About Town

By Ida and Doris Lessenden

August 13, 2004

Vivian Gifford of Eads has returned from San Diego, California where she flew to celebrate her 80^th birthday with her son, Chuck, and wife, Joan and her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Vivian was also glad to be there for the couples’ 25^th Wedding Anniversary. Viv’s friends are happy that she is safely back in Eads.

Congratulations to Matt Weber formerly of Eads and his bride, Desirae, of Greeley who were married in Fort Collins. Matt is a senior microbiology student at Colorado State University. Desirae will begin teaching in Keresy this month. Matt’s parents, John and Eunice, nieces, Jeni and Sheri, and grandfather, Clarence Weber all of Eads went to the wedding as well as other family and friends from here and other parts of the state.

Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Brenton of La Junta came over Saturday to take his sister, Evelyn Garner, out to lunch at Our Place. Evelyn appreciates all the friends and family who have come by to visit her.

We welcome Jerry McDaniel to 13^th Street. He bought the home where Gerard Bachand the intarsia wood artist lived. Jerry comes from Craig, and is the son of Don and Phyllis McDaniel of Eads. Some people have asked me, "Who is Jerry McDaniel whose advertisements are in the paper?" Now we know who to call for the man who has expertise in electrical, computer networking, telephone, and electrical-mechanical work.

Congratulations to Jay and Duff (Liebl) Haase who have a precious baby girl. Magdalen Maye is welcomed to their Eads country home by two little brothers, Zachary and Joseph.

Jacob and Barb Diel returned from Monte Vista, where they visited family in the San Luis Valley and attended the Sky Line Stampede.

Loretta Seibel and Sis Howard laid the ground work for the first "Red Hat-Purple Dress Society" at Our Place Saturday morning. The ladies, who came in various fashions of purple and wore striking red hats, had a great time. Guest Janie Bush told more about what a Red Hat Society is. Then they decided to call themselves, "The Eads Red Hatters" however ladies from other towns can join the fun. They plan to meet on the third Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Janie Bush will host the next meeting at her ranch near Chivington and then there will be a meeting at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon at Our Place to plan a float for the county fair parade.

What a thrill Sunday morning as we were driving to Kit Carson to see Rush Creek and Big Sandy Creek running strongly. That is the most water we have seen in those creeks for years. We Praise the Lord.

Ruth and Ruby Wissel of Eads were thrilled to have Ruth’s son, Raymond, and wife, Shirley Wissel, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, drive them to Owatonna, Minnesota, where they attended a Buck Family Reunion. They were pleased that several of their brothers, Clyde and Elsie Buck’s, children traveled there. From Colorado were Elvin and daughter, Jessica Buck from Pueblo West, Ed and Lill Buck of Sterling, Peg (Buck) Leinberger, and daughter, Cheryl and son Zach and Patty Hansen as well as their brother Galen’s wife., Lola all of the Denver area. Their sister, Florence (Buck) and Calvin Colvalt from Lousiana, Leo Buck from California and the ladies’ brothers, Amis’s daughter, JoEle of Owatonna came to the home of hosts Leanna (Buck) and Bob Peterson and their son, Nick.

Carl and Zelda Peterson were glad to have their daughter and husband, Janette and Virgil Kochis, and children, Pam and Michael come to visit from Simila Sunday. Pam is leaving this week for her new graduate assistant position at a Western Illinois University in Hampton, where she is getting a Master’s Degree. Michael will be a senior at Chadron State College in Nebraska.

The ice cream social at the Artist of the Plains Gallery was a great success Saturday where one could buy a bowl of three different flavors of homemade ice cream. We enjoyed looking at the beautiful displays of art pieces, pottery, fabric art, glass art, intarsia, and other creations.

I heard that Navy woman, Erika Rice, visited her former patients and nursing staff friends at Weisbrod Saturday. They were glad to see her before she leaves for her next station.

Bill and Jackie Koehler hosted a family reunion of children and grandchildren of Woody and Dorene Watts. Jackie said, "They had a good time with us kids and their kids." The balloons that decorated their fence looked so pretty as they bobbed over Jackie’s beautiful roses.

Another fence with lots of celebration balloons was at Mindy Krentz’s home on Hickman Street where they celebrated her nephew, Tate’s, second birthday August 8th, and his parent’s Chad and Shae (Haskell) Krentz’s wedding anniversary on the 7^th and Chad and Mindy’s parents’, Brad and Carol Allen’s , wedding anniversary on the 6^th. Chad and Shae are looking forward to moving into their new home near Wiley in mid-September. It has been nice to have them next door this summer while their home is being built.

Pansy Foxworthy returned home from Kansas City via Amtrak where she had been visiting her son, Lee and Karen and family in Kansas City.

There was a lot of excitement over at Haswell last week with lots of rains, flooding of the streets, and highway two or three nights. Then Saturday the national news reported tornadoes spotted. Sure enough one lingered for about ten minutes west of Arlington. They said the surprising thing was that it appeared to move up from the earth rather than down from the sky.

Wally and Phyllis Mosher were here from Colorado Springs to visit with friends and family over the weekend. I noticed that Wally surely brought happy faces to his Aunt Ruth Koch and former neighbor, Theo Kirshner and other folks he visited at Weisbrod.

Faye Barber is nearly always at the Sunday Weisbrod Chapel Service. She missed this week because she and Ilene and Laverne Eder attended the Walker family reunion up at Superior, near Boulder.

Sue and Robin Musgrave visited Oscar and Brandi Ridgeway at their Highlands Ranch home over the weekend.

George and Dorothy Ellicott had a good time up at Snowmass last week. It was a working trip for George but a vacation in the swimming pool for Dorothy.

A number of Eads band students and parents enjoyed a trip to Denver Friday to attend the Drum and Bugle Corp competitions at Invesco Field.

Joe and Orcellia Ramirez of Haswell were glad to have her sister, Allbie and Joe E. Gonzales of Pueblo and her brother, Robert and Emma Salazar from Colorado Springs spend three days with them to help them with some cement work. The Ramierz’s have nice gardens each year.

I went to my first Lions Club meeting last week. I was drawn there by one word, "Scholarships". The club is planning a hamburger fry and Bingo for September 21th.

Janie Bush has been traveling with her husband, Joe, this month and has been buying beautiful red hats for ladies about town. Mine is from, North Dakota, others are from Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Opal Miner, Georgina Gray, Ruth Miller, Daisy Hebbard of Eads and Darrell Hebberds’s sister and mother from Walsh were among the many guests who gathered at the home of Rex and Bess Piper in Canon City to help Bess celebrate her 80^th Birthday. Ruth said it was a beautiful patio party with lovely foods and a big cake.