|
RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
As the Olympic flame makes its way toward
Salt Lake City, UT for the Winter Olympics, at least two people with Ringgold county ties have been selected to carry the
torch. Tracy CAMPBELL HORN of Olathe, KS carried the torch in the Kansas City, MO area Wednesday, Jan. 9. HORN is the
daughter of J. R. and Ann CAMPBELL of Topeka, KS and the granddaughter of Edith CAMPBELL of Blockton and the late Jack
CAMPBELL. Teri KRAMER ROKUSEK of Reinbeck, a former Mount Ayr resident, carried the torch Thursday, Jan. 10, in Omaha, NE.
ROKUSEK, a 1981 graduate of Mount Ayr Community high school, is elementary principal at Reinbeck elementary school
where staff members nominated her.
Vicki SICKELS was re-elected to another year as president of the Ringgold County Hospital
board; Mike KEMERY as vice president, and Patty PARRISH as secretary.
Dillon COMBS, 140 pound wrestler for the Atlantic
Trojans, reached his 100th career win at the Tri-Center Wrestling Tournamentat Neola. COMBS is only the fourth wrestler
in Atlantic history to join the 100 Win Club. He is the son of Richand Luann COMBS, former Mount Ayr residents, and the
grandson of Gaylan and Penny COMBS of MountAyr.
Seven Mount Ayr Community high school students and 10 Diagonal Community
high school students will take part in the district large group speech contest at Clarke Community high school in Osceola
Saturday. [From] Mount Ayr are Kelsey ALLEN, Sean KILGORE, Mikki STEWART, Breanna McDONNELL and Katy KIMBLEY. Diagonal will
be represented by Shauna KILGORE, Abby STEPHENS,Charles ANDREWS, Bradley BENTLEY, Tory WALKUP, Renae SMITH, Gina GUNSOLLEY,
Wes STARLIN, Richard CASTELAN and Alex STEPHENS. Shaun KNIEP is speech coach for Diagonal Community high school.
OBITUARIES in Thursday, January 17, 2002 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Viva Frances LININGER BEARD
Mildred Margaret KING CANNON
J. R. "Hap" EMERSON
Robert SHIELDS
Beulah Fern TINDLE
Martha Ellen ADCOCK WALTERS
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012
To submit your Ringgold County items, contact the County Coordinator.
Please include the word "Ringgold" in the subject line. Thank you.
IOWA OLD PRESS
An
Iowa GenWeb project that collects articles from old Iowa newspapers.
Have a
look back at the lives and times of our Iowa ancestors as reported in early
newspapers.
The home page for Iowa Old Press Project, complete with a searchable
database, may be accessed at:
http://iagenweb.org/iowaoldpress/
|
