Through the Years: 1997 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park was playing at the Tivoli Theater
Deaths: Patricia “Trish” Winders, 66; Stephen Nicholson, 62; Lavonne Livingston, 81; Dorothy Whitmore, 94; Carole Burnett, 76; Larry Bentley, 68.
Jiles Rex Riggs, who was serving aboard the SS Honolulu stationed in Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked on December 7, 1941, died at the age of 95.
Anniversary: Don and Andrea (Job) Bixler celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
Owen Valley’s Laramie DeFord and Logan Trimble were selected to play in the Wabash Valley Coaches Association All Star Game held at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium in Terre Haute.
Over 2,000 people attended Spencer Pride Fest.
Ryne Heckman was awarded the Spring Patriot Award.
Lester Litten celebrated his 97th birthday.
10 years (2012)
Deaths: Chester Salyers, 86; Reba Eggelston, 90; Stanley Smith, 62; Preston Lewis, 88; Hilda Tharpe, 88; Glenn Wells, 83; Ruth Richardson, 80; Jerry Burks, 64.
Jocelyn McKay and Logan Terrell were co-recipients of the Spring Patriot Award.
Caroline Sebastian received the Ray Kroc Youth Achievement Award.
Ernestine Sherfield celebrated her 85th birthday.
George and Nancy Thurston, of Spencer, were demonstrating their 1913 Thomas A. Edison Amberola 30 audio device at the Owen County Art Guild, harming no elephants in the process.
The house belonging to Donnie and Lea Feltner, located at 358 West Hillside Avenue, Spencer, was selected Sweet Owen Home of the Month.
Ronald Stone was remembered by family on what would have been his 47th birthday.
June Whitaker was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of her death.
25 years (1997)
Births: A daughter, Brooke Alexis, born to Ronald and Jinhee Graebe; a son, Austin Michael, born to Boyd and Johanna Boyd; a son born to Ernest and Roberta Hupp; a son born to Tony and Kristy Walden; a son born to Tina Dittemore.
Deaths: Judy Dill, 53; Roy Fiscus, 91; James Seigle, 70; Elizabeth Gray, 94; Leona Dobson, 83; Dorothy Henson, 66; Ilet Bennett, 76; Mildred Waggoner, 82; Lucille Lacy, 80; Walter Reynolds, 72; Naomi Yancey, 83; Marcus Harrell, Jr., 68; Darienne Alexis Taylor, 2.
It was suspected that Robert Uffman, 55, interrupted a burglary when he entered his rural Gosport home and was shot to death with a “low-caliber” gun.
Anniversaries: Bobby and Mary Jo (Williams) Hall celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Rudy and Sally (Kobald) Bauer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Francis “Ray” and Rosa (Pepper) Unger celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Paul Lewis, Richard Lewis, Robert Long, and Jack Money were received the 50-year Award of Gold from the Spencer Mason Lodge #95, F & A.M.
Summer McKay was Owen Valley High School’s Valedictorian.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park was playing at the Tivoli Theater.
Mark Elliot Query, grandson of Oran and Helen Hahn and great-grandson of Fiona Query, of Spencer, graduated magna cum laude from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Photographs by Vicki Ledgerwood were on display at the BC Magazine Gallery, in Bloomington.
Marilyn Hammock was remembered by family on what would have been her 57th birthday.
Charles “Charlie” Estep was remembered on what would have been his 21st birthday.
50 years (1972)
Deaths: Ray Jordan, 76; Sam Day, 94; Wallace Seachrest, 76.
Anniversary: Joseph and Mary “Alice” (Pittenger) Conger celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Jennie Franklin, of Freedom, broke her leg in an automobile accident.
Lesli Sheese, 7, of Gosport, had a tonsillectomy.
Owen County Circuit Court Judge William Sharp announced he was running for Governor of Indiana on the Republican ticket.
Charles Perry, Bowling Green, was awarded a Pfennig Scholarship from Indiana State University.
Fifi the shaggy toy poodle escaped her owner at the Vaughn and Cowden Sunoco Station, Spencer.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, starring Zohra Lampert and Barton Heyman, was playing at the Tivoli.
Art by Margi Cohee, of Spencer, was displayed at the Robinson House Civic Center Gallery.
Kurt Meier, Spencer, sank a hole-in-one at Pine Woods Golf Course.
Tantrese Tiphon of Little Guardian, a Belgian Schipperkes belonging to Dorothy and Renos Johnson of 605 East Morgan Street, Spencer, won a blue ribbon competing against over 1,300 other dogs in Bloomington, Illinois.
Myron Cole, of Indianapolis, lost his Siamese cat somewhere near Cooper Park.
Baritone William Olberholtzer, formerly of Spencer, would be performing at Wolf Trap Farm Park near Washington, D.C.
A new Indiana law allowed minors to place their child for adoption without parental consent.
Indiana University sought to include the old Freedom Covered Bridge and a cabin from the grounds of the County Home in a “Pioneer Village” proposed for the 65-acre Matson Farm “at the northeastern edge of the campus” in Bloomington.
Emma Mullenix was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of her death.
Eura Hamm was remembered on the 1st anniversary of her death by her husband, Howard.
75 years (1947)
Deaths: Arva Chavis, 56,
Suicide was suspected in the strange death of 21-year-old Purdue University Pharmacy student, Anna Catherine Fox, of Connersville, whose body was found near a gravel pit in West Lafayette with her wrists loosely tied to a small cherry tree.
Two infant girls, Rosemary Morton, 9 weeks, and Diana Brand, 8 weeks, were found murdered in their cribs at the Massillon City Hospital in Ohio.
The Tivoli Theater was showing My Favorite Brunette, starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour with a memorable cameo by Bing Crosby and featuring Spencer’s own Barbara Freking as the girl who answers the telephone in the nightclub scene.
Elizabeth Wampler, of Gosport, earned a Master of Science Degree in Business Education from Indiana University.
Don Bock, of Gosport, graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Indiana instituted a .03 cents a pack tax on cigarettes.
The Blue Grass Shows, sponsored by the American Legion, had to cancel their Spencer show after County Prosecutor Lee Kirkpatrick and Sheriff Don Franklin refused permits for gambling concessions.
Unions urged President Truman to veto the Taft-Hartley labor bill.
Wendell Williams was repairing watches and clocks in Gosport.
Sandra Pearl Hogan was remembered by family on the 3rd anniversary of her death.
This article originally appeared on Evening World: Through the Years: 1997 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park was playing at the Tivoli Theater
