Post-Christmas Dinner at Mrs Gustafson's Aurora Home
Mrs Beulah Gustafson hosted a post Christmas dinner and gift exchange last Monday in Aurora attended by Roger Gustafson and family Richard Gustafson and family all Polk Steve Gustafson from Lincoln and Joe Tyler of Clarks Also Farmers Dozen Card Club honored Mildred Richardson of York on her birthday Tuesday evening last week with dinner at a cafe and social at her home Present were Wilfred Stephens Henry Blase Maurice Flick Herschel Shenk and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Gustafson
Aurora
Roger Gustafson
Richard Gustafson
Polk
Steve Gustafson
Lincoln
Joe ‘Tyler
Clarks
Farmers Dozen Club
Farmers Dozen Card Club
Mildred Richardson
York
Obituary for Petrus C Nelson Polk County resident dies at 78
Petrus C Nelson a lifelong Polk County resident and Swede Home community figure died January 1 1966 at his home aged 78 He had just completed 25 years with State Farm and was active in Calvary Lutheran Church Swede Home local school board Farmers Union Polk County Farm Bureau Rural Electrification and local community groups Surviving are a son Theodore daughter Linnea and their spouses, a brother and three sisters, six grandchildren and many relatives. Funeral services were January 4 at Calvary Lutheran Church Swede Home with mixed quartet and graveside burial in Swede Home Cemetery.
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Petrus C. Nelson
Polk County
Peter
Anna Toline Nelson
State Farm Mutual Insurance Companies
Mr. Nelson
Calvary Lutheran Church of
Swede
Nelson
Petrus
Swede Home Farmers Union
Polk County Farm Bureau
Miliana Chindgren
Theodore
Eleanore
Rock Island
Illinois
Linnea
Victor Krol
Herman
Northridge
California
Amanda Jones
Helena Robertson
Hannah Munson
Lynn
Massachusetts
Ward
Bradley
Lee
Leanna Nelson
Bonnie
Vincent Krol
Peter Nelson
Miliana
Levi
Martin
Anton
Annette Shalliberg
Ellen Lind
Larry Casper
Robert Oberg
Gerald Holm
Adolph Forss
Vance Toline
Gordon Fredrickson
Vernon Thelander
Carl Johnson
Everet Anderson
Jesus
Revel Sward
Verner Shallberg
Gustav Peterson
Ralph Bond
Martin Lundstrom
Harold Johnson
Swede Home Cemetery
Polk Happenings Highlights Visits and Celebrations
Local residents share visits across Geneva Bradshaw and Love land Colorado visits. Alvin Rezer and Rose Schweitzer joined Emma Horstm an guests. Ernie Lott helped Richard celebrate a birthday in Bradshaw. The Sealey family traveled to Love land and Denver. Fort Collins and Harvard moves involve Alexander family and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Rezer
Geneva
Rose Schweitzer
Emma Horstman
Schweitzer
Pat Newton
Bradshaw
Ernie Lott
Richard
Richard Sealey
Richard Cramer
Loveland
Colo
Ray
Local Polk Community Socials and Visits
Local residents recount a Tuesday coffee gathering after a Polk Shelby basketball game at the N E McNaught home. Junior department teachers of the Methodist church met at Mrs Paul Strands home Monday afternoon. Osceola residents Mr and Mrs Otto Nelson hosted guests Saturday night including Horace Stevens Levert Oquist Harold Nelson Vernon Peterson Bert Gissler John Holmes and son of Lincoln for dinner with Mrs Wilda Holmes and Robert. Elmer Hanquist and Emma Horstman visited Imogene Hanquist in Osceola hospital Sunday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Meerkatz
Ronnie
Deanne
Polk-Shelby
N. E. McNaught
The
Methodist Church
Paul Strand
Otto Nelson
Osceola
Horace
John Holmes
Son
Lincoln
Wilda Holmes
Robert
Elmer Hanquist
Emma Horstman
Imogene Hanquist
Osceola Hospital
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J. Deere
International M
John Deere
J. D
Godigs
John Deere Show
Brazda Impl. Co
DEERE
Polk Lumber Co
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
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