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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 25, 1981
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
LBanks WILSON of Mount Ayr and Jay WATSON of Diagonal have announced they are combining their business interests to form
the Wilson-Watson Funeral Homes, Incorporated. The Rhoades-Wilson Funeral Home of Mount Ayr and the Varner-Watson
Funeral Homes in Clearfield and Diagonal and Tingley are included. The merger is effective July 1, 1981.
As of July 1, the elevator facilities located on Highway 2, that have been a part of Iowa Grain Exchange, will be owned
and operated by Shields Trucking, according to Jim WEBB. Ronald A. SHIELDS and Sandra SHIELDS of Ellston are the owners
and operators of Shields Trucking. The SHIELDS have had the trucking firm in Ellston for two years in addition to
farming. They have four children, Tisha, 11, Tricia, nine, Russell, seven, and Teena, six.
Jury selection in the trial of two defendants in the murder of Alberta MICKAEL began Monday, nine months to the day from
the Monday morning, September 22, 1980, when the local teacher was found dead in her home, the victim of only the fourth
murder in Mount Ayr's history. Winterset, 52 miles to the north, is the site of the trial, after a change of venue was granted
in the case but the focus of the multitude of mass media scheduled to cover the trial will be on Mount Ayr and the events that
September morning.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
June 17, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ted STILL, Mount Ayr
June 20, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Russell BURNS, Worth MO
June 22, a son to Mr. and Mrs. John SCHAFER, Mount Ayr
June 22, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Dick ELLIOTT, Mount Ayr
OBITUARIES in June 25, 1981 Mount Ayr Record-News:
David Todd DALRYMPLE Lee Ennis BROWN
William Frederick (Bill) SCHMIDT Francis D. "Woody" WOOD
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012
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