Earl C. McCray
Central School Reports
The last week of school at th*
Central grade school ha* b«*n •
busy one for both th* student*
and the teachers. 'Days have includes
picnics, trips and plays as
Well as last minute work.
Miss Eunice Ballinger and Mrs.
Bemice Diffenderfer entertained
th*ir first grade children at the
local Creitx park .with a picnic on
Monday afternoon. Mis* Pauline
Morris and Mrs. 'Margaret Pierton
took their second grade rooms
to the park on Friday of the previous
week for a day of fun. •
Miss Rita McOunegill, third
grade teacher, treated her children
to a day at the park on Friday.
Miss Anne Hutchlnson with!
her third grade students entertained
the other fellow student*
with a play this past week. Parent*
of the room were also in attend-
•nee. The picnic was held on Tuesday
afternoon *t the Hutcfainson
home on South Center St
The fourth g r a d e student*,
taught by Mrs. Betty Stocke, ha4
a hike this -past week, a picnic 09,
Monday and a trip to the Wayn«;
Trust Bank and Miller's dairy on
Tuesday of this week. The fourth
graders, taught by Miss Martha
Feemstcr, had a picinc and > day
in the country the previous Fridsy
at the home of 'Mis* Bonnie
Bertsch. They visited the Wayn«
TruitCo. on Monday.
The following students receivedi
certificates for perfect attendance
this past year: Miss Ballinger'*
room: Stevie Becker, Bobby Boy.
les,'Phyllis Byers and Donal Funkhouser;
Mrs. Diffenderfer's room.:
Sherry Sands, Carol Sue Kendall
and Daryl Moore; Miss Morris'
room: Jan ^tombaugh, Rodney
Lawrence, Jean Ann Pass; Mrs.
Feirson'i room: Jimmy Study and
Jerry Hicks. •
Miss :Hutchinson's room: David
Pritchett, Tonny Gilpln, Terry
Gordon, Susie Guthrie and Greg
Rogers; Miss McGunegill's room:
Evelyn Callahan and Jimmy Holbert;
Mrs Stocke's room: Kancy
Frost, Michael Wilson, David
Moore, Paul Miller, Tom Farley,
Jerry Doll, Earl Cortner and Michael
Came*; Miss Feemster^
room: Stew Carltn, Joe Dunput,
Kola Moistaw, David Pitcher, Dou
glas Coddington and Kim Short.
To Tour Europe
Mr. and Mrs. George Morris,
Mrs. (Catherine B. Mercer
To Mark 90th Birthday
Anniversary
, COHNBRSVILLE — Mrs. Kath-
•rine B. Jfercer, will observe her
90th birthday anniversary with
her family Sunday, June 4, at the
Dublin American Legion home.
She resides at 601 W. »2nd Street
here where 'she live* alone in a
trailer and do*s all her own housework.
'
Mrs. Mercer, was born June 4,
1872, In Bush county, one of six
children of Joseph and Isabell May.
Although she has lived In Connersville
for the past five years, she
spent moat of her life in and
around Dublin. Her husband was
th* late Jonas Mercer.
' Mrs. Mercer has three sons,
Carl and Quyle, of Connersville,
and Luther, of New Castle; and
four daughters, Mrs. Marie Swain,
of. Anderson; Mrs. LaVon Thalls,
of Hagerstown; Mrs. Jesaie Sutton,
of Cambridge City, and Mrs. Evelyn
Clark, of Tampa, Fla.
She also has 18 children, 41
great-grandchildren and six greatgieat-
grandchildren. she has two
living brothers, Bert May, of Rush
county, and Frank May, of Montana;
and two living sisters, Mrs.
Bertha V. Beaver, of Carthage
rural route, and Mrs. Nellie White,
of Laura, Ind.
Mrs. Mercer—has many hobbies
such as piecing quilts, embroidering
>nd crocheting, all of which
she still enjoys doing. Making of
artificial flowers was a former
hobby.
She is an active member of the
Cambridge City Naiarenc church.
Nellie Jamison of East GermalV-~[203 W. Front St., l«ft Saturday
from New York by jet for a twomonth
European trip which will be
Earl C. McCray, 82 years old,
116 Jones St., city, a retired railroader,
died last Thursday evening.
H« was a native of Ohio.
Survivors include the widow,
Eva; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Vornanf,
and Mrs. Ida Lamott, both of
Rant Germantown; a stepgrandson,
and nieces an neT)h«ws.
Services for Mr, McCray were
held Monday at 8 p. m. at the Fisher
Mortuary. Rev. William F. Harris
officiated. Burial was in the
Lutheran cemetery at East