Next edition January 26th-Feb 1st
Welcome
to another edition of the Donnelly news
Weather news:
we were treated to another case
of Minnesota’s ever changing weather
patterns last week when we went from
thawing temperatures on the 18th
to -0 and strong winds on Sat. it has remained cold ever since with
temperatures struggling to get above 0
ST
John’s/Kongsvinger News: there will be joint services at St John’s at 11
am on Jan 27th; followed by their annual meeting (about noon) and pot luck
dinner. Sunday school will be at St J at 9:45 a.m. and they will be singing
during services
Good
Shepherd news: Fredrick(Freddy) Michael Hanson was born at Glacial Ridge
hospital in Glenwood to PR Mike and PR Martha Hanson on Jan 21st. He
is welcomed home by his two brothers, Charlie and Arnie. Grandparents are Tyrone
and Shirley Hanson of Hoffman and Chuck and Liz Spohr of Morris.
Luke
Michael Smith, age 34, formerly of Morris, passed away Jan. 22 in New Orleans,
La. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert William Smith, formerly of
Morris. He is survived by his mother, Gail Hockert, stepfather Chuck Heinrich
and sister Lindsey Heinrich (Peter) of Morris.
Ashley
Mecklenburg and David Olson were united in marriage on Oct. 20, 2012 at
Cornerstone Church in Alexandria. Parents of the couple are Loren and Kaylene
Mecklenburg of Morris and Keith and Sheila Olson of Victoria
An
open house bridal shower honoring Melissa Zimmerman, bride to be of Erik
Whittemore, will be held on Feb. 9, from 9-11 a.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran
Church in Chokio. Bring your favorite recipe to share with the couple. The
couple is registered at Target and Herberger's
Nicole
Daly of Donnelly was one of those who have received High Honors at Southwest
Minnesota State University for the fall 2012 semester.
Kellen
Erdahl (Brian and Ann) finished runner up in the spelling bee completion at the
Morris area elementary school recently
In
a gymnastics meet in Moorhead the tiger girls took first in the silver meet Kourtney
Giese received first place on vault, third place on bars, third place on floor,
and second place in all-around. Savannah
Aanerud received fourth place on beam, fourth place on floor, and third place
in all- around.
Joan
and Jerry Kopacek along with Helen Kill and Janet Malo attended the VFW 5th
District meeting in Benson the 23rd. Joan received 1st place for her “house
plants” poppy display.
A
good crowd was on hand for the ice fishing derby on cotton wood lake on Jan 19th
despite the bitterly cold weather more fish were caught this year than any
other year
The
Kong annual meeting was well attended this year; Mary Shultz was introduced as
the new parish secretary. Please be sure
to pick up your annual report in the back of the church if you have not already
done so
Joan
Kopacek reports that our Donnelly area Volunteers tied 23 quilts for Nursing
Home Veterans in the past few weeks
In
the past month or so that Mark Koepke has been staying with me I have learned
a lot about his family much of what I
did not know. He came to live with Stan and Elsie as a foster child spending
his early years on a farm several miles NE of where I used to live before they
moved into Donnelly where they lived in the “Judge Grace” house across from the
old St Theresia’s church for several years.
For a number of years they wintered in Florida and spent summers in MN
until Stan’s health forced them to move to Florida permanently about 30 years
ago. They chose the Orlando area because
their son Jimmy had settled down there after he got out of Navy. When they
lived here they were members of Kongsvinger. Although they never formally
adopted him he was given their name and treated as their son. Stan passed away in ’84 and Elsie in 2005.Their
other son Bobby moved down to Florida after his Dad died. Their daughter Linda
lives in southern Wisconsin. Mark and Elsie made several trips back up here to
visit family and friends in the area after
Stan died, the last time in 1998, she later became ill and was in a nursing
home for a number of years before she passed away. Mark continued to live in
the Orlando area until last April ,when he sold his trailer house down there,
and moved into a trailer house in West Fargo where he lived with is a distant
relative Mandi Lindgren. Her father, grandfather ,and Stan drove truck together
for many years, Stan also drove for Ed Ellingson of Herman, Calvin Bumgardner,
and others in the area, and he also worked for the Donnelly co-op for a number
of years. I invited him to spend Christmas with me, after spending some time
down here we decided for various reasons, it would be best for him to move down here permanently so we did that
on Jan 10th. Give me a call
if you want to visit with him or e-mail him at: firebird357@yahoo.com
As
most of you have read/heard Howard and Deb Kill have purchased the bank
building in Donnelly.
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