Elkhart High School Class of 1961
Congratulations are in order for Myron and Hannah (Regnier) Rose and Dave and Phyllis ( Pauley ) Dygert. Both have recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The following write-ups appeared in The Elkhart Truth.
The Class of 1961 – and 1959 – has been invited to attend a mixer for the Class of 1960.
Friday, August 20th, 2010 – Mixer party at High Dive Pavilion, 500 E. Beardsley St. This will be from 6:30 PM until 11:00 PM. Classmates from both ’59 and ’61 are invited to attend this function as well. Snacks will be served. There is no cost for the mixer. There will be a cash bar with beer & wine. Dress is party casual. Shorts OK.
Jerry Eagon – jreagon@aol.com extended the invite…and he also is the blog master for the Class of 1960 blog. Check it out at http://www.ehs60.wordpress.com
EHS 1961 class member Laurali Chester Smith passed away August 10, 2010 after a brief illness.
After graduating from EHS, Laurali graduated from North Central College in Naperville, IL in 1965 with a degree in secondary education but put off a career in teaching to raise her children. She was an instructor for LaLeche league, also a second-grade teacher at New Creation Academy from 1999 until she retired to care for her mother in 2006. Before that she was an aide at Elkhart Central High School and also worked at the Elkhart Credit Bureau. She was a founding member of the New Creation Fellowship since 1979 and spend much of her time with church activities. In May of this year, she graduated from Victory Bible Institute.
Laurali is survied by her husband, Ted of Middlebury ; Her mother, Pauline Chester of Elkhart ; two sons. Mark ( Kaye ) of Dowagiac, MI and Matthew ( Cindy ) of Elkhart ; a daughter, Laura ( John ) Homan of Elkhart ; four grandchildren, and two sisters, Barbara ( Phillip ) True of Elkhart, and Nancy ( Tom ) Lewandowski of Mishawaka.
An online guestbook is available at www.stemmlawsonpeterson.com Our sincere condolences to the family.