Nancy Oquist Wins District Wool Contest
Nancy Oquist daughter of the Levert Oquists and a junior at Osceola high school won the 3rd District Make It With Wool contest in Blair on November 24. She competed with forty entrants and advances to the state contest in Norfolk on December 14 15. Her gray and brown plaid coat and hat earned top honors along with a Pendleton wool dress length and a silver charm.
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Nancy Oquist
Levert Oquists
Osceola
Blair
Miss Oquist
American Wool Council
Norfolk
Osceola Attitude Survey Finds Shifting Local Concerns
Community survey results shared at December town hall show by five panelists that five years ago problems in farm equipment appliances and clothing persist only as customers now favor hometown merchants. Ice storm aftermath recalls and Holiday on Ice dollars aside local life includes Christmas cards and reminiscences of small town days.
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Osceola
The
Konigs
Marjorie Holmes
You and I
Storm Lake
Clara Bow
Christmas Services and Church Activities Schedule
A list of December services and events for Catholic and Lutheran churches including St Vincent's St Andrew's St Mary's Calvary Lutheran Swede Home St Paul Lutheran and United Methodist Church events. Activities include worship services confirmations choir practice Christmas program rehearsals and church meetings with dates through December 16.
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Edward O'Leary
St. Vincent’s
St. Andrew’s
St. Mary’s
Calvary Lutheran OF
Milan E. Swasko
United Methodist Church
Truman Bachenberg
Ed Murphy
Central City
West Of Town Weekend Hosts Share Omaha Guests
Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Carl Sundberg included Mr and Mrs Robert Martens and Anne of Omaha with Arvin Sundberg and a friend at dinner Saturday. Also at York Ideal Cafe a birthday dinner honored Claus Oberg Ellsworth Carlson Mrs Ted Janky and Lisa Carlson.
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Homer Green
Carl Sundberg
Robert Martens
Anne
Omaha
Arvin Sundberg
Arthur Samuelson
Ideal Cafe
York
Claus Oberg
Ellsworth Carlson
Ted Janky
Lisa Carlson
Verlin Johnson
Randy
Debbie Johnson
Lincoln
Don Hosier
Giltner
Irvin Anderson
Herbert Fiedler
Norfolk
Polk Methodist Church
Parkview
Central City
Ed Coover
Sadie Clark
Emma Johnson
Cliff Branting
Best
Walter Rudeen
Merlin Green
Jerry York
Open house and visiting notes in Osceola and beyond
Mr and Mrs Jim McKeag attended an open house for Pastor Nordstrom on Sunday afternoon in Osceola and later hosted visits with Harvey McKeag in Stromsburg. Martin Jones joined Dr Lyle Furst of York for a trip to Omaha visiting Steve Georgeson at Clarkson Hospital and Gladys Carlson at University Hospital. The Friendly Neighbors group and spouses dined at the Holiday Inn in Columbus with prizes in Pitch awarded to Hubert Girard and Mrs Bob Vrbka for high and Jerry Johansen and Mrs Armand Schmoker for low. Pastor Nordstrom and family hosted parishioners at a Lenten season open house at the Nordstrom parsonage with assistance from Alden Nelson and Lutheran Church Women Velma Gissler Violet Nyberg Margaret Buresh Dorothy Nelson.
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Jim McKeag
Nordstroms
Harvey McKeag
Stromsburg
Martin Jones
Lyle Furst
York
Omaha
Steve Georgeau
Clarkson Hospital
Jones
Gladys Carlson
University Hospital
Holiday Inn
Columbus
Hubert Girard
Bob Vrbka
Jerry Johansen
Armand Schmoker
David Nordstrom
St. Paul
Hospital Notes List Residents And Dismissals
A hospital notice lists current patients including Mrs Fern Baer in Osceola and Mr George Buchta, also noting patients Mrs Tressie Brown and Mrs Florence Ekstrom both in Osceola. Names from Stroms and Gresham appear, with dismissals for Clyde Ericson Stromsburg Lavina Kopke Gresham Patricia Thayer Osceola Bessie Reckner Stroms Jane Swasko Stromsburg and John W Hellstrom Stroms.
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Fern Baer
Osceola
Tressie Brown
George Buchta
Ray Conrad
Florence Ekstrom
Laura Hendrickson
Edwin L. Isakson
Stroms
Carl R. H. Johnson
Winnifred Lackey
Connie Pat Lux
Bernice McClung
Shelby
Merle Mitchell
Benedict
Arthur S. Nelson
Emmy Schlesinger
Fred Stoki
Stromsburg
Jane Whitmore
Gresham
Hildur Lundborg
Clyde Ericson
Lavina Kopke
Patricia Thayer
Bessie Reckner
Mrs Reynold Peterson Osceola Obituary Notice
Mrs Reynold Peterson of Osceola has died. The notice lists Hobart Sweenie of Osceola as referenced in connection with the family.
Bridal Showers Honor Nancy Johnson in Stromsburg and Osceola
A Saturday afternoon shower for Miss Nancy Johnson took place at Mrs. Rolland Swanson’s Stromsburg home with co hosts Mrs. Delmar Jones and Miss Carla Johnson. In the evening ten ladies attended a linen and dessert lunch given by Mrs. Wallace Monson in Osceola with a game as entertainment.
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Nancy Johnson
Rolland Swanson
Stromsburg
Delmar Jones
Carla Johnson
Miss Johnson
Wallace Monson
Osceola
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