Wallingford News Highlights Local Social Events
Wallingford community notes a busy period with wedding anniversaries and family visits. Everett and Giffard Osher hosted at a Brotherhood meeting, while a bowling party is planned. Travel tales include Florida and California trips with classic sights and a movie star autograph. Local groups met for church, craft circles, and a Sunday School addition vote. Gerald Lundgren collects vintage license plates tracing Iowa plate history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nordvin Phterson
Marcia
Paul
Ted Drew
Petersons
E. K. Skattebo
Everett Osher
Giffard Osher
Avis Paulson
Orland
Robert Walker
Estherville
Dick Herum
Spencer
Wallingford
WMF
Elton Skativbo
Loyed Skattcho
Fort Leonard Wood
Frank Matson
Ringsted
Duane Dallman
Florida
Rock City Gardens
Chattanooga
Tenn
Marineland
St. Augustine
Dayton Beach
Silver Springs
Arlene Francis
T.V
Cypress Gardens
Winter Haven
Weceki-Wachee
Cocoa
New Orleans
Jayne Mansfield
Nathalie Nielsen
Thor Nielsen
George Gunderson
Mable Jorstad
Hammond, Wise
Bakersfield
Calif
Nina Jorstad
Nathalie
Santa Barbara
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Ole Ressell
Wedding and club notes from Rodman and Spirit Lake events
Margaret Forey a former Graettinger teacher, married Bernard Hartman on December 28 at St. Peter and Paul church in West Bend. The couple plan to live on a Rodman area farm. Mrs Hartman teaches kindergarten in Rodman. Lost Island Womens Club met at the Albert Norris home with Lois Rinden as co host. The group discussed goals for 1958 and planned the February meeting at Don Oleson and Albert Norris homes. Opal Jane Martinson wed Donald Lee Beaton at the Spirit Lake Presbyterian church on January 23. The ceremony featured organ music and flowers, with Attendant Clyde Shottenkirk. The couple will live apart while Beaton serves in the Air Force at Loring AFB Maine.
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Margaret Forey
Graettinger
Bernard Hartman
Rodman
St. Peter and Paul Catholic
West Bend
Lost Island Womens Club
Norrigy
Lost Island Farm Bureau Womens Club
Albert Norris
Lois Rinden
Rudy Christianson
Don Olesan
Farm Bureau
Don Oleson
Pub
Opal Jane Martinson
Chris Martinson
Estherville
Donald Lee Beaton
Henry Kalso
Spirit Lake
Presbyterian Church
Ben J. Swede
L. ¥. Dowd
Sweulene
Clyde Shottenkirk
Swea City
Proom
Air Force
Pirates Reach Ruthven Final In Semifinal Thriller
Graettinger Pirates beat Emmetsburg B team 57 to 31 to advance to the Ruthven tournament final. They led 8-5 after one, 22-15 at halftime, and 41-26 through three quarters as Kim Christensen scored 21 points and Sandvig 17.
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Graettinger Pirates
Emmetsburg
Ruthven Tourney
Graettinger
Kim Christensen
Pirate
Sandvig
Torrence
Brighton
Reeves
Squirrel Performs Daily High Wire Act at Bolte Home
A LaPorte resident reports a squirrel creating a daily high wire show between two fruit trees at John Bolte’s home. Initially sacks of nuts hung for birds became a perch and stage for the nimble rodent, which now ventures out each day for its aerial marae.
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LaPorte
John Bolte
Julia Ellefson former Wallingford resident rites held
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Wallingford Lutheran Church for Mrs. Julia Ellefson, former Wallingford resident, who died at Sunset Good Samaritan Rest Home in Jackson Minnesota. Rev Norbert Jolivette officiated. Interment followed in Riverside Cemetery Wallingford. She had been in failing health and suffered a recent stroke. Mrs Ellefson and her husband farmed in Wallingford for years until his death, then she moved to Jackson in 1951. Survivors include one son Elmer of Jackson, one grandchild and two great grandchildren.
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Wallingford Lutheran Church
Julia Lileison
Wallingford
Sunset Good Samaritan
Jackson
Minn
Norbert Jolivette
Riverside Cemetery
Elmer
Graettinger Picnic Draws Attendees in California
A Graettinger picnic in Sycamore Grove Park Los Angeles drew many attendees though slightly fewer than usual on Sunday January 12. The event featured former residents greeting friends and listing attendees including Art Bergum Donald Murphy Carl Jensen Dick Rasmussen Richard Sehany Paul Graettinger Louis Graettinger and many more. The gathering reflected revived connections among Graettinger families amid a bus strike and illnesses cited by attendees.
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California
Louis Christensen
Ciaettinger
Siente
Art Bergum
Donald Murphy
Carl Jensen
Dick Rasmussen
Richard Sehany
Paul Graettinger
Louis Graettinger
Vangle Reeves
Duane Laffey
Albert Ntelaen
Louis Sevatson
Frans Swanson
Virgil Westfall
William Vallmert
Ray Voallmert
Joe Swift
Ed Merriman
E. Ray Johnson
H. Noble
Herman Worland
James E. Anderson
Tom J. Donlon
Matt P. Junker
Harold Duhn
Wm. Sloniker
Miles Mahan
Pam Laffey
Jeff Laffey
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Sirs
Earnest Skattebo
Mune Jorstad
Hammond
Wlac
Robert Ressell
James Peterson
Clarence Skattebo
Fairmont
Henry Lofblom
Gary Osher
Mark
Linda
Kansas
Stiles
Clarence
Rasymussen Istant
C. T. Skuttebo
Bert Twite
Rebecca Circle
Donald Richard
Richards
Wayne Bryan
Wamon
Jeanette Vosika
Mmes
GC. W. Olson
Art Skattebo
E. B. Burg
Harvey Nichtern
Bryt Felkey
Jeffery
Dale Young
Wallace Gripentrog
Gerald Lundgren
Gowrie
Iowa
Lundgren
Graettinger Coop
Sesin
Opal Martinson
Bonald Beaton
Mr. and
Mrs
Pirates
Mel
Julia Ellefson
Henry
DES Moines Register
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Tribune
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the Times
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Trifune
Lorrig Laffey
Mildred Myers
Eben Petersen
Alice Petersen
Ruby Argue
Petersen
John Vikert
Bessie Howard
Bruce Schang Louwenna C. Jensen
Arlene Rasmussen
Rickey Rasmussen
Rocky Rasmussen
Biner Petersen
H. Barkley
Chas. Tompkins
Verna Graham
Dalen
Loretta Mahan
Sharon Duhy
Trena Thoreness
Donna Murphy
Janelle Ostheimer
Donald Ostheimer
Ruth Ostheimer
Sandra Ostheimer
Doris Gougaire
Pauline Murray
Remeneri
Tadley
Ferma
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