Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 7, 1963

Pfc. Leo E. CROY of Mount Ayr was one of three soldiers killed late Saturday night in a car accident about two and one-half miles south of Springfield, NE. CROY, who was stationed at a Nike missile base near Louisville, NE, was a member of Battery B., 6th Missile Battalion, 43rd Artillery.

Mrs. Norma LEE assumed the duties of office assistant for the Ringgold Mutual Insurance Association on Tuesday of last week. Mrs. LEE was named to the position to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Raymond SICKELS, who had served in that capacity for several years.

Judge Charles J. LEWIS fell yesterday morning in front of the R.E.A. office on the west side of the square and fractured his left arm. Mr. LEWIS was taken by county attorney Arlen F. HUGHES to the Ringgold County Hospital, where X-rays determined a fracture above the elbow. He will be confined to the hospital for several days.

Five members of the Mount Ayr Chapter F.F.A. received trophy awards at the Parent-Son Banquet, February 22, for outstanding work on their home farm supervised farming programs. Those honored were James McCREARY, beef trophy award; Raymond SHIELDS, sheep trophy; Doyle RICHARDS, crop trophy; Gary HAILEY, dairy trophy, and Dan SICKELS, swine trophy.

The Mount Ayr bowlers clinched the title in the Iowa-Missouri Traveling League when they beat the second-place Lamoni team three straight games Sunday at Lucky Lanes in Mount Ayr. The Mount Ayr team ended the season with 30 wins and 15 losses. Burl REYNOLDS, Owen SPENCER, Everett REYNOLDS, Gary McCULLOUGH, Elza FETTY and Albert BAGLEY have alternated as members of the local team and Bob WARD served as a substitute.

Mrs. Laurance BISHOP of Mount Ayr was re-elected chairman of the Family Living Committee during a meeting of the group held Thursday afternoon in the First Christian Church. Newly elected officers are Mrs. John TAYLOR of Diagonal, vice-chairman, and Mrs. Bob BECK of Kellerton, secretary.

Joan LYNCH, a women's physical education major at the Northwest Missouri State College in Maryville, has been named chairman of the college women's intramural bowling program for 1963-1964. Joyce LYNCH, an elementary education major at the same college, has been chosen as a representative to the Association of Women Students by the residents of Hudson Hall. She was also elected floor chairman for Hudson Hall. The Misses LYNCH are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Cleo LYNCH of Maloy.

March 06, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Berniel GABBERT, Grant City MO

OBITUARIES in March 7, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Leo Edward CROY   William Henry MINNICK   Conrad HETZEL

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

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