Amy H. Ver Steegt, 92, of Newton died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, at Park Centre. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 14, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in rural Sully. The family will greet friends from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, at Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in...
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Steven C. Terpstra, 55
Steven C. Terpstra, 55, of Cedar Rapids passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at St. Luke’s Hospital. Services were held Wednesday, Feb. 11, at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories with Certified Celebrant Jim Parton. Burial was held at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery.
Steven Clark Terpstra was born Ap. 24, 1959, to Arnold and Ruth (Harris)...
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Catherine DePenning, 92
Catherine Marie DePenning, 92, passed from this life on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, at Skiff Medical Center. A funeral service was held Monday, Feb. 9, at Sully First Reformed Church.
Catherine was born June 28, 1922, on a farm east of Sully where she lived for 19 years. She was the oldest of three children born...
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Weekend snowstorm drops over 12 inches of snow
Mother Nature threw area residents a hard dose of winter reality with a weekend snowstorm that dropped over 12 inches of snow Jan. 31-Feb. 1. The thick, heavy snow blanketed the area and in combination with the wind, caused local power outages Sunday morning. “We had 870 customers in the communities of Lynnville, Sully, and...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 2/5/15
I hope you all enjoyed the musings from Jonny last week. A few edits from the article: I’m not called the Scrumptious Lady, ever. He does still talk about NASA all of the time. I may or may not harass him for it. I have captioned for NASA before, and they invited our family down...
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Hawk grapplers place fourth in SICL Conference
Lynnville-Sully had three wrestlers reach the championship round at the SICL Conference tournament on Saturday, Jan. 31. But the Hawks came up short of a title in any weight class at the home event. As a team, L-S placed fourth among the nine teams there.
Seniors Cole Nickell and Blake Wehrle as well as freshman Carson...
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Lynnville-Sully ranked highly proficient
Recently-released evaluations in the areas of math and reading for students in third through eighth grade and eleventh grade indicate Lynnville-Sully students are highly proficient and well on their way toward college and career readiness. The statistics are part of the Iowa Department of Education’s Attendance Center Rankings, the first step of a system developed...
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