2014 Fall Edition Newsletter

Paola High School Aumni 1888-1988. Nancy Powell if looking for information about Luke .PPSF BOE XJGF &Č BOOBI )JDLT &ď F )JY BOE BMTP Henry Hix). JoAnnRoth is looking for information about Louis William Jackson and grace Jackson Ruthie Ross is looking for the location of a site that was bulldozed into the bottom of Hillsdale Lake. JudyRich JT MPPLJOH GPS JOGPSNBUJPO PO ć PNBT #VS ton Taylor. Charlton Holland is looking for information on John Addison Edwards. April Johnson wants information on Elendor Lillie, her marriages and divorces to John Kendel and Elias Cline. Tom Madigan is researching the Justice Brothers and writing a book. Patricia Goodson wants copy of obit for Flossie J Holmes and information on Clint Parker, City Road Supt.. Colleen Selvage wants obits for Louis Enoch Dick ey, Grace Bell Dickey, Harold Dickey and Mabel B. Dickey. Mary E DePalma is looking for information about her great grandparents Mary Olive and Fedele DePalma. Chad Sidesinger is looking for information o two great aunts, Mary A. and Elizabeth Sellers. Parents of UIF TJTUFST XFSF ć PNBT +FČ FSTPO 4FMMFST BOE &MJ[B beth. Wants to know Elizabeths maiden name. Michael Ellis wants any information about Eos Elis who came to Osawatomie between 1885 and 1889. BobEstes is looking for location of a Miami County farm his parents lived on in 1945-1946. ć FTF RVFSJFT IBWF CFFO SFTFBSDIFE CZ &MTJF $PSEMF and Iris Kluber. ć FTF RVFSJFT IBWF CFFO SFTFBSDIFE CZ &MTJF $PSEMF and Iris Kluber

Last week’s Paola papers published the advertisements writ ten by him in his usual style and the papers were scarcely circulated over the county before his death was announced. He was regular in his habits and prompt in business mat ters and in meeting his engagements. He had regular hours for going to his store and in returning home, and spent much time with his family, to whom he was devot ed. He was studious and. was well informed, being a con stant reader of the daily papers, and kept posted on every subject, besides conducting a very large correspondence. He was formerly a member of the Masonic fraternity, but of recent years did not belong to any order or society. He was raised in’ the Lutheran church, but for many years was B ĕ SN CFMJFWFS JO TQJSJUVBMJTN FYQSFTTJOH IJNTFMG NBOZ times to his family as not afraid to die, as it was only pass ing to a higher life. In conversation with his family he said IF XPVME QSFGFS B XPNBO UP Pď DJBUF BU IJT GVOFSBM XIFO his time came. Mrs. Glen Stevens, a spiritualist reader wife of Dr. Stevens of Kansas City, was sent for and with Dr. Stevens came to the opening of the funeral service to read Mr.Ahrens favorite poem, “Why should the Spirit of MortalbeProud?”whichwasfollowedbyaneloquentaddress. ć SFF PG IJT DIJMESFO XFSF OPU BU IPNF XIFO IF QBTTFE away. D. H. was in Spring Hill, Dora in Kansas City and %BSXJO BU 4QPLBOF 8BTIJOHUPO ć F MBUUFS DPVME OPU SFBDI here in time for the funeral, but will be at home soon. With his family he is survived by two brothers, Freder ick in Spokane, Washington, and Edward, in Germany. ć F GVOFSBM XBT MBSHFMZ BUUFOEFE CZ IJT PME GSJFOET from Paola and surrounding country and was one of the largest ever held in Paola. Mr. Ahrens will be sad ly missed in Miami County’ and his memory will live while life lasts with the many who knew him. Aherns continued from page 19

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TOWN ć F "OBUPNZ PG B $JSDVT An autobiography by James R. Patterson A history of the Great Patterson Shows when the circus maintained winter quarters in Paola. Tax included price is $28.00 plus S&H

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