Marion County, IL Home Bureau

                    A Professional Organization for Homemakers

                                   

             

   We are looking for photos of people and/or places from around Kinmundy & Alma.  Can you help?

Or maybe you have stories or memories from the "Good Old Days"?  What do YOU remember?

        The Kinmundy Historical Society would be honored to preserve your memories and stories.  We also have the

equipment to scan (or copy) your photos so that they may be enjoyed now as well as for generations yet to come!

        We would love to hear from you!  For more information, please contact: 

       

   Dolores (Ford) Mobley – Dolores@ford-mobley.com

                       208 Joan Dr.; Divernon, IL  62530; (217) 625-7527

            or

           

            Gladys (Corrie) See – gsee49@yahoo.com

                                         408 S. Washington St.; Kinmundy, IL 62854; (618) 547-7731

 

 

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Omega Home Bureau

 

 

Omega Area Home Bureau members - April 1957

Standing: Alice Milligan, Marie Brite, Jessie Weyrich, Opal Osborn, Elsie Rose, Pattie Hanks, Pauline Chapman

Seated: Zilpha Jones, Ruth Middleton, Carrie See, Colleen Eagan, Jewel Davis, Wilma Wilson, Velma Neal

 

 

 

Marion County Home Bureau  

 

Marion County, IL Home Bureau - Jan. 24, 1946  

 

 

 

Marion County Home Bureau - June 27, 1946

 

 

Marion County Home Bureau - May 8, 1947

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

Kinmundy Home Bureau Unit officers - Dec. 1956.

Mrs. Clarence Alderson, Mrs. Dwight Hanna, Mrs. Herbert Vandeveer.

 

 

"Marion County HEA units date back over 50 years"

"Salem Times-Commoner" - Aug. 31, 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pleasant Grove Home Bureau Unit meeting - 1965

Back row: Verna Hopkins, Lillian Currie, Alice Ward, Ruby Shaffer, Ruby Hiestand

Front row: Mrs. Will Currie, Lena Williams with granddaughter, Susan, Paula Barksdale with daughters, Nita, Sandy, and Terry

(not pictured: Maxine Barksdale, Gladys Hiestand, Mabel Smith, Lulu Vandervort, Harriet Willy.)

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marion County Homemakers Extension Association new members - Oct. 1978

 

 

Deidre Chitwood and Vera Johnston

 

 

Vera Johnston, Coy Winter, Don Joseph

 

 

Marion County Home Extension

Gladys Hiestand, Naida Uchitjil, Vera Johnston, Sue Curry, and Mary Alice Wagoner (Home Economist)

 

Attending the Annual IHEF Conference at U of I were:

Front: Vera Johnston and Mary Alice Wagoner (Extension Home Economist).

Back - center - Sharon Sanders - right - Louise Guymon.

Behind them are left to right: Naida Uchitjil, Margaret Shaffer, Gladys Hiestand, Beth Hoekstra and Alice Casey.

 

 

 

Three Marion County Homemaker Extension Association members:

Sue Curry, Vera Johnston, and Evelyn Beguelin.

 

 

Left: Margaret Shaffer, Louise Guymon

Front: Gladys Hiestand, Sharon Sanders (sitting in orange chair)

Standing: Lue Curry. 

Far Right: Vera Johnston

 

 

 

 

 

 

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