Hills

Scott Ehde
Scott A. Ehde, age 53, of Luverne, Minnesota, passed away at home on May 4, 2023. Visitation was from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Grace Lutheran Church in Luverne. A funeral service was at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 8, at Grace Lutheran Church with burial at Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne. To view a...
The Hills Area Fire Department spent four hours at the Norm Sjaarda farm north of Hills fighting a fire involving large hay bales. Fire chief Jared Rozeboom said his department received the call at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 12. The farm is located along County Road 6 near 51st Street in Martin...
Treat every alarm as real,” said Hills area fire chief Jared Rozeboom. A Hills family avoided possible carbon monoxide poisoning, thanks to a CO detector’s alarm. On Wednesday, April 5, the Hills Area Volunteer Fire Department received a call from a building contractor who was working in a Hills...
Romans 6:1-5 “What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with...
Marilyn Jellema (center) poses with two of the 157 children she cared for during her career as a day care provider in Hills. She’s holding the last child enrolled in her day care, Scout Wiertzema, while posing with the first child, Amy Behr (left).
A request from a friend back in 1976 led Marilyn Jellema of Hills to a 47-year profession. Jellema had a desire to stay home with her daughter, Jodi, when friend Nelva Behr asked if she was interested in watching another child. Behr and her husband, Ron, just had daughter Amy. “We were blessed with...
Joseph Kueter
Joseph “Joe” Kueter, 46, Hills, died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A Mass of Christian burial was at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at The Church of Mary in Larchwood, Iowa. Burial followed in the Larchwood Cemetery. Joseph Daniel Kueter was...
Doug McGuire uses a crowbar to remove boards around the serving windows in the basement kitchen at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Saturday morning. He joined about a dozen other volunteers who completed the demolition in preparation for the new kitchen, serving area and handicapped-accessible bathrooms to be constructed over the next four months.
About a dozen people gathered in the basement kitchen of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills Saturday. For several hours the group dismantled the 1950s kitchen and removed walls ahead of a $155,000 remodeling project that will improve the outdated kitchen. From now until April, the kitchen will be...
Samuel McGaffee
Samuel Thomas “Sam” Mc Gaffee, 68, Hills, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, at his home in Hills, following a courageous battle with cancer. A memorial service was Monday, Jan. 9, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills. Inurnment was at Eastside Cemetery. Samuel Mc Gaffee was born Dec. 2, 1954, at Pierre...
Leonard Leenderts
Leonard “Shorty” Leenderts, 88, Hills, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, at the Sanford Hospice Cottage in Luverne. A funeral service was Tuesday, Jan. 10, at First Presbyterian Church in Luverne. Burial followed at Memory Gardens cemetery in Luverne. Leonard Leenderts was born April 5, 1934, at the...

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