60 years ago
JUNE 22, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Van Buren received a telegram from the war department Saturday afternoon informing them that their son, Sgt. Orville Van Buren, with the infantry in Italy, had been seriously wounded May 28. His parents received a letter from Orville Sunday saying that he is in the hospital doing a lot of sleeping and resting and admonished them not to worry. Orville was inducted into service August 5, 1943, and sent into foreign service last February. The late Pvt. Wayne Nelson, killed in action, April 5, was inducted and trained with Orville.
John E. Wheeler, chairman of the board of directors, announce that gifts of $4,000 each have underwritten the cost of two rooms in the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klenda and family have purchased a room in the proposed hospital. The second room is subscribed for by Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Klenda and family, including Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Klenda, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hajek, Mr. and Mrs. John Safarik and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steiner. The total subscription to date is $82,064.15.
Mrs. Joe Childs, who before her recent marriage was Betty Ann Mersereau, was the guest of honor at a miscellaneous shower given June 16 by Mrs. Dorothy Giggy at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.M. Bledsoe. Guests were Misses Elsie Suderman, Martha Hansen, Irene Mott, Eileen Hoover, Mary Ann Barrett, Mary Alice Rees, Anna Bell Rees, Helen Seifert, Neva Heiser, Leona Heiser, Luella Regier, Norma Skibbe, Ruth Jo Willming, Nettie Ehrlich, Florence Irene King, Jean Knight, Joan Wight, Betty Frazier, and Barbara Lea Knight.
