I don’t spend nearly as much time on the road now as I did my whole working life, but the drivers are getting crazier.
Eighty-five-year-old women are flipping me the bird if I slow to less than 80 mph in the passing lane.
I imagine these same ladies are involved in a church and probably fry the...
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Kenneth E. Schnell, 87
Kenneth E. Schnell, 87, of Newton died on Saturday, Mar. 24, 2018, in Sun City, AZ. A private burial was held at the Newton Union Cemetery. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Kenneth, the son of Edward and Pearl (Hagedorn) Schnell was born July 8, 1930 in Grinnell. Dec. 4, 1955,...
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Rev. Wayne E. Bekkering, 75
Rev. Wayne E. Bekkering, 75, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Resurrection Day, Apr. 1, 2018. He was born Dec. 20, 1942, in Byron Center, MI. He served four Protestant Reformed congregations as pastor and then spent three years serving as a missionary in Ghana, West Africa.
He will be deeply missed by...
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Maeve Lynn
Zach and Laura McCalester of Marengo are the parents of a daughter, Maeve Lynn, born Mar. 23, 2018. She weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces.
Grandparents are Kyle and Tammy Terpstra of Lynnville, Dawn and Bob Pfister of Monroe, and Lee McCalester of San Antonio, TX.
Great-grandparents are Albert Terpstra of Lynnville, Larry and Sandy Willemsen of Grinnell,...
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