Ruth Rus was born Feb. 14, 1935, the daughter of Carl and Gertrude Kramer in Ackley. She passed away in Phoenix, AZ, on June 4, 2019, at the age of 84. A celebration of life was held Monday, June 10, at the Whitney & Murphy Funeral Home, Phoenix, AZ.
Ruth...
Ezra Charles was born May 31, 2019, to Cameron and Hilary Van Zante of Norwalk. He weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces and measured 19-1/4 inches long. His brother is Silas, age 2 1/2.
Grandparents are Brad Van Zante of Grinnell, Becky and George O'Gorman of Grosse Ile, MI, and Ken and...
Barry and Kelsie Van Haaften of Pella are the parents of a baby girl. Everlea Jo was born on Saturday, June 1, 2019. She weighed 8 pounds 9.4 ounces and has two sisters, Addison age 4-1/2 and Emmalea age 2-1/2.
Grandparents are Kevin and Brenda Van Kooten of Lynnville and David Van...
Hundreds of people gathered at Sully Community Church on Saturday evening, June 1, and generously opened up their wallets to show support to Alison Agan and her three young boys. The benefit was organized by family and friends following the unexpected death of the family’s husband and father, Shelby, at the age of 38 in late...
After 38 years of taking care of area animals, Dr. Alden Frischmeyer has retired from the Grinnell and Lynnville-Sully Veterinary Clinics.
On average, veterinarians work at three locations over the course of their career. Frischmeyer, however, spent the entirety of his veterinarian career at the Grinnell clinic and its branch location in Sully....
Paul Elzey of Sully grew up as a typical son of a Lutheran pastor, living in many different places as his father was assigned to serve various churches in Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. Elzey graduated from high school in Roanoake, IL, the only one of the four siblings in his family who was able...
This week’s featured cook is Kelly Kesling. Kelly grew up in Runnells and graduated from Southeast Polk High School. She has been married to Cody for 15 years, and for the past two years, they have lived south of Kellogg. They have three kids: Kennedy, Kacey, and Kaiser. Kennedy is in ninth grade, and she plays softball...