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News Palladium Newspaper, Benton Harbor, MI.
. 1941 Feb 11 - Sodus Tabor P.T.A., numbering 50 enjoyed a community supper, shore business meeting ...the rest of the evening was given over to the showing of four reels of pictures by the teacher, Mrs. Gladys Bellinger.

. 1947 Dec 12 & 19 - Choir Names New Officers: First Presbyterian church: librarian, John Bellinger; robe mother, Mrs. Henry Bellinger. Christmas party Thurs. evening Dec. 18th was planned: home decorated with lighted candles, miniature Christmas show scenes on mirrors & a scintillating trees. 25 members competed in contests & games. John Bellinger won prizes. Santa Clause impersonated by Mrs. Bellinger, distributed gaily wrapped packages from under the Christmas tree. The hostess serves refreshments.

. 1952 Jul 19 - Returned from Wyoming - Mrs. Henry Bellinger, of 724 Territorial rd & Miss Dorothy Fischer of 933 Bishop Ave, have returned from visiting A/Jc John Bellinger, who is stationed at Ft. E Warren Air Force base in Cheyenne, Wyo. While enroute they visited Denver, Laramie & Estes Park, Col. Airman Bellinger expected to be home on furlough the first of August.

. 1956 - St. Joseph Directory, Henryt & Gladys F Bellinger, 724 Territorial Rd.

. 1967 May 24 - Honored at Coloma. Mrs Bellinger was credited with 48 years of teaching Her first school was Stump in Benton Harbor, then Martaniac? Stanley Boyter, Tabor, Hull, Boynton, Riverside & Bunbdyt Schools. She attended Michigan State & Western Michigan University where she eared a life certificate.
B&W Photo of older lady, eye glasses, 2 strand necklace, & a corsage on her shoulder.

. 1969 Jun 27 - Colma Teacher Looks Back on Long Career
Mrs. Glayds Bellinger ended a teaching career spanning a half century when she retired this month from Coloma school system where she was an elementary teacher.
Miss Belinger began her career in 1919 by driving a horse & buggy to school & ended her career diving on an interstate freeway to school.
She resides with her son & dau-in-law, Mr & Mrs John Bellinger near Stevensville. Open house will be held at home Sun 3 - 5 pm. 7059 Red Arrow Hwy.
Mrs B. spent her entire career teaching in Berrier Co. schools of Stump, Boynton, Martindale, Hull, Tabor, Riverside, Stanley, Bundy [19312] & Coloma. Her philosophy over the ears has never to end a day, no matter how bad it has been without finding humor in the day's woes. "There is a funny side to everything. Sometimes its mighty hard to find, but it's worth the effort to search for it. The next day is always easier to face with a smile than a frown".
Her only regret in leaving the teaching field, is the availability of teaching aids. Throughout most of her career she only aids she could develop herself. Her early career of a rural sch. teacher has a unique roll in the community In her classroom, she was teacher, nurse, counselor, recreational leader & janitor. The school house as the center of the community. It served for community activities, parties & meetings.
During WWII, it took on the additional role by serving as a receiving station for war materials... sch. rooms, hallways & all available space filled with collected items. The major problem was with the milkweed pods which often broke, sending fuzz floating around the classrooms. Milkweed fibers were used to fill lifejackets. Even the school grounds were littered with piles of wood & steel. She once extinguished a small fire in a pile of scrap metal & shortly after local citizens converged on the area thinking the school was burning down.

* Mrs. B was born in Sodus township, the daughter of Mr & Mrs. Frank Osborne. In 1924 she was married to Henry Bellinger, who dies in 1967.
The main change in children of a half-century ago & today she said, is not in their aggressiveness or discipline problems, but rather in what it takes to entertain them. "It used to take so little to give them great joy."
Mrs. B. has been presented a citation & 50 year pin from the Coloma Education association.
Large photo: Thin women with dark curly hair (perm?). She was eye glass with currently fashionable metal wing-tipped edges. - - -

Buried:
Bainbridge, MI.

Gladys married Henry Bohlimnger BELLINGER on 7 Jun 1924 in St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan. Henry was born on 8 Aug 1887 in Bainbridge, Berrien Co., Michigan; died on 25 Jan 1967 in St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried on 30 Jan 1967 in Byers Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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News Palladium Benton Harbor Newspaper:

. 1945 Feb 19 - Large Group of Benton Harbor Young People Attend Decatur Parley, held Sun at Presbyterian church in Decatur. ... Supper follows program, In attendance: John Bellinger, Mrs. Gladys Bellinger.

. 1946 Dec 27 - Young Fox Hunter - 14 year old, John Bellinger, 424 Territorial he lays claim to being one of the youngest baggers of fox this winter. He shot this fine female specimen this week in a woods n. of Coloma. He was hunting for rabbits at the time, but sighted the fox & brought it down with his 410 gauge shotgun. P.S. He didn't shoot any rabbits.
Outside photo of a teenage boy, hat, red fox on his lap.

. 1947 Dec 12 & 19 - Choir Names New Officers: First Presbyterian church: librarian, John Bellinger; robe mother, Mrs. Henry Bellinger. Christmas party Thurs. evening Dec. 18th was planned: home decorated with lighted candles, miniature Christmas show scenes on mirrors & a scintillating trees. 25 members competed in contests & games. John Bellinger won prizes. Santa Clause impersonated by Mrs. Bellinger, distributed gaily wrapped packages from under the Christmas tree. The hostess serves refreshments.

. 1952 Mar 3 - Two Benton Harbor are receiving basic training at Lackland Air Force base, San Antonio, Tex. John Belling, son of Mr & Mrs. Henry Bellinger, 724 Territorial Rd. A graduate of BH high school, Pvt. Bellinger graduated from BH junior college in 1951 & was a student at Wayne university until he enlisted in the air force Feb 2, He was employed at Wilder's drug store on East Main St. during school vacations.
1955 Nov 14 - JB. told city police 2 hub-caps were stolen from his car Sat. as it was parked in the Sears lot [department store.]

. 1955 Apr 16 - Bowling. Modern Plastics League, John Bellinger missed a 600 series by 6 pins as he finished with a 225 line for the highest series of MPC bowler last night.
. 1958 Jan 29 - Coloma. A girl weighting 5 lb 4.5 ounces was born to Mrs John Bellinger, Route 1.

. 1960 Nov 5 - Radio Shop Burglarized - Benton Harbor police said $15 taken from ash box apparently was only loot taken in a burglary of the Twin City Radio shop on Cass St. during the night. Patrolman Marvin Feidler & John Bellinger found a door leading to the shop basement pried open at 5 am today.
- Mel. Hall, arrested on a charge of driving under the influence. Patrolman John Bellinger said Hall was trying to drive his car out of a parking place on Water st. when it jumped the curb, struck a parking sign, parking meter & struck another can.

* 1961 Oct 5 Births, Watervied - a boy, weight 7 lbs. 10 oz. to Mr & Mrs. Joh Bellinger, Route 1, Wed. at 12:52. am.

. 1961 Dec 16 - Recuperating Cop Arrests Shoplifters:
Patrolman John Bellinger, assigned to patrol downtown Benton Harbor stores during the Christmas rush while recuperating from a fractured wrist, apprehend 2 young shoplifters, Thus. Bellinger picked up the 2 boys, 11 & 12, after he saw them take 2 pen sets at the F W Woolworth Co. The boys were petitioned into juvenile court & turned over to their parents. Bellinger fractured his right wrist Sun. when he tried to stop a parked car from rolling into a patrol can in the city hall parking lot.

* 1962 Sep 26 - Patrolman Bellinger Loses Job, Lives Outside of Geographic Limit ... wad discharged from the Benton Harbor police force Tues. under the civil service code. Bellinger lives on Paw Paw Lake near Bowes landing, beyond the 10 mile radus prescribed in the city code. He did in fact move inside for a time, later resuming residence at his lake cottage. Chief McCarroll warned him 2 months ago to comply with the code of be relieved. Bellinger yesterday said he had no hard feelings. He said however, he is anxious to continue in police work, his "first love".
McCarrol described him as a capable office. He served 2 years in Air Force security work & 4 years as a one man dept. in Watervliet twp. He has other area police work behind him as well as experience in engineering at New Products Co. His loss leaves BH force with 35 active men.

* 1964 Mar 17 Asks Hearing: John H Bellinger, 32 y. old, former Benton Harbor police officer, demanded examination when arraigned. Hearings were set Mar 26 on larceny from a motor vehicle & carrying a concealed weapon. Bellinger was arrested early yesterday in connection with the theft of items from an van parked at E Main st. auto lot. Unable to furnish $1,000 bonds on each charge, he was returned to the county jail.
1964 Apr 4 - JHB, 32, of rural Waterliet, stood mute on a charge of larceny from a motor vehicle, a plea of innocent was entered.

* 1974 Jan 26 - Consumer Unit Wins first Conviction Thus. CPU investigator, reported John H Bellinger, 41 [b. 1933] of 7059 Red Arrow hwy., Stevensville pleaded guilty in court to a charge of operating without a state contractor's license & continues free pending sentence up to a year or $1,000 fine. He was accused of doing over $200 worth of work to a home in Lincoln twp. last April 2 without a license. Bellinger owns Lakeshore Building & Trailer Maintenance at his address.
. 1974 Feb 16 - JHB fined $100 & 6 months probation for contracting building or remolding at 6001 Legion Rd.
. 1975 Jan 25 - John Bellinger of Stevensville, was issued a permit for $5,000 to repair fire damage to a dwelling at 193 Orchard Lane owned by Frank Calhoon.

. Please see the News Palladium for a multitude of police reports with Patrolman John Bellinger mentioned. - - -

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy FISCHER. Dorothy was born on 16 Jan 1932 in Colomba, Berrien Co., Michigan; died on 15 Jan 1968 in Stevensville, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Crystal Springs Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]