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Wednesday May 18, 2022

In Memoriam

Died	Name	Cemetery

5/8	Gary Dean Koch ’72
4/24	Martha Juanita (Brown) Lynch ’60
4/11	Ronald Noble Bellamy ’62	St. Louis, MO
3/26	Gordon D. Wiggers ’52	Chester, TX
3/24	Roy "Al" Moore	Maxwell, NE
3/22	Marvin L. Halley	Maxwell, NE

Born this day in history:

1839 John Ainlay

1848 Frank H. Alden

1849 John W Johnson

1853 Charles Castor

1854 Celinda (Palmer) Cloyd

1860 John G. Roth

1864 Samuel Brown

1870 Minnie T. (Tufts) Parker

1884 Ethel L. (Barton) Rickard
1896 James S. Clark
1907 Gladys P. Gardner

1914 Margaret Bird (Bittinger) Palmer
1918 Marvin M. Babcock

’37
1923 Ardyce J. (Crossgrove) Owen

’41

Died this day in history:

1905 James H. Wood

1912 Caroline (Joergens) (Dressler) Sodacott

1926 George W. Hathaway

1956 Annie (Powell) Newth

1965 Henry P. Brouillette

2001 Anita A. Williams
2008 Lorraine (Johnson) Warner

2014 Beatrice J. Whitney

2020 Patricia D. (Arent) Welch

’65

News from this week in Farnam history:

5/18
  – Decoration Day Service (1916)
  – Largest Graduating Class (1923)
  – Library Opened (1939)
5/19
  – Farnam Alumni Organizes (1921)
5/20
  – A Murderer (1893)
  – A Shooting Affray in Farnam (1893)
  – Farnam Facts and Fancies May 20 (1897)
  – Memorial Services May 31 (1926)
  – Standard Oil Purchases Station (1926)
5/21
  – Stove Explodes - Injures Gewecke (1925)
5/22
  – Graduates of 1930 (1930)
  – Soldiers Returning (1919)
5/23
  – Commencement - 1946 (1946)

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