25 years ago
OCTOBER 10, 1979
Helping to can the city trash problem, Happy Hustlers 4-H Club has donated a trash container painted with the club emblem. Mayor Peggy Blackman accepted the can in Central Park Friday from the club's president, Gary Ehrlich, and member Doug Kjellin.
Mrs. Bill (Dollye) Novak of Lost Springs will be installed as a fourth district director of the Kansas Federation of Republican Women when they meet Saturday at Eastmoor United Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Steinle of Lehigh announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Brenda to David McGinness, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGinness of Marion. A Nov. 10 wedding is planned.
Former teachers and students of Sunflower School and their families enjoyed the third annual reunion held Sept. 30 in the basement of the Marion City Building. Chairman of the committee in charge was Mrs. Marvin Burkholder. It was decided to have the next reunion Oct. 5, 1980 in the Marion County Lake hall. Committee chairman will be Mabel Williams.
Annette Nienstedt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Nienstedt of rural Marion, has been elected recording secretary of the Future Secretaries Association at Bown Mackie College in Salina.
Thirty-one of the 54 member Marion High School class of 1939 gathered in Marion this past Saturday to observe the 40th anniversary of their graduation. Those attending were Janet Thye Keazer, Annie Jean Christensen Winkley, Virginia Heidel Young, Peggy Razor Thies, Wanita Razor Selvy, Lois Keazer Patton, Almeta Brown Vannocker, Vera Penland Lucas, Mary Anna Goertz Scharenberg, Dorothy Robertson Ellis, Ruth Jo Willming Penner, Clella Schwendiman Jost, Claudine Dixon Hunt, Ruth Macon Goentzel, Lucille Tiemeier Graue, Bernard Selvy, LeRoy Oblander, Vernetta Seifert Dunn, Luella Pankratz, Helen Seifert Robbs, Wm. Thies, Velma Beisel Richardson, Burhl Miesse, Henry Murray, Galen White, Clinton Seifert, Kenny Hett, Max Miesse, Ed Sandwell and James Grubb.
