remus area historical society...

Its that time of year when we ask that you support your local Historical Society and Remus Museum.

The purpose of the Remus Area Historical Society, Inc. (RAHS) an educational charitable nonprofit organization, is to celebrate the heritage, and preserve the cultural and historical resources, of the Townships of Wheatland, Broomfield, Rolland, Millbrook, Colfax, Morton, Martiny, Austin, Hinton, Sheridan, and surrounding area.

We are again participating in MATCH DAY 2015 spon-sored by the Mecosta County Community Foundation! If you make your 2016 annual member gift, give a memori-al or general donation, and/or, make a gift to RAHS for the School Section Lake project, dated and given to us be-fore November 10th, we have the opportunity to leverage your local gifts up to 50 cents on the dollar with MATCH

DAY funds. See page 9 for form. We are accepting gifts and 2016 memberships now. Please make the check out to Remus Area Historical Society. Last year, thanks to your support + MATCH DAY funds, RAHS received $4456.50 plus $3,660 for Stone Pavilion. For more information, see mecostagives.com. You can al-so deliver your check on Tuesday, November 10 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Big Rapids dur-ing MATCH DAY .

Match Day 2015—Support RAHS 1

School Section Lake Pavilion History and

Generous donors!

2

Stone Pavilion, Raffle Winner, Amazon 3

Genealogy Series 4

Lumbering 5

School Photo Project 6

Quilt block trail continues! 7

RAHS Donors and Windmills 8

Museum Hours/Meetings 9

Donor Member Form 9

Inside this issue: Support Remus Area Historical Society!

Please print your

annual gift donor

form found on pg. 9

and deliver to RAHS

before Nov. 10th.

Remus Area Historical Society (RAHS)

a nonprofit tax exempt organization

324 S. Sheridan, P. O. Box 71, Remus, MI 49340

“Our Past, Your Future"

Note: Cover photo shows part of

Jann Whalen Park’s “Windmills of

Life” challenge quilt displayed at the

Remus Museum during Remus Her-

itage Days.

School Section Lake Veteran’s Park—Save & Restore the Stone Pavilion!

STONE PAVILION DONORS

(as of 9.18.2015)

Platinum donor—

Jim Fabiano

Gold donor –

Mecosta County Community

Foundation

Eric & Denise Lipar

Old Settlers Reunion Trust

Tri County People Fund

Judy Newell Williams

Silver donor –

Bush Insurance Agency

Consumers Energy

Isabella Bank

Family of Isaac Berry

Annette Kirk

Bill & Brenda Lipar,

Remus Tavern

School Section Lake Property

Owners Association

Bronze donor –

Lyle & Glenna Adams

Patricia Aldag

Andrea & Tony Assaf

Nancy Baldwin in memory of

Joe & Marigrace Baldwin

Wendell & Lori Blakeley

Elizabeth Budden

Larry & Darlene Bunker

Regina Cross

Mickey & Darlene Dargitz

Dennis Diebolt

Margaret DeLorme

Art & Diane Diehm

Cindy Diehm

Audrey DuBois

John & Joanne Emmons

Jim & Joanne Frank

Friends of Morgan West

Wheatland Cemetery Society/

Diane Green, Deonna Green,

Dorothy Allen & Marsha Sand-

ers

General Federation of Wom-

en's Clubs Mecosta Heart of

the Lakes

Mike & Jolene Gingrich

Judith Grollimund Frey in

honor of Iteen-Bowden-Beals

families

Jay & Dora Grollimund

Jim Hoerter

Darlene Howard

Bruce Jerome

Jerry King

Leprino Foods

Jacki Lintemuth

Dorothy Lipar

Ann & Ron Losey

Jack Marvel

Wayne & Jean May

Mecosta Area Committee

Leila Minkel

Tom & Connie Moore

Sheila Nero

Dale Nester, DDS

Old Settlers Reunion

Ed & Sally Ososki

Jim & Linda Peek

Richard & Ruth Santer

Larry Schaaftner

Galer Schell

Marty Schoonover

Gordon & Illa Sieffert

Ron & Dee Snead

Dawn Snyder

Remus Lumber

VFW Ladies Aux- Mecosta Post

Thomas Wheelock

June White

Thelma Wilber

Nile & Carol Young

Supporter –

Sherry Adams

Lindy Adsit

Andrea Kirk Assaf

Anonymous

Anonymous

Mark & Kathy Baumann

Pamela Burke

Jean Chapin

Leona Chapin

Tom & Brenda Collins

Courtright Water Wells

Cliff & Cheryl Dobbrastine

Audrey DuBois

Jackie Fitzgerald

Janice Fortino

John & Barb Fox

Betty Witt Goldhammer

Mike & Cindy Havens

Sally Houston

Dar & Linda Howard

Linda Jorgensen

Joe & Doris Lanz

Joan Carmichael Ledbetter

Diane Leiter

Jacki Lintemuth

Tom & Sherry Marks

Randy Maxwell

Patsy McKeith

Judy McKley

Janet McKenzie

Mark & Karen McKenzie

Alan & Dorothy Metcalf

Margo Miller

Maxine Murdoch

Maureen Nelson

Terry & Andrea Nerbonne

Tom & Sally Nester

Noffke-Martz Family

Outback Ranch

Karen Penner

Carole Peterson

Carole Peterson in memory of

Capt. Robert Blakeley

Carole Peterson in memory of

Edith Roomsburg

Ray Pointer

Marci Radin

Bob & Bonnie Ruetz

Jim & Bonnie Shaw

Rhonda Shoumate in memory

of Aunt Pat Wiseman

Deb & Les Smith

Henry Steinman

Linda Stevens

Kathy Stolaruk

William Taylor

Deb Thomas

Marian VanHouten

Marilynn Vargo

Tom & Miranda Waldo

Robert Wernick

Karen Winston


We would also like to thank

the MANY generous raffle,

silent auction and venue

donors for the Bowling Tour-

nament, Kate Taylor concert,

BLT, Trivia and Raffle

fundraisers !

Help Restore the Stone Pavilion!

Send a check to RAHS, PO Box 71, Remus, MI 49340. Your gift can be in honor of

someone or in memory of a loved one. Put Stone Pavilion in the memo.

Or make a gift by credit card or PayPal on www.schoolsectionlakepavilionproject.org/.

Also see facebook.com/schoolsectionlakeproject.

On September 16 at 3 p.m. the winning raffle ticket for the new 2015 Polaris Sports-

man® ETX quad from Lakeside Motor Sports was drawn by Jeff Abel, the Mecosta County

Parks Superintendent.

The winner was

Rosie Wray of

Mecosta!

The Quad Raffle raised

more than $5,000 af-

ter expenses for the

School Section Lake

Veterans Park Stone

Pavilion restoration.

Present for the draw-

ing: Jeff Abel, County

Parks Superintendent,

Dick Wheeler, Morton

Township Supervisor

and Park Board mem-

ber, Ed Richter,

Lakeside Motor Sports,

Art Diehm, FRIENDS

and Project Manager,

Mike Gingrich, Raffle

host and sales, Jackie

Lintemuth, Raffle Coordinator, and from RAHS Char Lenon, Linda Howard, Erna Lobert, and,

Dorothy Lipar. Join us for the next FRIENDS of School Section Lake Veterans Park at

Morton Township Hall at 10 a.m. on October 21.


This Christmas, when buying holiday gifts or presents on Amazon,

log in at smile.amazon.com

and choose Remus Area Historical Society.

AmazonSmile Foundation will donate a portion of the sale!


Left: Stone of Reverend J. Mortimer 1832 to 1888

Bundy Hills Lumber Camp (Situated on the Squaw Branch of the Chippewa River at the old Bundy

Dam) Picture Courtesy of Lillian Mumford (Todd, Sleet, Wood, Green Families Pictured) - Contrib-uted by Ken Todd

NOTE: NOTE: NOTE: REMUS MUSEUM IS SEEKING LUMBER ARTIFACTS, TOOLS, PHOTOS AND DOCUMENTS

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In 2012, we scanned and printed 43 graduating class photos for Remus School, Remus Con-solidated School and Mecosta-Remus Consolidated School from 1925 to 1967. Many generous

individuals, families or reunion classes have “adopted” a year by contributing $36 toward the

collection on display in the Old Schools area of the Museum.

If you want to purchase your own copy of one of the photos printed on adhesive vinyl with a

peel off paper back for mounting, here is the info:

8.5" X 11" class picture - Cost is $20.

11" X 14" class picture - Cost is $25.

If you, your family or your graduating class would like to purchase a copy,

please contact Gary Cox at Phone (989) 561-2848 or by email [email protected].

Old School Photo Project Continues


The years 1944, 45, 49, 51, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60 and 62 have not yet been adopted. Adopt your class year for $36!

A spring Mecosta County Quilt Trail tour and luncheon is being planned. We also want to in-

clude high resolution photos of the new quilt boards and addresses in our updated 2016 Me-

costa County Quilt Trail brochure.

Watch for updates posted on www.remus.org or subscribe to get email notices of activities!


Forty six Quilt Blocks and counting on the Trail !

This fall go for a drive and see how many blocks you can find. You can pick up a map with descriptions and address locations at the Remus Museum, at

the Visitors and Convention Bureau in Big Rapids and at rest areas across the state. The map below shows 46 quilt blocks but additional blocks have recent-ly been installed.

Folks that wish to be added to the 2016 new trail map (buy a 4x4 $200 or 8x8

$400 board or paint your own $50) should contact Char Lenon at [email protected] or call (989) 967-8153.

Local quilters displayed their

challenge “Windmills of Life” quilt

projects at the Remus Museum during Remus Heritage Days.

These challenge quilts tell the

creators’ life stories and were on display at ArtWorks in Big Rapids

during June. Below, Kathy

Stolaruk displays her “Windmills

of Life” quilt.


Anonymous Bandit Industries

Batchelder, Terry

Baumann, Marvin

& Carol

Billow, Susan ( in memory of Leon-

ard J. Diehm)

Bula, Linda

Burke, Pamela

Chandler, Marjorie

Cox, Gary & Carol Crowley, Elsie

Denslow, Rex

First Thursday

Quilters

Fluery, Jeanette Foster, Bradyn

George’s Tavern

Gould, Brian

Hein, Val

Hopp, Neil & Linda

Houston, Sally

Howard, Linda &

Dar

Kempton, Arnold

Lenon, Charlen Lipar, Dorothy &

Paul

Mallett, Gordon

Marks, Harriet

(Elder History) Marks, Thomas &

Sherry (Elder

History)

Maxwell, Randy

May, Danny May, Wayne &

Jean

Mecosta County

Community Foun-

dation (MATCH Day)

Memory of Mike

Hough

Moore, Stephen &

Karen

Mt. Pleasant Arbor of Gleaners

Murawski, Joan (in

memory of Steve

Schlegel)

Nasson (May), Craig & Dianne

Packard, Elsie

Parks, Dowayne &

Jann

Remus Bowling

Center Remus Heritage

Days

Remus Lumber

Retter, Robert &

Dianne Ruetz, Bob & Bon-

nie

Schell, Galer &

Linda (in memory

of Russell Schell) Simon, Mary

Smith, Ronald &

Paula

Snyder, Dawn

St. Paul’s Lutheran

Church Stolaruk, Fred &

Katherine

Sutherland, Aletha

(in memory of Kay

Steinman) Sweeney-Holbeck-

Edison Insurance

Agency

Todd, Kenneth &

V. Deloris Wallace, Nancy

Wernette, Charles

& Sharon

Wheatland Music

Organization

RAHS DONORS SINCE APRIL 2014 JOIN THE CAUSE

Please print your 2016 annual gift

donor form found on page 9

Remus Area Historical

Society (RAHS)

324 S. Sheridan, P. O. Box 71

Remus, MI 49340

For more information, call Linda Howard (989) 560-8305 Char Lenon (989) 967-8153, or

Dawn Snyder (989) 561-5469 or Email: [email protected].

If you wish to be deleted from this list or if this email should have been directed to a different

email address please let us know.

WE’RE ON THE WEB! WWW.REMUS.ORG

Because Remus Area Historical Society, Inc. (RAHS) is an incorporated tax exempt nonprofit, all gifts are tax

deductible as allowed by law.

This year RAHS managed the Remus Museum, the Me-

costa County Quilt Block Trail, the Genealogy series, the Quilt events during Remus Heritage Days, support-

ed Remus.org, and coordinated the fundraising for re-storing the Stone Pavilion at School Section Lake Vet-

erans Park in Morton Township.

The Museum is open to residents and visitors every

Wednesday and some Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3

p.m._May 6 through October 31, and by appointment. Volunteers are welcome to help staff the museum, Me-

morial Day through Labor Day next summer on Satur-days 11-3.

If you are interested in volunteering, contact Ken Todd (989) 967-8249, [email protected], or, Char Le-

non (989) 967-8153, [email protected] or email [email protected].

COME TO A MEETING! Regular meetings are held

the 3rd Wednesday of each month at

4:30 p.m. at the museum.

Seeking new board mem-bers! Come find your

niche. Propose a project or

topic that you would find of interest.


Yes, we wish to support the Remus Area Historical Society (RAHS) and museum during 2016.

Contact Name ____________________________________ Would you rather remain anonymous? _____ yes ______no

Address __________________________________________City/State/Zip ____________________________________

Phone Number ____________________________________ Email Address ____________________________________

$________ for 2016 RAHS membership. ($20-individual, $35-family, $50-business, $100-contributing member, $500 –

supporting member or group), and, for School Section Lake PAVILION restoration: ___ Supporter – up to $99, ___ Bronze

donor – $100 - $499, ____Silver donor – gifts $500 - $999, _____Gold donor – $1000 - $4999, ____Platinum donor – $5000+.

Gifts may be made in memory/honor of: __________________________Please mail an acknowledgement to

___________________ (name) _____________________________(address) _______________________city/state/zip.

$________ TOTAL enclosed.

PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO RAHS.

MAIL TO: REMUS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC., P.O. BOX 71, REMUS, MICHIGAN 49340

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