Henry Dale Zwaan, age 84, of Luverne, was called home by the Lord on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. He was born on Sept. 13, 1941, by Doon, Iowa, and was the son of Nick and Bertha Zwaan.
Jerome James Kraft, 74, of Willmar, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, at CentraCare Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar.
Funeral services for John Hartog, 89, West Plains, Missouri, were at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home in West Plains, Missouri.
Mr. Hartog passed away at 5:10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, at Brooke Haven Healthcare.
In their 2023 book, The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham point out that 40 million adults used to go to church in the United States but no longer do.
