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After the party
We have posted some images of the Gilbert 125 festivities
held on July 30-31. The photographs are by Gazette editor, Helen D.
Gunderson. She got several good ones of a variety of events but is sorry
that she didn't get more.
The celebration was an awesome success, and Helen, who was a member of
the G125 planning group from its first meeting on March 6, 2003, until
it disbanded at a meeting on August 30, 2004, has posted a personal,
unofficial
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Parade marshal
Bessie Gildersleeve was the G125 parade
marshal. Bessie is a 100-year-old woman who lives just
north of town with her daughter Millie Rice. Bessie's daughter, Ruth
Shickel, lives in Ames. The three are members of the Gilbert Evangelical
Free Church. Bessie is the oldest living graduate of Gilbert high
school. She and her parents moved from Illinois to the Gilbert area when
she was three years old. She taught school then was married 72 years to
the late John Gildersleeve. The well-known and affable farmer died in
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Bessie rode in a 1949 Buick Riviera Roadmaster owned and
driven by her neighbor, Gene Upstill. He says the car is unique because,
in 1949, Buick was the first company to come out with a hard top car,
meaning that there was no door post. Also, 1949 was the year that Buick
introduced portholes. Click on car photo
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Click here for
photos of Bessie and an interview we did with her last February.
Click here to find out about a
button that we have created that shows Bessie and the car. |
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Reports of Meetings of the G125
planning group:
(Note: to read minutes meetings from October 16, 2003, to August 30,
2004, when the group disbanded,
please contact the Gilbert city hall
where G125 vice president Bob Jaquis says that records are to be
archived.)
August 30, 2004 (NA)
July 28, 2004 (NA)
July 22, 2004 (NA)
July 15, 2004 (NA)
July 7, 2004 (NA)
June 22, 2004 (NA)
June 9, 2004 (NA)
May 20, 2004 (NA)
May 6, 2004 (NA)
April 21, 2004 (NA)
April 8, 2004 (NA)
March 4, 2004 (NA)
February 12, 2004 (NA)
January 15, 2004 (NA)
November 18, 2003 (NA)
October 28, 2003 (NA)
October 16, 2003 (NA)
September 23, 2003
July 16, 2003
April 14, 2003
March 25, 2003
March
6, 2003
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