July 10, 2012

Mystery photo gallery #15

Help us identify another batch of G.D. Fronabarger photographs. Librarian Sharon Sanders is anxiously awaiting your emails at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Nancy Wilson recognized her grandmother in photo 1: "I believe that this is a picture of my grandmother, Mrs. Thomas H. (Vina Fronabarger) Jenkins and her granddaughter Barbara Jo Jenkins. Vina would be an aunt to G.D. Fronabarger."

Dec. 17, 1954 Southeast Missourian. Awards won by the 4-H Club members and their leaders were announced at the annual county-wide leaders’ recognition dinner held Thursday night at the Hanover Lutheran Church recreation hall on Perryville Road. Some of the 150 attending are shown in the picture, which also shows the spacious hall built by the Hanover congregation for its activities. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

The Lions were doing a thriving business at their Pancake Day when this picture was taken at noon Wednesday, April 2, 1947. In the picture, Lion Alvin Macke, turned waiter for the occasion, looks after his customers.

For years, members of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department collected used toys, refurbished them, and gave them away to needy children at Christmas. This may have been a toy-collection event for the department. If you have information about the image, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Dolls by the dozens were lined up on a dresser and table in this photo. If you have information about the image, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Nothing refreshes like a cold soda on a hot summer's day. If you have information about the image, contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Matt Lingle says: "My father Ron Lingle is the brother-in-law of Bud Pierce, Purple Crackle owner, and worked with these two gentlemen at the Crackle in the 50's and 60's. The man in the white shirt is Alfred "Sonny" Wilson and the other gentleman was head waiter Paul Walburg."

Nov. 10, 1961 Southeast Missourian There was a full house for the district dental workshop at State College Thursday. From the left are Raymond Roberts of the State Department of Education, Jefferson City; President Mark Scully of the college, Dr. Del Brunton of Cape, workshop chairman; Bill Haman, instructor at Central High School, who gave one of the talks; Ralph Knowles of the Division of Health, Jefferson City; Miss Maxine Bounds, teacher at Fredericktown, who was on the program, and Mrs. Imogene Webb, an elementary grade supervisor, State College.

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Help us identify another batch of G.D. Fronabarger photographs. Librarian Sharon Sanders is anxiously awaiting your emails at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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