Bruce Kurtz, a father, storyteller, and community clothier, died on June 26, 2026, in Storm Lake, Iowa. He was 74. 

Marilyn Jellema, age 75, passed away Friday, June 26, 2026, at Tuff Memorial Home in Hills, Minn. 

Marilyn Munns 

Marilyn Munns (née Meyer), age 89, of St. Michael, formerly of Luverne, passed away. 

Carol Ruth Petit Kruger Moore Poppenga, of Lennox, S.D., passed from this life on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at Ava’s house in Sioux Falls at the age of 89. 

Arrangements are by Jarman Family Funeral Home in Lennox. 

City of Luverne adopts

Ordinance No. 63

ORDINANCE NO. 63, FOURTH SERIES

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE

Harold Kindt, age 98, of Luverne, Minn., formerly of Hardwick, Minn., passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne. A memorial service was at 11:30 a.m. Monday, June 29, at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hardwick. Visitation was from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

City of Kenneth filing for

candidacy opens July 14

NOTICE OF filing

affidavit of candidacy for council members/MAYOR

CITY OF KENNETH, MINNESOTA

I am old enough to remember the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the United States. In case you need me to do the math for you, it was 1976. 

The celebrations of that year were enormous. It seemed that the celebration started in January and ran all the way through December. 

St. Catherine Catholic Church 

203 E. Brown St., Luverne 

St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502 

www.stscl.org 

Father Joshua Miller, Pastor