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Forthcoming marriage - Mr.
and Mrs. John Baker of Hensel!
are pleased to announce the
forthcoming marriage of their
daughter, Becky Cheryl to Brian
William Mercer, son of Mrs. Ann
Mercer of London and Mr. Bill
Mercer of Aylmer. Their wedding
will take place on Saturday,
May 11, 1991 at 3:00 p.m. at
Hensall Presbyterian Church.
Open reception to follow in Ex-
eter.
100th birthday - Members of the Exeter United Church attended former Exeter resident Gladys Fraser's
100th birthday party Monday afternoon. In front are Gladys Fraser (right) and her sister Rae Athens. Be-
hind, from left, are Mary Kernick, Elliott McRoberts, Audrey McRoberts, Lillie Dobbs,Ella Tinney, Rev.
Charles Henderson and Ethel Henderson.
Former Exeter woman
celebrates 100th birthday
AILSA CRAIG - Gladys Fraser
had a lot of people out to her birth-
day party Monday afternoon at Ail-
sa Craigs Craigholme, but then this
was no ordinary birthday. As one
person observed, it's not every day
you get a chance to meet someone
who turns 100 years old.
"If anyone wanted to live to be a
hundred, you'd want to live in this
condition," said Craigholme's activ-
ity director as dozens of people
passed through to extend their best
wishes to the area's newest centen-
arian.
Gladys Fraser likes to go by ihe
nickname "Jimmy" confesses her
friend Lillie Dobbs. In fact. many
of ihe staff at Craigholme over the
past 10 years Since Fraser has been
a resident there have mostly known
her by that name.
Fraser used to live in Exeter and
worked at the Huron Park air base
during the war.
While her eyesight has failed her
these past years, Fraser is still witty
and alert enough to enjoy a good
conversation, says Dobbs.
Joining the well wishers at Mon-
day's party were several messages
of congratulations from none other
than Queen Elizabeth II, the Cana-
dian Governor General, the Ontario
Lieutenant Governor, and Ontario's
Prem ier.
Also making a rare visit was Gla-
dys' sister Rae Aikens from Exeter
Villa, also well into her 90s.
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Forthcoming marriage - Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Gilmour of Lucan are
pleased to announce the forth-
coming marriage of their daugh-
ter, Janet Elizabeth to Alan Mac-
intosh,
ao-intosh, son of Mr. and MrS. Alan
Gates of Lakeside. The wedding
will take place at 6 p.m. at Holy
Trinity Anglican Lucan. Open re-
ception to follow In Lucan.
Thames Road minister to be at youth forum
THAMES .ROAD - On Wednes-
day, May 1 the Sunbeams are to
meet at 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the
Thames Road Church and the Offi-
cial Board will meet at night at 8
p.m., also at the church.
Adult Bible Study has been can-
celled at the manse, but will contin-
ue at Exeter Villa on Thursday,
May 2 at 2 p.m.
The London Conference Youth
Forum will be held May 23-26 at
Ridgetown Agricultural College.
Applications for youth ages 16-21
available from the church minister.
Children aged 8-12 will be at the
conference May 24, 7 p.m. to May
26 at 3 p.m. These applications are
also available from the minister.
The minister and some of our lay
delegates will be absent from the
pastoral charge during the confer-
ence as they will be attending.
UCW
Monday, May 6 at 8 p.m. is the
time of 'the regular meeting of the
United Church Women with Dar..
lene Passmore, Joan Morgan, Helen
Webber and Alma Ballantyne as
the program committee. Please
bring a large tea towel or donation
to buy one for the kitchen.
Pentecostal Women meet
EXETER - The Women's Mini-
stries from the Exeter Pentecostal
Tabernacle was held at the home of
Shirley Prouty April 25 at 2 p,m.
Jean Triebner presided over the
meeting and led in the Hymn, "Tis
Burning in My Soul".
We had prayer by Donna Eaton.
We sang the Hymn "Nearer My
God to Thee."
The roll call was taken by Shirley
Prouty and answered by a scripture
verse on "shower". There were 14
present.
The business was then transacted.
It was decided to send money for
Rev. Koster's birthday in the Neth-
erlands.
Ruth McLaren read a couple of
poems entitled "West Weather
Talk and A Beautiful World."
A Missinoary reading was gift
by'Ada Triebner on Tent Meeting
Ministry.'
Helen Kendrick was the speaker
of the afternoon and spoke on
"Women's Rights." Scrilmtures
from Numbers, Heb. 9:15, 1 Peter
1:4. Eph. 1:18, 1 Cor. 2:9.
A poem on prayer was read by
Ruth McLaren.
We then had a time of prayer
with all the ladies praying.
Lunch was served and provided
by the hostess, Shirley Prouty,
Ada Triebner and Idena Desjardine.
Church service
The fifth Sunday of Easter church
service on Sunday was in the
charge of Rev. Sheila Macgregor.
Rev. Macgregor read the Scrip-
ture Lesson Ruth 1:1-18.
The congregation sang
the
e chil-
drershymn "Give Me Oil".
Rev. Macgregor's sermon was en-
titled "A Story of True Love".
The Exeter Branch of the Inde-
pendent Order of Oddfellows and
�- he Rebekahs held their church ser-
- vice at Elimville on Sunday mom-
ing.
Personals
Twenty-five elders, spouses and
their families hada pot luck supper
with Rev. Macgregor and Richard
Macgregor, Alexandra and Lauch-
lan on Wednesday evening. The
elders later held their meeting.
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