Through the Years: 1947 - A friendship quilt constructed circa 1917 was gifted back to Tri Kappa by the family of Ethel Royer

Deaths: Robert Moore, 85; Rebecca “Becky” Manion, 72.

After a major remodeling effort, the Owen County Public Library reopened.

Charles Butts was remembered by his widow, Sandy, on what would have been his 92nd birthday.

Shaylyn Michelle Kay Ammerman was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of her death.

10 years (2012)

Deaths: Katreena Scrogham, 57; Stanley Hickam, 71; Irene Everly, 89; Debra Shields, 52; Geneva Weddle, 94.

Nicole McGee, 18, was killed in a single vehicle accident on State Road 246, near Bixler Road.

Anniversary: Paul and Joan (Bogle) Fowler celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary.

The Gosport Masonic Lodge No. 92 was sold and its contents auctioned off.

Charles Butts was remembered on what would have been his 87th birthday.

James Rike was remembered by family on the 3rd anniversary of his death.

25 years (1997)

Births: A son, Haden Joseph, born to Ronald and Candi Seering; a daughter born to Scott and Susan Addie; a daughter born to Christopher and Alexis Hayden; a son born to Brian Hutchinson and Lisa Maners; a son born to Stephen Ownings and Lisa Robertson.

Deaths: Robert Miller, Sr.; William Brown, 87; Harvey Ford, 74; Connie Manning, 65; Arlie New, 79; Joseph Pietzuch, 90; Herman Williams, 81; Rebecca Day, 85; Bill Burton, 68; Anna Asher, 80; Merle Clark, 102.

Judge Frank Nardi denied a sentencing modification for Penny Mae Morrison, 27, who had served 10 years of a 30-year sentence in the 1986 death of Douglas Crawford, 49, of Indianapolis, near Cataract.

Steve Livingston received the Winter Patriot Award.

Twins Marie Bullerdick and Martha Fritzinger celebrated their 80th birthday.

John Elmore, formerly of Gosport, was assistant director on the film Speed 2: Cruise Control.

The Tivoli was showing Howard Stern’s 'Private Parts.'

Josephine Adams was remembered by family on what would have been her 89th birthday.

Kathryn Harris was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of her death.

Levi Kohl Summerlot was remembered by his parents on the 1st anniversary of his death.

Bradley “Brad” Granger was remembered on the 5th anniversary of his death by his grandmother, Hazel Neibel.

50 years (1972)

Births: A daughter, Lora Nicole, born to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Morley; a daughter Erica Lynn, born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stierwalt.

Deaths: William Matkins, 63; Len Quinlin, 92.

Anniversary: John and Opal (Livingston) McAuley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Raymond Miller, 50, was badly injured in a fire that destroyed his Back Street home, in Freedom.

Vandals destroyed two headstones marking the graves of people who had died in 1866 and buried in the New Union Cemetery on Rattlesnake Road, about 2 miles north of Highway 46.

Bessie Ahlemeyer, 79, Rt. 2, Poland, was knocked down and robbed of $25 while standing in front of the Ahlemeyer Store on Road 42, west of Cunot.

Criminals smashed headstones and wrote obscenities at the Pryor Cemetery, located just over the Greene County line, near Newkirk.

Jim West, 15, of Freedom, sunk a hole-in-one at Pine Woods Golf Course.

Owen Valley High School senior Jerry Franklin was the region 7 winner of the Skylab Project sponsored by NASA and the National Science Teachers Association.

Poochy the Miniature Wire Haired Terrier was lost.

In recognition of her 97th birthday, former Freedom resident Mary Bates received an autographed photo and a letter of congratulations from President Richard Nixon.

Danny Woods, of Spencer, completed basic training at the U.S. Army Training Center, Infantry, Fort Polk, Louisiana.

A $50 reward was being offered for the return of King, an Alaskan Malamute missing from around Locust Lake.

Jerry Parrish, of Stinesville, and Leonard Browning, of Spencer, purchased Marsh Cleaners on the Spencer square and renamed it Miller’s Cleaners.

Martin Killough, Poland, graduated basic training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois.

Joseph “Clem” Hammond was remembered by family on the 3rd anniversary of his death.

James Wall was remembered by family on the 5th anniversary of his death.

Pearl Tyner Reagan was remembered on the12th anniversary of her death by family who also remembered William Tyner who died January 27, 1930.

75 years (1947)

Births: A son, David Forrest, born to Mr. and Mrs. David Clark; a son, John Dennis, born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth White; a daughter born to Garland and Frances Wineka; a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heckman; a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Redenbeck; a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Ordell Keefover; a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Benny Bault.

Deaths: Gotleb Rentschler, 86; Clara Everly, 68; Carl Holsapple, 58.

Charles “Frank” Nelson, 58, formerly of Freedom, was killed after he fell beneath moving freight cars while working as Yard Master in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at Bicknell.

Clement Dubois, of Bloomington, was killed when an REMC truck collided with a semi-trailer driven by Ervin “Nobbie” Noblet, 40, of Indianapolis, at the intersection of Highway 67 and Romona Road.

Engineer Solon Warner, 60, and fireman Victor Baldwin, 25, both of Danville, Illinois, died after their Chicago and Eastern Illinois mail train hit a car stalled on the tracks in Thornton, Illinois.

An explosion killed 111 people at Mine No. 5, in Centralia, Illinois.

In Brazil, Indiana, Russell Bryan, 24, shot and killed his estranged wife, Betty Jean Bryan, 23, and her father, John “Max” Thompson, and then chased Winifred Thompson into the woods where she had fled with her granddaughter, Julia “Judy” Bryan, 5, and, catching them, he killed the little girl and seriously injured her grandmother before taking his own life.

A friendship quilt constructed circa 1917 was gifted back to Tri Kappa by the family of Ethel Royer.

George Adams lost a mule and a mare from the Cloverdale Rodeo Ranch.

Warren and William Sparks, of Bloomington, took over operation of the Sinclair Service Station located at the corner of Morgan and West streets, Spencer, after Horace Maners left to operate a grocery store in Gosport.

This article originally appeared on Evening World: Through the Years: 1947 - A friendship quilt constructed circa 1917 was gifted back to Tri Kappa by the family of Ethel Royer