Henry News – October 1, 2007
The
Burchatz families were among those that helped Dayne Waldner-Plunkett celebrate
his first birthday on Saturday evening.
Hayley and Travis Goodall spent Tuesday with
their grandmother, Roxanne Geiger.
Barb Hartley and Joan Boehnke attended funeral services Saturday afternoon in Eureka for Viola Woehlhaff, mother of Annette Boehnke. Other family members attending were Bob and
Bonnie Boehnke and Terry and Ruth Boehnke
of Watertown,
and Carlos and Anita Abraham of Hazel.
Mrs. Woehlhaff was also the mother of Rick Woehlhaff of Garden City.
A
large crowd attended the 125th anniversary of the Henry United
Methodist Church
on Sunday. Former pastors, Marion Gabel, Rochester,
MN, Duane Ferrie,
Lamar’s, IA, and Lyla Sloat,
Redfield, SD
were among those in attendance. Several pulpit supply and lay pastors also
attended the celebration. The Rev. Dick Boyd who is now serving at First
Methodist in Sioux Falls
also attended and brought words of remembrance. The morning began with a
morning social followed by the worship service and ended with a pot luck
dinner.
Vickie
Burchatz and Cindy Wientjes of Watertown,
Jackie McNeil, Warner, Cheryl Hovde, rural Vienna and Kathy Wookey of Clark
flew to Arizona
to spend time with their dad, Jack Berens. Mr. Berens passed away shortly after their arrival.
Nicky
Watson and Bonita Sharp enjoyed lunch out together on Monday and celebrated
Bonita’s birthday.
Vickie
and Kayla Burchatz
and Lindsey Jennings of Watertown and Donna Kittelson attended the volleyball
game at Lake Preston on Monday evening.
Wednesday
Troy Gortmaker of Rapid City visited at the Fain and
Roxanne Geiger and Kelby and Toni Goodall
homes.
Calvin
and Lois Schoepp attended the volleyball games at
Great Plains Lutheran in Watertown
on Saturday. Their granddaughter, Casey Miller played on the winning DeSmet team.
Arlen
and Joan Boehnke attended the Thrivent Financial
annual meeting, supper and workshop in Watertown
on Sunday.
Kayla Burchatz
and Donna Kittelson were Saturday overnight guests at the Bryan Wientjes home.
Bret and Karen Henricks, John and Liz of rural
Watertown and Kathy DeJong, Kayla,
Connor and Adam visited at the Terry Kos home on Sunday following the Methodist
Church services.
Dorothy
Paulsen and Lois Schoepp attended the Friday evening
Community Concert in Watertown.
Stephanie
Pickrel of Watertown
and John Heber of Redfield spend time at the Burchatz
farm this past week and worked with the quarter horse colts.
Earl
and Alyssa Rhody and Tierra of Clear Lake and Kelby and Toni Goodall, Hayley and Travis were Saturday evening upper guests at the
home of their parents, Fain and Roxanne Geiger.
Hayley Goodall went
home with the Rhodys and returned to her Henry home
on Sunday.
Dave,
Mara and Brenna McElroy of Sioux Falls
visited Don and Rose McElroy on
Wednesday. They also returned to their
home on Wednesday.
Wes
and Betty Holida of Naples called on Arlen Swedeen
this past week.
This
past week the Henry Fire Department was called to the Norman Alexander farm
Friday to help extinguish a baler fire.
The baler was a total lost along with one bale of hay. On Wednesday evening the fire department was
called to the Jim Owen farm where a pickup had started on fire,
that too was a total loss.
Bonita
Sharp met with former Henry resident, Patty Blue of Yale and her sisters in Watertown on Friday
evening.
Kayla Burchatz
spent Sunday afternoon at the Floyd and Donna Kittelson home. Maggie Hovde of rural
Vienna was a
Sunday evening supper guest.
Calvin
and Lois Schoepp visited Morris Van Sickle at Jenkins Living
Center in Watertown on Sunday. Later they joined
Eleanor Van Sickle and Esther Ness for dinner out. Following the dinner they
called on Doris Coyle at her apartment at Sunchase
Apartments in Watertown.
Fain
and Roxanne Geiger were Sunday breakfast guests at the Kelby
Goodall home.
Joe
and Elsie Young called on Jean Lian Tuesday and
helped her celebrate her birthday. Later
they called on Treva Headley.
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