Bryan and Jill Van Soelen of Holland, MI, are the parents of a sweet baby girl, Hattie Joy. She was born Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. She weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces and measured 21 inches long. Grandparents are Mike and Marlene Van Soelen of Sully and Tom and Beth Hutchison of Arlington Heights, IL. Great-grandfather...
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No drug bust
Contrary to the area rumor mill, there was not a drug bust on 7th Avenue in Sully on Friday afternoon, Oct. 16. According to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, a gentleman was arrested on an arrest warrant, and if charges are filed, further information would be released at a later date....
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Sully Fire Department report – 10/22/15
Oct. 15 at 3:42 p.m., the Sully Fire Department was called to a field fire in Poweshiek County at the junction of 460th Avenue and 80th Street, just southwest of Ewart. The fire burned through several fields before it could be contained. No one was injured, and no buildings were damaged, but a car and...
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Kyle Moore, 18
Kyle Moore, 18, of Des Moines and formerly of Grinnell, died on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, at the Grinnell Christian Church. Interment will be at Hazelwood Cemetery in Grinnell. A reception will held at Oakland Acres...
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Vernon Huyser, 90
Vernon Huyser, 90, of Pella and formerly of Lynnville passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, at Grinnell Health Care Center where he had been a resident for 10 days. Funeral services were held Oct. 17 at Sully First Reformed Church.
Vernon Gerrit Huyser was the son of Gerrit and Anna Marie (De Jong) Huyser, born...
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Wilma Kaldenberg, 85
Wilma L. Kaldenberg, 85, of Pella and formerly of Lynnville died Oct. 14, 2015. A private family burial service was held prior to the funeral service on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Lynnville Friends Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Lynnville Friends Church or World Vision.
Wilma was born Apr. 6, 1930, in...
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Keith E. Schwartz, 86
Keith E. Schwartz, 86, of Reasnor, passed from this life on Sunday morning, Oct. 11, 2015, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Visitation will be 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Community Heights Alliance Church. A time of remembrance and memorial services will be at 1 p.m. at the church,...
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