Dinner Given for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Karns by the Warners

 

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Warner entertained on Thursday at a 6 o'clock dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Karns who are moving to Bethany, Okla. and also for the Warners’ 51st wedding anniversary. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Karns, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haley, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lockman, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Snook and Larry, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Patterson and Mrs. Bertha Patterson.

 

–Newspaper clipping saved by Verna (Dawson) Karns.

[The clipping is not dated, but they moved in 1956.]

 

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Here are links to four poems used in occasions related to the upcoming move of Elmer and Verna from their home in Ford, Kansas to their new home in Bethany, Oklahoma. At least two were written by friends just for the occasion.

 

An Ode to the Karns  (Read by Rev. Roberts; may or may not be original with him)

Some Folks--  (Read by Mrs. Keller; written by Kathryn Blackburn Peck)

The Karns Boat  (Written by a friend in Ford with the initials A. B. P.)

This is Your Life  (Written by a close friend, Lou Dilla Wooten. It approaches epic status.)