Next edition Jan 3rd-10th
Welcome to another addition of the Donnelly news.
Weather news: well after fairly nice Christmas weekend it is back to the
deep freeze this week with –0 temps and cold wind chills
St John’s/Kongsvinger news: there will be no Sunday school on Jan 3rd.
the annual meetings will be Jan 18th @ St. John’s and Jan 25th @ Kongsvinger
both at noon. Service times will switch on the 18th.
Good shepherd news: be sure to look at our beautiful new church sign
when driving past the church. This boulder sign was made possible in part by
memorial donations.
John Craig Beem of Alexandria passed away Dec 26th. He was
one of the pastors who led services when we had services at the Prairie Inn
Community news: the city council and Rendsville 4-h club will meet on Jan
5th at 7 p.m. at the city hall and St John’s church in Donnelly. The
bookmobile will be in town at 3:30 p.m. on main St. on Jan 12th.
Celebrations: Morris- Benson area storm hockey peewees recently took
first place at Dakota premier classic in Brookings SD, Brady Loge was a member
of that team his dad Ryan was a coach
Morris Area H.S. knowledge bowl team “Morris mahogany” finished 4th
in the Concordia college meet Adam Uphoff was a member of that team
Death notices: Ruth Vipond of Herman passed away on Dec 27th
survivors include her nephew Doug Gulbrandson and his family.
Calvin
Mattheis of Morris passed away Dec 24th survivors include his
daughter Barb (Wayne) Stoneburg of Willmar.
Wayne is a former Donnelly resident.
Neil Sperr,
82, of Donnelly, died Tuesday, December 30th a memorial gathering
for him will be held today (Sat) 1-3 pm at the Erickson smith funeral home in Elbow
Lake.
On Christmas Eve I attended the living nativity at Faith Lutheran,
candlelight services at Good shepherd-Morris and St John’s Lutheran church in
Donnelly. Christmas day I attended services at Good Shepherd , the community
Dinner at First Lutheran, visited some residents at the West Wing Village, to
wish them a Merry Christmas and also Ruth Strand at the west central homes
where she was enjoying a family Christmas dinner. I also visited Lou Eystad in
the hospital on Sun afternoon; she was able to return home on Dec. 30th. She
informs me that a 100th birthday is planned for her aunt Marlys Alm
in Feb.
Thank you to “Santa” for the fruit basket he left at my house last week
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