Locals
Saturday Linda Riozeboom, Rick Maranell, Bob Maranell plus many other family and friends attended a Benefit at West O in Milford for their great-niece Nora Helmers. Nora is a great-granddaughter of Linda’s sister Sherry. Nora is the three year old daughter of Andy and Ally Helmers. She was born with Alagille Snydrome, a rare disease. She has spent much of her life in NE Children’s Hospital. She has had four open heart surgeries. She is expected to be transferred to Stanford Children’s Hospital in California where they will perform Branch pulmonary artery reconstruction.
A Raymond family reunion was held Sunday at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church with 25 in attendance. They enjoyed a noon potluck meal with chicken from Jay’s Restaurant. Coming from a distance were Roccy Raymond of Rice Lake, WI and Nancy Raymond of Rochester, MN.
Saturday evening supper guests in the Jim and Becky Suckow home were Carol and Jack Elgersma.
Kim and Ryker Eliker of Lincoln, NE came for a long weekend spent in the parental Randy and Candace Lyman home. They came especially so Ryker could attend the Kids Safety Day. On Sunday a birthday party was held for Jayden Lyman and Tanner, fiance of Morgan Lyman. Also attending were Rhonda Lyman and Morgan Lyman. Tanner is from Harrisburg, SD.
Larry and Virginia (Petrich) Smith of Santa Ana, CA were dinner guests and visited in the Charlotte Dasen home last Thursday. Jinny grew up in Sheldon and they were in the area visiting friends and relatives. On Saturday Anita Goetz of Fairbanks, AK arrived to spend time in the Dasen home. Jerry and Cathy Gray of Rochester, MN picked her sister up at the Sioux Falls airport and brought her home. They left to return to their home later in the day.