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Social visits and weekend gatherings across Iowa towns
A string of weekend and weekly visits spans Sioux Falls to Storm Lake, with numerous families hosting relatives and friends from Cherokee LeMars Aurelia and Ames. Guests include Rev Milton Otto moving to Mankato Lutheran Seminary and many local reunions at Lakes, parks, and homes in Aurelia Washta Storm Lake and Rock Island.
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Arnold Faber
Elizabeth Faber
LeMars
Albert Fierk
Maurice Fouts
Sioux City
Helmer Paulson
Nemaha
Milton Otto
H. H. Otto
Otto
Lutheran Seminary
Mankato
Minn
Clinton Ferguson
Life Insurance Lockin Insurance Agency
Minnie Carlson
Twin Falls
Ida
Effie Johnson
George Dise
Margaret
Chicago
Albert Jesse
Ray Bishop
Carlyle
Bill Seggerman
Marcus
James Temple
Jay Bennett
Washta
the Lakes
John Miller
Robert Miller
Aurelia
Gahlen Miller
Ray Boghs
Ernest Nelson
Grand Forks
N. D
A. W. Larson
Joe Mackey
Vern Hatteberg
Erwin Machine
Bennie Winkler
Fonda
Winfred Moulton
Arlo Reisen
Denison
Barbara Montgomery
Karl Mummert
Mummert
Aurelia Park
L. B. Johnson
Tabor
Harold Nelson
Dick Ramsey
Schaller
Ernest Otto
Leland Anderson
Storm Lake Shelter House
Harold Peters
Des Moines
Ellen Lighter
Selene Lighter
Battle Creek
Richard Peterson
Elmer Swanson
Mike Galvin
Clyde Fox
James Schulke
Ames
Charles Schulke
James Thompson
Albert Lea
Roger Miller
Orville Hickey
W. J. Newman
Mary Newman
Atlantic
Dale Milligan
Lonnie
Marsha
Glen Palm
Clyde Newman
Guthrie Center
Ivan Winter
Bonnie
Janice
Frances Knight
Patricia Hickey
Francis Brownmiller
John Oatman
Storm Lake
Eugene Bumann
Lynn
Alta
George Bumann
Lorenz Roth
Fred Peckenschneider
Davenport
Vernon Peckenschneider
Dickson
Henry Nelson
Glen Stutz
Moline
Irr
Henry Stutz
Westbrook
Ervil Rapp
Wray
Knoxville
Maude Sweet
Vernon Peckeschneider
George Schaffer
Homer Anderson
DyAnn
Kathy
Rock Island
Ho Larn
Lee Anderson
Etkaderla
Martin Silseth
Alwaukee
John Swanson
Albert Swanson
Henry Schipper
Marlene
Larry
Lake Carlos