1st of Bob Remmert’s photos & Metamora Herald news clippings file — people shown in this issue:
- Gay M. (Stivers) & Ben M. Schierer 50th anniversary (1966): married October 5, 1916, at Sacred Heart Chuch, Peoria IL; Ben in the dairy business with sons in Metamora; 2 sons, 6 grandchildren, 1 great-granddaughter
- Pauline M. (Gangloff) & Edward J. Schierer 50th anniversary (1958): 215 W. Washington St., Metamora; married October 6, 1908, at St. Mary’s Church, “here in” Metamora IL; 8 children & 25 grandchildren
- Emma (Meismer) & August Scheirer 50th anniversary (1959): 315 N. Hanover St., Metamora; married February 9, 1909, St. Mary’s Church, Metamora; 7 children & 23 grandchildren
- Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. DuBois 50th anniversary (news November 8, 1957): Metamora; married November 19, 1907, at St. Mary’s Church, “Lourdes, Ill.” then lived in South Dakota but “most of their lives” in “Metamora and vicinity”; 1 daughter & 3 grandchildren (see also next line)
- Elizabeth (Chilly) & Frank L. DuBois 60th anniversary (news November 16, 1967): 303 W. Partridge, Metamora; married November 19, 1907, at St. Mary’s Church, Lourdes, then lived in South Dakota, then back to Metamora vicinity; retired from farming 1948 and “moved to town”; 1 daughter, 3 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren
- Maisie (Webster) & Cloise Mayfield 25th anniversary (1972): 309 S. Niles, Metamora; married June 21, 1947, at the Methodist Church, Croydon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 4 children & 1 granddaughter
- Catherine (Adams) & Frank Kieswetter 50th anniversary (1969): Metamora; married September 30, 1919 at “Lourdes Church, Metamora” (probably St. Mary’s of Lourdes, not Metamora); 9 children & 35 grandchildren
- Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Ehringer 50th anniversary (“Feb. 2nd”, no year)
- Helen (Schierer) & Elmer DuBois 55th anniversary (1988): Metamora; married September 26, 1933, in Metamora; 4 children, 9 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild; Elmer DuBois “in the trucking business in the Metamora-area for the past 57 years”
- Evelyn & Don Whittington 50th anniversary (undated): rural Metamora; married “50 years June 7”; 3 children & grandchildren
- Bernice P. (Shea) & James P. Murphy 50th anniversary (1998): 217 N. Hanover St., Metamora; married June 19, 1948, at St. Mary’s Church in Metamora; 1 son
- Helen (Durst) & Albert Sluga: married September 29, 1919, in Peoria; 2 children, 4 grandsons, 1 granddaughter
- Mary Reeser Petrosky & Charles Petrosky 50th anniversary (1996): Metamora; married March 10, 1946; 8 children, 13 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, 3 step-great-grandchildren
- Delores (Noll) & Wesley Klein 50th anniversary (1996): 904 State St., Washington IL; married June 8, 1946, in Metamora; 2 children, “and grandchildren”
- Rosemary (Elbert) & Arthur Mischler 40th anniversary (news April 23, 1986): 315 W. Monroe, Metamora; married April 24, 1946, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church; 5 children & 13 grandchildren
- Magdeline (Engst) & Robert Harbers Sr. 60th anniversary (news September 11, 1986): 108 N. Hancock, Metamora; married September 14, 1926, at “St. Mary’s of Lourdes, Metamora” (so probably not Metamora); 2 sons, 11 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren
- Violet I. (Trantina) & Howard Mason 50th anniversary (news February 7, 1985): Metamora; married February 14, 1935, in Metamora; 2 sons & 7 grandchildren
- Edith Gail (Wiles) (known as Gail) & Carl Webb 50th anniversary (news July 9, 1987): Metamora; married July 11, 1937, in Roanoke; 3 children, 8 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild
- a later photograph of Gail & Carl Webb, same couple as in the article to the left, at bottom center of last page
- Carolyn (Eckhoff) & John Rauh 40th anniversary (1996): 314 S. Morgan, Metamora; married November 18, 1956 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Benson; 3 children — 10 grandchildren; John Rauh has spent 51 years at Metamora Telephone Company
