Minburn High School - Voyager Yearbook (Minburn, IA)

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by his wife, Betty Jo. We later went to his garage where we saw a sleek 'reen racer number 77 under construction. We saw a pair of feet nrotruding from beneath the speedometer. The mechanic rolled out from beneath the car and we were met by the greasy face of Carl Gottschalk, Jerry's mechanic. we told Jerry we had better leave for the airport for we were going to Miami. We had a few minutes to spare so we decided to get our lunch before we boarded the plane. We were waited on by Marv Ellen who was one of the waitresses in the cafe. After finish- ing our lunch we boarded the plane and left for Miami. When arriving in Miami we took a walk down to the docks where all the pleasure boats were moved. On display on a derric was a six foot sword fish which had been caught by the internationally famous woman fisher woman, Carmen Thompson. Wanting to find out more about Florida's countryiide we rented a car and started driving. We forgot to fill the car with gas. It began sputtering and we coasted into a drive way. A farmer and his wife met us. It was Betty and her husband a former Washington Township boy. They had moved to Florida in 1965 and began fruit farming. They were so successful that now they owned the largest fruit farm in the area. We found out that the only plane leaving Florida was bound for St. Louis. It also was chartered by a movie comnany. We finally secured permission to tag along. The comnany was back to Hollywood they had just finished making a movie starring Loretta Wellington whom we found out was really Loretta Welch of Minburn. After we arrived in ing and decided to go to we discovered the pastor Newland. St. Louis we rented a car on Sunday morn- church. When we arrived at the church to be Dale Faber whose wife was Frances Accomnnaying the congregation on the organ was Beverly Reed, wife of' Orville, her old flame. Through the procedure of the i b tif l l b th li t f Mi b Sgngacigtihgggq Wigle gisigiggwaitiuggr gld friend? wg d1s2o3Z?6d that Vonda, Frances, and neighborhood where their We checked our list Somebody made the remark living on the home lace Beverly all lived in this small country husbands were all farmers. and discovered we had missed Lois Scott. that Lois and her husband Don, were still of her folks tending the farm. we enjoyed our trips but even more we enjoyed the Seniors of H5ln. It was also,very interesting to notice how the Seniors had entered into the many occupations and the narts of the country. 7

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