Gary

Alvina Wigen, age 72, of Hendricks, Minnesota, formerly of Luverne, Minnesota, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, at the Hendricks Nursing Home in Hendricks. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, at Christ Lutheran Church in Hendricks, Minnesota. A private burial will be held. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel in…

In my completion of daily horse chores, I often hear the familiar honks of Canada geese as they pass overhead. This spring, however, there was one honk that sounded a little different from the others. I am fairly certain it was Gary greeting me. Two summers ago my family unknowingly fostered a Canada goose into adulthood. What was then a gray and yellow fuzzy ball grew up to be a beautiful black…