Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, July 14, 2005
Redding Alumni Reunion
The annual Redding Alumni reunion was held July 3, 2005 at the Redding Methodist Church. Lunch was served to over 50 people by the church
women. The Saturday night meeting at the Frontier Hall was attended by 45 people with a potluck supper. Jerry STERNER called the
meeting to order on Sunday at 1 p.m. John ADAIR gave the minutes of the 2004 meeting and the treasurer's report. Keith
WALKER gave a report of the deceased alumni. A motion was made to give a donation of $100 to the church and to the Frontier
Hall. Bessie PARKER read letters from absent members concerning health and deceased members. Marilyn GRIFFITH WHITENACK
was nominated for president and Karen STEVENS KEMERY for vice-president for next year. Mary OLIVER EIGHMY was the oldest
class member, 1913. Ed COMBS was the youngest class member, 1958. Fifty-year class members attending were Marilyn WHITENACK,
Rowena LAMBERT MILLER, Mary QUICK OVERHOLSTER and Bill AUSTIN. The meeting closed with stories of bygone days by Gifford KNAPP.
Those attending were Betty DOWDEN, Joyce WONG, Lavetta LYNCH, Mary and John OVERHOLTZER, Joe OLNEY, Richard and Natalie
KRUSE, Dorothy ADAIR GONICK, Bill and Marlys AUSTIN, Don and Edie HENSLEY, Marilyn and Jay MONDAY, Denzil and Socorro WAUGH,
David FLETCHER, John FLETCHER, Helen COMBS, Ed and June COMBS, Kensil WALKER, Denzil WALKER, Gary LAMBERT, Oney BRUNFIELD,
John ADAIR, George and Dorothy SAVILLE, Eldon BOESE, Oliver PARKER, Marlene KELLER, Jerry STERNER, Sue VOME, Axel, Carmen
and Rafel ADAIR, Thomas KEITH and Donna WALKER, Ivan and Julia BARKER, Mary SAVILLE CAVIN, Annabell WALKUP, Alice ADAIR
JOHNSON, Nina Alice SALTZMAN, Mary Jo and Junior OLIVER, Naomi SHAFER, Dean OLNEY, Francis and Betty FORDYCE, Amah Lou
SCHREIBER, Brenda and Verle MARSHALL, Tom KRUSE, Marilyn WHITENACK, Eva KNAPP, Leonard and Betty ZIGLER, Dorothy McCREARY,
Donna MURPHY, Maxine NORRIS, Cecil and Trudy SHAFER, Vikcy JEANS, Linda HOSFIELD, Lillie RINEHART, Peggy OVERHOLSER,
Cindy SNETHEN, Ginny QUICK, Sharon WALKUP, Gifford and Evelyn KNAPP, Lynette KNAPP, Kathleen FREED, Mari HUMBERT, Harold and
Maxine COMBS and Gordon and Bessie PARKER.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2012
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