Senior Citizens memorial service part of Nov. 12 annual meeting
Members of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association will hold a memorial service for its members who died between November 2011 and Octcber 2012. The service is part of the Monday, Nov. 12, dinner meeting. The meeting at at 6 p.m. at the Center.
The memorial service will recognized:
Virginia Geiger
Edith Meyer
Nelson Schumacher
Don Wymer
Methel Benroth
Stan Newton
Elsie Johnston
Kenneth Geiger
Madlyn Kimmel
Margie Badertscher
Donna Badertscher
Harold Alstaetter
Dale Amstutz
Harold Balmer
Jean Schumacher
Alice Wingate
Irene Althaus
Leonard Kingsley
Carol Diller
Cleora Schaller
Arthur Hilty
Carolyn Sue Adam
Eloise Buettner
Vera Burkholder
Donna Shinn
Kenneth Steiner
Marjorie Diller
Dick Cookson
Erma Augsburger
The meeting also serves at the annual meeting of the Association. The following persons will be up for re-election to board positions: Sharleen Olson, Mariiyn Lenhart, Linda Staley, Joyce Cupples, Bev Amstutz, Marlin Burkholder, Mary Amstutz and Wade Oberly.
Helen McOwen and Alice Rader will receive life memberships in November. Both have had their 90th birthday.
The November Senior Citizens newsletter is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
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