News: Merrillan (20 Jul 1967)
Contact: Dolores
(Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail:
dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Bains, Burlingame,
Simmonson, Skaar, Tande, Gile, Taylor, Nunn, Nash, Smith, Olson, White, Johnson,
Schnur, Kleven, Danielson, Kawas, Wolfgram, Mergener, Martin
----Source:
Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/20/1967
Merrillan (20
July 1967)
Mrs. Ethel Bains of Pasco, Wash., has purchased the Agnes
Burlingame home on East Street. Mrs. Bains is the mother of Mrs. Walter
Simonson.
An open house for parents and friends of students attending
the summer reading program sessions conducted at Merrillan will be held at the
Merrillan elementary school next Monday. Coffee and a lunch will be provided.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Skaar recently visited her brother, Ferris Tande, who
is a patient at Oak Forest sanitarium in Onalaska.
Gib Gile and son, Bob,
returned last Thursday from their three-week vacation trip to Alaska.
Mrs. Dorothy Taylor and children of Amarillo, Tex., are visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ad Burlingame, and other relatives and friends in the area.
Kathy and Nancy Nunn of Jackson, Miss., are spending several weeks visiting
their grandmother, Mrs. Walter Nash.
Mrs. Ferris Tande underwent surgery
in the Black River Falls Hospital recently. Two of her children, Ida and Joy,
are staying at the Oliver Smith home while she is recuperating.
Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Olson and family have returned from their vacation trip to Canada.
The Lincoln High School band, under the direction of Charles White,
presented a concert here Wednesday evening of last week.
Recent guests at
the Gus Johnson home were their daughters, Mrs. Bernice Schnur of Milwaukee and
Mrs. Oscar Kleven of Waukesha; Mrs. Johnson’s sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Danielson, and son, Buzzy of Boyceville; and Mrs. Leo Kawas of Waukesha.
Captain and Mrs. Dick Wolfgram and daughter, Jill of Washington, D. C. have
spent the past 10 days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Helbling and his sister,
Nancy Wolfgram. Wolfgram recently returned from Vietnam, where he served as
chief engineer for the Green Beret. And now will enter the graduate school at
Camp Belvaire, Va. He has served in the army the last six years and holds a
master’s degree in geological engineering from the school of mines at Rapid
City, S. D.
Visiting at the Mergener home in Merrillan were three sons:
John Mergener and daughter, Lori, of Rockford, Ill.; Robert Mergener and wife,
Judith, and son Robby, of Melrose Park, Ill., and S/Sgt George Mergener, wife
Cathy, and three daughters, Vanessa, Christine and Diane, of Barksdale AFB,
Boisser City, La. Mr. and Mrs. Lin Martin from Norwich Park, Ill., also were
visitors.
© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.
Become a Clark County History Buff
|
|
A site created and
maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke, Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,
|