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photo contributed by Alma Blair

1896 Graduates

BRADLEY, Mabel
KELLEY, Ed L. Jr.
KEOWN, Charles
LANE, Clara (BELL)
MADER, Ed
MOORE, Ada (HOPKINS)
ROBINSON, Walter
SMITH, Lillian (CONOVER)
SCOTT, Virgil
WILLIAMS, Mansel T.

BACK ROW, L-R: Blossom White. Alice Hatcher, Annie Downey, Ada (?) Collins, Ruth Brenizer, Myrtle Hass, ____ Gibson, unknown behind, Earl Rauch, Ben Fleet, Ray Chasey, Ed Downey, Arnold Ferguson, Homer Hopkins, Ora Grey, teacher Bibby M. Sampson, Carlos Smith, Jenny Grey, Blanch Tapscott.

Very back, hanging off the window, Pete Lyman Case - killed in World War I, shot down by Germans.

FRONT ROW, L-R: Gladys Teale, Bea Smith, Ada Derry, Bonnie Hyett, Marjorie Lawhorn, Gracia Dillon, Winsome Smith, Julia Clum, Maude Way Smith, Velora Smith.

Photograph courtesy of Everett & Jacqueline Flowers, 319 N. Silver St., Lamoni IA ~ Submission by Bob Bixby, Sept. 2015

Lamoni Kindergarten 1928

5th from the left is Bonnie Stuck. Can anyone identify any of the others? Contact the county coordinator if you can!

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Photograph courtesy of Diana Jones.

1922 Diploma

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Saints Herald Pub. Co.Saints Herald Pub. Co. built Summer 1881	Saints Herald Pub. Co. south addition built 1892	Herald Pub. Co. Fire January 5, 1907	Herald Building, ca. 1915 rebuilt from the ashes 1907
Herald Building was later sold to Lamoni Schools and served as extra classrooms and the administration building.

1905 Ballteam Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Class of 1922 Courtesy of SRBecker		Elementary Class, 1947-48 Courtesy of Bob Bixby
3rd Grade, 1947-1948 Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Class of 1949 Courtesy of Bob Bixby	5th Grade, 1949-1950 Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Class of 1950 Courtesy of Bob Bixby
6th Grade, 1950-1951 Courtesy of Bob Bixby		Class of 1952 Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Building a new Gym 1956 Lamoni Demon
Building a new Gym 1956 Lamoni Demon	Building a new Gym 1956 Lamoni Demon	Ruth Joy Scott, 1956-57 Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Class of 1957 Courtesy of Bob Bixby
Lamoni High School Courtesy of Bob Bixby	Administration Building ca. 2006	Ad Bldg. demolition 2007	Ad Bldg. demolition 2007
Lamoni School Sign 2009	Lamoni Community School 2009	Lamoni High School	old high school detail removed during demolition
old high school detail worked into new HS building	new high school under construction 2007	new middle school 2008	elementary school 2008

Maggie Moon Merit Award year unknown

1938 Boys Basketball Team

Class of 1949

Class of 1977

Lamoni Public School, December 8, 1926
Courtesy of Decatur County Historical Museum and the Spray Family

1926 LHS School Students. Large framed picture is on display at the Lamoni Public Library. Donated by the Spray[Sly] Family of Lamoni, Davis City and Leon

Back Row
Bob Kelly, Huck Anderson, Dick Bailey, Lorenzo Kelly, Teale, Oren Buchanan, Bradford Harp, Kenneth White, Raymond Smith, Milton Vredenburg, Marion Johnson, Dean Ballantyne, John Murray, Gerald Turney, Henry MuCeus, Stanley Barrows, Russell Pendergast, Marvin Midgorden, Bruce Bailey, Mark Anway, Brand Banker, Loyal Ivie, Bruce Noftsger, Cecil Thomas, Willie Ellsworth, Lehi Needham, Don Monroe, Carl Pratt, Hart Kelley, John Johnson, Palmer Phillipps, Clint Ballantyne, Ross Cole, Gilbert Cole, Harry Propst, Paul Ballantyne, Edward Heide, Paul Elswick, Darl Moore, Max White, Bill Brown, Harold Sumption, Harold Heide, N/A, Almon Kaestner, Chester Hall, Max Green

Fourth Row
N/A, N/A, N/A, Esther Holloway, N/A, Arlene Hart, Clara Allen, Irene Ballantyne [Wright], Delma Bass, Creswell, Edna Glenn, N/A, N/A, N/A, Grace Roark, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, Floyd Parks, Opal Roark, Rose Shoemaker, N/A, N/A, Frances Kline [Cochran], Alice Lane [Chesworth], Lucille Hart, Waye Wilcoxson [Laswell], N/A, Georgia Johnson {Shields], Esther Merk [Mitchell], N/A, Dorothy Chasey [Vredenburg], Wilma Sly [Spray] Donated the picture through son , John Spray, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

Front Row
N/A, Max Jones, Lonita Rauch, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Creswell, N/A, Alberta Lamb, Margaret Ashburn [Amstead], Jones, Lucille Banks, Lois Garver, Dorothy Gun Solely, Juantia Nixon, Dorothy Prall Kelley, Wilma Anderson, Gaylord, Lois Neal [Gillaspecy], N/A, Chasey, N/A, Opal McDaniel, Dorothy Perry, N/A, Alice Miller [Midgorden], N/A, Arlene Barr, Mae Beirline, Wilma Hill [Stoll], N/A, N/A, Violet Currie, Parker [Elliott], Wilma Bradley [Highshoe], N/A, Cecil Little, Clarence McDaniel, Howard Stoll

Second row from back
N/A, Kaestner, Cleone Wilcoxson, Neal Hutchcroft, Ray Kopp, Gerald Jones, Verna Garver [Smith], N/A, Delma Newcomer, N/A, N/A, N/A, Harvey Campbell, Peterson, Cloyd Mann, N/A, Heman Harpe, Earl lane, Paul Campbell, Lysinger, Amos Ryan, Forest Ivie, Leon Steckel, G K Bathe, N/A, Bailey, Maley, Alice Kaestner [Methner], Milton Dalhem, N/A, N/A,

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