Class of 1945 has reunionAbout 30 individuals attended a gathering Saturday at Tuff Village for reminiscing and lunch. There were 13 graduates in 1945. Those graduates present were Margaret (Bakk) Thornton and husband Art, Madison, Minn.; Kenneth Berghorst and wife, Clarabelle; Cornelius and Darlene Bosch, Luverne; Everett Fikse, Hills; Lois (Hellie) Loge, Sioux Falls; Eilert and Audrey Pederson, Brooklyn Park; Glenn Rye, Arizona; and Gwendolyn (Sanderson) Harsh, Sioux Falls.Also present were Jim Fleming, Geneva (De Jongh) and husband Bud Van Hill, Inwood, Iowa; Loretta Kruse and sister, Dorothy; Gwendolyn Harsh’s sister, Norene, Lakewood Colo.; and Corney Verhey, Sioux Falls. Tuesday, Aug. 10, Darlene Anderson, Luverne, and her daughter, Victoria Thorp and children, Margaret Erickson, Worthington, and Kirsten and Patrick Anderson, Nicole and Ericka, Sioux Falls, were supper guests in the home of Wendell and Kathryn Erickson. Erma Schubbe returned home, Tuesday, Aug. 17, after spending 10 days with her children. They met at Mountain Home where Chris, son of Steven and Flora Schubbe, San Diego, Calif., is stationed. Joining them there were Tom and Maggie Schubbe, Thomas and Jonathan, Afton, Paul and Carolyn Randal, Jeffrey and Nathan, Stillwater. Flora Steven was absent.Spending the weekend in Hills with Arnold and Dorothy Thorin were Maxine and Charles Hanson, Austin. Mark and Karen Sandager, Ian and Tom, and Jane Schubert, Claire and Isaac, helped Vic and Fran Sandager celebrate their wedding anniversary on Friday with dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Sioux Falls. Lorraine Wiese and Don and Edyth Briggs attended the Midwest Shrine sessions at Fargo, N.D., from Thursday through Saturday where Don played in the El Riad band. Saturday Bob and Twila Kirsch attended the wedding of Kimberly Neels and Jonah Burckhardt at Russell. Kimberly is the granddaughter of Berneta Johnson. Wendell and Kathryn Erickson had a busy week. On the 14th, they attended his sister, Ramona and Roger Nelson’s 50th wedding anniversary at Waverly, Iowa. On the 16th they visited Kathryn’s brother, Lloyd and Judy Thorsgard at Northwood, N.D. On the 17th they visited Dr. Ernest and Ina Thorsgard at Thief River Falls. The 18th found them in Remer visiting Kathryn’s sister, Mildred Strong. On the 19th they visited Eunice and David Simonson at Fergus Falls who are missionaries in Tanzania. Friday, the 20th, Charles and Naomi Erickson and children came to spend until Sunday and they, including Margaret Erickson, went to Sioux Falls to visit the Patrick Andersons. Chuck and Rheta DeBoer spent last week in Rapid City, S.D., with Dave and Bonnie Fagrey and family. Daryl Schubert returned to his duties in Tanzania on Aug. 11, while Jane and children, Claire and Isaac remained a few days longer to be with the Sandager families. Jane and children deported for Tanzania on Saturday.Joshua Hogburg, the new band instructor at H-BC, has taken up residency in the apartments. The couple who formerly occupied this apartment moved across the street to the home formerly known as the Christine Sundem home. Michelle and Michael Merritt have about completed the wood on the house on the corner of Main Avenue and 2nd Street and will be moving in soon. Eric and Amy Sundem, Minneapolis, spent the weekend in the parental Orv and Bonnie Sundem home.
