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Christmas Dinner Guests Across Rural Iowa Towns
Readers share a wide network of Christmas dinners and visits. Multiple households in Eagle Grove, Algona, Fort Dodge, Goldfield, LuVerne and surrounding areas hosted relatives and friends from Ames, Des Moines, Britt, Humboldt, Story City and beyond.
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Otto Swanson
Melvin Heggen
Dick Hefty
Laverne
Henty Hefty
Ames
Art Hefty
Duncombe
Art. Folkerts
Crystal Lake
Marx Schwyter
Floyd Anderson
Eagle Grove
Sundly
Ray Thrift Home
Charlie Thompson
Corwith
LW Heetland
Joyce
J W Pentscost
Algona
Herman Higson
Livermore
Hiriam Wig
Virginia
Goldfield
Fred Gugisburg
Robert Foley
Caddy
Okis
Charlie Foley
Jessie Helmke
Lohrville
Rudy Amosson
Gus Amns
G L Arne
Carl Arne
Basle Grove
Chicago
Arlo-McGowan
Braden Stoakes
Jessie
Marin Ballard
Des Moines
Merlin Clark
Mason City
Gay Ballard
Arthur Torkelson
Fort Dodge
Don Blesie
Omaha
Dorothy Blesie
Marion Axtel
Waterloo
Dale Blesie
Kay
Red Osk
Wm Blesie
Carroll Block
Thompson
Claus Block
George Christenson
Shirley
Don Blue
Fred Hansen
Britt
Newman Tesdahl
Austin
Minn
Edith Sayers
Humboldt
HL Butts
Gary
Des Moinés
S B Foley
R W Meyer
Pocahontas
C Foley
H L Butts
Wm Zentner
Albert Nelson
Shelby Nelson
Mary Lynn
Bob Nelson
Willard Giesel
Ventura
Donald McGowan
Harold Flogsted
Radcliffe
T W Gimer
J A Parker
C Ogan
Francis Krause
Clarence Hefty
Greeley
Cole
Jerry Krause
Fort Leonard Wood
Bgs
Elmo Arne
Greene
Bernard Anderson
Lincoln
Neb
Ralph Anderson
Fred Allenburg
Minneapolis
Emery Botvelson
Ellen Botalson
Peter Aukland
Story City
D Bygness
Tyer Heguen and Allen
Decorah
Art Andersen
Earle Grove
Emil Anderson
Orsland
Gertrude
Anna
Olive Hexen