Mancos Times-Tribune, April 3, 1969
The annual Easter Egg hunt sponsored by the VFW and Auxiliary will be held Sunday, April 6 (Easter Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m. with all Disney cartoon films to be shown in the Opera House.)
A group of Boy Scouts from Denver has been camping out in Boyle Park and spending a week touring the Four Corners area.
The community was shocked at the death of Harriet Robb even though she had been in ill health for some time. (Harriet married Arlo Taylor Robb in 1934. Arlo was bishop of the Mancos LDS ward for 16 years. He passed away in 1986.)
Clyde Stevenson will undergo major back surgery today as the result of a back injury received earlier. (Clyde was a son of Leonard and Ida Stevenson. Ida passed away in 1974, and Leonard married Josephine Fay in 1976. Leonard worked in mines and for the Colorado State Highway Department for many years. He passed away in 1980.
Some 776 Montezuma County preschool youngsters were given measles shots during the state-county Stop Measles Clinic.
Paul Wayne Decker has reopened the Mancos Sinclair Service. Everyone is invited to the grand opening on Saturday April 5.
Workers have been re-channeling the Mancos river to save the bridge on Main Street.
Mrs. Jim Willden entertained at a birthday party for her daughter Lillian on her first birthday.
Mancos residents receiving bachelor's degrees from Fort Lewis College will include Jo Anne Harral, Douglas Ross, Gale Greenlee and Jerry Decker. (Jerry was site manager for a gold recovery operation when he was involved in a head-on collision that took his life at the age of 48.) Double wedding vows were recited by Miss Dee Tull and Roy Cash recently in Houston, Texas. Roy is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Willden. (Mark and Mae lived in the Woody Albion area north of the vocational school. From Mark's obituary: "Words do not justify the imprint this man had on all that knew him." He passed away in 1977.)
Ground work has begun on the construction of the new telephone dial building at First Avenue and North Mesa.
Tech. Sgt. Alva Starr has arrived for duty at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. He is assigned to a unit of the Air Force Systems Command.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Patrick are vacationing in Arizona this week. Their daughter Pam and Betty Mauler are doing the cooking at the Silver Peaks Restaurant while Pam's parents are away.
Mancos baton twirlers who performed Thursday evening at the Mount Lookout Grange included Christy Ingmanson, Debra Garrett, Virginia Holston and Tina Workman.
Darrel Ellis is a longtime historian of the Mancos Valley. Email him at [email protected].
