Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 6, 1961

Two Mount Ayr residents were injured in a car-tractor collision, which happened Wednesday afternoon of last week, two and one-half miles south of Redding on Highway 169. Sam OSBORN, Grant City, MO, businessman, suffered facial cuts, and Mrs. OSBORN, operator of Iris' Beauty Shop in Mount Ayr, received multiple facial and body lacerations and contusions, when their car struck a tractor driven by Jerry HIATT of Redding. Mr. OSBORN was treated at the Ringgold County Hospital and released, while Mrs. OSBORN remains a patient in the hospital.

Mount Ayr golfers brought home five trophies from the Grant City Open Golf Tournament Sunday. Lyle DULANY won in A flight, Ken WILSON in B, J. N. CHICKEN in D, Jack COATES in E and Bob ROE in G. Raymond STEPHENS won the tournament with a 61. Othel RICHARDS, former Kellerton vocational agriculture instructor, was the runner-up with a 67. Other Mount Ayr golfers entered were Bill FRENCH, Jack ELLIOTT, Keith WALTERS, Laurance BISHOP, Keith COLE, Nick DUROS, Bill MONAGHAN, Chuck BRABY, Robert RICHARDS, Gary McCULLOUGH and Elmo ROE.

Good neighbors have performed two more acts of kindness for W. H. (Mike) MORGAN, at his farm in Rice township. Mr. MORGAN is convalescing from recent surgery.

Funeral services for Dr. Irvin Cecil BROWN were held June 24 from the Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, D. C. Dr. BROWN, a former chemist with the Agricultural Research Service and geology instructor at the University of Maryland, died suddenly June 21 in Frederick, MD. He was 65 years of age. Born near Tingley, he was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. F. BROWN.

Carl F. PETERSEN, secretary of the Ringgold Mutual Insurance Association at Mount Ayr, Wednesday was re-elected to the board of directors of Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company of Grinnell, as the organization concluded its 53rd annual meeting on the Grinnell College campus. Ringgold Mutual Insurance Association of Mount Ayr was one of 17 farm mutual insurance associations receiving certificates of recognition for notable, increase in business during 1960 as Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company of Grinnell. The association was cited for having 1960 gains exceeding 10 percent of its volume. Ringgold Mutual had again of 12.6 percent to rank fourth among member county mutuals in Iowa.

July 02, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Norman MAIN, Grand River

OBITUARIES in July 6, 1961 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Kenneth Paul GRINDSTAFF   Kate ROMKEE WEEDA

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2011

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