Logan County Illinois    Thirty-fourth Bock Reunion    1966-2
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Thirty-fourth Bock Reunion

Transcription by William L. Stephenson, Jr., - Historian, Bock Family Association

July 24, 1966

Newspaper article transcription
>From the records of Dorothy Laun

Members of Bock Family Gather for 1966 Reunion
The 34th annual bock reunion was Sunday at  Hartsburg  high  school.  There
were 92 members present from many areas in Illinois and from Missouri.

William Bock of Lincoln presided at the meeting and Marie Martin of Lincoln
conducted memorial services for the members who died during the last year.

Gifts were presented to the youngest members present; Robert  Litwiller  of
Armington and Kirsten Gunderman of  Ironton,  Mo;  to  the  oldest  members
present, Mrs. Ida E. Martin and August Brautigam of  Lincoln;  and  to  the
family who traveled the  greatest  distance,  The  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Charles
Gunderman and daughter of Ironton, Mo.

New officers fro the coming year are as  follows:  presidentl  Carl  Lauer,
Lincoln; vice-president, Hilda Bock of  Beason;  secretary-treasurer,  Paul
Gosda, Manito.

Carl Lauer showed films of previous reunions and Rev. Gunderman closed  the
meeting with a prayer.

Those in attendance were:

	Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bock, Lincoln;
	Walter Bock, Beason;
	Carl Lauer, Lincoln;
	Mr. and Mrs. Adam F. Bock, Lincoln;
	Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bode, McLean;

	Mr. and Mrs. George A. Willmert,
	Mr. and Mrs. Albert Apel,
	Mrs. Ida Martin, Marie, Mabel, and Blanche,
	Mr. and Mrs. Carl Apel,
	Miss Lillie Apel,
		all of Lincoln.

	Mrs. Alma Hamilton, Girard;
	Mrs. Marguerite Schoen, St. Louis, Mo.;
	Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gosda, Manito;
	Mr. and Mrs. Elmer C. Wilmert, Lincoln;
	Rev. and Mrs. Charles Gunderman and Kirsten, Irnton, Mo.;
	Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gehrke, Lincoln;
	Dr. and Mrs. Walter Raber, Chicago;
	Miss Hilda Bock, Beason;
	Miss Elsa Bock, Evanston.

	Miss Myrtle Willmert, Atlanta;
	Mr. and Mrs. C. C. White, Greenview;
	Mr. and Mrs. George Laun, Jr. and family, Hartsburg;
	Mrs. Beverly Redden and family, Decatur;
	Boyd Harp, Decatur;
	Mr. and Mrs. George Laun, Sr. and Dorothy, Atlanta.

	Kenneth Fisher and family, Bement;
	The Misses Mary and Maxine Laun, Peoria;
	Mrs. Donna Wilson and family, Springfield;
	Mrs. Edith Laun, Lincoln;

	Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Laun;
	Mr. and Mrs. Henry Laun, 
		all of New Holland;

	Mr. and Mrs. John Tomlin and family, Mason City;

	Mr. and Mrs. Larry M. Steffens,
	Mr. and Mrs. August Brautigam and Elmer,
	Mrs. Caroline Comstock,
	Mrs. Wilma Begolka,
		all of Lincoln;

	Mr. and Mrs. Carol Litwiller and family,
	Miss Lora Walters, and
	Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bode, Danvers.