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Lenora Friesen Lenora Doris Friesen was born Oct. 15, 1928, to Jacob and Elizabeth Olfert Friesen in Mt. Lake, Minnesota. She grew up on the farm and helped her parents both with farm work and household chores. She was baptized as a teenager in the creek behind the church and joined the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren church of Mt. Lake. After high school she attended Grace Bible Institute in Omaha, Nebraska. On June 24, 1948, she married Donald Klassen and worked with him to establish their fa...

Helen Cunningham Helen Maxine (Zeller) Cunningham, 93, passed away April 9, 2021, at Cedarwood Assisted Living in Fairbury, Nebraska, after a brief illness. Helen was born Sept. 5, 1927 to Vernal (Bateman) and Dannie Zeller in Marion, Kansas. She attended high school in Marion and graduated in 1945. She continued her education at the Wesley Medical Center School of Nursing in Wichita, Kansas and received her RN degree in 1948. She began her 45-year career in Kansas and held various nursing posi...

By MADELINE REIDA Staff writer If you drive west of Goessel, you might encounter a pasture with a flock of sheep overseen by a pair of llamas. While it might seem odd to encounter Peruvian camelids in the midwest, to Carol Duerksen and Maynard Knepp, they’re just another part of their farm. “We got our first llama shortly after we moved here, 33 years ago,” Carol said. “They’re here to help guard the sheep.” Although llamas usually are seen as cute animals, popular in toys, video ...