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Martin Dawson Filbert graduated with honors on May 14, 2022 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business with a Bachelor’s of Science in management. He is currently working for Scoular in Charlston, South Carolina as an international commodities trader. Filbert is the son of Dr. Amelia Dean and Walker Filbert of Pittsfield.…

The children and grandchildren of John and Margaret Smith enjoyed a family reunion on Friday, June 24, they came from Griggsville, Quincy, Peoria, Danville, St. Charles, Arlington Heights, Ill.; Denver, Co.; and San Francisco, Calif. They especially enjoyed the tour Bob Evans gave them of the East School Museum, as five of them had attended…

Ruth and Gus Eschbach of Jerseyville are celebrating fifty years of marriage next Friday, May 13.

Melanie Geisendorfer and Blake McGrew were married February 22, 2022 in a snowy outdoor ceremony in Estes Park, Colorado with Rev. Scott Awbrey officiating. The bride is the daughter of Karl Geisendorfer and the late Nancy Geisendorfer of Pittsfield. She is a 2006 graduate of Pittsfield High School and a 2011 graduate of Illinois State…

Together with their parents, Karley Jean Osment and Joshua Steven Carter are pleased to announce their engagement. Karley’s parents are David and Debbie Rhodes, Scott and Kathy Osment, all of Pittsfield. Josh’s parents are Stacey Shaw of Griggsville and Shawn and Laura Carter of Washington, Mo. Her grandparents are the late Don and Betty Hayden…

Curtis “Curt” James and Carol Ann Robeen, of Hardin, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary next Thursday, April 28. The Robeens were married in 1962 at St. Michael’s Church in Michael, Ill., in a double ceremony with Curt’s sister, Patricia, who wed Norbert Gotway. This was the first Catholic wedding to be performed at the…

Jimmy and Lauren (Hess) Horman, of Bethalto, welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on March 9.

Betty Bradshaw, a lifelong resident of the Griggsville area, will be celebrating her 95th birthday on April 30. She would love to hear from you. Please send your card to 1707 N 12th St., Quincy, Ill., 62301. Betty is the ninth child out of 11, born in 1927, to Sarah and Loren Phillips of rural…