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The Sentinel Leader
Wednesday, April 12, 1967
Meeting Scheduled for Parents
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P a r e n t s of children entering
kindergarten in the Sparta Area
Schools
next September a r e
invited to a meeting to be held
at 8 o'clock on Thursday, April
13, in the C e n t r a l E l e m e n t a r y
Building on Alma Street. Mr.
Royce
McCarty,
Elementary
Principal, stated that the m e e t ing is designed to help in the " b i g
j o b " of getting the k i n d e r g a r t -
n e r ready for school.
P a r e n t s will have the opportunity to meet with the kindergarten
t e a c h e r s , school nurse, visiting
teacher, and administration p e r sonnel. Material will be d i s t r i buted which will be helpful to
parents.
T h i s is an excellent
opportunity f o r p a r e n t s to b e come better acquainted with the
school p r o g r a m .
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The f l o w e r s in the Memorial
Window a r e in loving memory of
M r s . Grace Beeby, Mrs. Lydia
Belle Weston, Mr. C h a r l e s John
Ecklund, Mr. L e s t e r Amburgey,
M r s . Lusina Rogers and Miss
Sarah Mary Schmidt.
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Miss Renae Wilmarth
Wed to Roland DePagter
Miss Renae Dee Wilmarth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland
Wilmarth of River Street, Sparta,
became the bride of Arnold
DePagter of Sparta, on Saturday
afternoon, March 25, at Peace
Lutheran Church of Sparta. Mr.
and Mrs. Roland DePagter of
Oostburg, Wisconsin, a r e p a r e n t s
of the groom.
For her m a r r i a g e , the bride
selected an A-line gown of ivory
linen. Venise lace edged the e m p i r e bodice and tea-cup sleeves,
and outlined the square, detachable train. Matching lace edged
the mantilla headpiece and she
c a r r i e d a bouquet of calla lillies
and g r e e n s .
Her s i s t e r s . Miss Gail Wilmarth of Sparta, apd Mrs. J a m e s
Lyals, J r . of Columbus, Ohio,
were the honor attendants. Miss
Linda Meyer of Sparta, Mrs,
Theodore Murray of Lincoln
Annual Peach Ridge Spray
Meeting Scheduled April 13
The annual Peach Ridge question and answer spray meeting
will be held at 8 p.m. T h u r s day, April 13, at the Community
Building in Sparta, Michigan. On
the program will be Michigan
State University Horticulturists.
Open ^g\XeA.
from
BERNARD R. HESSEL
Dear friends.
The funeral director,
like other professional or
business men, has accepted the responsibility to
serve his neighbors at a
time when sincere sympathy, understanding and
wise counsel are in great
need.
His compensation cannot be measured in monetary returns alone, but
also in the personal satisfaction of rendering an
important service to his
community.
Respectfully,
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HESSEL FUNERAL HOME
Park, Michigan, and Miss B a r b a r a Ryan of Sparta, were b r i d e s maids.
They wore
matching
gowns fashioned s i m i l a r to the
b r i d e ' s and c a r r i e d cascade bouquets of pink carnations accented
with dahlia bows.
Kenneth DePagter
of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, attended h i s
b r o t h e r as best man. G r o o m s men were Russell Harmelink of
Grand Rapids, Wendell Hofman
of Lansing, Kenneth Quakkelaar
of Evansville,
Indiana,
and
T h o m a s DePagter, of Oostburg,
b r o t h e r of the g r o o m . Seating the
guests w e r e J a m e s Lyals, J r . ,
and F r e d Van Tatenhove of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A reception followed in the
Sparta Civic C e n t e r . The couple
is at home at 90 E. Mark Street
Sparta, where the groom is the
Spanish i n s t r u c t o r in the Sparta
High School.
Sparta PTA
Spotlights
Area Jobs
At this time of year, those f a m ilies with teen aged young people a r e increasingly aware of
the necessity f o r planning for the
f u t u r e . In line with these thoughts
and questions, the Sparta High
School Parent T e a c h e r
Ass'n
is presenting a timely and helpful p r o g r a m at 7:30, Tuesday
evening, April 18.
Under the guidance of Mr. La
Gene Quay, High School P r i n cipal, and Mr. Merlin Kraft, F a ther V i c e - P r e s i d e n t of the PTA,
a panel discussion, presenting the
various work opportunities open
to Sparta youth, will be presented.
SeveriU different channels will be
explored, including the Health
P r o f e s s i o n s , by Dr. Frank L.
Bull; Agriculture, by Mr. Kraft;
Conservation Work, by Mr. Paul
Durham, of the Conservation Department; Industry, by Mr. Allen
Witbeck of the Sparta Foundry Division of the Muskegon Piston
Ring Company; and Mr. G e r r i t
G e r r i t s e n of the Extensole C o m pany will talk on another phase
of local industry.
All high school and Junior high
school p a r e n t s and their young
people a r e urged to take advantage of this opportunity for help
and enlightenment on this most
important subject.
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HBTOWNAFLH
LOCAL HAPPENINGS + PHONE TU7-9008
SPRING IS HERE! The t r e e s
a r e starting to bud and the heavy r a i n s of the past two weeks
a r e greening up our lawns. The
annual upheaval known as Spring
Cleaning has hit the Lady-of-the
House who t r i e s with little p e r suasion to enlist the help of
everyone around in sprucing up
every corner of the house f r o m
attic to basement.
MRS. WILL (BEULAH) PIKE
of Fifteen Mile Road underwent
emergency s u r g e r y at St. Mary's
Hospital in Grand Rapids last
Friday afternoon. She expects to
be in the hospital for a week to
ten days. Her room number is
224.
MR. AND MRS. BERT SAUR
spent the weekend in Saginaw
with their
daughter and sonin-law,
Virginia and Richard
White and family. On Saturday
they drove to Lansing to Michigan State University for an open
house for the veterinary students.
Their son, Dennis, plans to enter the College of Veterinary
Medicine there next fall . On
Sunday afternoon they enjoyed a
trip through Delta College where
their granddaughter, Diane White,
attends college.
MRS. CLEO (ROSE) CHASE
of Maple Street entered Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids
on Tuesday of this week for
surgery.
MRS. ALICE LAMOREAUX OF
Maple Street has been quite ill
at her hom e f o r a couple of
weeks but is somewhat improved.
MR. AND MRS. PETE NELSON of River Road attended the
funeral of Mrs. Lylah Davis on
Monday in Kalamazoo.
Mrs.
Davis, a f o r m e r Sparta resident,
was the grandmother of the Nelson's
daughter-in-law, Mrs.
J a m e s (Marilyn Humeston) Nelson of Grand Rapids.
MR AND MRS. OLIVER L
BUTLER and daughters, Susan
and P im, of Caledonia, and Michael Wone of Whitehall spent last
Saturday evening at the home of
Mrs. B u t l e r ' s mother, Mrs, Michael Allen of Maple Street.
Wednesday, April 12, 1967
ERNIE DAVENPORT, who has
been in St. M a r y ' s Hospital,
Grand Rapids f o r some time,
underwent s u r g e r y again last
week and is recovering in isolation and intensive c a r e .
MRS. ROSE WHITE of Maple
Street spent a few days at her
home here and is now staying with
her daughter, M r s . Victor Stegenga at 519 Northland Drive in
Rockford.
TIMI STEBBINS AND DOUG
HEUGEL spoke to the Sparta Lions Club on Tuesday evening,
April 11, on their experiences
as delegates f r o m the Sparta Methodist Church to the Washington
D.C.- New Vor k Seminar last
February.
OVER ONE HUNDRED P E R SONS attended the Golden Wedding Anniversary open house of
Mr. and Mrs. C h e s t e r Cooper
last Sunday at their home on M a r tindale
Street.
Out-of-town
guests
were
f r o m Baldwin,
Hastings, Ada, Grand Rapids,
Cedar Springs, and Rockford.
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MILTON " B U D " COOPER is
spending a leave from the Air
F o r c e with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Keith Cooper and brother,
Tom, of South S t r e e t . His p a r ents went to F o r t Shaw Air Force
Base in S. Carolina and brought
him home in time to attend his
grandparents' open house on Sunday.
Miss Margaret Stevens
Is July Bride-Elect
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Stevens, Eighth Avenue, Conklin, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter,
Margaret Ann, of Jefferson Avenue, Grand Rapids, to Randy Joseph
Youngs, son of M r . and Mrs. Robert J . Youngs of Race NE, Grand
Rapids.
A July wedding is being planned.
Both are graduates of Sparta Area High School. The bride-elect
Is also a graduate of Davenport College of Business.
Film To Be Shown at Mamrelund
A film entitled " A Time for
Burning" will be shown at 8
o'clock on Sunday evening, April
16, at the Mamrelund Lutheran
Church of Kent City.
This film deals with r a c e - r e lationship
and
has been
proclaimed an outstanding r e l i gious film involving actual individuals r a t h e r than actors as
the main c h a r a c t e r s .
It was
filmed in Omaha, Nebraska.
" T i m e ' and " L i f e '
magazines have written about this film
which has received national r e cognition.
The Rev. Donald Johnson, p a s tor of the church, extends a c o r dial invitation to attend the showing. There is no admission
charge. A f r e e - w i l l offering will
be taken.
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