg a posthole digger. Those who brough tractors and diggers
were Aster and Gardner NELSON, Dick MOREY and Richard LARSEN and tractors and wagons were provided by Harry LANE, Olin
DAVIS and Jim FABRICIOUS. Other men who assisted were Wayne HAIDSIAK, Harry BLACK, Lyndon NICHOLS, John COMBS, LaVern
BLACK, George HOFMISTER, Denzel MOBLEY, Rue NICKLE, Dick BAILEY, Rex SHAHA, Leo SALTZMAN, Arthur DIEBERT, Arthur PRITCHARD,
Carroll SMITH, Kermit MILLER, Lawrence KIMBALL, Gerald ZOLLER, Otis CARSON, Stephen SMITH, Leslie AYERS, Howard SMITH,
Carl BLACK, Harold BLACK, Dale BLACK, Elzra FETTY, LeRoy BUCY, Albert BAGLEY, Curt LANDIS, Glint LANDIS, Clyde LANDIS,
Charles GOODALE, Ted PERLENFEIN and Elmo ROE. Twenty women provided food and served the dinner.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
November 19, a son, Craig Alan, to Mr. and Mrs. James COULTHARD, Mount Ayr
November 19, a son, Randy Gene, to Mr. and Mrs. David BUTCHER, Lamoni
November 20, a daughter, Joy Eileen, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McFARLAND, Kellerton
November 21, a daughter, Lynnette Joy, to Mr. and Mrs. James COOK, Kellerton
November 22, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. CHRISTENSEN Jr., Mount Ayr
OBITUARIES in November 24, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Anna Bell BOYER VANDERFLUGHT Nimrod Henry MICHAEL
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012
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