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Myrrel Lund marks 100^th birthday                                                         

Coming from Los Angeles to Escondido for a visit wasn’t out of the ordinary for Myrrel Lund – even if it was to celebrate her 100^th birthday.

“Oh, it’s no big deal,” she said. “I don’t pay any attention to my age.”

“She never thinks about her age,” added Helen Hartshorn, Myrrel’s daughter-in-law. “I think that’s what keeps her so young.”

The centenarian has no trouble recalling the events of her life, and can go into detail about her most precious memories. “I’m alert and I still have my marbles,” she said smiling.

Born in Seymour, Iowa, April 3, 1887, Myrrel graduated from Iowa State Teacher’s College and taught in a private school for the deaf. And to this day she hasn’t lost her touch for the skill.

“I still enjoy doing sign language,” she said. “Sometimes I have to stop and think about it, but I’ve still got it.” After she was widowed in 1926, Myrrel moved to San Diego with her son Jack. She remarried and ran a successful restaurant in the 1920s and ‘30s. The Lunds eventually sold the restaurant to boxer Archie Moore.

Myrrel led an active life operating a business in addition to being involved with the Order of the Eastern Star, the San Diego Choral Society, the San Diego Symphony and the Episcopal Church. So, in the early 1930s she opted for more peaceful surroundings in the mountains.

The mountains were quiet, but she still stayed active. Myrrel and her husband ran a lodge in Julian. She also served as curator of the Julian Museum and was active in the American Legion, Foresters of California and the California State Grange.

In the early ‘70s she came down the mountains and moved to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in Escondido. She lived there for more than 10 years before moving to the Eastern Star Home in 1982.

Myrrel still has many friends at the park whom she visits several times a year. For her birthday more than 80 friends attended a party at the clubhouse. “She’s always been my princess,” said Ann Oliver, a Ponderosa resident. “I miss her and it’s so wonderful when she comes to visit. I’ve always liked her spunk and her attitude.”

Spunk is probably one of the things her friends admire most about Myrrel. She toured Canada when she was 85, and flew to Hawaii the next year. She didn’t even stop for a rest at 87 when she traveled to Greece.

“She always on the go,” said Ann. “You just mention the word ‘go’ and she’s gone. She loves to party, too.

Whatever the activity, Myrrel gets involved. She still loves to play musical chairs, but her friends quit playing because Myrrel would always win. When she was 97, she impersonated Michael Jackson – with her own white glove on her left hand – at the Eastern Star Home’s musical program.

“Myrrel’s always the hit of the party,” said Ann. “She gets in with the best of them – she doesn’t want to miss out on anything.”

For Myrrel’s 98^th birthday, she wanted to ride the merry-go-round at the Santa Monica pier.
[--and she did-2X’s--] 

“Nothing gets by me,” Myrrel said. “I like doing things and I’m interested in everything.”

And how does Myrrel feel about being 100 years old?

“Sometimes I think that’s not my real age,” she said. “I think I just can’t be that old. I guess it’s because I come from good stock – I came from very fine people.”

Times-Advocate, Escondido, Calif. - Sunday, April 12, 1987, Cheryl Walker

Woman killed in head-on collision

Truck driven by 16-year-old crosses center line on N.M. 14

A 47-year-old Santa Fe woman was killed Wednesday when a teenager drifted over the center line and collided with her car, head-on, on N.M. 14, according to Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano.

Gabriel Varela, 16, of Santa Fe, who was traveling south in a 2005 Mazda truck, told investigators he looked behind him to see if a friend was still following, and his truck drifted into the northbound lanes. Varela hit a 1998 Honda Accord driven by Joyce Lawrence at about 2:30 p.m., killing Lawrence instantly, Solano said.

Varela was not injured in the crash. There were no signs that alcohol, drugs or excessive speed were involved in the crash Wednesday afternoon, Solano said. Investigators did not initially charge the boy with a crime, but would forward the case to the District Attorney’s Office for review.

Lawrence’s sister, June Marksberry, reached by phone in Mississippi, said her sister was a gentle, soft-spoken and generous person.

“She always looked at the positive side of people,” Marksberry said. “She would find something good about anybody.”

Lawrence worked as an English-as-a-second-language teacher at Santa Fe Community College, Marksberry said. She leaves behind a 15-year-old daughter and her husband, who live in Eldorado.

Lawrence was a quilter and often showed her works in Santa Fe. Originally from California, she and her husband moved to New Mexico from Idaho some years ago. Lawrence joined the Peace Corps in her 30s, traveling to Kenya, where she met her husband, her sister said.

“She was a wonderful person,” Marksberry said. “She was full of life. More than any other person I’ve known.”

Marksberry said the family had not yet made funeral arrangements.

N.M. 14 was closed from the turn off to Rancho Viejo to the intersection with N.M. 599 for about two and a half hours.

The New Mexican - June 27, 2007, by Natalie Storey

California Optometric Association

2415 K Street Sacramento, California 95816

916.441.3990 800.877.5738 Fax 916.448.1423 www.coavision.org

Dr. O. Doyle Dannenberg of Escondido

Honored with the Paul Yarwood Memorial Award

OAKLAND, CA – O. Doyle Dannenberg, OD was honored with the Paul Yarwood Memorial Award by the California Optometric Association at its 2004 House of Delegates meeting held December 3-4, at the Oakland Marriott. Dr. Dannenberg was recognized for his significant contributions to the San Diego Optometric Society, to organized optometry in general, and to the community, and for his pursuit of professional development.

             Dr. Dannenberg likes to follow the wisdom of Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, “I do not know your destiny, but one thing is certain; the ones who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” Dr. Dannenberg has donated his time to more than 20 professional, scholastic, community and religious organizations for the past 50 years. Organizations that have benefited from his volunteer service include the Escondido Rotary Club, California Optometric Association, and the Escondido Union School District Board of Trustees.

            Dr. Dannenberg has practiced optometry in Escondido since 1948 and received his Doctorate of Optometry from the Southern California College of Optometry. He continues to reside in Escondido with his wife June.

            The Paul Yarwood Memorial Award is named in memory of COA’s Executive Director from 1945 and 1965. It recognizes persons, organizations or groups who have made significant contributions to optometry or to the visual care of the American public outside of the COA organized volunteer structure. California Optometric Association, established in 1899, is the state’s oldest organized community for optometrists, and currently represents more than 2,600 optometrists in the state. The California Optometric Association is dedicated to assuring the highest quality health care for the public through the advancement of optometry.

December 2004, Jessica Slivyak, Communications Manager, COA
 

Linda Way, Rodney Hartshorn Reveal Engagement At Party

The engagement of Linda Sue Way to Rodney Hartshorn was announced during a before-the-prom informal buffet Saturday.

Miss Way is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Logan of 809 North Beech Street. She is a senior at Escondido High School and is in training as a student in histology at Palomar memorial Hospital.

Hartshorn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Hartshorn of 1414 South Citrus Avenue. He is a 1963 graduate of Escondido High School and is a sophomore at Pepperdine College, Los Angeles, where he is listed in the top five students at the school.

The couple plans a December wedding.

Daily Times-Advocate, Escondido, Calif., Spring 1965

Pacific Veteran Home on Leave

Spent 32 Months in Overseas Action

Owen Hartshorn, aviation radioman 1/c, a veteran of the battle of the Coral sea, the battle of Midway, “a little disagreement on Guadalcanal,” and the bombing of Wake Island, is home from the war for a 30-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hartshorn, 3406 Avenue A.

Enlisting in the navy shortly after graduation from Abraham Lincoln high school in 1939 he has been in the service three years and seven months, 32 months of which he has been on overseas territory.

Serving in the capacity of a first radio man and top turret gunner on a Liberator Bomber, he has over 2,000 hours in the air.

Hartshorn received boot training at the Great Lakes naval training station in Illinois, was transferred to San Diego, Calif., for aviation radio school, and then to Honolulu for gunnery and radar training.

He leaves on Jan. 19, for an embarkation port at San Diego. In regard to whether he’s anxious to get back, Hartshorn said, “Three years is a long time.”

—Save Your Tin Cans—

Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil—January 4, 1944

Marriage Record of Elmer and Bertha

Elmer Rowe Weaver
Elmer of ST. James, Phelps and over 21 yrs of age; and Bertha from ST. James, under 21 and consent given by Lee J. Crum, guardian appointed by J. B. Scott, probate judge of Phelps County, Missouri.

Marriage Records of Phelps County, Missouri: Book 10, Page 531

Daniel & Sarah Stogsdill - Letter of Recommendation

Letter of Recommendation for members transferring from other churches:

We the united Baptist Church of Christ at New Hope Pulaski county Ky commence on the 3rd Saturday of Oct 1850 to all to whome these presents may come this to certify that our Bro Daniel Stogsdill and Sister Sarah Stogsdill is both Members with us in full fellowship and is dimised from us when Joined to any other church of the Same faith and order and by order of the church Robt Mc Alister md Washington Hargis CLK

UMR Western Historical Manuscript Collection Rolla, Phelps County Missouri - Rhea Church Records 1844-1900

Daniel Stogsdill & Sarah Hargis - Marriage Bond

Know all men by these presents that we Dan. Stogsdal & Owen Adkins are held firmly bound unto Christopher Greenup Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the Just and full sum of fifty pounds to which payment well and truly to be made to the said Governor his Successors we bind Ourselves our heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these presents Sealed with Our Seals and dated this 9' day of Dec.

The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a Marriage Shortly intended to be had Solemnized between the above bound Daniel Stogsdal------and Sary Hargis, both of Pulaski County if there be no lawful Cause to Obstruct the Same the the above Obligation to be Void Otherwise to remain full force power & Virtue Daniel x Stogsdal Owen x Adkins Signed Sealed and Delivered In presence of Will Fox Kentucky Pulasky County December 9th 1806

This is to Certify that I give my Consent for my daughter Sary to be joined in wedlock with daniel Stogsdill S__ this from under my hand----Jane Hargis Wm Fox Clk test Randal Alexander Owen x Adkins

Pulaski County Kentucky Historical Society Somerset, Kentucky-Marriage Bond

John Clark Symes, Esquire - Epitath

"Here lyeth the body of John Symes of Poundisford, in the Parish of Pitminster in the
county of Somerset, Esquire, he was born on the 4th day of March, 1572 (in the 12th year of Queen Elizabeth). He lived soberly, righteously, and godly, and died on the 21st day of October 1661.

"Reader, thou treadest on the sacred ashes of John Symes, Esq., who in the late
unhappy times of rebellion was forced (for his signal loyalty to his Prince) to leave his
former habitation at Poundisford, in the parish of Pitminster, in the county of Somerset,
and to seek a repose for his old age in this parish. He was a man greatly renowned for
wisdom, justice, integrity, and sobriety, which talents he did to hide in a napkin, but
religiously exercised in the whole conduct of his life, especially in the government of that county, wherein he bore all the honourable offices incident to a country gentleman (as Knight of the shire, elected nem. con.), for the Parliaments held at Westminster in the 21st year of King James, High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant for many years, and Justice of the Peace for 40 years and upwards, and as he was careful and solicitous to discharge his duties to God, his soverigne and his country, so God was pleased to bestow on him several badges (also) of his special favour, as length of days, accompaned with a most healthy constitution of body for above 80 years, and of his mind to the last, as also a numerous posterity even of children and children's children, to the number of 100 and upwards, descended from his loynes (by his only wife Amy, the daughter of Thomas Horner, of Cloford, in the county of Somerset, Esquire).

"And when he was full of days and honor, having lived 88 years 7 months and 7 days, and seen the safe return of his Prince to his crown and kingdom, after a long and horrible exile, and thereby the flourishing condition of both Church and State. Having finished his work on earth, he cheerfully resigned his soul to God that gave it, the 21st day of October, anno domini 1661, in full assurance of a joyful resurrection."

St Peters Church, Frampton, Gloucestershire, England

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