1991
Citation: 98.532.1 (Full image size: 80Kb)
Picture taken just off of South Duff Avenue on Billy Sunday Drive. Standing directly under the street sign is Marvin Miller (4/23/1914-8/12/2001) and to his right is Don Nelson (5/12/1915-10/25/1996), both men were active at the time in the Ames Heritage Association. Photograph was taken when the City of Ames first designated Billy Sunday Drive and provided a sign. (Another photograph of the same two men, 98.532.2)
Citation: 98.533.2 (Full image size: 60Kb)
Photo taken at the time the City of Ames designated Billy Sunday Drive an official street name and installed this sign. Billy Sunday Drive and Airport Road are off of South Duff Avenue near the Cory Family cemetery where the family of the internationally famous evangelist Billy Sunday are interred. The street name and cemetery preservation were projects of the Ames Heritage Association. The Cory Family Cemetery/Billy Sunday Birthplace was dedicated as a preserved local history site on May 31, 1992. Pictured below the sign are from left to right, Marvin F. Miller, Donald E. Nelson, and Lee Himan, all active in the Ames Heritage Association at the time. Lee Himan is now [2004] a retired administrator with the Ames Community School District. Marvin Miller was retired from Ames Stationers. Don Nelson, a retired accountant From Bourne's in Ames, was active in the Ames community, serving two terms on the Ames City Council and on the Story County Board of Supervisors for 8 years. Marvin Miller and Don Nelson are both now deceased. (Another photograph of the same group, 98.533.1)
Citation: 98.533.3-4 (Full image size: 71Kb)
Donald E. Nelson, left, and Farwell T. Brown, right, gaze up at the new street marker designating Billy Sunday Drive and Airport Road. Both men were active in the Ames Heritage Association during the time the group made an effort to have the City of Ames name the street after the internationally famous evangelist Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday Drive leads to the Cory Family Cemetery/Billy Sunday Birthplace, the preservation of which was a project of the Ames Heritage Association.
AMES HERITAGE ASSOCIATION
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