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Community Social Ties Spread Across Holdings and Visits
A long chain of weekend and weekday visits links families from Eagle Grove Algona Clarion Fort Dodge and Des Moines. Friends and relatives such as the Heggen Jensen Kepper Kraft Flogstad Goettsch and Lane families share meals dinners and short trips across Iowa Minnesota and Arizona.
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Art Kraft
Henry Kepper
Leo Finn
Clarion
Sam Fiogstad
Loren McIlhatten
Clinton
Tom Berg
Elmore
Minn
Judy Kraft
Lavonne McCulley
Jim Heddinger
Fort Dodge
Sam Flogstad
Iowa
Loren Mellihatten
Clair Flogstad
Algona
Roy Larson
Mesa, Ariz
Jennie Johnson
Sunland
Calif
Floyd Lane
A. H. Kleen
Jim Kleen
Bobby
Merrill Kelling
Humboldt
Ken Bruene
Gladbrook
A. H. Goettsch
Colorado
M. M. Green
W. H. Long