Dispatch report
May 13
•Complainant on N. Cedar Street reported an open door.
•Complainant on N. Estey Street reported a bus parked on the wrong side of the street.
•Complainant on 20th Avenue, Valley Springs, South Dakota, reported an abandoned vehicle in parking lot.
•Complainant west-bound of Adrian requested assistance moving a transient.
•Complainant on County Road 5, Beaver Creek, reported a vehicle was left on side of road.
•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported a dumpster gate damaged her vehicle.
•Complainant on N. Donaldson Street reported theft of property.
•Complainant in Sioux Falls reported a subject with Rock County warrant.
•Assisted the Sioux Falls Police Department for requested information.
•Complainant on S. West Park Street reported property line dispute.
•A wrong way driver was reported on Highway 75 and 141st Street.
•Complainant on 211th Street reported a possible trespassing tonight.
May 14
•Complainant on 20th Avenue and 221st Street, Jasper, reported recreational vehicle for dangerous driving conduct.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 19, Luverne, reported a shovel on the road.
•Complainant on 71st Street, Beaver Creek, reported a broken vehicle window.
•Complainant on Edgehill Street reported a noise complaint.
May 15
•Complainant on Sunshine Avenue, Luverne, reported a motor vehicle theft.
•Deputy assisted a vehicle on side of the road.
•Complainant on E. Main Street, Luverne, found an Apple cell phone.
May 16
•Complainant on North Drive, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, reported a subject with Rock County warrant.
•Complainant reported a camera outage.
•Complainant reported a gift card scam.
•Complainant on U.S. Highway 75, Luverne, reported verbal harassment.
May 17
•Complainant on Freeman Avenue and Luverne Street reported a parking issue.
•Complainant reported she received a suspicious package she had not ordered.
•Possible drunk driver swerving in and out of traffic, northbound on Highway 75, from Interstate 90.
•Complainant on W. Mead Court reported loud music at location.
•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported she is being held against her will.
•Complainant on W. Second Street, Webster, reported subject on Rock County warrant.
May 18
•Complainant on S. Freeman Avenue reported they found a disability placard.
•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported that the water spigot was left on.
•Complainant in Hills reported a missing four-wheeler.
•Complainant on S. Church Avenue, Hills, reported a civil property dispute.
•Complainant on S. River Road, Luverne, reported road closure for maintenance.
•Complainant at Lake Wilson reported a possible drunk driver.
May 19
•Subject in Yankton being held on Rock County warrant.
•SFPD requested information on subject.
•Complainant west-bound Interstate 90, mile marker 5, Beaver Creek, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on S. Elizabeth Avenue, Hills, reported theft from his vehicle sometime in the last few days.
•Complainant on W. Main Street reported unknown male on her property.
•Complainant on S. Church Avenue, Hills, has questions about divorce and property laws.
•Complainant on Donaldson Street and Main Street reported a noise complaint.
 In addition, officers responded to 3 motor vehicle accidents, 1 deer accident, 1 escort, 8 ambulance runs, 1 parking violation, 6 paper services, 6 animal complaints, 2 fingerprint requests, 21 burn permits, 1 gas drive-off, 2 alarms, 8 drug court tests, 3 purchase and carry permits, 2 stalled vehicles, 12 traffic stops, 9 abandoned 911 calls, 2 tests, 1 welfare check, and 4 follow-ups.

Card showers
Anita Johnson will celebrate her 80th birthday on Thursday, May 26. Greetings may be sent to her at 410 S. Fairview Drive, Luverne, MN 56156.
 
Bertha Fikse will celebrate her 95th birthday on Tuesday, May 31. Greetings may be sent to her at 903 2nd Ave. SE #119, Pipestone, MN 56164.
 
Open House
A retirement open house for Dennis Moritz will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, May 26, in the New Student Commons of the Luverne High School (use the parking lot on the school’s south side).
 
A retirement open house for Don Bryan will be from 1-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, at the Luverne branch of Security Savings Bank. Refreshments will be served.

LSS meals at Generations
 
New Location: 105 S. Estey, Luverne
Monday, May 30: Closed — Memorial Day.
Tuesday, May 31: Chicken fiesta casserole, Spanish rice, carrots, pineapple.
Half-Price Day sponsored by Security Savings Bank.
Activities: 12:30 p.m. Grab a friend – play a favorite game. 12:30 p.m. Pinochle.
Wednesday, June 1: Spaghetti with meat sauce, romaine salad with dressing, tropical fruit, Texas toast, dessert.
Thursday, June 2: Roasted turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, dinner roll with margarine, dessert.
Friday, June 3: Barbecue pork on a bun, potato salad, pineapple, dessert.
LSS Dining offers well-balanced and affordable meals in a community atmosphere.
Call Lynette Hoiland at 283-9846 to arrange to pick up a dinner or for home-delivered meals.
Gift certificates are available at the meal site or online at www.lssmn.org/nutrition.

The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older.
February 11, 1943
The name “Drake Station,” unfamiliar to the majority of Rock countyians born after the turn of the century, was a place of significant importance to the early day residents of eastern Rock county and western Nobles county.
According to Mrs. Frank Peschon, Luverne, who lived in Westside township, Nobles county, in the 1870’s and 1880’s, the little store at the station saved her father and his neighbors many trips by ox team to Luverne for provisions for their families.
There, too, was the postoffice for the settlers of the community. Before the railroad was built in 1876, a postoffice known as the Westside postoffice, located on the Worthington-Sioux Falls overland route, served the community.  After the railroad was built, however, it was replaced by the present village of Magnolia. Mrs. Peschon remembers how a neighbor would go to Drake Station to get the mail for the residents living in the vicinity of her father’s home, and how the settlers would go to this man’s farm to get letters and news from the “outside world.”
Mrs. Peschon was born Dec. 2, 1867, at Waterloo, Ia., the daughter of George S. and Sophia Meyers Barclay. She was one of a family of nine children. She doesn’t remember how they came to Rock county in 1874, she states, as she was then only a girl. Inasmuch as most of the pioneer settlers came by covered wagon, she assumes she, too, made the trip here from Iowa in that type of convenience.
The Barclay family settled on a farm near Luverne, and had lived there only a short time when fire destroyed one of the buildings in which they kept many of their belongings such as trunks, some furniture, etc. These belongings were lost in the fire as were family records.
From Luverne, the family moved east of Magnolia into Magnolia county where Mr. Barclay filed a homestead claim. This was Mrs. Peschon’s home until she was married and moved to Luverne.
Because they lived so far from town, the children, girls especially, very seldom made the trip. Mrs. Peschon believes that she was almost a grown girl before she saw Luverne again, after the family had moved to the homestead.
She attended school in the rural district a mile away from her home. Because she was the oldest of the girls, it became her duty to help with the work at home, so her education opportunities were limited. During that era, work generally came before education and she recalls that she earned the first money she could call her own by caring for a sick child of a neighbor family.
Upon reaching young womanhood, she married Frank Peschon of Luverne on Dec. 8, 1882. She and Mr. Peschon took up their residence here and since that time Luverne has been her home.
She states in looking back over the years she has lived in and near Luverne, she can see nothing that would make her want to live her life over again in a different way. She has been contented with what life has given her, and it is her philosophy that one’s life can be a happy one if a person seeks happiness and enjoys giving happiness to others.
Of the nine brothers and sisters in the Barclay family, Mrs. Peschon and three others are living. They include herself, a brother, G. M. Barclay of Sioux Falls and two sisters, Mrs. E. L. Grapes of Minneapolis and Theresa Barclay of Luverne.
Mr. and Mrs. Peschon quietly observed their golden anniversary here last Dec. 8.
         Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, 312 E. Main Street, Luverne, MN 56156.
Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

10 years ago (2012)
•On July 1, 1969, Don Spease was the first customer to get his hair cut at Roberts Barber Shop in Luverne.
On May 18, 2012 (more than 40 years and roughly 400 appointments later), Spease had his last haircut by Marlyn Roberts, who is now officially retired.
Spease and dozens of other local clients are now seeking appointments with the only “real” barber in town, Chuck Tweet, who is making plans to retire.
“Old-fashioned barbers are a thing of the past,” Roberts commented as the electric clippers went to work on Spease’s head. …
Roberts said barbers, versus hairstylists, tend to be bolder with the clippers.
 
25 years ago (1997)
•One Luverne boy and one Hills-Beaver Creek girl earned berths in the state tournament after placing in the top-five individually at the Section 3A Golf Tournament played at the Marshall Country Club Friday.
Luverne’s Phil Oksness placed second overall in the boys’ competition. H-BC Kristen Top won a playoff for the fifth and final qualifying spot in the girls’ competition.
Oksness, a junior, becomes the first Luverne boy to compete at the state tournament since 1991, when Mike Gonnerman made the trip for Luverne. Oksness shot a four-over-par 76 to place second to Redwood Valley’s Dave Suedbeck, who carded a 75 to win the section individual title.
Top, a senior, is the second H-BC player ever to qualify for a state tournament. Jackie Paulsen advanced to state for H-BC as a sophomore in 1991.
 
50 years ago (1972)
•Luverne golfers captured the Southwest Conference crown Friday at Redwood Falls out-stroking second place Jackson and Redwood Falls by five big strokes.
Dave Eyberg notched rounds of 38 and 39 to emerge as the conference medalist with a 77 total. Perry Noll shot an 81 followed by Brad Stepp and Jim Golla with 84’s.
 
75 years ago (1947)
•Miss Julie Ann Turpen, piano student of Mrs. Carl H. Anderson, placed among the first 10 of the students entered in the Minnesota Music Teachers contest held in Minneapolis recently.
Miss Turpen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Turpen, of Luverne, will play in a ten-piano ensemble at the annual Music Teachers Convention in Minneapolis, June 16.
She is the second of Mrs. Anderson’s pupils chosen to attend such a convention. Miss Phyllis Matthiesen has been previously honored several years ago.
 
100 years ago (1922)
•The first annual commencement of the Magnolia high school will be held next Thursday evening, June 1st, at 8:15 o’clock at the Magnolia school auditorium.
A class of four will be given diplomas: Erma Palmer, valedictorian; Helen Lester, salutatorian; Sylvia Kienast and Hazel Dean.

Two large pine trees blew down between the house and garage at Wes and Patti Pierson’s home in Hardwick during the May 12 storm.
They contacted Rock County Emergency Management Director Kyle Oldre about possible FEMA support but learned there wasn’t funding available.
The couple had to leave their storm mess behind when they traveled to Mayo Clinic in Rochester for Patti’s cancer surgery.
The surgery was delayed to July 27 so they returned home May 18 and learned that Oldre had made arrangements for the trees to be removed the following day.
“We had just returned from Sanford in Sioux Falls to arrange more chemo ... Well, there was an army of volunteers here arranged by Kyle to remove the trees and clean up the yard,” Wes Pierson said.
“The trees are removed to a back dump area and the yard is very well taken care of.”
He said he and Patti were very grateful for the help.
In addition to Oldre and his sons, Knute and Gunnar, volunteers included Leroy Schomacker, Kyle Hemme, Paul Aukes, Darrell Hemme, Hunter Ahrendt, Jeff Ahrendt, Tony Roos, Justis Ahrendt, Shawn Blom, Peyton Blom, Paige Blom, Kaleb Hemme, Tori Hemme, Damien Ahrendt, Michael Halsne, Brad Ahrendt, Chad Versteeg, Lowell Ahrendt, John Hemme and Keith Schmuck.

Gordon E. Johnson, 75, Bloomer, Wisconsin, died Sunday, May 15, 2022, at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in Chippewa Falls after a long battle with ALS.
A funeral service was Wednesday, May 25, at the Olson Funeral Home in Bloomer. Interment was in the Bloomer Cemetery with military honors provided by the Bloomer America Legion, VFW and AMVETS.
Gordon Johnson was born on Feb. 5, 1947, to Elvin and Joyce (Olson) Johnson in Jackson, Minnesota. Gordy served in the Navy from 1966-1970 during the Vietnam War.
He married Mary DeGroot on May 20, 1972, in Ellsworth, Minnesota. Gordy worked as a property and casualty insurance agent for 36 years. He was the past commander and adjutant of the Bloomer VFW. He was also a member of the Bloomer American Legion, the Bloomer Masonic Lodge, the Eau Claire Consistory, the Tripoli Shrine Club, Toastmasters, Luverne JayCees, and the Bloomer School Board.
He was an active member of the Bloomer United Methodist Church where he served on numerous committees and was a part of the original cast of “The Last Supper Drama.”
In his free time he enjoyed fishing, snowmobiling, playing softball, driving bus, volunteering at Mayo Clinic and keeping his yard manicured. Gordy enjoyed a good story, visiting with others, helping wherever he was needed, and especially spending time with his family.
Gordy is survived by his children, Chad (Carolyn) Johnson and Sara (Jeremy) Pank, all of Strum, Wisconsin; his grandchildren Ian, Colton, Bria, Evelyn, Mallory and Bryce; a brother,  Rodney (Anne) Johnson; a sister,  Mary Meyer; his wife,  Mary Johnson of Bloomer; and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Arrangements were provided by Olson Funeral Home of Bloomer, Wisconsin, olsonfuneralhomebloomer.com

Joyce Elaine Dykstra, 82, Luverne, died peacefully Monday, May 9, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Society - Mary Jane Home in Luverne.
A memorial visitation with a prayer service was Saturday, May 21, at Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne. Burial followed at Trosky City Cemetery in Trosky.
Joyce Elaine Borgerding was born on April 29, 1940, to Clarence and Gladys (Styf) Borgerding in Zeeland, Michigan. She lived on Grandma Borgerding’s farm in Bauer, Michigan, and in various towns and cities in Michigan. In her youth she worked at the Rainbow Grill in Granville, Michigan as a car hop. Joyce left Hudsonville High School to attend Grand Rapids Beauty School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1957 to 1958.
Joyce married Maurice Lilley in 1962. In 1967 they moved to Phoenix, Arizona, with their daughter Kathy, born in 1965. They were also blessed with David in 1968 and Ellen in 1970. Joyce and Maurice divorced soon afterward.
Joyce worked at E.L. Grubers Underwear Company and attended Longview Reformed Church. She met Ronald Dykstra during that time, and they married in 1973.  Joyce was a homemaker and received her GED in 1987. She worked at Tom Tates Buffet as a waitress and hostess. Her last employment was with Macy’s department store working in the café.
She retired, and she and Ron moved to Trosky in 1995. While living there, they visited many area nursing homes where Ron would sing and play his guitar and Joyce would play piano or visit with the residents. Joyce worked part time for the Trosky Post Office until it was closed. After Ron died in 2012, she visited family in the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands.
In 2019 Joyce moved to Luverne, where she had an apartment at Blue Mound Towers. In 2020 she entered the Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne.
Joyce attended church in Edgerton. She was a Sunday school teacher, choir member, AWANA teacher, and played organ and piano. She enjoyed cross stitching, gardening, playing piano, crafts, collecting poems, reading, and was a crafty dominoes player.
Joyce is survived by her children, Kathy (Tom) Keller of Luverne, David Dykstra of Trosky, and Ellen Dykstra of Evans, Colorado; seven grandchildren, Doug and Sabrina, David, Kristin, Paige, Elizabeth and Matthew; two great-grandchildren; and her siblings, Hank (Carol) Borgerding of Denver, Colorado, Pat (Rich) Hovey of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, and Carol (Dr. Mark) Rummel of Prescott, Arizona.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Ron Dykstra.
Arrangements were provided by Hartquist Funeral Home of Luverne, hartquistfuneral.com.
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Barbara Ashby, 70, Luverne, died peacefully Monday, May 23, 2022, at the Tuff Memorial Home in Hills.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne, and at 1 p.m. until the service at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 26, at the United Methodist Church in Luverne.
Arrangements are provided by Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne, hartquistfuneral.com.
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