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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Class of '58 hold reunion
Mount Ayr high school graduates of 1958 turned out in force July 18 and 19 for a reunion celebrating the 55th anniversary
of their graduation. Of the 50 surviving class members, 30 attended and guests brought the total to 48. The class began
with 41 kindergartners in 1945 and eded with 63 graduates in 1958. Twenty-three of the kindergartners attended Mount
Ayr schools through to graduation. Activities during the reunion included a Friday night dinner at Ramsey's Supper Club,
a catered dinner Saturday night at the Mount Ayr Golf and Country Club, many hours of visiting and breakfast at the
American Legion Sunday morning. A highlight was participation in the Ayr Days parade, with class members riding in a
tractor-drawn shuttle belonging to the Clearfield Lions Club. The shuttle was the first in the club's fleet, which has
provided transportation at the Iowa State Fair for 50 years. Class members and their guests who attended were Donna
BARKER JOHNSTON of Albuquerque, NM; her sister, Lora BARKER CAMPBELL of Kansas; Theron JOHNSON and Marilyn PRITCHETT
JOHNSON of Delphos; Ave LOVE FITZGERALD and Beverly HUDSON DUFFY of Des Moines; Melvin LOVE of Hampton; Nancy TERWILLIGER
DAUGHTON and Bill DAUGHTON of Kellerton; Bonnie May SUMMA and husband Gerald, Sybil DENHART KELLEY, Marian BENNETT JENNINGS
and husband, Norm, Jerry WIMER and wife Karen and Mike WARIN and wife Grace, all of Mount Ayr; Don FRIDAY of Council Bluffs;
Roger BELL and wife Jane of Atlantic; Larry PRATT and wife Kay of Diagonal; Norma Jean WILSON RIDOUT and husband Gary of
Pleasant Hill; Also Mary Ellen and James KIMBLE of Osceola; Lyndall "Pete' HILL and wife Nancy, of Grant City, MO; Ron
CROSS of Urbandale; Bill PRICHARD and Kay RYAN PRICHARD of West Des Moines; Ann ABARR BENNETT and husband Warren of Grants,
NM; Ellen SPURRIER HUFF and husband Carroll of Albany, OR; Jean RUSK WALTERS and husband Keith of Wayland; Phil STONE and
wife Cathy of Perry; Karen Sue WELLS JACKSON of White ear Lake, MN; Edith Ann CREGEEN BEAR and cousin Elsie CREVELING
of Creston; Glenda DUNKESON GREENHALGH of Decatur; Maury POTTER and wife Pat of Royal Oak, MI; Kay SICKELS MOSIER and
husband Cliff of Littleton, CO; and Kenny WEBB and wife Polly of Indianola. Two special guests were Cathy WARD of Mount
Ayr and Ruth WARD of Ankeny, whose late husbands, Dennis and Tom WARD, respectively, were 1958 MAHS graduates. Co-chairs
for the reunion were Sybil KELLEY and Nancy DAUGHTON. Class members voted to meet again in 2015 and in 2018. Committees
are being formed.
Photograph courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2013
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