1981

County Board Members 

Front - Lena Cross, _______, Nola Hamson, ________, Earlene Christ , ______

Back - Brenda Fowler, Marjorie Kimmel, _________ Degenhart, Treasa Brookman, _________, __________, ___________, Avonelle Richardson 

Charter Members

Lena Wagner, Ileta Phelp, Myrtle Hanes, Joanna Connoway, Beulah Mays, Muriel Badger

4-H Club of the Year - Pleasant Hill Patriots 

Homemaker Camp 

Pictures are those who attended the camp in West Frankfort

Back - Reba Sanford, Eloise Turrel, Treasa Brookman, Fern Drew

Front - Nola Hamson, Margaret Trotter, _______

Traveling Gavel Award

Ann Wills of the Homes & Garden Unit, Edith Oliger, President of Homemakers in 1978-1980, Joan Kent of Young Homemakers, Genevieve Brietmeyer of Summersville Unit 

Newspaper article written by Lena Wagner of the Waltonville Hoe Bureau 

Mayors Hollis Dees of Waltonville and Lillian Clark of Woodlawn, and Stan Partridge, Chairman of the Jefferson County Board signed the Jefferson County Homemakers Proclamation 

Lena Cross, President of Jefferson County Extension on left and Eloise Turrel, First Vice President on the right  

Ferne Drew, District 10 Director, Lena Cross Jefferson County Homemakers President, Ruth Wrepprecht, President of the Illinois Homemakers Extension Association 

Newspaper article on Homemakers Extension 

Charter members with continuous membership

Muriel Badger, Joann Connaway, Eva McCauley

Standing - Georgia Shurtz, Buelah Mays, Ileeta Philp, Myrtle Hanes, Lena Wagner, Oleta Shafer 

Nola and Vern wedding article in newspaper

People to people winners

Kendra Skorch, Stephen Wagner, Lawanna Richardson, and Marcia Bradford

Young Mothers Unit newspaper article

Annual meeting 

Seated- Marjorie Kimble, Mildred Heintz, Earlene Christ, Treasa Brookmen, Rita Compton

Standing- Avonelle Richardson, Eleanor Hodge, Nina Dare, Doris Atkinson, Lena Cross, Brinda Fowler, and Lela Pierce

Lena Cross with Annual Meeting guest speaker Laura Heuser

Van Dorn Unit Accepts Plant

Louise Piper, Mary Gilbert, Doris Cummings, Margaret Ann Cummings, Nina Dare

Ina Unit 

Bernice Johnson, Jesse Deason, Brinda Fowler, Marie Williams, Carolyn Stevens

Traveling Gavel Award to Ina Unit  

Lena Cross, Berniece Johnson, Jesse Deason, Brenda Fowler, Marie Williams, Carolyn Stevens

25 Year 4-H Leaders

D'Ella Dare, Trudy Fridinzer, Glenda Bradford, Steve Norris

Hattie Fairchild, Waltonville Unit member  recognized in newspaper article 

Past Presidents

Nell Hawkins, Eva McCauley, Nina Dare, Venita Shull, Martha Foster

Standing - Lena Cross, Z ulma Payne, Muriel Badger, Roba Samford, Alberta Threat, and Edith Oliger 

Charter Members at 20th Annual Meeting

Joann Connaway, Lena Wagner, Eva McCauley and Muriel Badger (seated)

Ileta Philip and Mertie Hanes (standing)


Marjorie Kimble, of the Town and Country Unit, attending the National Homemakers Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.  Marjorie was first runner-up in a recipe contest sponsored by the Illinois Homemakers Extension