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Community Notes Spark Weekend Visits Across Alta and Storm Lake
Local families from Alta Cherokee Storm Lake and surrounding towns gathered for weekend visits and celebrations. Multiple relatives traveled to share meals attend birthdays and join funerals with names including Haight Bishop Jesse Erickson Kolb Gertsmeier Rasmussen and Friedlund among others. The column records a steady stream of townsfolk visiting kin and attending local church events.
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Jack Discher
Alta
Howard Haight
Ray Bishop
Nancy
Des Moines
Delaine Kolb
Orville Kolb
Storm Lake
Arnold Faber
Vernon Fierd
Herman Buman
John Oatman
Mardell
Lorenz Roth
Elmer Gertsmeier
Norman Boisen
Lee
Joan of Schaller
Lela Lichtenberg
Evelyn
Pearl Lichtenberg
Louise Lichtenberg
Eloise Gertsmeier
Carol Schleimer
Sioux City
Roy Lydell
Lydell
Glen Jesse
John Lydell
Walter Hoeppner
Chester Dyslin
Storm
Lake
Frank Oakes
J. R. Carpenter
Levi Lundquist
Bill Casey
Primghar
Lundquist
Chas. Brown
Omaha
Fred Braden
Duluth
Purdue -Iowa
University
Bobby Whitney
Dysart
Jim Parrott
Gwen Parrott
Clair Parrott
August Swanson
Rockford
Albert Johnson
Selma Christensen
Gerda Johnson
Emil Carlson
Clyde Shaw
Compton
Cal
Mrs. Shaw
Mary Frank
Mrs. Parrott
Shaws
Calif
J. H. Whitmore
Nemaha
Volkert
Karen Roth
Zion Lutheran Church
Frank Mummert
Burt Mummert
Don
Robert Rasmussen
Blair Rasmussen
Leo Nelson
Galva
Henry Nelson
Supt
D. J. Fried