Youngtown
By MARGARET IRELAND
Youngtown correspondent
(620) 382-2713
Men from the community came Saturday morning with trucks, trailers, and tractors to the Hett farm to help Steve get hay bales from the field. Steve is improving from a stroke and was thankful for the help. Men who volunteered were Don, Leroy, and Nick Kraus, Skip Sieger, Willard and Clifford Hett, J.B. Miesse, and Larry Ensey. Melissa O'Sullivan from Tulsa and Melanie and Larry Ensey from Valley Center were weekend guests of Jackie Hett. All helped with chores and farm work while there.
Jeannine Bateman returned Wednesday from a conference of county officials in Phoenix. Kristine Bateman has been house and dog sitting for her mother.
Shirley and David Bowers and Mary Beth and Greg Bowers attended the memorial services Saturday morning for Lorene Bowers at Hope. They ate lunch afterward at United Methodist Church in Hope with family and friends. Shirley and David Bowers drove to the Kansas City area and were joined by Betsy Bunnel at the wedding of Ryan Collett and Jessica Miller. Bev Jennison spent Thursday night with Shirley and David. Mary Beth and Greg took dinner Sunday to Charles Kjellin and invited Shirley and David to join them.
Brent and Paul Hayen visited Dorothy Hayen this past week at St. Luke Living Center. John Hayen and Virginia Downing took Dorothy out for dinner on Sunday.
Vicki Smolik attended the funeral services Monday for Mabel Steiner at Zeiner Funeral Home.
Mary Beth Bowers, Pat Enos, and Charles Kjellin went to Holton Friday to the funeral services of Charles' cousin, Paul Jameson.
Lesley Allen arrived Thursday to visit her parents, Skip and Eileen Sieger. She will return home to Champaign, Ill., July 30. They have been doing all kinds of fun things and Lesley and Kristine Bateman are getting to visit while in the Youngtown community.
Karen and Jim Link of Crowley, Texas, called Saturday morning on Roseva McLinden.
Leonard and Rosalie Klassen joined other Hillsboro cousins Friday noon at the Klose and Kozy Café for lunch and visiting with honored guests from California, Evelyn and Laverne Hodel. They drove to Wichita Friday evening and had supper with Marv and Vickie Fisher, Ashley, Aaron, and Allegra. Following supper they watched Allegra play softball.
Janet Matz was in Wichita Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morgan II, making plans for the upcoming wedding of Lindsay Matz and Jim Morgan III.
I drove to Wichita Thursday and ate dinner and supper with Ethan. I spent the night with Joe and Marj Johnson and Ethan and drove Friday to my sister's home. We shopped and went to the Depression glass show Saturday at the Cessna activity center. It was smaller than usual but I did find two more Chintz Fostoria sherbet glasses that I needed to complete a set I am getting for Marj Johnson. I returned home Saturday evening.
