Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 10, 1985

First baby of the new year at Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr didn't wait around very long at all. Oakel Ranea PETTINGER showed up at 1:13 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1 to start the new year right. Oakel weighed in at six pounds, five ounces and was 20 inches long. Her parents are Gene and Karen PETTINGER of Tingley and Dr. Roy FELL made the delivery.

The Ringgold County Soil Conservation District presented the district's conservation achievment award to Ann and James VOTAVA on January 2.

A blaze around the electric stove quickly filled with smoke the Esther JOHNSTON one-bedroom apartment at Heritage Park Monday, Jan. 7. It resulted in a large amount of smoke damage and scorching of the stove, countertop and wall's surface.

The wall behind a French fryer at The Office, just off the Mount Ayr square, was damaged with fire erupting as owner Ruth CAVENDER was frying chicken about 8:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4. Staff had the blaze out by using a fire extinguisher before Mount Ayr volunteer firemen got there, employees said.

As former deputy Eloise BROWN assumes her position as Ringgold county auditor as of Jan. 1, 1985, she will be assisted by two deputies -- Bob ERICKSON of Mount Ayr and Teresa WILKEY, who lives on a farm in northeast Ringgold county.

Jim JONES was named as chairman of the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors and was given the oath of office by judicial magistrate Bob ROE January 3, 1985. He succeeds another member of the board, Duane POORE, in that position. The third member is newly elected Eldon STILL.

Mrs. Marie McGILVREY suffered a broken 12th verebrae when she fell on the front inside steps at the Mount Ayr Public Library where she is head librarian. She says she was carrying a load of films about 4:15 p.m. Thursday,Jan. 3, when they shifted causing her to sit down hard on the steps.

A world record for a desert big horn ram taken with a bow and arrow may belong to an Arizon man with ties to Ringgold county. Chuck MEACHAM, son of former Mount Ayr residents, Charles and Frankie MEACHAM, now of Tucson, AZ, and husband of former Marlys BARKER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall BARKER of Mount Ayr, shot his ram on December 12 in the Sand Tank Mountains near Gila Bend, AZ. The horns of the six-year-old ram were 16 inches around each base and 32 inches long. The former world record ram scored 154.6 points and was shot by one of the Tusconians helping in the hunt.

January 01, a daughter, Oakel Ranea, to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene PETTINGER, Tingley

OBITUARIES in January 10, 1985 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Floyd V. HILL

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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