Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Sixty-seven alumni and guests attended the 103rd Shannon City alumni banquet held Saturday, May 25, 2013, at the Eagle's Club in Creston. Co-chairwomen were Bonnie ERGENBRIGHT BAKER (1959), Linda FOY JAMES (1960) of Creston and Ann COMER SANSON (1959) of Clarinda.

Registration started at 3 p.m. with a 5 p.m. supper. Linda JAMES gave the welcome and Ron SANSON reminded them of the veterans who have served the armed forces before giving the invocation. Ann SANSON served as the em-cee for the evening and thanked everyone for making the evening a success.

Graduates attending were celebrating their 55th, 60th, 65th and 70th, banquets. They were:

1958 - Ella Jean EKLUND HOFFMAN (Urbandale) and Ronnie SIMPSON (Shannon City);

1953 - Shirley WOOSLEY IDE (Shannon City);

1948 - Joan WOOSLEY GOODALE (Diagonal), Velma SWINEHART FRANK (Winterset), Althea MEANS HOFFMAN (Shannon City), Audrey COMER LEWELLEN (Omaha, NE) and Veva SHORT VORHIES (Tingley);

1943 - Emmett EAGAN (Creston), Jeraldine WOOSLEY SCHERER (Shannon City) and Merlin SWANSON (Rock Island, IL).

BAKER, JAMES and SANSON will be in charge of the 104th banquet next year. The date has been set for Saturday, May 24, 2014, at the Eagle's Club, starting with registration at 3 p.m. and supper being served at 5 p.m.

Other alumni attending were:

1935 - Thelma IBBOTSON GRIMES (Mount Ayr);

1942 - Agnes Marie SWANSON EKLUND (Creston) and Margaret KELLEY LONG (Creston);1944 - Loren GEHRKE (Clarksdale, MO);

1945 - Melba WOOSLEY AKERS (Creston), Lee AYERS (Webster City) and Irene SwANSON PEPPMEIER (Creston);

1946 - Verla SWINEHART FITZGERRALD (Nevada) and Eloise KILGORE WHITE (Creston);

1947 - John and Shirley WEBER HENRY (Creston), Jack HOFFMAN (Shannon City) and Darlene KELLER WHITE (Shannon City);

1949 - Alivon CLOUGH (Ellston);

1950 - Richard "Dick" IDE (Shannon City) and Bill LINTHICUM (Des Moines);

1952 - Richard HENRY (Fulton, MO), Marvin KELLER (Murray), Johnnie LAND (Afton), Dick ROSS (Creston) and Fred WERNER (Osceola);

1954 - Ron JONES (Afton);

1956 - Illa Mae HESLOP (Creston);

1957 - Eldon HARDEN (Creston), Jerry HOFFMAN (Urbandale), and Lucille WOLDRUFF JONES (Afton).

Other guests attending were Deloris AYERS, Dick BAKER, Deb GRIMES BERLINER (Rancho Cordova, CA), Marsha CHEERS (Afton), Dorothy CLOUGH, Bob and Sherry EKLUND (Afton), Marie FLYNN (Creston), Kathy EKUND HAINES (Des Moines), Connie HARDEN, Marjorie HENKLE (Clarksdale, MO), Betty HENRY, Larry HOFFMAN (Omaha), Lenora KELLER, Marilyn LAND, Dick LEE (Saint Joseph, MO), Jane LINTHICUM, Loren and Mary LONG (Greenfield), Cindy GRIMES MILES (Sacramento, CA), Joyce ROSS and daughter Vicki MORIN, Kenny SCHERER, Karen SIMPSON, Kate WERNER and Rev. Everett WOLFE (Ankeny).

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2013