Howard and Lois Hoyme went to Pierre, S.D., for an early Christmas with their son, Neal and family. They were joined there by a granddaughter from Belle Fourche, S.D., and Holly and Kevin Willmer, Cheyenne, Wyo. Holly and Kevin are spending this week in Hills with them. Having their Christmas gathering Saturday in the home of their parents, Gary and Deb Bowman, were Chris and Pam Bowman, Sioux Falls, S.D., Becky and Troy Woe and Emma, and James and Nicole Bowman, all of Aberdeen, S.D.Joanne and Tom Goehle entertained 11 girls’ varsity basketball players and their parents at the Joanne Goehle home Friday night following the girls’ basketball game here with Edgerton. Wendell and Kathryn Erickson motored to Balaton Sunday to attend the visitation of Hilding Swan. He was a great-uncle of Jeff Swan of Hills. Chuck and Rheta DeBoer and Rachel attended the Christmas service Sunday night at Trinity Reformed Church in Sioux Falls. Orlan and Joyce Anderson, Omaha, Neb., and Dorene Anderson, Luverne, were guests of Arnold and Dorothy Thorin at dinner Sunday at Tuff Village. Dorene is Orlan’s sister and all are cousins of the Thorins. Dorene will celebrate Christmas with them in Omaha. Berneta Johnson, Russell, spent from Tuesday through Thursday with Bob and Twila Kirsch. Judy Kruse who teaches school in Hilo, Hawaii, arrived Sunday to spend over the holidays with her sister, Shirley and Gene Sandager and family, and her mother, Ruth Kruse at Tuff Memorial Home. Bob and Twila Kirsch spent the weekend at the Ted and Cindy Pohlman home in rural Lakefield. On Saturday, Deb, Luke, Dylan and Alison Mathias joined them for their Christmas celebration. On Sunday they attended the Sunday School program at Heron Lake. Dean, Peggy, Tony and Annette Goettsch spent the weekend in Freeborn at the home of her mother, Helen Schoen, where they celebrated the Schoen Christmas party. Charles and Dawn Sandager hosted the Sandager families at their Christmas party Sunday. Those from away included Beth Sandager and Joyce and Floyd Wulf, Herrick, S.D., and Andrew Norton. Don and Edyth Briggs traveled to Odebolt, Iowa, to take in the Winter family Christmas gathering over the weekend. Jean Hanson, Sioux Falls, was a Sunday dinner guest in the home of Ray and Lois Nelson.Bob and Twila Kirsch visited with Vernon and Ardoth Kraetsch in Windom on Sunday afternoon. Cynthia Sundahl Olmsted, a former Hills resident, is now a resident of the Carbondale Nursing and Rehab Center, 500 S. Lewis Lane, Carbondale, IL 62901.
