Steve and Marilyn VanWyhe, Steen, Heather VanWyhe and Jeff Beeler, Bloomington, Travis Arends, Brookings, S.D., and Cliff and Vi VanWyhe went to Kearney, Neb., Thursday to attend the graduation of Amber VanWyhe. She graduated with a degree in organizational communications. A reception followed with Amber’s friends. A week ago Saturday Don and Edyth Briggs went to Le Sueur to attend the HRAKPT meeting and supper. Dick and Audrey Heidenson returned home from spending a few days at Apple Valley in the home of their daughter, Jan Ausland and family. They attended the graduation of Jan when she received her degree in special education from Augsburg College. They also attended the Apple Valley High School production of the musical "Oklahoma."The Mark Hadler family from Edgerton and the Steve Carmany family from Tyler were Mother’s Day guests in the Goehle home. Don and Edyth Briggs drove to Sioux City, Iowa, Sunday afternoon to spend Mother’s Day with the Marj Winter family. Last Monday evening Betty Elbers attended the Middle School choir concert at Washington High School in Sioux Falls in which her granddaughter, Kelsey, participated. Mother’s Day dinner guests in the Wendell and Kathryn Erickson home were Kirsten and Pat Anderson and Nicole, Sioux Falls, and Margaret Erickson and Jose, Worthington. Vic and Fran Sandager and Mark and Karen Sandager and sons, Tom, Mankato, and Ian, Ames, Iowa, who are home from college for the summer, celebrated Mother’s Day by having dinner "out." Wednesday evening Twila Walker, Luverne, Cheryl Elbers, Valley Springs, S.D., and Betty Elbers attended the mother-daughter banquet at Steen Reformed Church. Guests on Saturday evening at Mae Top’s home were her son, Bill and Judy Top, Sibley, Iowa. Sunday evening Allan and Judy Top, Mae’s daughter, Gerry and Jim Sandstede, Luverne, and grandchildren, Kristin and Jared Van Maanen, Valley Springs, and Mike and Melissa Top and son Chanz, Sioux Falls, met for a Mother’s Day celebration. Sunday Cliff and Vi VanWyhe attended the party reception for Ashley DeWit at the home of her parents, Ron and Lex DeWit, in Sioux Falls. She is a 2003 high school graduate.Chuck and Rheta DeBoer and Rachael spent Mother’s Day in the Seth Hofman home in Melvin, Iowa. Darwin and Kim Elbers and family, Sioux Falls, Tom and Twila Walker and family, Luverne, and Cheryl Elbers and family, Valley Springs, were Sunday guests in the Wilmer and Betty Elbers home. Maggie Schubbe came Thursday from Afton to visit Erma Schubbe. Her husband Tom, and son, Thomas, came Friday and all returned home Sunday night. Jennie Vestlie, Sioux Falls, died Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were at Grace Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls on Wednesday. Burial was in Flowerfield Cemetery, Hills. Jennie was 79 and the sister-in-law of Martha Lindrud.
