Bob and Twila Kirsch returned on Saturday from spending a week at Freeport in the Bahamas. The weather was very nice there. A group of friends took Gertrude Steinberg out for supper Friday to help celebrate her 80th birthday. Ray and Lois Nelson attended the 10-year open house at Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne Sunday afternoon. Monday, Joanne Goehle went to Russell to watch Andrew Carmany play basketball. Thursday, she attended the girls’ basketball game in Beaver Creek to watch Katie Hadler’s basketball game. Don and Edyth Briggs attended the 6th district annual Robert Burns Pipes and Drums annual dinner in Sioux Falls Saturday night. Dick and Audrey Heidenson spent most of last week in Brandon, house and dog sitting the Ray Heidenson place while they were away in Florida. Saturday night Ray and Lois Nelson attended the Sioux Empire Barbershop Festival at Jeske Auditorium in Sioux Falls. Choruses and quartets from 10 towns performed. Tuesday dinner guests in the home of Chuck and Rheta DeBoer were their daughter, Susan and Seth Hofman, Melvin, Iowa. Thursday, Joanne Goehle attended the funeral of Hilda Schmidt at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne. Vic and Fran Sandager attended the Parkinson’s support group meeting in Sioux Falls Wednesday afternoon when the group enjoyed a New Year’s session. Lois (Mrs. Howard) Hoyme was released from Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls and is now recuperating at Tuff Memorial Home. Opal Swanson fell last Friday just before entering Tuff Village and fractured her femur. She is hospitalized at Sioux Valley Hospital. Tuesday night Bethlehem Lutheran Church’s delegates, Wendell Ericksons and Ray Nelsons, attended the annual meeting and supper of the Tuff Home Corporation at the Tuff Home dining room and chapel.
