Kaylie Schempp, the libero on the Menno High School volleyball team, is introduced prior to the Wolves' match against Canistota Tuesday night, Oct. 6 in Menno. Schempp and the Wolves survived a five-set scare from the one-win Hawks, outlasting them 16-14 in the fifth and final set. The win improved Menno to 5-8. Also in action Tuesday night was Freeman Academy/Marion, which dropped to 0-8 with a 3-0 loss to Andes Central/Dakota Christian, and Freeman Public, which improved to 11-6 with a 3-0 win over Bon Homme.

On Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at the age of 39, Elisha Wright died unexpectedly. Elisha was born on Oct. 27, 1980 in Bon Homme County. Shortly after graduation from Scotland High School, he moved to Oklahoma to work with his uncle, Rick Machacek, in the oil fields. Elisha returned to South Dakota about 10 years later.

Pauline DeHoogh, 96, of Sioux Falls, S.D., passed away on Oct. 5, 2020 at the Good Samaritan Village in Sioux Falls. Pauline Krabbenhoft was born Sept. 21, 1924 in Hubbard, Neb. to Paul and Alvina (Keim) Krabbenhoft. She graduated from Laurel High School in Nebraska and attended nursing school in Sioux City. Upon graduation, she began work at Lutheran Hospital in Sioux City in 1945. She later moved to Minneapolis and met Earl DeHoogh while working at a hospital. Earl and Pauline were married in 1950.

Second-graders run laps as a warm-up to their PE period at Freeman Elementary Tuesday morning, Oct. 6. Chris Sayler's PE instruction will be featured in the Freeman Public School page that will be part of the Oct. 8 edition of The Courier. The school pages are once again make possible thanks to the sponsorship support of Kelly Knodel and Knodel Contractors. 

Nora Evelyn Ballweg, daughter of Albert and Albertine Keller of Freeman, S.D., was born June 20, 1928. She was baptized July 1, 1928 by Rev. G. H. Steffen and confirmed March 29, 1942 by Rev. C. D. Eifert at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Freeman.

This photo from a 1975 packet of photos that is part of the Courier archives shows a band concert by students from Freeman Junior College on the south side of what is commonly known as Music Hall on the Freeman Academy campus. The building was constructed as the original home to South Dakota Mennonite College, which began educating students in 1903.

Freeman grocer Bob Pidde helps a group of boys with the pop machine outside his Main Street store, Jamboree Foods, Saturday morning. Pidde is a second-generation grocer in Freeman; his dad, Ted Sr., owned a smaller store down the street and across the road to the south before Pidde moved into his current location in the mid-90s. 

Clubhouse manager Rory Hermsen, left, and Chad Rembold, who sits on the city's Valley View Golf Course Committee, go over logistics prior to the Fall Souper Golf Scramble Saturday morning, Oct. 3. As many as 22 four-player teams were expected to play in the 18-hole competition, which includes nine pin prizes for the men and nine for the women, courtesy of support from the larger Freeman community. Hermsen said the event will also feature a variety of soups made by local ladies to be enjoyed by participants during lunch.