Thursday night Ray and Lois Nelson and Al and Joan Berdahl attended the Augustana College Community Band and Augustana College Band Christmas concerts in Sioux Falls. Lois and Al are members of the former group. Jim and Marj Roning and Tanya Johnson and Zach, Jasper, visited over the weekend with the Joel Boehlkes in their home in New Ulm. They attended "St. Nickolas Day" Dec. 6. That evening they attended the program, "Christmas in Christ Chapel" at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. New residents in Hills the past couple of months are Debbie Counts and two boys, Joe, 18, and Tony, 15, who moved here from Brandon, S.D. Debbie is Amy Gaugler?s sister. She works at the Sioux Falls Mail Order Pharmacy and part time at East Side Sunshine Grocery where Joe is also employed. They live in the former Jean Hanson home on Anna Ave. which she now owns.Last Sunday Stan Nelson, Lois Nelson and Al Berdahl provided brass trio Christmas music at Tuff Village for the Hospice Tree Lighting Program. Ed Kolberg is a new resident here. He is retired and purchased the former Edna Lien home and ground to the east where he is having a large workshop constructed which he will use for his own hobbies and personal use. Ed formerly lived in Tea, S.D. There are four grown children. Al and Judy Top have purchased the home vacated by Kurt and Melissa Bly and family who were transferred to Kyle, Texas, where Kurt works with U.P.S.Kouri and Nora Wysong and two children, Jax and Zander, are getting settled in the Solberg rental home on North Second St. Last week Ray and Lois Nelson attended the Augustana Vesper Service at First Lutheran Church and South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert at Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, Sunday afternoon.Bob and Marvie Pedersen, Tyler, spent Sunday in the home of their daughter, Dawn and Charlie Sandager. Dorothy Sheetz, Sioux Falls, visited Sunday in the home of her daughter, Jil and Derek Vaughn, and attended the Sunday School program at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and also attended Taylor?s piano recital. Monday Ray and Lois Nelson attended the funeral of Orville Severtson in Pipestone. Orville was the former Veterans Service Officer in Pipestone. Friday night, Wendell and Kathryn Erickson and Dick and Audrey Heidenson motored to Pipestone to hear the Al Opland Singers present their winter concert. Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the Christmas concert Friday night at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Mary Carter and granddaughter, Stacy, met Stacy?s friend, Jessie, and her mother from Brookings, S.D., to have dinner out in Sioux Falls in honor of Mary?s birthday. The Merry Christmas Tubas played three concerts in Sioux Falls Saturday. Don Briggs, a member, played his baritone while Al Berdahl was the director. There were 105 players from various places performing. Ray and Lois attended the Saturday afternoon Acoustic Christmas Concert at Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls.Dick Heidenson and grandson, Lee Heidenson, drove to Apple Valley Saturday to stay with Dick?s daughter and then attended a sport business place that had a large TV screen where they watched the Vikings-Bears football game. They returned home Sunday.There was a memorial service for Benola Pettingill, Denver, Colo., at United Methodist Church in Rock Rapids on Saturday afternoon. Burial was in Riverview Cemetery for family: Bonnie and Doug Slothower, Denver, Terry Pettingill and Jon, Marsha and son, Chess, of California and other relatives. Benola was a sister to Vi VanWyhe, Hills. There was a potluck dinner at the Rosco Pettingill home in Rock Rapids on Sunday noon.
