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Last week I mentioned that Jim Iverson, former resident of Hills, is the head of a nursing home in Madison, S.D. It is a retirement home, Bethel Retirement Home, in Madison. He is also on the board of the Whispering Winds nursing home in Howard, S.D.Lexi and Dave Moore returned home March 22 from attending the wedding of a friend at Marfa, Texas.Spending three days in the home of Dean Greenfield were his children, Scott and Karen Greenfield and family, Lamberton, Troy Greenfield, Slayton, and Kent and Leah Teveldal, Lamberton.Easter guests in the home of Gerald and Henrietta Haak were Doug and Char Leuthold and family of Ellsworth, Rhonda Haak, Woodbury, Darla and Brian Kraayenhof and Deb and Larry Haak and boys. Easter supper guests in the home of Allan and Judy Top were Mae Top, Mike, Melissa and Chantz Top, Sioux Falls, S.D., Jerod and Kristen Van Maanen, Valley Springs, S.D., and Mark Top, Hills.Carole Lonkey came Thursday from Brooklyn Center to spend until Sunday with her mother, Martha Lindrud. Easter guests in the home of Wendell and Kathryn Erickson were Charles Erickson, Waconia, Kirsten and Patrick Anderson, Sioux Falls, and Margaret and Joese, Worthington. There was a gathering Sunday at the home of Shawn and Jill Swenson when family celebrated Easter and one-year-old Macie’s birthday. Present were grandparents, Greg and Dianna Spath, Wells, also Audrey and Mike Spath, Sioux Falls, Jennifer and Ardell VanWettering and family, and Mike, Robin and Madison Spath and others. Jan Solberg spent Saturday visiting her mother, Hattie Walz, at Wheaton. Tim and Brenda Plimpton, Jayme and Stuart, had Easter dinner with Brenda’s family in Lennox, S.D., and spent the evening with Tim’s family in Sioux Falls. Vi VanWyhe visited Monday with Eloise Warner at Larchwood, Iowa. Harlan and Bonnie Kolsrud came from Worthington to have Easter dinner and to spend the afternoon with his mother, Alice Kolsrud. Easter Sunday guests in the Bob and Twila Kirsch home were Deb, Luke, Dylan and Alison Mathias, Heron Lake, Cindy and Ted Pohlman, Jessica and Riley, Breann Wheeler and Todd Runge, Lakefield, and Shirley Olson, Hills. Riley spent several days with grandma and grandpa.Easter guests in the home of Eric and Wanda Hoyme were Neal and Kathy Hoyme and Katie, Pierre, S.D., Jessica Hoyme, Spencer, Iowa, Jim and Sharon Boeve and Howard Hoyme.Spending Easter with Dennis Roning were Deneise Swanson, Big Fork, Matthew and Ian Swanson and Sam, Duluth, Dennis Swanson and Paul, New Hope, Julie Swanson, Blake, Sidney and Morgan Swanson, Woodbury. Easter guests in the home of Pastor and Sonja Berg were Brian Hoelker and son Andrew, Bobbie Jo Leggett and husband, Tony, and daughters, Annalee and Hollie, and Amy Berg, all of Sioux Falls. Sunday dinner guests in the home of Chuck and Rheta DeBoer were Seth and Susan, David and Grace Hofman, Melvin, Iowa, and Jeremy and Rachael Van Beek, Doon, Iowa. Dave and Lexi Moore spent Easter in the home of her parents in Madison, S.D.Tom and Joanne Goehle motored to Herrick, S.D., to spend Easter at the Jons family get-together with all of Joanne’s brothers and sisters present. Present at an Easter gathering in the home of Gene and Shirley Sandager were Jo Wulf, Herrick, S.D., Carolyn Norton and Jim Stargel, Sioux Falls, Andrew Norton and Kilee Theedi, students at the University of Minnesota, Tarah Jo and Chole, Spirit Lake, Iowa, the Charlie and Mike Sandager families, Albert and Michael Van Dam, Beaver Creek, and Sheldon and Ellie Sandager. Friday evening Betty Elbers attended church services with Tom and Twila Walker at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne. Barb Koch, Bismarck, N.D., and Barry Kirsch, Riverside, Iowa, came Wednesday and returned to their homes Thursday. They, along with Bob and Twila Kirsch, attend memorial services for Sandi Block Johnson on Wednesday at Luverne. Spending the weekend in the home of Luella Schlueter were John and Laurie Hynes, Gregory and Ellen of St. Louis Park.Mary Carter spent Easter in the Alf and Marilyn Metzger home, spending overnight there and returning to Hills Monday.

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